SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

JMack1234 said:


Goodness me.

The Home Secretary needs to come out ASAP and publicly tell the police what they can and can't do. Absolutely terrifying that we have Police officers who don't understand the concept of private property.

I fear that every citizen is going to have to educated themselves of their rights and how to submit complaints to the IPCC.
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Police State behaviour, simple as that. The government better speak out about this before it starts becoming more common and people start breaking lockdown to kick back on the issue. Slippery slope that needs higher ups to nip it in the bud NOW
 
JMack1234 said:


Goodness me.

The Home Secretary needs to come out ASAP and publicly tell the police what they can and can't do. Absolutely terrifying that we have Police officers who don't understand the concept of private property.

I fear that every citizen is going to have to educated themselves of their rights and how to submit complaints to the IPCC.
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Can't help but think her attitude would've been different if the garden was well maintained and he answered the door wearing a smoking jacket sipping from a glass of Pimm's.
 
In other news;

French police turn back private jet of holidaymakers from UK

Seven men and three women arrived on the chartered aircraft to Marseille-Provence airport, where helicopters were waiting to fly them on to Cannes, where they had rented a luxury villa.
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Now, I'm not one to jump to conclusions but...
The men, aged 40-50, and women, aged 23-25, were refused permission to enter France and ordered by police to fly back to the UK.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...urn-back-private-jet-of-holidaymakers-from-uk
 
Got this yesterday when a couple of guards drove up to my farm asking what i was doing, if my work was essential.
Fecker, I own this land youre standing on.
 
cyberman said:
Got this yesterday when a couple of guards drove up to my farm asking what i was doing, if my work was essential.
Fecker, I own this land youre standing on.
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I'd be careful, they might have been scammers planning to rummage through your hedges for all your wads of cash.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
I'd be careful, they might have been scammers planning to rummage through your hedges for all your wads of cash.
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Im more brazen than that. I have Tractors made of gold thats painted over ala Tower Heist so i can hide it in plain sight.
 
Smores said:
Yeah i never got handshaking as some kind of formal introduction "here stranger please share my germs"
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Yes. You obviously have had to play along, but this might actually lead to it being socially acceptable to not shake hands.
 
Smores said:
Yeah i never got handshaking as some kind of formal introduction "here stranger please share my germs"
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It was to prove to the other person that you didn't have a gun. Or at least that's what the documentary called Contagion taught me.
 
Deery said:
Ireland extended the lockdown until another 3 weeks..
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Italy until the 3 May, although somewhat bizarrely bookshops and stationery stores can open from next Tuesday, if you live somewhere that has such a thing. I'm kind of thinking people who want those kind of supplies will have in most cases been buying online.
 
Penna said:
Italy until the 3 May, although somewhat bizarrely bookshops and stationery stores can open from next Tuesday, if you live somewhere that has such a thing. I'm kind of thinking people who want those kind of supplies will have in most cases been buying online.
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That’s strange maybe it’s because so many are working from home and need the stationary?
 
I don't think I've ever had so many spam/phising e-mails. As I've had this few days.

Anybody else had this problem?
 
JMack1234 said:
I don't think I've ever had so many spam/phising e-mails. As I've had this few days. Anybody else had this problem?
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I haven't even had any post for a week, let alone spam emails.
 
JMack1234 said:
I don't think I've ever had so many spam/phising e-mails. As I've had this few days.

Anybody else had this problem?
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Surprisingly I’ve been getting less, although I got a text message saying I won £1000 from Argos so happy days.
 
Penna said:
Italy until the 3 May, although somewhat bizarrely bookshops and stationery stores can open from next Tuesday, if you live somewhere that has such a thing. I'm kind of thinking people who want those kind of supplies will have in most cases been buying online.
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Builders going back to work in Spain on Monday. Sounds crazy to me, but apparently the gov didn't bother asking / getting approval from their advisory panel.

El Gobierno tomó la decisión de reiniciar la actividad laboral sin consultar a su comité de expertos
 
Penna said:
Italy until the 3 May, although somewhat bizarrely bookshops and stationery stores can open from next Tuesday, if you live somewhere that has such a thing. I'm kind of thinking people who want those kind of supplies will have in most cases been buying online.
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Shops and cafes are starting to open up again in the less salubrious parts of town here. They all seem to have forgotten what an absolute mess the last month has been and are going back to the traditional rules-are-for-other-people mentality they swear by in this country. :nono:
 
Matt Hancock: “Because a front door is better than any face mask”


:lol:
 
jeff_goldblum said:
You're showing your prejudices here. Poor people are not the reason this disease has spread. It's not poor people who are driving to their holiday homes on the coast for the bank holiday weekend, it's not poor people who were cramming the national parks a couple of weeks ago and it wasn't poor people who were popping over to Italy even as reports were coming in about the virus there. This disease has been spread by affluent holidaymakers and business-travellers but less well off people will bear the brunt. Poor people are now in the firing line because they're more likely to work in key industries where social distancing is difficult to maintain, more likely to cohabit with other key workers in accomadation where distancing is impossible and more likely to have extended family who are relying on them for support right now.

Have a word with yourself.
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So 1 province in NL had over 50pc of all cases in the Netherlands, Brabant. Why? They had a Carnival there 6 to 8 weeks ago, look it up and look through pictures to see how many wealthy people you can spot amongst the thousands of losers


Good luck
 
Stanley Road said:
So 1 province in NL had over 50pc of all cases in the Netherlands, Brabant. Why? They had a Carnival there 6 to 8 weeks ago, look it up and look through pictures to see how many wealthy people you can spot amongst the thousands of losers


Good luck
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You could say the same for Cheltenham here, and I bet not many poor people were splashing out there.
 
Feed Me said:
Bang on. The fear is that those putting themselves is harm’s way during this crisis will be shafted once more after it’s all over. I really hope that we’ve hit an inflection point, following which our society changes for the better. I won’t hold my breath though because human beings have consistently shown an ability to learn from seismic events.
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In the first, key workers (and their families) putting themselves in harms way will die more compared to the rest of the population. Then they won't get compensated in anyway as there will be a recession. And for the finale, the rich will buy everything up because many things will be cheaper, and the rest of society will fight for even lesser scraps. Society changing for the better isn't even a pipe dream.
 
Stanley Road said:
So 1 province in NL had over 50pc of all cases in the Netherlands, Brabant. Why? They had a Carnival there 6 to 8 weeks ago, look it up and look through pictures to see how many wealthy people you can spot amongst the thousands of losers


Good luck
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How long ago was the Cheltenham Festival?
 
Dr. StrangeHate said:
In the first the people (and their families) putting themselves in harms way will die more compared to the rest of the population. Then they won't get compensated in anyway as there will be a recession. And for the finale, the rich will buy everything up because many things will be cheaper, and the rest of society will fight for even lesser scraps. Society changing for the better isn't even a pipe dream.
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This will be sadly accurate.
 
980 deaths in the UK today, which is higher than any day Italy experienced (albeit with Italy having a slightly smaller population). That number not including deaths in homes and hospices I believe and still approx. a week away from the expected peak.

Yet the media's coverage of what's going on in the UK seems strangely different to the way Italy was covered.
 
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