Making the news today....

[Stere]

What does stay alert actually mean?

 

Boris never looks alert he always looks half cut the dopey c**t ?

 

 

[TIMON]

Look on the bright side Mark.... we could have had the EU take charge of measures to navigate us through the pandemic...

[Richard 1234]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52609417

[Mark J]

[Richard 1234]

3 minutes ago, Mark J said:

How long do you think the country can afford to sit at home doing bugger all for?
In an ideal world we should have had total lockdown for a month and killed it off but it’s just not possible 

[Mark J]

3 minutes ago, Richard 1234 said:

How long do you think the country can afford to sit at home doing bugger all for?
In an ideal world we should have had total lockdown for a month and killed it off but it’s just not possible 

I've no idea. If a business isn't viable during or post-pandemic, then it should probably be looking for a job that is.
We keep getting told we're a rich country. Let's spend some money.

It's no longer possible to 'kill it off'  because we failed to act on the warnings.

They're on about opening up schools for reception age kids. Do you think that social distancing of children is a plausible thing? Would you send your kids back to school? Many people live in households with 'vulnerable' people. I doubt many people would be happy if it was found that their kid was the vector that caused the untimely death of his teacher's Dad.

Latest advice seems to be:

Go to work unless you can't go to work
Use your car unless you can't use your car
Don't use public transport unless you have to use public transport
Stay at home, but you can go out unlimited times
Things might reopen unless they don't
We're past the peak but we're not
We're in a new phase now unless we aren't
Things are different unless it turns out they are the same






 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

7 hours ago, Mark J said:

Credit:

 

Kernow King: 

Edward Rowe | The Guardian

WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM

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<p>Edward Rowe, aka The Kernow King is a Cornishman. Born in a small clay mining in village called Roche almost in the...

 

[Mark J]

[monkeybusiness]

21 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Exactly this - herd immunity is what we need (the only current way of getting through Corona in a free-market open border society).
However herd immunity can’t be referred to or offered up as a mechanism for dealing with the virus due to press scaremongering and point-scoring opposition even though the actual death rate of the virus is pretty much fuck all (unless you are about to die of something else anyway). 

[Mark J]

47 minutes ago, monkeybusiness said:

Exactly this - herd immunity is what we need (the only current way of getting through Corona in a free-market open border society).
However herd immunity can’t be referred to or offered up as a mechanism for dealing with the virus due to press scaremongering and point-scoring opposition even though the actual death rate of the virus is pretty much fuck all (unless you are about to die of something else anyway). 

You might be right there.
They shot themselves in the foot by backtracking on the herd immunity thing.
Everyone heard the gov say that it was their preferred way to deal with it, but then, when approval ratings fell to < normal,  they denied that it was ever a plan.
If they'd stood their ground they may have fronted it.
 

Edited May 11, 2020 by Mark J