Coronavirus Death Thread

[wullie]

Neither seem great.

[SvN]

I suppose if you can't taste anything, you may as well eat salads.

[Ben]

"Food is solely to fuel the body, not to be enjoyed." - Vince McMahon, or Magic.

[Giggles]

"Food is solely to fuel the body, not to be enjoyed." - Vince McMahon, or Magic.

Two halves of a whole cunt.

[Shindig]

I suppose if you can't taste anything, you may as well eat salads.

Rules out the possibility of setting fire to his kitchen.

[Dave.]

Having a warped sense of smell and taste isn't unhealthy. Being an asthmatic, fat, sweaty 37 year old fuck is.

Thing is I admit to being unhealthy and take steps to improvement in this area. You seem far more delusional.

Also, your post did actually make me laugh a great deal so thanks for that.

And as Yevrah said. Please get the vaccine, it will help you greatly. If you can't bear to take advice from an "asthmatic, fat, sweaty 37 year old fuck". Take it from him.

[Kikó]

To be fair Dave, some random on Instagram says differently so who are we to believe?

[7om]

Having a warped sense of smell and taste isn't unhealthy. Being an asthmatic, fat, sweaty 37 year old fuck is.

:lol:

Don’t get the bovid vaccine, mate. Stand your ground.

[Shindig]

A reminder he got pneumonia before covid was on the scene. Fitter. Happier. More Productive ...

[Magic]

Can't hear you over your inhaler, lardy.

[Dave.]

Can't hear you over your inhaler, lardy.

I apologise.:lol:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-63410341

Another big lockdown in China.

When will they drop the zero-Covid thing?

[Ben]

When they revolt and kick out the CCP. It's all about population control now, nothing to do with being afraid of COVID.

[-james-]

They have about 40% uptake among the elderly of the dogshit vaccine that they use. If they're locking them up like this then they might as well pin them down and stick a needle in their arm.

[Yevrah]

When they revolt and kick out the CCP. It's all about population control now, nothing to do with being afraid of COVID.

Unless they know that there's something in it that causes longer term damage. Whatever strain we're on now must be so weak there's surely no medical reason they're doing this.

[Kikó]

It's control. Hopefully xi gets the boot.

[Yevrah]

That would also make sense.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's control. Hopefully xi gets the boot.

He got a third term the other week.

[7om]

Xi isn’t going anywhere, he’s seems to have consolidated his status.

[Manc]

4Xi chess.

[Don]

Look at the gammons now preach "it's about control" at the funny looking Asians after 2 years of hugging their mums through a plastic sheet :D

[7om]

I like gammon with fried egg.

[Giggles]

Bit of brown sauce always good too.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm not a fan of the egg.

Just gammon and chips for me.

[Ben]

Pineapple ring?

[randomlegend]

Taz is the gammonest poster here.

[Ben]

Bleating about not being able to WFH is as gammon as you can get.

[Don]

Proper Peppa party now.

[7om]

Pineapple ring?

Have a look in the mirror and reflect on this madness.

[Giggles]

Proper Peppa party now.

That must be like a lucky dip.

[niko_cee]

Have a look in the mirror and reflect on this madness.

I was going to suggest the same, the ring, not the scorn. Feels like it's one of those things that has gone by the wayside, along with the fabled mixed grill, and the world is a poorer place for it. Egg is fine, but that's ham, egg and chips.

[Jimmy Floyd]

In a posh pub recently I ordered what was ostensibly ham, egg and chips (with some fancy adjectives around it but that's par for the course). What I got was a badly undercooked pig's knuckle, about 5 flat wide chips, and a whole boiled egg coated in breadcrumbs. Almost called the police.

[Shindig]

They'd just kick your door down again.

[Spikey M]

That's a good point. Did you knock and let Doris know you're going to be away for a few days Jim?

May as well buy yourself some new hinges and her a bottle of Riesling now, if not.

[Kikó]

In a posh pub recently I ordered what was ostensibly ham, egg and chips (with some fancy adjectives around it but that's par for the course). What I got was a badly undercooked pig's knuckle, about 5 flat wide chips, and a whole boiled egg coated in breadcrumbs. Almost called the police.

Your München Bruders would have got a pork knuckle right.

[Giggles]

Had that in one of the breweries in Munich and it’s so good.

[Kikó]

Grilled or boiled?

[Giggles]

Tasted roasted so I’ll assume the former.

[Kikó]

Yep. The boiled stuff looks a bit like a babies head (but full of flavour) - both (grilled and boiled) are great to eat.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Had that in one of the breweries in Munich and it’s so good.

It's amazing in Germany. In Chobham, less so.

[Raoul Duke]

Yep. The boiled stuff looks a bit like a babies head (but full of flavour) - both (grilled and boiled) are great to eat.

How do you know how much flavour is in a baby's head?

[Kikó]

By eating them.

[Bernanke]

https://i.imgur.com/sJdmj7W.png

Dr John needs to work on his Youtube thumbnailing skills.

[Ben]

The third one reminds me of that guy that was wrongly introduced on BBC but went along with it anyway. :D

EDIT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Y2uQn_wvc

[Manc]

The state of China.

[Magic]

Censoring maskless crowds at the world cup. :D

And to think some on here would want this for the UK.

[Spikey M]

Who?

[Lewis]

Jeremy Hunt.

[Giggles]

Beremy Bunt.

[Spikey M]

After last week's EMBARRASSING apology to Phonics, Yevrah has today found himself VINDICATED after it emerged that Covid almost certainly came from the lab in Wuhan.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a?mod=hp_lead_pos1Lab

Kiko, we are ready for your apology.

[Yevrah]

I can't say I'm surprised and for me, it was an absolute no brainer as to that's where it came from the more time wore on.

[Kikó]

I never said it wasn't from a lab, I said there was no evidence that it was. If they've found evidence then cool.

In personal news, I managed to bring COVID back from Barcelona and infect the wife and baby. Second time round felt like a pretty shitty cold but I'm over it after a week, the wife is still slightly feverish but it's her first time so probably hitting harder. Baby took it out in three days and is back to it.

[Don]

Get vaxxed, please.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They've likely always had evidence that it was, but are deploying it now as they feel it's an apposite moment to piss off the Chinese.

[Shindig]

Imagine the lawsuit if China came out and admitted it. :drool:

[Pepe]

While we're at it:

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full


Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks (risk ratio (RR) 0.95, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.84 to 1.09; 9 trials, 276,917 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There are still tinpot airlines down here making me wear masks. Is it some kind of legal arse-covering or what?

[Pepe]

There are still tinpot professors demanding that their students wear masks in their classrooms over here. No due to arse-covering, but a combination of fear and stupidity.

Who knows why Latin American companies, or people for that matter, do the things they do.

[Spikey M]

Does it tally with their subject? I imagine anyone in an engineering field doesn't give a fuck, but anyone involved with the social sciences is still completely moist over it?

[Pepe]

Definitely a lot more common in the good old Arts and Humanities, but we also have a few weirdos in Engineering left.

[Ben]

There are still tinpot airlines down here making me wear masks. Is it some kind of legal arse-covering or what?

100%. Same reason they were (are?) so strict on making sure you had the correct COVID papers to enter your country of destination.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There are a lot of people here who are wearing them day to day. According to a taxi driver it's for autoproteccion, or in other words, the idiots think that wearing a mask makes them safer. I'm not sure that even mask proponents in the west think that.

In the west masks seem to be a left-wing favourite, I suppose they serve as an easy outlet for the platonic god complexes that exist in academia.

[Shindig]

I saw one lad at a gig wearing one the other week. Front and centre so it's not like he had any fear of someone sneezing him to death. It's just a comfort blanket now.

[randomlegend]

We still have to wear them at work.

[Spikey M]

Well, we've seen your mugshot.

[Magic]

I didn't expect to be vindicated this much this soon. :drool:

[niko_cee]

Didn't everyone outside of Asia universally think masks were a waste of time [for anything other than vast procurement based bungs] from the get go?

[John Arne]

Maybe worth adding that the report from the ENERGY department adds that their opinion is "low confidence".

#ChinaBot

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-64788448

Good on her. I got my refund almost immediately so it seems like it was all down to which call centre agent was on the line to you.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've now come to a town where masks are almost universal because no one is vaccinated. Cracking stuff.

[Dquincy]

I've now come to a town where masks are almost universal because no one is vaccinated. Cracking stuff.
I mean.
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[Yevrah]

Kik's, we've got another one. Get in here now and bring a 100 page study with you.

[phonics]

Nothing proves something right more than a jpeg of a headline and no link to the actual piece.

[phonics]

Lol I found the piece.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/natural-immunity-protective-covid-vaccine-severe-illness-rcna71027

The takeaway is that if you're unvaccinated and don't get massively hospitalised or die the first time you get COVID, you're probably fine. However the vaccine provides you a small enough sample to not hospitalise you or kill you the first time you get it.

[Yevrah]

That guy’s Twitter makes him seem like a right tool.

[phonics]

Yeah, he's a famous crank but because he's black and agrees with GOP talking points he got elevated so they can say 'look even the black guy agrees with us'. For other examples see Jason Whitlock.

[phonics]

These back to back tweets made me laugh though.

https://i.imgur.com/60alVay.png
https://i.imgur.com/y6NXXoP.png

[Dquincy]

That first one. :D

[Kikó]

No fight for me to make. The fight is over, we have managed to get past COVID due to the SCIENCE.

[Spikey M]

I saw that 2 people died from Bird Flu last week in Cambodia. :uhoh:

[John Arne]

Shit, literally ate a chicken burger at lunch, only 60km's from the Cambodian border.

RIP me.

[Spikey M]

Did you smuggle it in? (https://tuoitrenews.vn/news/society/20230226/vietnam-acts-to-prevent-h5n1-bird-flu-virus-following-first-death-in-cambodia/71823.html)

[niko_cee]

Aren't governments, somewhat by default/definition, meant to act to prevent the smuggling of all things all the time?

[John Arne]

Interesting thread.

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[Spikey M]

The fucking state of that mans mug.

[niko_cee]

Some interesting rabbitholes to be ventured down there.

I'm definitely onboard with the idea that the Chinese have been entirely unhelpful and probably culpable [through accident/incompetence] in the whole shebang, but it'd be good to try and find a non-crank source to justify that line of thinking. Perhaps any descent into the whole 'gain of function' jargon, whilst entirely necessary, makes it seem a bit conspiratorial.

[Yevrah]

If it did come from a lab (it did) there will never be any proper evidence of this as China aren't interested in sharing it and the Western World (largely) aren't interested in looking for it. It's a major inconvenience that's better to label as a conspiracy theory.

[Spikey M]

Yeah, It did. I don't know why we're not just treating it as fact at this point. It either came from where it exists naturally, 1000 miles away from the 1st known cluster of cases, or from the lab, where they were studying it, a bus ride away. But yeah, there's no chance China ever put their hands up and say "yeah sorry lads, the work experience kid was doing lines from the petri dish", so it's just going to be another of histories accepted but unacknowledged lies.

[Boydy]

Didn't some US government department (or intelligence agency?) publish a report saying it was a lab leak not that long ago?

[Spikey M]

Didn't some US government department (or intelligence agency?) publish a report saying it was a lab leak not that long ago?

Yes, but it was "strongly suspected" or something similar.

[7om]

Didn’t Trump say this while still in office and got shit on? The great man proved right again.

[John Arne]

Just received an email from a client requesting negative Covid tests before entering the building. Also, masks required on all public transport.

Fuck off.

[Don]

I don't need none of that shit nor any respectable vaccines for my entry on Saturday do I?

[John Arne]

Not at the moment....

[Ben]

Are they starting to shit themselves again like?

[John Arne]

Not quite yet.... but the 'c' word is started to re-enter the vernacular. There is a week holiday next week, so I think people are just shitting the bed about millions of folk returning to the countryside, catching something, then bringing it back to the city.
I've told my team if they feel sick, just stay at home - but don't test yourself. If you don't test, you can't be positive for Covid.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I found it very noticeable in South America how prominent covid still is in people's consciousness, whereas in Europe it is gone. The reason of course is that no one there (or at least in the shitter nations of Bolivia and Paraguay) is vaccinated, either because of stupid conspiracy theories, or useless government procurement, or both.

[John Arne]

I don't know why people here are bothered, for one reason you mentioned... every fucker here IS vaccinated and if you do catch up - who fucking cares. It's killing nobody.

[Spikey M]

My wife's side of the family still test every time they sneeze. I'm not sure if they built up a massive haul while they were still free or if they're buying them. Either way, you can feel the rush they get as they post their picture of a positive test to the family groupchat.

I think it's basically an addiction at this point.

[Ben]

Someone at work is off this week with it. I doubt it's anything severe but our Client policy remains you stay away from site for 5 days so it's a free holiday essentially.

[Dark Soldier]

I've got it for the fifth time. Absolute hotbed for it. I think slapping my dick in every crevice available when younger fucked my immune system.

[Don]

Nah, can confirm your current lifestyle overrides the historic debauchery. I'd like to say it was COVID that fortified my immune system to a level where I simply don't get ill any more but I think the missus moving in and improving my diet and sleep has done it. I used to get ill every other month.

[Shindig]

I've gone the other way. I've been picking up more little bugs since spending more time working from home.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

New strain apparently and SCIENCE is suggesting that we mask up again and test regularly.

lol.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

New strain apparently and SCIENCE is suggesting that we mask up again and test regularly.

lol.

[Magic]

Nah, can confirm your current lifestyle overrides the historic debauchery. I'd like to say it was COVID that fortified my immune system to a level where I simply don't get ill any more but I think the missus moving in and improving my diet and sleep has done it. I used to get ill every other month.

Not complying has fortified mine. Immune to almost everything whilst maskers around me are dropping like flies.

[niko_cee]

The BBC doesn't even have a coronavirus news section anymore so good luck rolling back the years on mask wearing and the rest.

[Giggles]

New strain apparently and SCIENCE is suggesting that we mask up again and test regularly.

lol.

I’m done anyway, it’s over.

[Gray Fox]

Someone at work is off this week with it. I doubt it's anything severe but our Client policy remains you stay away from site for 5 days so it's a free holiday essentially.

Our place still had it as essentially a free holiday right up til 1st April. We were still having more than 1 off having tested positive for it each week. No idea why it took them this long.

[Yevrah]

If Giggles is out SCIENCE has no chance.

[Giggles]

If Giggles is out SCIENCE has no chance.

I’m the one that worked all the way through it unlike all the lazy cunts wanking onto their laptops in their bedrooms.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Those of us driving to work in April 2020 have those special traffic memories that will never leave us.

[Giggles]

:nodd:

[Giggles]

And no cunt wants to work because of it. Oooh I got to sit in bed for it all so I want to “work” from home now. No wonder everything’s fucked when every cunt is lazy

[Kikó]

Maybe we know how to do our jobs without having to pretend we're doing it by being present like you do. Ooo look boss I'm doing so much work because you can see me. Pathetic, grow up.

[Boydy]

And no cunt wants to work because of it. Oooh I got to sit in bed for it all so I want to “work” from home now. No wonder everything’s fucked when every cunt is lazy
Don't you spend half your time wanking in lay-bys in your van?

[Spikey M]

I'm lucky if I work from home once a week these days. 'Mon the variant.

[Shindig]

I've been in the office all month.

[Yevrah]

Those of us driving to work in April 2020 have those special traffic memories that will never leave us.

Indeed. Oxford to Maidstone in under 90 minutes. Amazing times.

[Shindig]

My memory will be walking over to the next village along a completely empty A690. And then getting there to see someone had set up a load of straw dummies around. :|

[Manc]

Hopefully this new variant takes us back to square one. You can't move for people atm.

[Magic]

Maybe we know how to do our jobs without having to pretend we're doing it by being present like you do. Ooo look boss I'm doing so much work because you can see me. Pathetic, grow up.

He's got a point. I get paid way more than him to sit at home with my cat.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The BBC doesn't even have a coronavirus news section anymore so good luck rolling back the years on mask wearing and the rest.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65435326

And now the NHS app (did anyone ever download it?) is dead.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65499929

Even the WHO have given up on it now.

[Yevrah]

Good to see they're still reacting with the timely nature we've become accustomed with from them throughout this.

[Lewis]

Time to finally see whose shit predictions (https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?2630-TTH-Coronavirus-Prediction-Thread) were the most shit.

[Boydy]

Time to finally see whose shit predictions (https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?2630-TTH-Coronavirus-Prediction-Thread) were the most shit.
Why were you hating on Yev at the time?

[Yevrah]

He was jealous of my constant nailing of the situation.

[Shindig]

No better time to archive the thread.

[Lewis]

Why were you hating on Yev at the time?

He was bulk-buying pasta like a frightened woman.

[Yevrah]

He was bulk-buying pasta like a frightened woman.

And had to make shit up like this to undermine my general nailing it.

[Lewis]

I'm back from my trip, with some observations:

Firstly, I got everything I wanted, bar the toilet roll. When I saw there wasn't any I wasn't going to bother with anything, but then it hit me, if I catch this cunt then I'm potentially not going to be able to leave the house for anything from 2 weeks+ without the risk of infecting others - I know the government want me to do that, but I'd rather not and even if I could guarantee I won't am I really going to want to get out if I'm feeling fucking awful. So back in I went perusing all the isles with one of the smaller trolleys. They were restocking furiously, so this meant much of what I wanted was available, albeit not some of the usual brands.

While toilet roll and eggs (no, I don't know either) were all gone, Nurofen was back on the shelves and I was also able to get some pasta, chopped tomatoes and all the tinned goods. There was one brand of pasta that was strangely still all there. Thinking it must be coeliac shit to start with, I initially dismissed it, but then the words MADE IN ITALY jumped out at me and that explained that. Picked 5 bags up (the max I could as per their polite request) and this theme repeated elsewhere. Chopped tomatoes. Pesto. Anything with made in Italy on the front is untouched.

After doing a few circuits I ended up with a trolley full of stuff that eventually amounted to just under £200, but that included toiletries, and household products. Up to this point it had been plain sailing, the place was reasonably dead and easy to navigate, bar the shop floor lads who were moving cages and unpacking them at an impressive rate. Then I got to the counter and as all the actual tills were closed I had to use a self service one, which for that much shopping was a right fucking ball ache. The technology on these things is now so outdated they make the McDonald's touch screen machines (before they patched them) look good.

I know some of you may think that much stuff is excessive, but I don't consider it stockpiling. I've just bought some non-perishable items, 2-4 week's worth, that will comfortably see me through should I catch it and be ill at home on my own. My Mum is in her mid 60s now so there will come a time in the not too distant future where I'd rather she didn't leave the house for a bit and most of my other friends and relatives round here have kids and I don't want to burden them with helping me unless I'm seriously ill. This food will be kept only to be eaten if and when I catch it and I'd suggest anyone living on their own do likewise.

Actual stockpiling may come later, depending on how it develops in other countries that are ahead of us in the spread of this fucker.

You bought as much as the shop would allow you to. At four in the morning.

[Yevrah]

Thanks for posting that as I couldn’t be arsed to find it to prove your characterisation above to Boydy was complete horse shit - as is clear, I merely bought enough food so I didn’t have to rely on anyone else to get any for me if I got it and had to stay inside for two weeks.

[Don]

We beginning to get the fine-tooth comb out for the thread? I've waited years for this :drool:

[Lewis]

I massively, massively underestimated it, as the predictions thread shows, but I still think we should have just let more people die.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Why was everyone ignoring the made in Italy pasta? Expensive?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Didn't they have a MASSIVE spike at the time?

I also remember Italian products being a lot easier to get in shops then too.

[Yevrah]

I think there’s definitely an argument that we should have told the vulnerable to stay at home, but not forced them to and let everyone else crack on.

[Lewis]

Weren't people also swerving Corona beer?

[Yevrah]

Why was everyone ignoring the made in Italy pasta? Expensive?

My assumption at the time was because of all the deaths they were having. Which is so stupid it beggars belief, but it remains my best guess.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Weren't people also swerving Corona beer?

Yes.

[Lewis]

Everyone I know or know of through other people who got it really bad got it through a hospital or a health worker, so we could have just closed those and carried on as normal.

[Yevrah]

It is absolutely insane the amount of people who caught it in a care environment and died.

[Magic]

We beginning to get the fine-tooth comb out for the thread? I've waited years for this :drool:

:drool:

Right side of history bro. Right side.

[randomlegend]

The non-existent smell of "victory".

[Spikey M]

They sure showed us by nearly dying and / or sacrificing one of their senses.

[Magic]

Enjoy your 23 cold/flus every year. :harold:

[niko_cee]

The truth seekers (as I learned they like to be called the other day) still being so hung up on all this shit is, whilst perhaps unsurprisingly, top tier irony.

[Spikey M]

Enjoy your 23 cold/flus every year. :harold:

I get ill alot because I live with my kids.

[Magic]

Worst flex ever

[Kikó]

The truth seekers (as I learned they like to be called the other day) still being so hung up on all this shit is, whilst perhaps unsurprisingly, top tier irony.

Init. The world has moved on but they're still going on about how the vaccine is killing everyone 2 years after its been administered. It makes people a lot of money on Twitter assumedly which is why they still go on about it.

[Kikó]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22912846/captain-tom-moore-daughter-charity-spa-pool/

In unsurprising news...

[Offshore Toon]

The white Joseph Kony.

[Baz]

A stranger kissed my son at the pub yesterday and my wife quipped “it’s like Covid never happened.” U WOT M8?

[Magic]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22912846/captain-tom-moore-daughter-charity-spa-pool/

In unsurprising news...

How much did you donate?

[Pepe]

The white BLM.

[Kikó]

How much did you donate?

£600.

[niko_cee]

Cat covid running wild in Cyprus.

Hopefully it goes full pandemic and wipes the little garden shitting/small animal murdering bastards out worldwide.

[Boydy]

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:D

Ffs

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/06/people-may-suffer-long-colds-more-than-four-weeks-after-infection-study-shows

https://media.tenor.com/to-x-9XWcqwAAAAM/ha-smirk.gif

[Spikey M]

From the BBC'S live feed of the Covid Enquiry.


The inquiry's lawyer shows some entries from Sir Patrick Vallance’s diaries from 2020.

In the first, Vallance says Boris Johnson is “obsessed with older people accepting their fate and letting the young get on with life and the economy going”.

Another entry says: “He says his party ‘thinks the whole thing is pathetic and Covid is just Nature’s way of dealing with old people – and I am not entirely sure I disagree with them’.”

A third entry, from December 2020, reads: "Chief whip says 'I think we should let the old people get it and protect others’. PM says ‘a lot of my backbenchers think that and I must say I agree with them’."

Cain says the PM was concerned about society as a whole, but some of the language is not “what I would have used”.

So far, Boris Johnson's spokesman has declined to comment on the evidence given at these hearings, but says he's "co-operating fully" with the inquiry

:drool:

[niko_cee]

Utilitarianism ftw.

[Lewis]

Johnson being the one hero of the entire unsavoury time is top swerve material.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think he should have saved everyone, at no cost.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

From the BBC'S live feed of the Covid Enquiry.



:drool:

Bit risky wanting to off all of your voters.

[Ben]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67347456

The gift that just keeps on giving.

What's even more remarkable is that he said it in September 2020, only a few months after it put him in intensive care. :D

[Spikey M]

Has anyone ever seen him and Taz/Tragic in the same place? :sherlock:

[Disco]

What with Trumps insane court ramblings it's been a good week for terrible former heads of government.

[Magic]

What with Trumps insane court ramblings it's been a good week for terrible former heads of government.

I liked his Aberdeen comment. :harold:

[Boydy]

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Covid 2: Electric Boogaloo :eyemouth:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Get the masks out.

[Shindig]

Covid 3: It's for kids.

[randomlegend]

Nah fuck off RSV is already apocalyptic this year and it's only November.

[Manc]

Get the masks out.

Giggles never took his off.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Did he at least take one off?

[Baz]

:D

[Spikey M]

If it's undiagnosed, how do they know about it?

[Magic]

If it's undiagnosed, how do they know about it?

TikTok.

[Spikey M]

A thread on Covid 2: Septic Boogaloo.
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Magic. Taz. It's go time.

[Magic]

Paediatric. RL licking his lips.

[Ben]

This is old news really. If it was really a concern, they wouldn't have waited for all the Israel-Palestine stuff to die down before putting it into media circulation.

[Don]

I'm worried about RL's latest hospital status report, would you say they're under serious pressure as we come into winter? Get vaccinated, lads.

[Dark Soldier]

Yas lads another year of WFH plz

[Kikó]

Return of the doomlord Eric Ding.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He's in the world's top 25 grifters I would guess.

[wullie]

They brought Neighbours back at the perfect time.

[Lofty]

Dr Karl Kennedy's secret plot to rule daytime tv again.

[randomlegend]

Paediatric. RL licking his lips.

Why would I want to have to deal with a pandemic?

[phonics]

Magic back on the blovid while also making a business for people to bleat on about gluten free produce.

[Magic]

Magic back on the blovid while also making a business for people to bleat on about gluten free produce.

Should I incorporate places that make you wear masks indoors?

[randomlegend]

Magic back on the blovid while also making a business for people to bleat on about gluten free produce.

He identifies with them because "covid is a hoax" and "no I'm not coeliac but I'm severely intolerant" are both just alternatives to having interests and a personality.

[Spikey M]

Should I incorporate places that make you wear masks indoors?

I mean, shouldn't you be feeding back to maskless restaurants about how many COPD customers they're losing?

:harold:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I mean, shouldn't you be feeding back to maskless restaurants about how many COPD customers they're losing?

:harold:

:D

[Magic]

I mean, shouldn't you be feeding back to maskless restaurants about how many COPD customers they're losing?

:harold:

Incorporated xxx

[niko_cee]

Had to take my daughter to a hospital appointment today and it was mask central. Is that a forever thing now?

[randomlegend]

Not in either of the hospitals I've worked at recently.

[Waffdon]

I’ve seen a lot more folk kicking about in them outdoors recently. All ages as well, not just your nutty 40 year old woman. My missus got it again (well presume she did, couple of her colleagues tested for it) and she was bed bound for a good few days. Finally stopped coughing like a mad man after nearly 3 weeks so I can finally sleep through the night now.

My mate was fucked for a week as well with it so maybe it’s coming back with a vengeance

[Spikey M]

There's a cold going around my work at the moment and our receptionist has started wearing a mask in response to it. The bonus of such behaviour is I immediately know all of his opinions on everything.

Vegan/vegetarian/gluten free/some kind of food related Narcissism, #BLM, #DefundThePolice, He/Who

[Alex]

Had to take my daughter to a hospital appointment today and it was mask central. Is that a forever thing now?

I had to go yesterday and had the exact opposite experience. I was very much expecting to have one doled out to me at the reception desk, but nothing. Nobody had them on. Patients or staff.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I had to go yesterday and had the exact opposite experience. I was very much expecting to have one doled out to me at the reception desk, but nothing. Nobody had them on. Patients or staff.

I had the same experience when I went for a blood test last week. I only saw a couple wearing them, 30-40 year olds.

[Pepe]

Male receptionist lol.

[SvN]

My appointment letter a few weeks ago had a huge section about mask wearing, how it was mandatory, etc. Then when I got there, I think there was perhaps 1 or 2 pensioners wearing them, but none of the staff.

[Ben]

My local M&S food hall was rammed with mask wearers the other day. Obviously a certain type of clientele go in there and it shows because I’ve seen literally none anywhere else.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I could write a paper on M&S food halls. A really fascinatingly vapid section of the population are to be found in there. Sometimes I think some of them spend most of the day in there.

[niko_cee]

They'd die of cold if they spent a whole day in there, surely?

I agree it's a fascinating place though. I guess you've made it in life when you start pushing a trolley around one of those.

[-james-]

There's a cold going around my work at the moment and our receptionist has started wearing a mask in response to it. The bonus of such behaviour is I immediately know all of his opinions on everything.

Vegan/vegetarian/gluten free/some kind of food related Narcissism, #BLM, #DefundThePolice, He/Who

I wouldn't bother personally, and I do question the efficacy, but not wanting to get ill is fair enough imo?

That behaviour is different to getting one out every time you're in a public place.

[Ben]

They'd die of cold if they spent a whole day in there, surely?

I agree it's a fascinating place though. I guess you've made it in life when you start pushing a trolley around one of those.

We shop in there and our weekly bill has gone from £70 at Morrisons to £75-80 at M&S. It’s really not any more expensive anymore, as they never put up their prices when everyone else did.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Quality is so much better too.

M&S is great.

[Don]

I hadn't been ill since COVID bout in 2020 so thought I'd unlocked an even newer level of invincibility but last 2 weeks something naughty caught me. As with most things I'm typically ahead of the curve so be careful out there.

[Lofty]

M&S is the supermarket red squirrel to Aldi's grey.

[Manc]

Waitrose is the one.

[Ben]

Waitrose is the one.

I’m far too far north for that place chief.

[Dark Soldier]

I’m far too far north for that place chief.

Get to Booths ffs. The deli counter is amazing.

[niko_cee]

We shop in there and our weekly bill has gone from £70 at Morrisons to £75-80 at M&S. It’s really not any more expensive anymore, as they never put up their prices when everyone else did.

You're not doing it OAP right then, stacking your trolley high with all the ready meals and whatnot.

M&S prices aren't bad for loads of things, they've always been solid on staples, but how do you get by doing all your shopping there? They don't have anywhere near enough range of stuff.

[-james-]

I've had a cold for about 3 weeks of the past 6. That better be my lot for the season. Going to start mainlining orange juice just to make sure.

[Spikey M]

There's a cold going around my work at the moment and our receptionist has started wearing a mask in response to it. The bonus of such behaviour is I immediately know all of his opinions on everything.

Vegan/vegetarian/gluten free/some kind of food related Narcissism, #BLM, #DefundThePolice, He/Who

My manager has now gone off sick too and has actually tested. Of course it's Bovid.

I remain unscathed at present, but there's an outside chance I could manage to get it and be unable to go round my inlaws for Christmas.

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[Spikey M]

I've had a cold for about 3 weeks of the past 6. That better be my lot for the season. Going to start mainlining orange juice just to make sure.

I saw this (https://www.joe.co.uk/news/symptoms-of-deadly-100-day-cough-sweeping-the-nation-415192) not at all over-dramatic article the other day.

RIP.

[Lofty]

Good effort, I heroically volunteered to keep a hand on the tiller at work during Christmas week specifically so I could utilise it as an excuse to avoid interacting with my in laws beyond the regulation christmas dinner.

[Ben]

Get to Booths ffs. The deli counter is amazing.

Far too east for that. :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

Heads have gone:

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Completely fucking gone.

[phonics]

That's about 2% more people than claim they've seen an alien. Hardly indicative of anything.

[Pepe]

A few cases have been confirmed in my daughter's daycare. Now she has to either wear a mask for the next thirteen days or stay home two days, take a test (in daycare) on the third day and, if it is negative, go back on the fourth day, no mask needed. Apparently going with a mask for two days and then removing it after testing negative on the third day is not an option. Good rulemaking, CDC.

I was thinking earlier: We are going to be stuck with this nonsense just like we still need to take our shoes off in airports, right?

[Lofty]

I bet there's more in favour of restrictions than have had the latest vaccine. Let's be honest some fuckers just want the pubs shut because they never go.

[Magic]

I'd love another lockdown. :drool:

[Spikey M]

Nobody would do it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67772390

JN.1 is here!

[Boydy]

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Oh cool.

[Shindig]

What have they got against mice?

[Lofty]

And cats thought they were safe from AI nicking their jobs.

[Yevrah]

Good job Covid-19 didn't come from a lab.

[Ben]

"Daily Mail US"

Come on Boydy, you know better than that.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I hear he gets all his news from there. Very active in the comments too.

[John Arne]

BoydTruthSeekerGB

[Kikó]

Good job the daily mail us wasn't made in a lab.

[Spikey M]

Stop being dicks. Don't worry Boyd, I'm worried about this too. #MAGA

[Yevrah]

I mean, I've no idea whether that story is true or not and I don't really care (I'm too busy stroking my Covid e-victory trophy that I had made up), but presumably there are at least some things the Daily Mail publish that have a basis in fact? "Lol Daily Mail" seems an incredibly reductive argument, particularly when China accidentally unleashed something on the World that caused untold misery and a fair bit of death.

[Spikey M]

We've been here before. I posted a tweet that contained a video (helpfully, I can't remember what the video was) and the replies were all just to call the source shite, rather than anything regarding what the guy in the video was saying.

The message from Kiko is clear; if it's not from an unbiased source - say, The Guardian or anybody with a Palestine flag in their Bio - then it's bullshit straight away.

[Shindig]

I have absolutely no doubt labs like that have to find new and terrifying ways to kill rodents. It keeps their funding going.

[Ben]

I'm not saying there's nothing in it but if you go to Google News and search terms like "mutant COVID brain" then the only results are Daily Mail, GB News, Hindustan Times etc. The less unhinged outlets don't seem to be bothering themselves with this story.

[Yevrah]

I'm not saying there's nothing in it but if you go to Google News and search terms like "mutant COVID brain" then the only results are Daily Mail, GB News, Hindustan Times etc. The less unhinged outlets don't seem to be bothering themselves with this story.

The less unhinged outlets haven't been keen on reporting anything about labs and covid, they spent a decent chunk of time insisting that a lab leak was nothing more than a fanciful conspiracy theory.

[niko_cee]

Has it been upgraded from that status?

I think we can all probably agree that China knew something was up long before they told anyone, and maybe they were trying to understand what it was within a lab environment, but I doubt they ever had control of the situation, certainly not to the extent that this wild thing re-emerged from a lab, much less that it was created/designed in one - which is sort of what the mutant covid brain [what a search by the way] article is saying.

China's lollest reaction of all nations to covid heavily suggests that this wasn't some grand conspiracy gone wrong. I mean, it's not like they're averse to a bit of collateral human damage in the furtherance of their agenda generally.

[Jimmy Floyd]

As with all totalitarian regimes, the worst thing that can happen is events appearing to run away from state control. Denying it for ages (possibly even to themselves) and then switching tack to a massively brutal response is the natural response of tyrants to more or less any crisis. Soviets were specialists at it, particularly in the Brezhnev times.

[Kikó]

We've been here before. I posted a tweet that contained a video (helpfully, I can't remember what the video was) and the replies were all just to call the source shite, rather than anything regarding what the guy in the video was saying.

The message from Kiko is clear; if it's not from an unbiased source - say, The Guardian or anybody with a Palestine flag in their Bio - then it's bullshit straight away.

Don't forget the #fbpe and Ukraine flag please.

[Giggles]

It’s long over.

[Manc]

Is it just the one mask these days?

[Giggles]

None since it ended over a year ago. But yes, good lad.

[John Arne]

Shouldn't somebody have made a really good film about this by now?

[Shindig]

I thought Contagion fit the bill on that.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There are no good films to be made about pandemics. There are no heroes, except for ordinary people continuing to do their jobs, which doesn't make for a great film. There are no moments of pathos or high drama. Just misery and doom.

Lots of films made about the Hundred Years War, none about the Black Death.

[John Arne]

Lot's of films have been made about pandemics and killer viruses... but yeah, perhaps this one is just too fucking depressing and real. Idris Elba could play the virus.