Smokin Joe
Squire
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
And which clubs have said they'll use the money that would be saved to pay the furloughed staff?
Or are they going to keep it firmly lodged in their offshore bank accounts?
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Julia9054
Guru
- Location
- Knaresborough
The socially distanced A1(M) this afternoon. It doesn’t even look this empty at 3am usually.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
News from Germany: the Corona Idiot Charts (3 Trump, 2 Bolsanaro, 1 I forgot 
), time to panic-buy beer and the covid-track-n-trace app idea described as the Stasi's dream.
OK, it's satire but I love the captions.
), time to panic-buy beer and the covid-track-n-trace app idea described as the Stasi's dream.OK, it's satire but I love the captions.
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
Firstly, to form a fixed opinion, then search for an expert who agrees is not a recommended way to go about understanding an issue.
Secondly, it's worth asking yourself why you can only find one expert with this opinion.
Thirdly, what exactly are you claiming he agrees with,?
Finally, Sweden has a considerably higher death rate than similar countries, and the approach is far from universally agreed eith by experts in the country.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ten-coronavirus-measures-as-death-toll-climbs
Johnno260
Guru
- Location
- East Sussex
I’m looking forward to losing my 1hr of freedom thanks to no brain morons.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
I agree it is not a laughing matter but she is not as far as we know infected. Why no calls for Charlie Windsor to resign tho' even when he travelled along with several staff also infected to his holiday home much further away. No doubt she has had a severe bollocking from you know who. As they used to say in the past " I wouldnae take a burst pay packet hame tae that yin"
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Went for my usual wee 10 mile loop (country lane out of town) and I was shocked by how many people there were out. I'm lucky if I see half a dozen people in total on that route usually, I probably saw well over a hundred today. Most in ones and twos, some family groups and a couple of large teenage groups. Although most were doing the social distancing thing, it wasn't always easy and I had to slow down a few times to let families pass each other and give me a relatively clear path. I can see why a photo would make it look like a large group of people but like I say, most were being sensible and keeping their distance.
Teenagers though
They'll be the death of us.
Teenagers though
They'll be the death of us.
Johnno260
Guru
- Location
- East Sussex
Went for my usual wee 10 mile loop (country lane out of town) and I was shocked by how many people there were out. I'm lucky if I see half a dozen people in total on that route usually, I probably saw well over a hundred today. Most in ones and twos, some family groups and a couple of large teenage groups. Although most were doing the social distancing thing, it wasn't always easy and I had to slow down a few times to let families pass each other and give me a relatively clear path. I can see why a photo would make it look like a large group of people but like I say, most were being sensible and keeping their distance.
Teenagers though
I went out alone and the roads I use were packed, I’m sure the 10 people I saw all together are from the same household...
RecordAceFromNew
Swinging Member
- Location
- West London
One of the reasons is that outside China this has hitherto largely been a rich man's flu, for no better reason than because transmission is quickest and greatest when and where there are plenty of long distance travels and mobility. As demonstrated below:
I do believe it has every potential to be a horrendous killer in slums in due course, if poorer countries don't learn fast from rich Westerners' mistakes.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Germany has extensive testing and a death rate of about 1.5%. If the U.K. real death rate is also about 1.5% it means we have about 329,000 infections out there. We are only reporting 48,000 cases and we know these are mostly cases that have reached hospital. So about 281,000 infections out there that haven’t needed hospital. I wonder how many are asymptomatic?
We are having enough trouble persuading stupid people to follow the lockdown rules as its, run a public discussion of relaxing the rules would be a recipe for complete disaster
Rocky
Hello decadence
I know the reasons behind the lockdown and the need for social distancing. But.......Matt Hancock telling us off as though we were all naughty kids and threatening to take away our exercise time, has really pissed me off. Three things:
(i) Why isn't Hancock self-isolating? It was only a week ago he was said to have been showing signs of Covid.
(ii) Why not use existing laws to deal with the worst offenders? Scottish police issued a warning against their CMO for breaking the rules
(iii) What about the potential unintended consequences of a total lockdown? More domestic violence, more mental health problems.
I have a son who is a junior doctor on the front line, I know the importance of reducing personal contact but being threatened this way by a weak and ineffectual Secretary of State, who has invested heavily in IT (what has happened to Babylon??) at the expense of PPE and ventilators is almost the last straw.
Boris, I know you are a member of CC and take notice of what we post......please keep Hancock and Gove in isolation. They are making things worse.
(i) Why isn't Hancock self-isolating? It was only a week ago he was said to have been showing signs of Covid.
(ii) Why not use existing laws to deal with the worst offenders? Scottish police issued a warning against their CMO for breaking the rules
(iii) What about the potential unintended consequences of a total lockdown? More domestic violence, more mental health problems.
I have a son who is a junior doctor on the front line, I know the importance of reducing personal contact but being threatened this way by a weak and ineffectual Secretary of State, who has invested heavily in IT (what has happened to Babylon??) at the expense of PPE and ventilators is almost the last straw.
Boris, I know you are a member of CC and take notice of what we post......please keep Hancock and Gove in isolation. They are making things worse.
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
The restrictions apply to everyone, not only those infected.
She is one face of the Scot Gov campaign telling people not to travel unless for one of the exempted reasons so it’s a bigger deal than the prince of Wales helicoptering up to Balmoral.
She has undermined the efforts of everyone trying to keep us safe and has risked public trust in the stay at home message.
To make matters worse, she has admitted that she visited her holiday home the previous weekend too, along with her husband. She may continue in post for the duration of this crisis but I expect she’ll subsequently be standing down to spend more time with her family etc. etc.
She went two weekends in a row FFS.
