Pro-choice, saving the lives of the more vulnerable yet lifting his mask to eat hot dogs and drink beer in a packed stadium (but according to him it's outside so "better")
Wow.
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Pro-choice, saving the lives of the more vulnerable yet lifting his mask to eat hot dogs and drink beer in a packed stadium (but according to him it's outside so "better")
Wow.
Yea but he’s doing it quickly so it’s fine.
It can't be a coincidence that everytime he opens his mouth, inanity is the word that comes to mind.
I do fancy a hot dog now though.
Only in Tory Britain is there enough demand for tests to close the testing website before lunch time and, simultaneously, not enough demand to excuse their failure to meet testing targets.
I suppose putting up a website that let's people order a kit is one way to suddenly reach a promised testing figure. It'll be interesting to track the actual testing figure rather than what Hancock will claim.
Yeah forgive me for not viewing this as anything other than a load of PR bollocks to make the government look more proactive than they are actually. Something stinks about it.
TBH that is bullshit. Former smokers merely notice more minor colds because they aren't coughing their guts up due to smoklng.
What sort of kit is it? Is it a swab for PCR? Not a hope of joe public using that properly. You need to ram it so far up your nose you feel like you’re tickling your brain.
If it’s just finger prick serology then that’s a completely different type of test to what Hancock promised. Can’t diagnose people who are acutely infected.
Boom! Hell of a good pun for someone that doesn’t have English as his first language.
I’m massively worried about Vaccine roll out.
If it’s done fast, many may fail and potentially hurt people
If it’s done swiftly, many right headed people will not want to go first
If it’s done in competition we end up with competing solutions where none should exist. That introduces many problems
The anti vaxxers are going to have a field day when people reject early Vaccines. They’ll see everything as another brick in their wall of crazy.
Zero confidence in any of the future messaging handling this well.
Maybe it's similar to this. Sounds dubious in terms of results if even the person writing the article didn't "rotate" it correctly.
https://arstechnica.com/science/202...y-for-the-new-coronavirus-heres-what-i-found/
What is happening in Spain, new cases & casualties seem to have flat lined over the past few days. Is this how it is going to go until the vaccine is developed?
It took Wuhan nearly 2 months to get rid of it with people literally welded inside their homes. It will take a lot longer in Europe.
How has it gone away in Wuhan though? Is it through a lack of reinfections and hosts not being available (locked up safely) which resulted in the virus dying out naturally in the area? Not sure how that works because my daughter is 6/7 weeks in with clear moderate symptoms and there seems to be no end in sight for her isolation. There must be cases like that in Wuhan, new patient zeroes if you like.
Haven't heard about Wuhan for about a week so i assumed no news was good news, although i said that mid February when it briefly went quiet on the virus front so maybe i should assume no news is bad news!
Schroedinger's test
I don't know what it's like in the cities, but this week seems to have been the unofficial lifting of the lockdown here (semi-rural NE Somerset).
A local barber shop and tattoo parlour have reopened in the last couple of days. Both the Co-op shops have ditched the 1-in-1-out, one way system and markings on the floor. Staff were just brushing past everyone when I was in earlier. The roads have been noticeably busier all week.
I guess the virus is over. Good job, everyone.
A local barber shop and tattoo parlour have reopened in the last couple of days. Both the Co-op shops have ditched the 1-in-1-out, one way system and markings on the floor. Staff were just brushing past everyone when I was in earlier. The roads have been noticeably busier all week.
I guess the virus is over. Good job, everyone.
That’s just fecking nuts. If there’s not enough capacity to do all the testing they would like to (which is fair enough, loads of countries scrabbling for finite resources) then they need to ration and prioritise. Diverting these limited resources to an online, first come first served, free for all is populist madness.
Awesome we can all relax then.
I remember you talking about your daughter in another thread, are you absolutely sure she has the virus? As in has a positive test? Even the worst cases going into intensive care are generally resolving quicker than that.
TIL that the 2018 'Tide Pod Challenge' was actually a radical immunisation programme for young people ahead of the coming global pandemic. Who knew?
If you didn't laugh, you'd cry.
If you didn't laugh, you'd cry.
I'm not the biggest fan of the series but the Black Mirror episode - Hated In The Nation always comes to mind when this cnut is brought up.
It will be interesting to see who the British right try to blame this crisis on. They will of course go after the usual targets of immigrates, ''liberal cosmopolitans'', anyone who isn't white, people on benefits etc etc. But I can see them trying to paint the real heroes of the pandemic as the good old british tax payer with their blitz like spirit, who sacrificed their daily routine to stay indoors and watch Little Britain on the telly, while - insert group to hate here - were busy dancing at work.
We truly do live on Daily Mail Island.
@finneh
@Pogue Mahone
Construction continues near my house (last I checked, about a week ago)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/constr...ep-working-as-coronavirus-spreads-11585308782
This confirms it's a wider phenomenon in the US than my neighbours. And they suceeded in winning that designation as essental workers in New York (and other states presumably).
Also in the UK, it took a lot to make construction stop, not just a fall in market demand. There were worker walkoffs and union agitation as late as 29th March, a week after the shutdown
@Pogue Mahone
Construction continues near my house (last I checked, about a week ago)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/constr...ep-working-as-coronavirus-spreads-11585308782
This confirms it's a wider phenomenon in the US than my neighbours. And they suceeded in winning that designation as essental workers in New York (and other states presumably).
Also in the UK, it took a lot to make construction stop, not just a fall in market demand. There were worker walkoffs and union agitation as late as 29th March, a week after the shutdown
I run a construction company - i would say that if somebody is building a skyscraper the amount of temporary works involved with the steelworks during construction would in many occasions mean its safer to continue and reach a safe hold point before leaving sites and that could be a long time as an incomplete structure often has potential safety and stability issues. (we are working on a number of half completed bridges and the same rules apply - essentially the safest thing is to finish it properly)
Most house builders start up again in the uk next week - most large infra never stopped - though its slower and there is a lot of distancing measures and additional ppe (facemasks for example) being required plus close working in confined space is pretty much stopped unless safety critical
a throne probably
Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui told reporters on Thursday (Apr 23) that men should be entrusted with grocery runs because women "take a long time as they browse around and hesitate about this and that", Kyodo news agency reported. "Men can snap up things they are told (to buy) and go, so I think it's good that they go shopping, avoiding human contact," the 56-year-old added. When challenged by a reporter, he acknowledged his remarks might be viewed as out-of-touch, but said they were true in his family.
Game changer!
Game changer!
Crazy. Even in a controlled reopening I imagine we should still be observing social distancing measures in shops etc for quite some timeSomething about his technique suggests to me that's not the first "hot dog" he has sneaked into his mouth while he hopes no-one is watching!
They would be breaking the law, surely ?
Don't care much about disrespect for clappers and stuff, but what is the actual point in prancing about in PPE? What purpose does it serve? We've been overwhelmed with people posting their post-PPE faces on social media with pressure sores on their faces and whatnot. While I find that attention-seeking behaviour, they at least serve the purpose of hopefully making people stay at home when they see what donning PPE does to the people who have to wear them to care for the infected.
What does dancing in PPE do?
Note: I say this as someone who's working in an ICU/Covid unit.
Problem is, I never know where the damn stuff is. The layout in shops never makes sense to me. I hate it.
Guess he missed my post about seeing men in the grocery store without their wives earlier. Out of touch doesn't even come close.
No offence, but dude! Please format your posts! I keep on looking for rhymes and can't find any.
If it makes them happy and gives them a bit of joy then I'm all for it. I can't be watching that kind of crap but let them have some fun and a bit of a release.
The countryside is a lawless state right now. Not seen any police presence in ages. Speeds limits definitely don't exist around here at the minute either. Youths are still loitering in fairly big groups.
In all seriousness though, I don't know what the deal is. I don't know if they're just pushing their luck until the police swing by and say "oi, you can't do this" and they close again. Is there penalties for businesses opening without the government saying so?
I agree, it's definitely something that should remain in place in some capacity until a vaccine is widely available. It's beginning to feel like people have just had enough and are just shrugging it off, at least in the very small sample size around me anyway. The sunny weather isn't helping.