Covid-19

[Mark J]

4 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

 

Well we can not now do what New Zealand did and the long term effects of how that will work out will be seen. So some positives based on the current circumstances ie what would you suggest ??????. I do agree borders should have been shut full stop, how that would have went down prior to a large number of deaths is hard to say. 
yeah totally his fault 100% I presume he made every decision himself and the people around the table including what are supposedly our best scientists just nodded and agreed with him. Chinese statistics and the government in power are not subject to the media scrutiny you see here. 
regarding answering my own question mark the lockdown is not being enforced or taken seriously by a lot of people. The advice was and is being given !! What do you suggest comrade “Army on the streets enforcing it” the outcry would be off the scale. 
Couple of pertinent points Mark New Zealand 18 people per square km, population let’s call it 5 million !!. 
Uk 259 people per square km, population let’s call it 68 million, start looking at nearest land masses etc and ease of securing the borders then the task of the government becomes slightly less onerous.  

Has something rattled your cage?

[Mark J]

'Biggest failure in a generation': Where did Britain go wrong?

WWW.SMH.COM.AU

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Even after a dire warning of 250,000 deaths under business as usual, the nation was not put into lockdown.

 

[Mark J]

The Comforting and Misleading Political Response to Britain’s Coronavirus Disaster | The New Yorker

WWW.NEWYORKER.COM

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There has been a curious mixture of superiority and fatalism about Britain’s handling of the pandemic, which has been...

 

[Johnsond]

35 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Has something rattled your cage?

No not at all just stating a few facts. Making comparisons where the factual circumstances are so far apart that it makes the comparison pointless is !!!!!! well to say the least pointless. 
Part of the problem is Mark the never ending relentless drip fest ref Boris tends to overwhelm any relevant criticism. 

[struie]

5 hours ago, Steve Bullman said:

Our local garage has a decent sized coop attached to it. They were only allowing 2 people in at a time. Yesterday I went in and there were no restrictions. It was packed 

coop,,,i thought ye were meaning chicken co.op

[TIMON]

[Mick Dempsey]

18 minutes ago, TIMON said:

Nice, but written in March this year.

[Mark J]

2 hours ago, Johnsond said:

Part of the problem is Mark the never ending relentless drip fest ref Boris tends to overwhelm any relevant criticism. 

Criticism and praise where it's due.
Rewarding bad behaviour will get you nowhere.

Edited May 8, 2020 by Mark J

[TIMON]

Nice, but written in March this year.

I did wonder at the style of prose Mick, but pressed reply anyway.

Salut mon ami... hope you’re doing ok.

[Mark J]

A canny talk from 2018 which rings true now.
Universal Basic Income is the way forward: