Coronavirus Death Thread

[Giggles]

The team I've always been on is "Team react to what's currently happening".

You’ve been on about 8 teams. Has been a very entertaining evolution in fairness.

[Spikey M]

I think I've briefly been a member of both Team Panic and Team Whataloadofbollocks, but for the majority of this I've stuck with Team Uselessgovernmentandcluelessadvisors.

The Teams may need some more snappy names.

[Boydy]

I find people who can't sit in the house weird. Kind of feel sorry for people who can't stand their own company.

[Magic]

I find people who can't sit in the house weird. Kind of feel sorry for people who can't stand their own company.

Can't even decide which meme is best here.

[niko_cee]

I find people who can't sit in the house weird. Kind of feel sorry for people who can't stand their own company.

I would echo this.

The scenes from Soho yesterday looked quality though. Probably had that weird 'what's going on vibe' not seen since those hazy mornings in 2002 when everyone bowled out of the pub at 8.30am having just watched Beckham sink the Argies and had no idea what to do with themselves.

[Raoul Duke]

I would echo this.

The scenes from Soho yesterday looked quality though. Probably had that weird 'what's going on vibe' not seen since those hazy mornings in 2002 when everyone bowled out of the pub at 8.30am having just watched Beckham sink the Argies and had no idea what to do with themselves.

It must have been the easiest time to get laid in history

[Lofty]

Giggles is right though I have seen loads of twats early doors giving it the big one about mental health. A girl I know, who was at one time the most legendary slag ever to frequent the night life in my home town, went on holiday with her new fella just as this all got serious, leaving her mum to look after her 6 month old baby while they went to Thailand. Then panicked about coming back, managing to get on the last passenger plane bound for the UK and arriving in the midst of lockdown. She'd been back about 48 hours before bleating on facebook about why it was a joke you shouldn't be going to the DIY shops buying stuff to decorate your house because people need it for their mental health.

The mumsnet scientific advice is anyone can do anything they want during this if it is for their mental health, would love to see the same principle rolled out in the middle of an air raid campaign.

[Jimmy Floyd]

£1.57 billion bailout announced for the arts, and you can tell Arts Twitter is seething they can't whinge about it anymore.

[Shindig]

All that time on their hands and so little art to show for it. Not a new Banksy wall scribble bigging up the NHS or anything.

[Don]

It must have been the easiest time to get laid in history

In Soho? :eyemouth:

[Spoonsky]

Insanely jealous of your pub scenes. It's just a complete clusterfuck all around over here, and will be for the foreseeable future.

[Queenslander]

NSW has shut the border with Victoria.

Liberal Party of NSW have been fucking awful this whole time.

[Spikey M]

Fuck 'the arts'.

[Giggles]

Fuck 'the arts'.

Could probably say the same for sport too though.

[Spikey M]

Could probably say the same for sport too though.

I would. There's enough money in both to self fund if the one's at the top weren't sitting on it all.

[Giggles]

How very 2020.


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[Kikó]

£1.57 billion bailout announced for the arts, and you can tell Arts Twitter is seething they can't whinge about it anymore.

It's sad that the arts have had to complain so much before being recognised with some support.

[Magic]

35000 unnecessary cancer deaths incoming due to lockdown.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's sad that the arts have had to complain so much before being recognised with some support.

I feel a bit of that but also a bit of how fucking entitled are you lot (especially as most of them don't seem satisfied with the bailout - what do they want? 10 billion? Eleventy billion?)

[Shindig]

£10.8bn a year to the economy.


The sector contributes £2.8billion a year to the Treasury via taxation, and generates a further £23billion a year and 363,700 jobs.

Nice. The government would make the money back in taxes.

[Giggles]

35000 unnecessary cancer deaths incoming due to lockdown.

How will you find time to lol at them all?

[Shindig]

Define a necessary cancer death, Magic.

[Magic]

How will you find time to lol at them all?

Why would I do that?

[Giggles]

Why would I do that?

It appears to be in your nature.

[Magic]

Define a necessary cancer death, Magic.

One that couldn't have been caught by screening or extended timelines with clinical trials etc.

[Lewis]

I feel a bit of that but also a bit of how fucking entitled are you lot (especially as most of them don't seem satisfied with the bailout - what do they want? 10 billion? Eleventy billion?)

This is/was a one-off opportunity to kill half the hostile subsidy industries off. Public health wankers have got it coming, universities want shaking down... Watch them do nothing.

[Queenslander]

You farking what, carnt?



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[Jimmy Floyd]

Do they all have to go outside their houses and clap for the Fremantle Doctor?

[Queenslander]

:lol:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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The arrest in the replies is great.

[Lewis]

The other bits of Australia have really relished getting into the inter-state rivalry business. Westminster really ought to be calling Scotland and Wales out a bit more.

[John]

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The arrest in the replies is great.

Was a huge fan of Target putting a mirror beside their mask display so you could see what different colours looked like on you.

[John Arne]

Watching the reaction (on Twitter, and even people in this thread) to wearing face masks is so weird. The benefits are so bleedin obvious (it stops you inhaling other peoples gob, and stops your gob reaching them). Is it not as simple as that? (genuine question for those not wanting to wear one).


:cool: Share a sunset photo?


Queenslander

I swear it wasn't that cloudy :)
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[Jimmy Floyd]

I have some and would wear one if told to, but in general I hate the things. Faces are how we communicate as individuals and the mask prevents us from doing so.

[John Arne]

I have some and would wear one if told to, but in general I hate the things. Faces are how we communicate as individuals and the mask prevents us from doing so.

What is the current Gov guidance/recommendation/law?

[Queenslander]

Watching the reaction (on Twitter, and even people in this thread) to wearing face masks is so weird. The benefits are so bleedin obvious (it stops you inhaling other peoples gob, and stops your gob reaching them). Is it not as simple as that? (genuine question for those not wanting to wear one).



Queenslander

I swear it wasn't that cloudy :)
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:cool:

Looks amazing!

[Jimmy Floyd]

What is the current Gov guidance/recommendation/law?

You're supposed to wear them on public transport, but I haven't been on public transport so I couldn't tell you how many people are. I don't think there's any enforcement of it.

I carry one around in case there is a shop that asks me to wear it, but I haven't yet had to do so.

[Magic]

The way the news are reporting it you'd think everyone is wearing a mask permanently in Scotland. Reality is hardly anyone at all wears a mask, mostly losers and SNaziP creeps.

[Andy]

I go into 10-15 houses every day and the government risk assessment is still telling us not to wear a mask except for a few key situations.

[Queenslander]

You're welcome.


The One Nation leader won’t be returning to Nine’s ‘Today Show’ after comments she made about residents under hard lockdown in Flemington and North Melbourne’s public housing estates. Hanson said they were from “war-torn countries”, and should be used to their current conditions.


Pauline Hanson labelled residents in the nine public housing estate towers "drug addicts" and "alcoholics" who can't speak English, in an interview this morning on Channel Nine's Today Show.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/pauline-hanson-booted-from-today-show-after-backlash-on-melbourne-public-housing-comments

[Queenslander]

The other bits of Australia have really relished getting into the inter-state rivalry business. Westminster really ought to be calling Scotland and Wales out a bit more.

Everyone shitting on NSW and Victoria is good fun.

[Shindig]

The way the news are reporting it you'd think everyone is wearing a mask permanently in Scotland. Reality is hardly anyone at all wears a mask, mostly losers and SNaziP creeps.

Drink bleach please.

[Giggles]

Going to push the proper pub opening back further :drool:

[Mellberg]

Since yesterday I have a sore throat and ear ache. Dehydrated. Body aching and I'm completely exhausted and sleeping a lot. On the plus side I've not been near that manky shithole Leicester.

Anyway, am I dying?

[Spikey M]

RSVP in piss.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Since yesterday I have a sore throat and ear ache. Dehydrated. Body aching and I'm completely exhausted and sleeping a lot. On the plus side I've not been near that manky shithole Leicester.

Anyway, am I dying?

That describes my whole life, other than the sleeping bit. Get on with it Martin.

[Waffdon]

Pubs were great yesterday but I don’t remember coming home. Getting pints in their actual glass instead of the anticipated plastic shite was a plus.

Hangovers are so much worse WFH than going into the office with one

[mugbull]

BolsoNOro

[Manc]

Great script writing from the illuminati.

[Luca]

That’s 2/4 populist hacks, then. Waiting on Modi and Trump.

[mugbull]

There’s more than that. Waiting on George Soros to sodomize Orban

[Shindig]

I really hope the 'little flu' does a number on him.

[Giggles]

How does he matter to anyone in this part of the world?

[mugbull]

How does he matter to anyone in this part of the world?

You don't have to concern yourself with him if you don't want to, buddy

[Luca]

There’s more than that. Waiting on George Soros to sodomize Orban

The ones people care about and move markets, anyways.

[Magic]

How does he matter to anyone in this part of the world?

Spiderman meme.

[Queenslander]

The NSW Liberal Party allowing plane loads of untested Victorians to watlz through their domestic airport is all you need to know about Gladys and her cunt of party.

Queensland Labor should just run the eastern seaboard going foward.

[niko_cee]

Queensland Labor, the model of good governance.

Apart from that time they were listed as basically the most corrupt non-authoritarian government entity on the planet.

What on earth is going on in Melbourne? Security guards shagging the covid quarantined and then having a group cigarette break/debrief afterwards? Sounds bizarre.

[Queenslander]

We gave back PNG...

Melbourne is a failed State.

[Waffdon]

Cash stimulus > £500 voucher > up to £10 off your meal on selected days

Rishi is a good laugh

[Boydy]

I wanted 500 quid to spend on stupid shit. :(

[Jimmy Floyd]

So if I eat purely at Flamin' Go Chicken in Chertsey from now until 1 September, will do I so for half price or are there limits?

[Boydy]

Only Monday to Wednesday and your 50% is only up to the value of a tenner per person.

As someone on twitter said, that's not an economic stimulus, that's fucking Meerkat meals.

[Lofty]

Also lol at them being so miserly about Rashford wanting free meals for kids the other week then bringing this out like a fucking silver bullet.

[Ian]

Also lol at them being so miserly about Rashford wanting free meals for kids the other week then bringing this out like a fucking silver bullet.

Yeah but that was stupid poor children who can't even spend any money.

[Spikey M]

I wanted a PS5 for fuck sake. :(

[Boydy]

Only Monday to Wednesday and your 50% is only up to the value of a tenner per person.

As someone on twitter said, that's not an economic stimulus, that's fucking Meerkat meals.

It only counts for non-alcoholic drinks too.

[Don]

Look at the fucking performative lesbians on twitter downplaying the value of a half-price Nando's. Watch the fucking mental health epidemic disappear overnight :drool:

[Boydy]

The stamp duty thing's a fucking joke too.

[Magic]

The stamp duty thing's a fucking joke too.

No Scotland. :happycry:

[Disco]

Even at half price Nandos still wouldn't be worth it.

[Andy]

The stamp duty thing's a fucking joke too.

Why?

[Boydy]

It's helping people who already own property or have enough to buy something very expensive (alright maybe not in London) as a first time buyer. People in those situations probably aren't struggling. What about renters?

[Spikey M]

I forget that home owners are all millionaires with no worries in life.

[Boydy]

That's not what I said, you pin-headed gimp.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Renters don't move the property market along, which is what that is designed to do (not necessarily 'help people'). Everyone who works in estate agents/builders/surveying/utilities and so on needs that market moving.

[Spikey M]

When 'renters' fall on hard times the Government pays their rent for them. What more do you want?

Edit @ The Oxbridge Red, obvs.

[Lewis]

That's not what I said, you pin-headed gimp.

:lol:

The meal thing is pretty good, but I don't understand why the housing market is any sort of priority.

[Queenslander]

Bit fucking late now with the amount of them that have popped up on the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast this week.

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[Don]

Got an email from the climbing centre saying govt have approved them to open 25th July. Are gyms the same? As much as I love my steam/sauna I probably won't go back till summer's over now that the outdoor gym equipment near me has reopened. I imagine gyms are actually fucked, regardless of their size and clientele.

[Yevrah]

Gyms on the 11th or Monday, can't remember which.

[Lewis]

The BBC ticker says gyms from the 25th. I can't say I'm all that desperate to rush back into mine if it's going to be a time slot pain in the arse and/or with half the stuff taped off.

[Spikey M]

I ordered 2 50kg adjustable Dumbbells about 6 weeks ago and they're finally ready for collection, so I'll be getting those on Saturday. I'll never have to go to a gym again. :cool:

[Don]

Why the additional 48kg on each?

GAHAHHAHAHAHAHGAGAGAHA fuck off

[Kikó]

Got an email from the climbing centre saying govt have approved them to open 25th July. Are gyms the same? As much as I love my steam/sauna I probably won't go back till summer's over now that the outdoor gym equipment near me has reopened. I imagine gyms are actually fucked, regardless of their size and clientele.

Stoke Newington?

[Shindig]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clscC120ZQM

I wondered where he got to.

[Manc]

50kg dumbbells. :happycry:

[Foe]

Lightweight babeh

[Giggles]

What’s that in real money?

[Don]

Stoke Newington?

Nah just my local MK one. That's something that's improved with these measures, never did like the cunts who used that shit to chat you up.


What’s that in real money?

12kg and internet bravado.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

110 pounds or just under 8 stone.

[Spikey M]

50kg dumbbells. :happycry:

The aim is to never need to buy any more weight. I also have a barbell on the way. It's only 100kg, not my fault you're all pussyole's.

[Spikey M]

Nah just my local MK one. That's something that's improved with these measures, never did like the cunts who used that shit to chat you up.



12kg and internet bravado.

Fuck all bravado here. I'm fat and out of shape, but I didn't use to be. 100kg is fairly standard deadlifting and squating weight.

[Spikey M]

What’s that in real money?

220 lbs I believe.

[Don]

Alright son, I was only messin, take it easy on the juicing with that verbal aggression.

[Manc]

I'm fat and out of shape. 100kg is fairly standard deadlifting and squating weight.

Please don't.

[Spikey M]

Please don't.

If you can't deadlift your own bodyweight then you're the one embarrassing yourself here.

[Giggles]

What’s a deadlift? Apart from what I’d no doubt be if I did whatever it is.

[Boydy]

Can't wait to see Spikey in the health thread next week posting about having thrown his back out.

[Spikey M]

What’s a deadlift? Apart from what I’d no doubt be if I did whatever it is.

Picking up the most you can off the floor, basically.

[Spikey M]

Can't wait to see Spikey in the health thread next week posting about having thrown his back out.

Nailed on.

[Lewis]

IdiotMASS. :cool:

[Shindig]

Straight to his head.

[Giggles]

Such a load of shite that we won’t close the border to the nordies when streams of yank cunts are coming here through the kip. Cash > lives.

[Spikey M]

I didn't think we were letting them in?

[Giggles]

I didn't think we were letting them in?

They’re coming from Belfast anyway.

[Spikey M]

They must just be on the 'mandatory quarantine' list, which is a laugh when they're refusing masks and temperature checks.

[Boydy]

Are Americans coming in up here? Fuck's sake.

[Giggles]

Can that useless pantomime imbecile not get the wall up. And I mean your one.

[Shindig]

I was looking on facebook and saw some terrified moaning about Tesco's one-way system being axed. Sure enough, there's no arrows but you still queue to get on a free till. Some people are going to live or die by social distancing rules until way, way past the point of it.

[Giggles]

Social distancing is the way forward forever. Bring on lockdown 2.

[Manc]

Tesco shoppers. :sick:

[Shindig]

It doesn't work like that, mate. It's not a class war, it's about convenience. It's the thing that is near me.

[Giggles]

Tesco shoppers. :sick:

You’re the lowest type of cunt.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lower than Magic?

[Giggles]

Lower than Magic?

I was only counting humans.

[phonics]

Was going to say I saw a picture of Magic today but there's no way he's an inch over 5'5 with that inferiority complex.

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[Disco]

That is a horrible hat.

[phonics]

The male form is fucking disgusting isn't it? Like what part of it is nice to look at.

[Spikey M]

To be fair I bet she looks exactly the same naked.

[phonics]

To be fair I bet she looks exactly the same naked.

Fair, someone showed me a nude of Charlotte Flair and it put me off sex for a week.

NSFW:
https://cliptrend.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Ashley-Flair-12.jpg

[Disco]

Good job we're all so fucking perfect eh.

[Boydy]

Who is Charlotte Flair?

[Disco]

A wrestler, the daughter of Ric Flair who Harold would post GIFs of all the time.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Woooooooooooooooooooooo.

[Waffdon]

Woooooo

[Spikey M]

What?

[Shindig]

She used to have another face but then she replaced it and got bigger tits.

[Kikó]

She traded in her face for tits? What?

[Disco]

She had plastic surgery on both of those things.

[Spikey M]

Yes, but we're talking about her face.

[Dquincy]

That's a chap with a flap.

[Dquincy]

Also, Boris telling people to get back to work. Be interesting how companies react to this next week. And if and how PHE update their guidance.

[Shindig]

Ooooh, that's a jump in cases. :uhoh:

[Boydy]

Ooooh, that's a jump in cases. :uhoh:

What are the figures?

[Spikey M]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-middle-east-53358569

No idea how it took that long (not testing?) but that could get nasty.

[Don]

There ain't no obese fucks or 85 year olds on dialysis machines so I reckon they'll be alright. I say alright, obviously I mean relatively speaking. Also google is sayin a jump in cases of about 10. Shinners, put away the spreadsheet but by all means apply the lube to something on xvideos.

[Spikey M]

Half of their lungs have been fucked by Mustard Gas and the other halfs health will be in tatters.

[Giggles]

I better say nothing seeing as phonics has just had a crisis over me calling Kiko snooty.

[Shindig]

So, 820 new cases, 148 new deaths. 243,078 tests (153, 667 processed)

Of those processed tests, 47, 258 are in hospitals 74, 344 are in the wider community. The remaining processed tests are the antibody and surveillance ones.

There are 2172 patients in UK hospitals with Covid. 191 patients are on ventilation.

https://coronavirus-staging.data.gov.uk/healthcare

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

15k new cases in Florida. At least Disneyland is open.

[Shindig]

If Bruh shows up after this, I'll be legitimately shocked.

[Giggles]

Didn’t someone say he stopped tweeting too. He genuinely could be in the shit.

[Shindig]

I don't know what his twitter is and searching for bruhnaldo just gets me a very active account ran by hispanic in Atlanta.

[Luca]

Didn’t someone say he stopped tweeting too. He genuinely could be in the shit.

He started again, it seems. C'mon bruhnaldo, regale us with stories from the front line.

[phonics]

Man works for a call center at a hospital. Must be so depressing id probably withdraw as well.

[Raoul Duke]

15k new cases in Florida. At least Disneyland is open.


The state would rank fourth in the world for new cases if it were a country, according to a Reuters analysis. More than 40 hospitals in Florida say their intensive care facilities are at full capacity.

:cab:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53382540

[Baz]

:)

[Giggles]

How big is the county?

[Spikey M]

Nice to see you back Bruh. Are you wearing a mask?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Nice to see you back Bruh. Are you wearing a mask?

ofc not, he needs FREEDOM.

[Giggles]

He can shoot the virus with Liberty.

[Shindig]

So my county i live in had 1100 cases itself yesterday ahaaaaa

I'm ok though for now. Everyone is kinda shittin themselves lowkey but we're doing it in a :happycry: kinda way.

I've had a few friends with it. There's def some horror stories but you know at this point it kinda is what it is.

Yeah, that's my approach now. You can't fuck around with it but it's statistically not likely to fuck many people up. Although I'm not liking that Oxford research that's just come out about immunity being only worth a few months.

[Shindig]

Looks like Fauci's being thrown under the bus. I can't say I'm sympathetic when he's been standing beside Trump through almost all of this shit.

[phonics]

Looks like Fauci's being thrown under the bus. I can't say I'm sympathetic when he's been standing beside Trump through almost all of this shit.

What?

[Disco]

You mean doing his job as a virologist during a pandemic? Yeah, what a cunt.

[Giggles]

You mean doing his job as a virologist during a pandemic? Yeah, what a cunt.

If he’s been on the Trump team through this then he’s probably been no more than a spin doctor.

[phonics]

If he’s been on the Trump team through this then he’s probably been no more than a spin doctor.

What an absoloutely ignorant statement.

I'm just hoping they finally put out the PBS documentary that has been following him round the whole time I've known him. I've interviewed him once a year since 2016 and they were following him the whole time so maybe I'll make an appearance.

[Disco]

The very opposite, he's been giving good advice (and correcting the dickhead in chief) whilst the white house has been trying to get him sacked and giving him shit at every opportunity. He's about the only one not making it a political issue.

[phonics]

Yeah, I've also interviewed Birx at those same events and she's been a massive disappointment during all this.

[Giggles]

The very opposite, he's been giving good advice (and correcting the dickhead in chief) whilst the white house has been trying to get him sacked and giving him shit at every opportunity. He's about the only one not making it a political issue.

Doesn’t sound like he’s been standing with Trump at all then, and I only said if.

[Pepe]

Doesn’t sound like he’s been standing with Trump at all then, and I only said if.

Not with, beside him.

[phonics]

No you said 'if he's been on the Trump team' which he literally is because he works for a Department that serves the President...

[Giggles]

No you said 'if he's been on the Trump team' which he literally is because he works for a Department that serves the President...

Nope, there’s a difference in what I meant. I know that because I’m the one said it so I know what I meant.

[phonics]

Ah yeah cool I should definitely be able to guess what you meant when you type something different. That's on me.

[Shindig]

Works. So he doesn't want to speak out of turn (even if the President was to suggest something dangerous like drinking bleach or injecting sunlight, taking unproven medication, not endorsing face masks) to protect his job. As an expert, he's diminished any role he has to a guy awkwardly saying nothing in the background.

[Giggles]

Ah yeah cool I should definitely be able to guess what you meant when you type something different. That's on me.

Indeed it is. Probably better if you just zipped it if you can’t follow.

[phonics]

Fuck off Giggles. You spoke from a position of complete ignorance. Got called ignorant and now you’re crying how it’s unfair your being judged on the words you use on a text based forum. Stop being a baby. Go have an IPA and a nap.

[Giggles]

Fuck off Giggles. You spoke from a position of complete ignorance. Got called ignorant and now you’re crying how it’s unfair your being judged on the words you use on a text based forum. Stop being a baby. Go have an IPA and a nap.

Nah, I just said x IF y was true. y wasn’t true so that was grand, but you dived in feet first because you can’t help yourself you fucking cretin.

Go have an IPA. Christ. You’d be a useless fuckwit only I’d hate to associate the word wit with you at all.

[Disco]

Works. So he doesn't want to speak out of turn (even if the President was to suggest something dangerous like drinking bleach or injecting sunlight, taking unproven medication, not endorsing face masks) to protect his job. As an expert, he's diminished any role he has to a guy awkwardly saying nothing in the background.

I'm pretty sure he's said that all of things were bad ideas.

[phonics]

Moving on from Giggles having a breakdown.

Cuomo has put out an absolutely bizarre poster, I'm not sure why but it's incredible.

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My personal highlights:
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[Giggles]

We’ll let you have the last word there so phonics. It’s about all I expected, but whatever keeps you coherent.

[Shindig]

"Did you hear? There's been another suicide at the Boyfriend Cliff."

[Giggles]

tbh he's kinda gone against nearly everything Trump has said to the point Trump was like discrediting him and talking shit about him lol

He lasted well up to now so.

[Shindig]

They did punt him off to the side. He gives his own briefings but the ones where he was present with Trump, he didn't correct him. That's my problem. That's a bigger platform and it leads to dumb cunts drinking bleach. I guess you can't have a President looking weak in an election season.

[phonics]

You've literally dreamed up a reality separate from the one that happened. He wasn't even in the room when he said that, Birx was and said 'thats not true' and got cut off.

[Yevrah]

He was binned off weeks ago by the looks of it. Hasn't advised Trump since 2nd June apparently.

[phonics]

Yeah I'm not sure how you can see 'Trump is anonymously briefing against Fauci' and think 'Well he shouldn't have agreed with Trump so much'

[Shindig]

I hold my hands up on that one. I forgot Birx was the one in the disinfectant briefing.

[Spikey M]

Yeah, that's my approach now. You can't fuck around with it but it's statistically not likely to fuck many people up. Although I'm not liking that Oxford research that's just come out about immunity being only worth a few months.

If that's correct it leaves us with some pretty ugly choices to make.

1) Social distance forever and accept the deaths.

2) lock down the entire world (good luck) for 2 months and drive it out of existence.

3) get a vaccine and hold fire until you have enough to vaccinate absolutely fucking everyone and do so at record speed (or the 80% needed for herd immunity)

4) Crack on and vaccinate the most vulnerable 4 - 6 times a year.

Although immunity being that short may fuck the idea of a vaccine anyway if there's various strains knocking about.

[Lewis]

Andrew Cuomo being permitted to give it large about federal pandemic performance is NARRATIVE gone wild.

[Raoul Duke]

Lol: https://medium.com/@indica/the-plague-states-of-america-53b20678a80e

[Spikey M]

Hold the fuck on Giggles, we have the same rules on letting yanks in as you do.

[Giggles]

That map isn’t right in Dukes link. The can waltz in here as the quarantine is advised rather than required. And nobody tells dem muricans what to do.

They’re getting a fierce hard time everywhere though :drool:

[Queenslander]

They're still running a base in the Northern Territory. Couple of them tested positive recently but it is all isolated to their massive base they have up there.

[Manc]

Four months since the lockdown began and we've decided masks are now a must. Yev must have exploded.

[Don]

That's got to twist the knife on the high street a little too.

[Lewis]

Is it to coax people back into feeling safe in shops (possibly because other things are about to be relaxed)? Why else would you bother introducing it now?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's going to be lovely having my beard all up in my mouth when I'm shopping :(

[Queenslander]

Sydney are basically at the start of their second wave.

QLD Health are so good at contact tracing that they are now calling hot spots in Sydney ahead of NSW Health.

[Queenslander]

:drool:

People's Republic of Queensland will end the year with the NRL and AFL competitions being based here AND locking up all sorts of naughty trespassers. Lolol


People breaching public health directions in Queensland will soon face up to six months in jail under a strengthening of powers by the government.

Deputy Premier and Health Minister Steven Miles announced on Tuesday that the changes would come before Parliament this week to boost the maximum penalty, which appeared to not be "sufficient".

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/health-direction-breaches-to-bring-up-to-six-months-jail-in-queensland-20200714-p55bw5.html

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is it to coax people back into feeling safe in shops (possibly because other things are about to be relaxed)? Why else would you bother introducing it now?

I'm almost certain it will have the opposite effect and deter people from going shopping except for essentials. Regardless of how effective or not they are, it's just a ballache.

[Raoul Duke]

Is it to coax people back into feeling safe in shops (possibly because other things are about to be relaxed)? Why else would you bother introducing it now?

If people are locked down at home and heavily social distancing when they're out it reduces the spread through that. As soon as you start opening up then those things lessen, so having the masks to counterbalance that seems sensible. Possibly a bit of your first point too, which isn't a terrible thing.

[Lofty]

Yeah, up here in the barren north at least every supermarket I have been in is business as usual and about 1 in 100 people is wearing a mask. The only one round here going through the motions is Tesco with a geezer stood on the door ushering people in but once you're in it's out the window.

[Lofty]

Surprised they aren't saying masks in pubs. Probably saving that for NYE, based on the super reactive politics of the Renford Rejects.

[Magic]

I'm almost certain it will have the opposite effect and deter people from going shopping except for essentials. Regardless of how effective or not they are, it's just a ballache.

This 100%. It's horrible. Generally neatly everyone up here is complying though.

[Kikó]

Wearing a mask is not that bad ffs. What an overreaction for a few weeks of inconvenience.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It won't be a few weeks, though, will it? If the logic is to wear masks now (but not three months ago), I can't see any logic that would suggest we should ever not wear them again. After all, they stop the spread of disease, and that's a good thing, right?

[Shindig]

Yeah, I don't get the opposition. It's a simple thing and it's not for nothing. And Jimmy's right. We need to adopt the same mask culture of Asia. It'll come in handy through cold and flu season and, by the sounds of it, this virus is unlikely to vanish.

[Kikó]

It won't be a few weeks, though, will it? If the logic is to wear masks now (but not three months ago), I can't see any logic that would suggest we should ever not wear them again. After all, they stop the spread of disease, and that's a good thing, right?

I don't think we need to quite go to the end game where we are wearing masks for ever but echo Shinners point - if it reduces cold and flu spread in those months then it will be pretty important this winter.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think there is a massive divide at the moment between people (like me) who for whatever reason have been out and about all the way through, and people who have either been forced to, or chosen to, shield completely, been furloughed or have worked from home all the way through. I just don't see the great risk in everything. Infection numbers are now tiny and if you social distance and avoid unnecessary indoor crowding, you're almost certain not to contract Covid.

However when I see my colleagues coming back from furlough and being scared to touch door handles or go to the toilet in the office, I just think what sort of damage has this done to people's psyche?

I'll wear a mask in shops because I am a law abiding citizen, I just think it will deter economic activity and therefore backfire.

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53392148

Timely article. Interesting they say 120,000 coronavirus deaths, distinguishing it from the flu deaths we usually get.

[Magic]

Wearing a mask is not that bad ffs. What an overreaction for a few weeks of inconvenience.

It is in a roasting, packed shop especially if you have glasses on. It's a case of avoid as much as possible, or get in and get out ASAP. And absolutely fuck off to non-essential shops.

[Shindig]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TTg53aAP8Q

Done.

[mugbull]

Enormous fucking pussies who don’t want to wear a mask because it’s “uncomfortable”

[Magic]

Or because it's pointless, far too late, is being misunderstood for invincibility and many more reasons our health advisor overlords have let us down.

[Don]

It's yet another restriction on your freedoms for a very negligible payoff. It's easy to say people are being Karens but I'm of the mind those who oppose it are actually employing their brains a little more.

[Disco]

Never seen such a fuss about wearing a mask for a bit, get a fucking grip fannies. We either open up and employ measures like this to keep it under control or we're back inside again in a few months.

[7om]

Never seen such a fuss about wearing a mask for a bit, get a fucking grip fannies. We either open up and employ measures like this to keep it under control or we're back inside again in a few months.

It'll be the latter. I would estimate I've seen less than one percent of people wearing masks and social distancing may as well not exist. People don't give the slightest fuck. Well be back in full lockdown before September

[Kikó]

Never seen such a fuss about wearing a mask for a bit, get a fucking grip fannies. We either open up and employ measures like this to keep it under control or we're back inside again in a few months.

100 times this.

Wearing a mask occasionally in a shop is barely going to impact you compared to being confined to your house for 3+ months (bar Jimmy).

[mugbull]

Or because it's pointless, far too late, is being misunderstood for invincibility and many more reasons our health advisor overlords have let us down.

It’s not “too late” to wear a mask, the fuck are you talking about?

Also clearly not pointless, but good luck convincing you of anything

[Magic]

It’s not “too late” to wear a mask, the fuck are you talking about?

Also clearly not pointless, but good luck convincing you of anything

Lol after you've had 60k needless deaths trust me it's fucking pointless.

[Don]

2nd wave reaction will be shielding just as first wave should have been. Countries are on their knees as it is, ain't no one affording more lockdowns.

[randomlegend]

It won't be a few weeks, though, will it? If the logic is to wear masks now (but not three months ago), I can't see any logic that would suggest we should ever not wear them again. After all, they stop the spread of disease, and that's a good thing, right?

I wear one 13 hours a day at work, people whinging about an hour at the shops can suck a fat one tbh.

[Shindig]

Lol after you've had 60k needless deaths trust me it's fucking pointless.

There's 60 million left.

[niko_cee]

The thing I don't get with this face mask thing (fuck 'face covering') is, much like that stupid quarantine idea they dallied with months too late, why is it from 2 weeks? Why not tomorrow? I understand there might be some issues with enforcing if people don't have them and haven't had time to get one (really?) but surely, if this is a good idea as of 10 days time, then it is a good idea as of tomorrow and you should be getting as many people as possible to do it, no?

If you could all sort yourselves out by mid-August it would be much appreciated

[Jimmy Floyd]

I wear one 13 hours a day at work, people whinging about an hour at the shops can suck a fat one tbh.

Yeah and builders wear hard hats, but you don't see the general public being forced to wear them in case a shop awning falls on them on the way down a high street.

I don't mind wearing one for a handful of shopping trips a week but I just think it will have economic mal-effects. People won't be arsed to go and buy things that they otherwise would have done.

[Magic]

There's 60 million left.

You're insane, it poses no risk to the majority of the population.

[Magic]

I wear one 13 hours a day at work, people whinging about an hour at the shops can suck a fat one tbh.

Less breaks, less arsing around, less moaning about the Tories, so about 4 hours then.

[John Arne]

Yeah and builders wear hard hats, but you don't see the general public being forced to wear them in case a shop awning falls on them on the way down a high street.

I don't mind wearing one for a handful of shopping trips a week but I just think it will have economic mal-effects. People won't be arsed to go and buy things that they otherwise would have done.

I mean - you know the answer to this - falling shop awnings are famously not contagious :/ - Am I missing something?

I think you'll be surprised - wearing a mask is not a big ordeal. It becomes relatively normal, very quickly. Just as stopping wearing them does.

[Shindig]

You're insane, it poses no risk to the majority of the population.

Majority means nothing when the minority is still a big fucking number. Especially if the immunity is as short as suggested. All those near misses come back around.

[Kikó]

It's a bit of fucking fabric over your stupid gob. Wind it in.

[Magic]

I mean - you know the answer to this - falling shop awnings are famously not contagious :/ - Am I missing something?

I think you'll be surprised - wearing a mask is not a big ordeal. It becomes relatively normal, very quickly. Just as stopping wearing them does.

It's absolutely unnatural and utterly bizarre not to see people's faces. Only in a nation full of subservient robots would that be normal.

[Kikó]

The thing I don't get with this face mask thing (fuck 'face covering') is, much like that stupid quarantine idea they dallied with months too late, why is it from 2 weeks? Why not tomorrow? I understand there might be some issues with enforcing if people don't have them and haven't had time to get one (really?) but surely, if this is a good idea as of 10 days time, then it is a good idea as of tomorrow and you should be getting as many people as possible to do it, no?

If you could all sort yourselves out by mid-August it would be much appreciated

Also this - why every policy has to be drip fed into existence is baffling.

[Magic]

Majority means nothing when the minority is still a big fucking number. Especially if the immunity is as short as suggested. All those near misses come back around.

What near misses are those and how are those near misses not susceptible to the same near misses (i.e flu) that they always were that we simply didn't give a fuck about before?

[randomlegend]

Less breaks, less arsing around, less moaning about the Tories, so about 4 hours then.

https://i.imgur.com/AbeOik6.jpg

[Shindig]

The ones in hospital wards that didn't die but needed medical attention, dickhead.

[Don]

Bruv, I thought we raped and pillaged Team Panic about 3 months ago and recruited a couple of them too. I don't want to hear any fucking melty fearmongering until Nightingale has a higher occupancy rate than Chernobyl.

[Magic]

It's a bit of fucking fabric over your stupid gob. Wind it in.

No problem with it, I'm wearing it as per the new law. It's just totally moronic being introduced this late on when all the figures are plummeting yet when it was on the rise we sat and did fuck all.

[randomlegend]

Yeah and builders wear hard hats, but you don't see the general public being forced to wear them in case a shop awning falls on them on the way down a high street.

I don't mind wearing one for a handful of shopping trips a week but I just think it will have economic mal-effects. People won't be arsed to go and buy things that they otherwise would have done.

Hit me up when there's a worldwide pandemic of buildings falling down. Do you wear a seatbelt? Or nah too inconvenientt?

[Magic]

The ones in hospital wards that didn't die but needed medical attention, dickhead.

Even at the peak of the crisis there were only ever 19,000 people in ICU across a nation with a combined population of 80m+, dickhead.

You'll find most of the shit went down in care homes, so as much as your fragile autistic ass is looking for an excuse to stay indoors 247365 it ain't happening.

[Magic]

Hit me up when there's a worldwide pandemic of buildings falling down. Do you wear a seatbelt? Or nah too inconvenientt?

Buildings falling on you = dangerous
Car crash = dangerous
Corona-19 = ???

[Ian]

It appears we need less hospitals and more giant creches for the outbreak of adults turning into bawling children.

[Magic]

It appears we need less hospitals and more giant creches for the outbreak of adults turning into bawling children.

Be more useful than dedicated corona wards lmao.

[Kikó]

No problem with it, I'm wearing it as per the new law. It's just totally moronic being introduced this late on when all the figures are plummeting yet when it was on the rise we sat and did fuck all.

But that's a different argument. Should we have implemented it sooner? Probably. Should we not do it now because you get frosted pedo glasses? No.

[John Arne]

It's absolutely unnatural and utterly bizarre not to see people's faces. Only in a nation full of subservient robots would that be normal.

You know what else is bizarre and unnatural... people dying of a new virus.
It's temporary. Over here, hardly anyone is wearing masks anymore... like 2% of people... because 100% of people wore them mandatory from Feb-April/May. Granted, it's 3 months too fucking late for you lot.

[Magic]

But that's a different argument. Should we have implemented it sooner? Probably. Should we not do it now because you get frosted pedo glasses? No.

How is it a different argument? Everybody that was ever going to die of it has already.

[Magic]

You know what else is bizarre and unnatural... people dying of a new virus.
It's temporary. Over here, hardly anyone is wearing masks anymore... like 2% of people... because 100% of people wore them mandatory from Feb-April/May. Granted, it's 3 months too fucking late for you lot.

LOL. So are you arguing with me or agreeing with me because that was my point John-Pedo.

[Shindig]

How is it a different argument? Everybody that was ever going to die of it has already.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XMW6Z_Oq38

[Kikó]

How is it a different argument? Everybody that was ever going to die of it has already.

Er.. not true.

[randomlegend]

Buildings falling on you = dangerous
Car crash = dangerous
Corona-19 = ???

Buildings falling on you = extremely unlikely
Car crash = quite likely
Spreading covid by not wearing a mask = quite likely

Honestly primary school children can understand this stuff

[randomlegend]

How is it a different argument? Everybody that was ever going to die of it has already.

Jesus Christ you're an actual blithering retard.

[Kikó]

We should ban internet connected devices as the likelihood of STUPIDITY being contagious seems HIGH.

[Magic]

Er.. not true.

And if they haven't they have shielded, and should continue to do so whilst me Taz Waff and Jim go and sloot sloots.

[Magic]

Buildings falling on you = extremely unlikely
Car crash = quite likely
Spreading covid by not wearing a mask = quite likely

Honestly primary school children can understand this stuff

The same primary school children that were pulled from their education and social development for 4 months because of a harmless virus?

And if those education starved children can understand that, why can't our EXPERT EPIDEMIOLOGISTS?

[Magic]

We should ban internet connected devices as the likelihood of STUPIDITY being contagious seems HIGH.

Well it's not working because business is booming, baby.

[randomlegend]

Taz'll be hoovering up every covid particle in a mile radius.

[randomlegend]

The same primary school children that were pulled from their education and social development for 4 months because of a harmless virus?



It was particularly harmless to those children who died from it

[Magic]

It was particularly harmless to those children who died from it

The ones that would have died if they'd got the flu, or the cold, or pneumonia or anything other mild virus due to their underlying health condish?

Pray tell, the ones that died from starvation, abuse etc, what about them?

[Don]

Soz, MJ, for abandoning you in the face of these melts, got a little distracted. Where were we?


Buildings falling on you = extremely unlikely
Car crash = quite likely
Spreading covid by not wearing a mask = quite likely

Honestly primary school children can understand this stuff

Lol.