CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
The party was mentioned first (with link), and then @tom73 said "and this morning, we have this", followed by the Trafalgar Square Tweet. It read clearly to me.
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LCpl Boiled Egg
Three word soundbite
Yes, having read it again it's a bit clearer.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
So we still have 100's of deaths a day yet we get this
View: https://twitter.com/matthancock/status/1266758277041401857?s=21
On a side note remember Dido Harding who is in charge of track and trace ?
She on the board of the Jockey club can't see a problem
Seems a bit weird him tweeting horse racing as good news. His job is Health not Sport, so his focus should be on the former.
Well what he was was really wanting to tweet was champagne and top hats. But horse racing sounded slightly more mainstream.
Slick
Guru
The quintessential public school boy with a face only a mother could love.
Adam4868
Legendary Member
He's the mp for Newmarket and maybe recieved donations from people in the horse racing industry
Or it's just one of those coincidences....
It is worrying. Policy wise I don't see what can be done. The public have given up on strict social distancing outside and it's mild social distancing outside. What goes on on inside environments I have no idea.
What equates to what R(t) I don't know, but it could take 3 months to get down to low levels apparently seen in other countries at this rate. Or a second wave sooner. You can't keep the public cooped up for another month in groups of 2. I think the sports stuff is well motivated. The opening up of other stuff could have been delayed 2 or 3 weeks.
The policy makers do have some tricks up their sleaves we didn't have earlier, but all of these things are running behind schedule and taking time to do.
Local restrictions or lockdowns are inevitable. That part doesn't worry me, just that the government decided not to do that with London so we have nothing to go on how that will work out. In some other countries it appears to have worked and some others not.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
No maybe about it. Matt Hancock constituency office part-funded by Tattersalls. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/200526/hancock_matt.htm
Adam4868
Legendary Member
Who would of thought it.
https://www.racingpost.com/news/goo...r-matt-hancock-named-culture-secretary/315004
200,000 capacity of tests reached
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...xceed-200000-per-day-target-government-claims
Obviously what has been keeping our government busy, managing to think of new targets and how to present it
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...xceed-200000-per-day-target-government-claims
Obviously what has been keeping our government busy, managing to think of new targets and how to present it
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Rocky
Hello decadence
The next target is to double the number of spurious health targets by the 5 June.200,000 capacity of tests reached
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...xceed-200000-per-day-target-government-claims
Obviously what has been keeping our government busy, managing to think of new targets and how to present it
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
The last More or Less gave the figures a thorough going over.200,000 capacity of tests reached
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...xceed-200000-per-day-target-government-claims
Obviously what has been keeping our government busy, managing to think of new targets and how to present it
With matching bonus prize PPE
Very true policy wise I think they've all but given up trying. All we can hope for is the reporting of the clear tone and warning of experts will cut though enough to stop even more thinking it's over. But I really sadly doubt it. Local locks downs will not be easy and I don't think the government have the stomach to do it. The changers to exercise made sense both physically and mentally the rest is just totally restless given the lack of room for error.
What is a growing issue and worry is the total bypassing of primary health in anything that directly effects local public health 1st with a testing set up independent of primary care system and now the change in shielding advice with no GP input.
