Coronavirus Death Thread

[Shindig]

A contributing factor but not the final straw.

[Pepe]

Can't be killed by a virus that doesn't exist.

[Spikey M]

The last 10 posts or so read like YouTube comments.

[Lewis]

You would bleed to death before your heart stopped working. Don't stabbings technically go down as that/wounds caused by?

[Spikey M]

I believe the catchall category is 'Gubbed'.

[Shindig]

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/symptoms-of-long-covid-identified-by-mps_uk_5f44d89ac5b66a80ee179c22

[Mazuuurk]

Shit it seems I have tachychardia that happens to me everytime i go for a run.

[Shindig]

Are your toes purple?

[niko_cee]

I'm amazed anxiety isn't a symptom.

[Giggles]

:drool:

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[niko_cee]

Sadly I'm going to be back home and in isolation rather than being able to attend this test event at the Amex on Saturday. Such a low capacity really gives good potential for abuse to be heard by the intended recipient. That's probably the only thing they're actually testing by letting people in - how many do you need before a sufficient hubbub develops to mask the colourful language?

I think they'd actually have to fill the stadium to get near a statistical likelihood of one person in the crowd having THE VIRUS.

[bruhnaldo]

:drool:

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Is this your burner account fam?

[bruhnaldo]

Sadly I'm going to be back home and in isolation rather than being able to attend this test event at the Amex on Saturday. Such a low capacity really gives good potential for abuse to be heard by the intended recipient. That's probably the only thing they're actually testing by letting people in - how many do you need before a sufficient hubbub develops to mask the colourful language?

I think they'd actually have to fill the stadium to get near a statistical likelihood of one person in the crowd having THE VIRUS.

Orlando City are having fans back tonight at about 25% capacity. I won't be one of them. Bit gutted, honestly. I could have gone of course having a season ticket and all but it just doesn't seem worth the risk.

Basically everyone I know from going over the years is planning to go, though, which honestly upsets me even more because some of them are likely exactly the reason this shit is still everywhere here. Literally sucked the Disney nipple dry up until the very last moment they were allowed to be open and then were right back mingling with the crowds as soon as their money could spend again.

I'm not saying people shouldn't live their lives but I just feel like I made myself miserable for 6 months for absolutely nothing and the people who didn't give a fuck are being rewarded, basically.

[bruhnaldo]

Last Saturday I went "out" for the first time since March 7th to watch said club play at a friend's house (outside near their pool, not indoors mind).

It was meant to be the married couple who I'm very close with and the guy whose house it was.

Ended up actually being probably 9 or 10 people altogether and the one drunkenly getting right next to me every chance he got, including offering me a blunt and saying "NAH I BURNED ALL THE GERMS BRO WATCH" over and over despite my insistence I didn't want to be close to any humans made me never want to leave the house again. Mind you, this guy works in an old folks home and claims to have taken 6 COVID tests as such.

I don't know man. I think my life might be over, but that's okay.

[mugbull]

Pretty sure cause of death is fatal stab wound to the heart.

How does it feel being wrong all the time Mokka?

You don't understand causation, evidently

[Dquincy]

Orlando City are having fans back tonight at about 25% capacity. I won't be one of them. Bit gutted, honestly. I could have gone of course having a season ticket and all but it just doesn't seem worth the risk.

Basically everyone I know from going over the years is planning to go, though, which honestly upsets me even more because some of them are likely exactly the reason this shit is still everywhere here. Literally sucked the Disney nipple dry up until the very last moment they were allowed to be open and then were right back mingling with the crowds as soon as their money could spend again.

I'm not saying people shouldn't live their lives but I just feel like I made myself miserable for 6 months for absolutely nothing and the people who didn't give a fuck are being rewarded, basically.

https://i2.wp.com/footballburp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/fight-and-win.jpg?w=599&ssl=1

[John Arne]

Zero new community cases yesterday. 💪

[randomlegend]

We've had an outbreak at the chicken packing place locally. Talks of a local lockdown apparently

[randomlegend]

Pogba's got it

[Spikey M]

along with N'Dombele

[Lewis]

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Can't see any of us Top Reds getting it. :cool:

Absolutely typical of this tosser.

[Giggles]

Pubs pushed another two weeks, having been pencilled in for this coming Monday last time out. Realistically it'll be 2021.

[Don]

It's not just the wet bars like in the North, right? Even food serving ones can't open? Are restaurants unable to sell booze? Wth are the Irish doing with their free time?

I'm a lot more at peace with lack of nightlife now having started to see some Ruskie bird. In fact, I can see why all the wifey'd up breddas haven't a care in the world for the disgraceful state we find ourselves in because this is ideal relationship conditions, cut the temptation, cut the boys, just straight up melty couple shit.

[Giggles]

The restaurant ones have been opened for a good while. You have to spend at least €9 on food and can stay for 105 minutes.

[Don]

Lolled hard at 105 minutes. You. Could. Not. Make. It. Up.

[Giggles]

Some tried run without it but the cops are allowed enter now and check your food receipt for how long you've been there. A good few tried open with just frozen pizza, etc but you need a certain sq meter of kitchen to qualify as one so they were closed back down.

Anyway no bar no pub for me, but we really should let the rest of the world know that 9 quid of food makes you immune.

[Luke Emia]

We've had an outbreak at the chicken packing place locally. Talks of a local lockdown apparently

Fuck off with that shit.. I hope it’s only you lot round Attleborough and not a full on Breckland lockdown.

[randomlegend]

I'm in Eccles, where are you?

[Offshore Toon]

It's not just the wet bars like in the North, right? Even food serving ones can't open? Are restaurants unable to sell booze? Wth are the Irish doing with their free time?

I'm a lot more at peace with lack of nightlife now having started to see some Ruskie bird. In fact, I can see why all the wifey'd up breddas haven't a care in the world for the disgraceful state we find ourselves in because this is ideal relationship conditions, cut the temptation, cut the boys, just straight up melty couple shit.
Clubs are opening up again, no? I've seen some events at Volks (:drool:) just in time for a visit to Brighton at the end of Sep.

[Don]

As far as I know it's all just socially distanced events, have you heard/seen different? Music volume is back up to satisfactory levels but there isn't a sign of a dancefloor or even permitted standing so far in my travels. I'll update if that changes, I expect likewise.

[Dquincy]

Interesting article from a professor at Oxford Uni.

Coronavirus - 0.3% death rate.
Seasonal flu - 0.1% death rate.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1326293/coronavirus-death-rate-UK-fatality-rate/amp

[Don]

Professor Heneghan, defectors will not be permitted at this late hour, sir.

If you want some good lols check out France's graphs for cases and deaths (on google). If they don't start dropping like flies in the next fortnight I'm going round gobbing on the fruit and veg in Waitrose.

[Dquincy]

Care to provide a link?

[Don]

Not sure how I link to a google search result without the URL giving away my bank account and PIN number so have this and my apologies for it unintentionally seeming rude.

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=french+covid+cases

Change it to deaths using the drop down.

[Giggles]

Here comes the smackdown :drool:


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[Offshore Toon]

As far as I know it's all just socially distanced events, have you heard/seen different? Music volume is back up to satisfactory levels but there isn't a sign of a dancefloor or even permitted standing so far in my travels. I'll update if that changes, I expect likewise.
It looks like it is seated. I was hoping an terrace dance floor wouldn't be out of the question. Better to just take speakers to the beach/park.

[Luke Emia]

I'm in Eccles, where are you?

About 15 minutes from Thetford where a lot of the workers appear to live. Should be ok and hopefully they will get it all under control as they know it's there.

[Lewis]

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What did Martin do for work?

[Baz]

Heard recently that anti-lockdown people are promoting the idea of if nobody gets tested, rates will lower and lockdown will be lifted. I appreciate their thinking, but they’d have to convince a lot of people for it to make any difference whatsoever.

Besides if you’re anti-lockdown (whatever that means. Is this even lockdown? I prefer to think of it more as ‘watching Sky Sports News all day, occasionally checking emails and treating weekends like nothings changed except I’ve gotta cosplay as Shredder’ but it’s not quite as catchy as LOCKDOWN) you probably deserve to be sat in a mouldy office, that you had to take a sweaty train to get to, breathing in other peoples BO all day.

[Ian]

Heard recently that anti-lockdown people are promoting the idea of if nobody gets tested, rates will lower

Ah, the Trump Method.

[Don]

Are we not going to allow 'city centre economies' and coffee wanker retreats to collapse then? Did we have the same thing during the industrial automobile revolution whereby people were forced to continue using horse and carriage to protect the carrot farmers?

Some fucking moist (almost dripping) cunt suggested we need to protect offices as it allows victims of domestic abuse a regular reprieve. Mull that over a little.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Also allows the abusers a bit of a break to limber up and be at their peak for another evening's battery. Win-win.

[Shindig]

"What time do you call this!?" <gubbed>

[Giggles]

They chickened out on letting the cops kick people's front doors in. Jokers.

[Dquincy]

Not sure how I link to a google search result without the URL giving away my bank account and PIN number so have this and my apologies for it unintentionally seeming rude.

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=french+covid+cases

Change it to deaths using the drop down.
That's pretty interesting, but I'd give it another month before getting too excited.

Although, I really hope the theory that CV-19 took most of the low hanging fruit the first time round rings true.

We're looking to get everyone back in the office by end of October.

[Yevrah]

As before are we just 4 weeks behind our European cousins, or have they just decided to not bother with basic hygiene practices?

[Shindig]

I don't think we can really use that metric. Our first peak went .... a while.

https://www.france24.com/en/20200818-french-covid-19-infections-dip-but-hospital-admissions-still-rising

Sounds like France's hospitalisations were rising before this spike really got going.

[Dquincy]

As before are we just 4 weeks behind our European cousins, or have they just decided to not bother with basic hygiene practices?

I think it's the former and the natural spread from people travelling and returning from said countries means it increases in the UK a few weeks down the line.

[Jimmy Floyd]

All this working from home kerfuffle in the media is absolutely baffling to me. I've sat in the office through it emptying for lockdown/furlough, and then filling up again, and I don't see what has changed. Nothing has changed. OK so we have hand sanitiser on our desks, if we want it. That's literally it. We do the same jobs, in the same chairs - we had a period when fewer people were doing a bit less work, but then it picked up and they came back, and basically nothing substantial has changed at any point. Those who have gone away from their offices, and are still away from it, seem to think something has changed. NOTHING has changed.

Business is the same, work is the fucking same. Why would working practices be any different? Some people on Twitter seem really aggressive about the fact that no one should work in an office again. Of course they should. If people who should be in collaborative working environments all work from home, they'll turn into fucking weirdo zombies staring at their faded pants hanging off the kitchen chair all day. They'll not meet people or have spontaneity or have glorious thinking time on the way home. They'll have prescriptive Zoom meetings and think that's a substitute. They will, on a deep psychological level, be absolutely fucked. Then they'll be fired and replaced by cheaper labour working from a cheaper home.

Anyone who should be working from home will have been working from home before this.

[Lewis]

Every single one of the new protocols we came back to in June has lapsed along the path of least resistance. Only one person in the corridor, passing stuff over screens... Yeah right. The only people we interact with who are being idiots are the National Archives, but they are a complete set of whammers even in normal times, so they are more than likely just embracing it as a way of shirking their responsibilities and keeping the public away.

[Shindig]

Practicality always wins. We only need people in the office for the printers and minding the automated workstations. And if we get rid of the former, it's to save money on paper rather than keeping the office spacious.

[John Arne]

This gives a good insight into the attitudes of younger people in Vietnam.


https://youtu.be/lhIGGxPOxxg

Thanks to the complete lockdown of Danang 4 weeks ago, our second wave seems to be coming to an end. No community transmission for a few days, and here in HCMC, we are essentially back to normal. Easy.

[Queenslander]

This gives a good insight into the attitudes of younger people in Vietnam.


https://youtu.be/lhIGGxPOxxg

Thanks to the complete lockdown of Danang 4 weeks ago, our second wave seems to be coming to an end. No community transmission for a few days, and here in HCMC, we are essentially back to normal. Easy.

thánh truyện

[John Arne]

thánh truyện

Khi ban biet ban biet.

Are your state borders still closed?

[Queenslander]

Yeah and it is for the best. The Liberal Party are a fucking disaster and the boomers are completely broken.

[phonics]

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I understand being safe but imo this is a good stat not a reason to lock down. 14 people a day in a population of 5 million?

[Yevrah]

The French numbers are utterly mental.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The shut everything down if someone's ill route is utter madness. When do you stop doing that, in five years, ten years, ever? Europe is getting it right. Squeeze as best you can but it's a virus, you're not going to stop it.

[Spikey M]

How have France let it get that bad again?

[John Arne]

The shut everything down if someone's ill route is utter madness. When do you stop doing that, in five years, ten years, ever? Europe is getting it right. Squeeze as best you can but it's a virus, you're not going to stop it.

:D Just look at the numbers.

This is temporary, city-based 3-4 week lockdowns until a vaccine is available. Most non-effected cities continue as normal, domestic travel, business and other things continue.

[Spikey M]

Proper countries have an economy beyond rice and child prostitution though.

[Shindig]

RFK Jr. is a thick cunt.

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[Spikey M]

If I was in Berlin and had Covid I would go out of my to Superspread the fuck out of that lot.

[Lewis]

France/Spain having loads of new cases but barely any deaths surely proves that there is nothing to still be stressing about? I wonder whether you could extrapolate it back to the peak as well and assume that actually ten times as many people had it as previously thought.

[Spikey M]

It takes 3 weeks for the deaths to come, so we'll see I guess.

[Lewis]

All the teachers sitting at home, fingers crossed, hoping thousands of people start dropping dead.

[Lewis]

Sorry. Lazy bastard communist teachers.

[Magic]

It takes 3 weeks for the deaths to come, so we'll see I guess.

Nah they're all dead now so there won't be any.

% of symptom free cases would be more interesting.

[Queenslander]

Proper countries have an economy beyond rice and child prostitution though.

You're thinking of Thailand.

[Shindig]

I'd imagine Vietnam does big on tourism. They have a dirt cheap currency with a stupid name. Punters love that.

[Spikey M]

I'd imagine Vietnam does big on tourism. They have a dirt cheap currency with a stupid name. Punters love that.

You're thinking of Thailand.

[Queenslander]

:D

[Lofty]

This may have been brought up earlier and lost in the ether but these pop up covid cycle lanes are absolute dog shit, Preston in gridlock today because miles of dual carriage way was closed to make a pop up cycle lane for the non existent cyclists using it.

[Kikó]

The conspiracy loons were out in force in London and Berlin today.

[Baz]

This may have been brought up earlier and lost in the ether but these pop up covid cycle lanes are absolute dog shit, Preston in gridlock today because miles of dual carriage way was closed to make a pop up cycle lane for the non existent cyclists using it.

Get on yer bike.

[Giggles]

Mow down any cunt on one.

[Kikó]

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[Spikey M]

I love how direct Ausies are. :cool:

[Shindig]

Turns out, when you tell a bunch of jittery spastics to stay indoors for five months, the first thing they'll do is go on the internet and dive down the rabbithole.

[SvN]

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Superb :cool:

[Lewis]

If he spoke like that about a high-status protest he would be sacked in about three seconds.

[Giggles]

This is s decently simplistic listen from both sides of the coin.

https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-csce8-e94717

[Shindig]

The man's kickstarter sounds like the dumbest thing to plan in a pandemic.

[Queenslander]

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In a perfect world he would have signed off with 'ya dumb cunts'.

[Lofty]

Glad to see it was the usual assortment of mentalists at the Trafalgar protest yesterday.

[Shindig]

I'm taken aback a little by the age of them. It's a combination of the young autistic and the elderly.

[Queenslander]

There was a similar protest in Brisbane recently and the age range was the same.

[Spikey M]

I'm taken aback a little by the age of them. It's a combination of the young autistic and the elderly.

People who have nothing better to do. Yes.

[Lofty]

The best bit is the cognitive dissonance on display, one of the attendees was sadly my Dad's ex who is the mother of my half brother, she has been ranting like crazy about vaccines as she is a massive anti-vaxxer, not too fussed on the content of her drugs though :D

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53968213

It begins ...

[Don]

Piers Corbyn (older brother of Jezza) leading the charge on that Trafalgar speech is interesting given I didn't know anything about him becore. Makes you question whether Jezza actually has wholesome fundamental values and they were separated at birth or whether he just chose a different path to get his fix after the dinner table debates ended.

[Lewis]

They just fell in with slightly different crowds. Slapping him with a fine is pretty disgraceful when the police have been laying on toilets and wanks for the ethnics and climate tossers.

[Don]

I forgot to look at Spain last time but they're even beating France with a new peak number of cases reached (beating their former peak at 26 March).

Spanish COVID deaths on 26th March - 745
Spanish COVID deaths on 28th August - 15

Get me on a fucking dancefloor.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The low death rates in the 'second wave' are fishy as hell. Either:

a) bajillions of people had it before, and didn't realise it;
b) it's weakened;
c) it's already finished off all the infirm who were going to die from it anyway.

America seems to be immune to the above, though.

[niko_cee]

It's probably a mix of a and c, with some marginal gains also being had in regards better treatment methods etc.

Or the Spanish are just lying in a different way with the stats now.

[Andy]

The low death rates in the 'second wave' are fishy as hell. Either:

a) bajillions of people had it before, and didn't realise it;
b) it's weakened;
c) it's already finished off all the infirm who were going to die from it anyway.

America seems to be immune to the above, though.

Probably some combination of them all.

I've been looking at trends like these for the last couple of weeks, it's so strange these arent getting picked up by the media.

[Kikó]

I think treatment has improved since it started and the people getting it now are at the younger scale which is less devastating.

[Shindig]

Yep. Even though we've opened back up, the at risks will be still be shielding in some form. Unless they're in a care home.

[Spikey M]

I think treatment has improved since it started and the people getting it now are at the younger scale which is less devastating.

Get him Baz

[Baz]

Anyone for an informal lager?

[Kikó]

Not with you.

[Dquincy]

Or the Spanish are just lying in a different way with the stats now.
But it's the same for other countries, see France for example. All of them can't be lying.

[Dquincy]

I've been looking at trends like these for the last couple of weeks, it's so strange these arent getting picked up by the media.

Not really, the media will always try to find the negativity in everything. Something like this doesn't fit their headline agenda, so they won't stick it on the front page.

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/sep/01/bolton-council-asks-for-coronavirus-lockdown-to-remain-as-cases-rise

We've now got people with barely a GCSE statistics qualification (don't google Andrew Western before you've had your lunch) urging the government to lockdown and send businesses and lives into turmoil on the basis of a 55 in 100K infection rate whilst Pedro Paella is out having threesomes with Scarlett Johannson and Penelope Cruz whilst on a rate of 2,000 per 100K.

[Spikey M]

Look at Donny Tastebuds happy to sacrifice us all.

Seriously though, We went to a Farm/Themepark this weekend and it was business as usual. Only the staff wearing masks, fuck all distancing, zero fucks given. Yet if you wade in too deep on Twitter you'd think Ebola had gone nuclear.

What is it? Are they uninformed and still assuming things are as bleak as they looked in April ala Giggles? Or do they just love Lockdown ala Baz?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Some people legitimately love lockdown, either because it allowed them to be lazier, or because it suited them in some other way, or because they just love the idea of people being told what to do and not having any personal freedom (Giggles).

I'd advocate the mass extermination of people with those opinions.

[Giggles]

Some people legitimately love lockdown, either because it allowed them to be lazier, or because it suited them in some other way, or because they just love the idea of people being told what to do and not having any personal freedom (Giggles).

I'd advocate the mass extermination of people with those opinions.

I'm just for it as an opposition to all this mental health horse shite. People are bored, we get it, no need to make a big deal out of it.

Plus, people should do what they're fucking told.

[Spikey M]

I'm just for it as an opposition to all this mental health horse shite. People are bored, we get it, no need to make a big deal out of it.

Plus, people should do what they're fucking told.

Send me all your money.

[Giggles]

Send me all your money.

It wouldn't be good for my wellbeing.

[Kikó]

Some people legitimately love lockdown, either because it allowed them to be lazier, or because it suited them in some other way, or because they just love the idea of people being told what to do and not having any personal freedom (Giggles).

I'd advocate the mass extermination of people with those opinions.

It suits me to work from home as most of the people I work with / for are based in other countries. I would like the option to go into the office if my team are there otherwise I see less of a need. We're about to run a week long interactive workshop all online - it's going to be exhausting and a lot shitter than if we were all there in person.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That's a business decision though which is somewhat different to what I meant which is people who are glad when everyone is forced/strongly advised to do so.

[Foe]

It suits me to work from home as most of the people I work with / for are based in other countries. I would like the option to go into the office if my team are there otherwise I see less of a need. We're about to run a week long interactive workshop all online - it's going to be exhausting and a lot shitter than if we were all there in person.

I’ve a four week long glorified risk assessment ahead starting in ten days. Done digitally via Microsoft teams as far as I can tell. Which I will have to lead the discussions for.

9 hours of risk assessment every day for 4 weeks, all from my dining room table.

It’s going to be torture.

[Giggles]

That's a business decision though which is somewhat different to what I meant which is people who are glad when everyone is forced/strongly advised to do so.

Flies in the face of I want I want I want lightly dressed up in 'depressed'.

[Shindig]

I'll find out tomorrow if there's been any efforts to encourage us back into the office. I can take or leave it. On the one hand, I like being able to do house stuff whilst on the clock but I miss having someone to moan at. It's only worth it if there's real numbers in the office.

And the council shouldn't be worried about the town centre being fucked. It's a student town and they're not staying indoors.

[Lewis]

It will only need a few home-working remainer nonces to have their jobs outsourced to quid a day twats before the New Normal NARRATIVE gets hastily thrown into reverse.

[Kikó]

Jobs could have been outsourced anyway. That ship has sailed years ago.

[phonics]

Threatening people with outsourcing their jobs when they've already had their jobs outsourced for decades isn't a very good threat.

[Dquincy]

Nah, Lewis is spot on. Anyone who is pushing to work at home, whilst others have returned to the office, will be the first at risk of losing their job.

[Dquincy]

Look at Donny Tastebuds happy to sacrifice us all.

Seriously though, We went to a Farm/Themepark this weekend and it was business as usual. Only the staff wearing masks, fuck all distancing, zero fucks given. Yet if you wade in too deep on Twitter you'd think Ebola had gone nuclear.

What is it? Are they uninformed and still assuming things are as bleak as they looked in April ala Giggles? Or do they just love Lockdown ala Baz?
Old Macdonald's Farm?

[Shindig]

Unless you work for a company that is pushing to get rid of office space altogether.

[Kikó]

Nah, Lewis is spot on. Anyone who is pushing to work at home, whilst others have returned to the office, will be the first at risk of losing their job.

It's entirely company dependent. Work from home isn't a new concept.

[Dquincy]

Fair shout. Depends on your industry.

[Lewis]

Why weren't you doing it all along then?

[Shindig]

In respects to the people I work for, they seemed very hesitant to us taking the gear home with us. Preferring to spend on new laptops and dongles which inevitably got snapped up by the health professionals.

As for working from home putting people in the firing line, I don't see it. At best, the old guard that work from home are seeing this as a nice time to retire.

[Kikó]

Why weren't you doing it all along then?

Inertia? This could be the catalyst to change working especially as progress has had to accelerate to cope with virtual workforces.

[Lewis]

There you go. They outsourced the easy to outsource jobs, but there will have always been reasons - many of which will have been ultimately bullshit cultural ones - thrown up not to go any further. Now, if their big central office complexes are empty, what, beyond maintaining a token national presence necessary to qualify for state support next time they fuck everything up, is stopping them sending loads more jobs abroad? Nothing, which is why I think it will eventually be easier to wake up and pull the handbrake than follow the logic that any job that can be done from your kitchen table it can be done from a slum.

[Spikey M]

Old Macdonald's Farm?

Willows Farm in Hertfordshire.

[Dquincy]

Posho.

[Spikey M]

Posho.

:D it really was. Within 5 minutes of walking In i felt like Danny Dyer at a Royal Dinner Party.

[Dquincy]

If it's not next to the hard shoulder of the m25, I'm not interested.

[Spikey M]

PM Bamster for the best dogging sites.

[niko_cee]

Just had a brain tingler.

Pretty sure things aren't supposed to go that far up your nose. Thought having a large nose would stand me in good stead but it just seemed to act as a challenge to try and fit the entire length of the swab up there.

[mugbull]

I was listening to a podcast the other day about how they used to do lobotomies, and the initial part of the procedure to break into the skull cavity was done through the nose. Be glad that ain’t you

[Spikey M]

sounds like it might be.

[Kikó]

A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 — and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged
A closer look at the Bradykinin hypothesis

https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63

[Giggles]

Interesting as in horrifying.

[Don]

Will restart the Cod Liver Oil treatment now off the back of that.

[randomlegend]

I was listening to a podcast the other day about how they used to do lobotomies, and the initial part of the procedure to break into the skull cavity was done through the nose. Be glad that ain’t you

They still do that for many brain surgeries. I thought lobotomies were done through the eye though.

[mugbull]

They still do that for many brain surgeries. I thought lobotomies were done through the eye though.

Yeah the actual lobotomy was done through the eye, but the pickaxe to break open the skull was inserted through the nose

[niko_cee]

Got the all clear.

Still got a back of the eye region tingle. When self-testing becomes the standard in the next phase I shan't be sticking it that far up.

[Shindig]

I was listening to a podcast the other day about how they used to do lobotomies, and the initial part of the procedure to break into the skull cavity was done through the nose. Be glad that ain’t you

Yep. Walter Freeman got it to a science where they could just enter through the tear duct. One smack and you're done. Walter Freeman is not a surgeon. He did hundreds of them.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The Rock cannot smell what he's cooking as he has Covid.

[Shindig]

Had. His whole family did.

[Ian]

Had, they've apparently all recovered now.

[Giggles]

Was that not days ago?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Chill the fuck out dickheads.

[Baz]

Tom Hanks has got it

[Don]

Dave Benson Phillips has a cold.

[Dquincy]

Chill the fuck out dickheads.

:D It made me smile. These weasels ruining some top notch word play.

[Offshore Toon]

:D It made me smile. These weasels ruining some top notch word play.

Ruined. The joke was spoilt before you posted.

[Spikey M]

Tom Hanks has got it

You never know what you're gonna get.

[Shindig]

Berlusconi picked it up.

[Manc]

Contracted*

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Batman has it.

[Spikey M]

Nice bit of irony.

[Dquincy]

Berlusconi picked it up.

Probably from one of his bunga bunga parties.

[Shindig]

I'll not lie. His 30 year old girlfriend looks alright. Italian politics must be the seediest.

[Giggles]

Pubs (or restaurants as they are these days) have to keep records of everything every single customer eats on the premises for 28 days :harold:

[Boydy]

Pubs (or restaurants as they are these days) have to keep records of everything every single customer eats on the premises for 28 days :harold:
That was on the news up here. Not sure why they're moaning about it. Surely it's not hard to just file the receipts when the customer pays?

[Giggles]

It's because most of them are acting the fuck and people aren't eating anything at all.

[Shindig]

3,000 new cases. What a winter we have in store.

[Foe]

I’ll take £9 worth of crisps, please.

[Spikey M]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-54050342

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/375/cpsprodpb/77AC/production/_114263603_uk_daily_cases_with_ra_6sep-nc.png

Welp.

[Lewis]

Yeah with about two deaths a day. We should be using the current good weather to loosen things up faster.

[Spikey M]

All eyes on France again. Their hospitalisation rates are up.

Paid our CentreParcs break in November off yesterday. 3rd cancelled holiday this year hanging in the balance here. FML TBH IMO.

[Shindig]

Spain pulled nearly 200 deaths yesterday.

[Spikey M]

Eugh. This is getting beyond tedious now.

[Foe]

Where’s Mellin and his falling knife shorting?

[Yevrah]

Looks like we were just a month behind our European friends then and this is coming back.

Still don't think it'll be as bad as first time round, but brace yourself for local lockdowns and Christmas being cancelled.

If certain cultures are also still ignoring the advice we need to stop pissing about with how we treat them as well.

[Don]

Fucking hell, the signs of life in 'Spain deaths' isn't really suiting my narrative here and if it continues and France starts the engine too, we're going to need to start thinking deeply. About what I'm not sure but scenes will be imminent one way or another.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Might get a couple of tinned turkeys in, just to cover myself.

[Spikey M]

I'm freezing some kebabs. These cunts ain't tripping me up again.

[Foe]

Still got about a billions cans of tomato soup and chicken dippers. I’m still good.

Just need them to get more stock of Dr Pepper zero because the bastards have withheld that from me for the best part of a month now.

[Shindig]

I don't care how bad it gets. I'm not eating that can of macaroni and cheese. I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy.

[Foe]

Chicken noodle soup man. Whoever said it was a remedy to an illness must’ve got it from the vomcano it produces. Eugh.

[Giggles]

Those large mug shots they sell in the Range.

[Magic]

Fucking hell, the signs of life in 'Spain deaths' isn't really suiting my narrative here and if it continues and France starts the engine too, we're going to need to start thinking deeply. About what I'm not sure but scenes will be imminent one way or another.

Not really, they've had their highest cases since day 1 and 3 weeks on fuck all deaths so it fits perfectly with your narrative. Spain having a couple of hundred is hardly earth shattering.

[SvN]

I was on a train yesterday and I'd say almost 50% of the passengers either didn't bother with a mask at all, or had it pulled down under their chins. It was fairly busy as well.

[Magic]

Also kids going back to school, can assure you especially in Primary there is absolutely no social distancing whatsoever in the playgrounds. Corona is a myth.

[Spikey M]

Corona is a myth.

Who was it that said only the elderly and the autistic that buy into this shit? Queenslander? Anyway, theory confirmed.

[Queenslander]

Who was it that said only the elderly and the autistic that buy into this shit? Queenslander? Anyway, theory confirmed.


Also young women who collect crystals.

[Mellberg]

Where’s Mellin and his falling knife shorting?

Stopped and started buying at the end of March. Don't fight the Fed.

[Don]

Not really, they've had their highest cases since day 1 and 3 weeks on fuck all deaths so it fits perfectly with your narrative. Spain having a couple of hundred is hardly earth shattering.

I'm saying the little bump in Spain deaths could be the sign of my narrative dying. As n aside, their latest 184 deaths figure was seen on 16 March during the first wave and case numbers then were 25% of what they are now.

If deaths do go back close to first wave levels, we can start ignoring any case number comparisons as it will just be evidence that we're now testing all manner of mild/asymptomatic people who we didn't bother with the first time round. The excess deaths is still on the average line (and not dropping as I previously envisaged) so I'm tempted to go along with this theory now.

[Magic]

I'm saying the little bump in Spain deaths could be the sign of my narrative dying. As n aside, their latest 184 deaths figure was seen on 16 March during the first wave and case numbers then were 25% of what they are now.

You mean when testing basically didn't exist?

[Don]

Pretty much, yar, but surge in cases is clearlynot just as a result of more testing so the phenomenon of a 2nd wave seems to be true.

[Yevrah]

A 2nd wave of some degree was always going to happen. It's a reasonably contagious virus that the magic pixies won't just rid from the world in a matter of months.

Deaths are less per case due to a combination of:

It's already killed off the seriously low hanging fruit.
We're testing a hell of a lot more people now.
I haven't seen the demographics on positive tests but I'd be surprised if it isn't more weighted towards the lower risk groups now (the young and Taz, for example).
The lag between cases rising and it actually killing people, which we know is about 3 weeks to a month.

[Magic]

A 2nd wave of some degree was always going to happen. It's a reasonably contagious virus that the magic pixies won't just rid from the world in a matter of months.

Deaths are less per case due to a combination of:

It's already killed off the seriously low hanging fruit.
We're testing a hell of a lot more people now.
I haven't seen the demographics on positive tests but I'd be surprised if it isn't more weighted towards the lower risk groups now (the young and Taz, for example).
The lag between cases rising and it actually killing people, which we know is about 3 weeks to a month.

Cases started rising in France on circa 20th August, yet they aren't seeing any deaths really.

[Don]

"It's already killed off the seriously low hanging fruit."

I think we are getting close to putting this to bed given excess deaths remains on the mean.

[Spikey M]

Deaths followed 2-3 weeks after the cases in the first wave, but as Yev alluded to, this spike is amongst the young so it shouldn't have anywhere near the same mortality rate. They said on the News this morning that the majority of cases are in 20-30 year olds at the moment. That may or may not be the case in France. No idea.

[Yevrah]

Cases started rising in France on circa 20th August, yet they aren't seeing any deaths really.

"Due to a combination of" is the bit you're missing.

[Yevrah]

"It's already killed off the seriously low hanging fruit."

I think we are getting close to putting this to bed given excess deaths remains on the mean.

Get through autumn/winter and into spring and it's done.

[Shindig]

Aye but that's still a potential six months. We're at half time. Also, on low hanging fruit, the virus has probably created a new batch of those from the first wave. Although the rest of us are probably sorted with immunity and superpowers.

[mo]

A secondary in the next town over has put the whole of Year 9 into lockdown after 4 staff and a student tested positive on Saturday. Fucks sake, not even a week in.

[Giggles]

There's loads of school cases here too.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If one case takes out a year group for two weeks, then I don't know why they're bothering to open them again. It'll be total chaos.

[Shindig]

"Open the schools and uni's up. They'll just get minor symptoms at best. BUT WE MUST PROTECT OUR TEACHERS AND LECTURERS!"

[Lewis]

Yeah... Protect them from working!

[Don]

They're already losing their shit over these levels, UK media and twitter gonna be pure entertainment in the coming weeks. Blaming failure of contact tracing, school reopenings and closure of mines :drool:

[Yevrah]

Honestly, the population we have now would be utterly fucking useless in a war.

[Giggles]

There would be more councillors than soldiers needed.

[Shindig]

It'll be full of smug parents homeschooling the kids whilst simultaneously moaning about how they have no time to do anything.

[Yevrah]

Van Tam has spoken, I see. The massive wet blanket that he is.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54065793

Shitting the bed over positive tests for less than 0.005% of the population.

I honestly cannot fathom how these people can't just accept that we're going to have to keep locking down and opening up again locally for a bit before this thing bores off instead of banging on about how no-one takes it seriously.

[Yevrah]

There would be more councillors than soldiers needed.

I can't speak for the psyche of other nations that might want to invade us at any point in my lifetime, but I can't see how we wouldn't be anything other than utterly railed if a determined one chose to.

[Boydy]

Ok boomers.

[Giggles]

Ok boomers.

Boomer > flake.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If we got invaded, you'd have three groups: the intelligentsia doing the I-for-one-welcome-our-new-foreign-overlords; the Tommy Robinson lot doing an inverse Four Lions and blowing up Hammersmith Bridge; and the rest, who would don it.

[Yevrah]

Ok boomers.

Interesting line to take when it's apparently the post boomers who're largely spreading the fucking thing now*.

*To clarify, I'm not talking about kids in school. They should be there (even if they are spreading it) until the absolute last possible point before any further national lockdown.

[Boydy]

Interesting line to take when it's apparently the post boomers who're largely spreading the fucking thing now*.

*To clarify, I'm not talking about kids in school. They should be there (even if they are spreading it) until the absolute last possible point before any further national lockdown.

The working age population?

[Lewis]

It's the middle aged who are being fannies about it. Every old person I know hasn't given a fuck since day one.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, I forget I am 40 and a few of my friends are probably in that bracket Lewis.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I.e. the people with something to lose, as always. I bet it filters by class too.

[Yevrah]

I don't think it's as simple as class or having something to lose. I've heard of plenty of middle class people who don't give a rat's.

EDIT: They're also less likely to be in a risk category too.

[Dquincy]

Van Tam has spoken, I see. The massive wet blanket that he is.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54065793

Shitting the bed over positive tests for less than 0.005% of the population.

I honestly cannot fathom how these people can't just accept that we're going to have to keep locking down and opening up again locally for a bit before this thing bores off instead of banging on about how no-one takes it seriously.

It's all just a facade to impress upon the public to ensure they continue to "hands, face, space" when they go out, as my friend Mr Handcock says.

[Queenslander]

The entitlement coming out of Melbourne this week on social media (lol I know) is truly pathetic. They should just open it all up down there just to wipe out all the boomers and yuppy anti vax types.

Doesnt help that scumo and the federal Libs are firing shots in all directions while shouldering zero responsibility.

It is either who cares only people with pre existing conditions die or Dan Andrew's is at fault for every non covid related death.

[niko_cee]

That narrative's a bit rubbish and unhelpful though, isn't it? The only thing that covid is actually any good at wiping out is economies.

The difficulty is that the 'better' one's initial actions [and/or good fortune] were in containing this thing, the harder it is to return to some sort of [required] normality. We picked up our first inbound case yesterday, all fine, isolated etc, and thankfully no one has shat the bed yet, but it feels like the island bubble/prison is further away from dissipating as a result [and as a result of the upward trend in cases all around us].

I'm sure Offy made the point far earlier in the affair that a drive towards eradication was perhaps a bit short-sighted, even if it sounds good at the time.

What's Sweden up to these days?

[Queenslander]

Im all for moving towards hotspots and opening up the State borders and also moving towards a travel bubble with NZ.

[mugbull]

Sweden’s doing great doing nothing at the moment. Minimal cases and all

[Jimmy Floyd]

That narrative's a bit rubbish and unhelpful though, isn't it? The only thing that covid is actually any good at wiping out is economies.

The difficulty is that the 'better' one's initial actions [and/or good fortune] were in containing this thing, the harder it is to return to some sort of [required] normality. We picked up our first inbound case yesterday, all fine, isolated etc, and thankfully no one has shat the bed yet, but it feels like the island bubble/prison is further away from dissipating as a result [and as a result of the upward trend in cases all around us].

I'm sure Offy made the point far earlier in the affair that a drive towards eradication was perhaps a bit short-sighted, even if it sounds good at the time.

What's Sweden up to these days?

100% - Australia and NZ not even in a travel bubble with each other yet? Jesus Christ, what a pair of fannies.

[Queenslander]

It is bonkers at this stage of the game. This is what happens when the world forgets about us.

[Boydy]

The south is supposed to be opening "wet pubs" again in the 21st. There'll be pressure on Stormont to do the same up here.

Just as universities are all going back. What could go wrong?

[Spikey M]

Lots of non-vulnerable people get poorly for a bit?

[Yevrah]

What on earth are wet (and dry) pubs?

[Spikey M]

I'm guessing here, but: wet = doesn't sell food?

[Boydy]

Lots of non-vulnerable people get poorly for a bit?
Problem with NI is that pretty much all the students go home every weekend so they'll take it all round the country with them.

I don't know about the south but I imagine it's quite similar.

What on earth are wet (and dry) pubs?
What Spikey said.

[Yevrah]

6 months on and you can't even get a burger in a pub over there?

Sweet mother of God.

[Boydy]

6 months on and you can't even get a burger in a pub over there?

Sweet mother of God.

No, pubs that sell food are open. But you can only sit inside if you're eating. If the pub has a beer garden/outside space you can sit outside just for a drink.

[Spikey M]

6 months on and you can't even get a burger in a pub over there?

Sweet mother of God.

No, Based on what Giggles has been saying, they opened pub-restaurants a while back, they just kept the pubs that only sell drink closed.

[Yevrah]

I stand corrected. Bloody odd in my mind that they'd do that though.

It's a pub, not a Petri dish with pure COVID-19 in it.

[Boydy]

Yeah, it's a weird distinction and I don't see how you're any safer just because you're eating.

I suppose maybe they figure if people are only in for food, they'll stay at their tables and not go mix with other people.

[Spikey M]

Could the non-food serving pubs not just park a burger van in their carpark anyway?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Some tried run without it but the cops are allowed enter now and check your food receipt for how long you've been there. A good few tried open with just frozen pizza, etc but you need a certain sq meter of kitchen to qualify as one so they were closed back down.

Anyway no bar no pub for me, but we really should let the rest of the world know that 9 quid of food makes you immune.


Could the non-food serving pubs not just park a burger van in their carpark anyway?
Need a kitchen.

[Ian]

A couple of loaves, some cheese and a George Foreman. Sorted.

[Giggles]

Wet pubs is a term the media came up with to make them sound seedier and the government adopted it.

We've been the same as NI up to now but without the outside but. You have to have food regardless.

[Giggles]

A few tried open with local chippers on the menu or frozen pizzas and were shut down when the cops got new powers. The only power the cops had up to that was saying they'd object at annual licence renewal.

[Don]

Bolton going into lockdown for a caseload of 120 per 100K suggests we ought to get tooled up and ready to hit the streets once they try and bring about a national lockdown.

[Shindig]

County Durham's is spiked due to that football match bringing 60 cases. You know when the Uni opens back up it'll spread like butter.

[Yevrah]

Gatherings of more than 6 people banned from Monday across England.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54081131

I'm guessing that won't apply to Premier League football...

[Don]

Fucking hell, that was quick.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/08/coronavirus-gatherings-of-more-than-six-to-be-banned-in-england

Buzzin for the bullshit in tomorrow's presser.

[Offshore Toon]

Not great timing with a weekend in Brighton on 25th, but I doubt anybody there will care and it'll be a nightmare to enforce.

[Jimmy Floyd]

So it'a basically banning house parties, larger family gatherings, and large groups of kids roaming around? Good luck with that.

[Lewis]

The exemptions make that so worthless that it can only be a very, very roundabout way of banning ethnics from getting together in groups of forty like they do once the sun comes out.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The pureblood Anglo-Saxon logic that the government uses does annoy me. Sacrifice everything to protect economic transactions. If you care about the virus you should bosh it all. If you don't, let people live.

[Spikey M]

'We are very concerned about large gatherings and ILLEGAL RAVES, so in 6 days you won't be able to do it anymore.'

*cue 6 days of mass gatherings*

The idiocy is amazing.

[Queenslander]

Bush doofs have been broken up by puffed up regional police a few times recently.

[Andy]

So what has actually changed with these new rules? I thought it was a maximum of 6 in groups already?

[Dave.]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12618638/british-dad-coronavirus-christmas-china/

Interesting.

[Don]

So what has actually changed with these new rules? I thought it was a maximum of 6 in groups already?

I think I read it used to be 30 from 2 households or 6 from multiple. Presumably the former has been taken away?

Imagine how silly the cunts who followed any of this charade from day 1 feel now they can see it for what it is.

[Ian]

Of course if there's a shitload of gambling to be done on horses you get those lads from the Tokyo subway to cram them in the doors so they can get pissed up and flob all over each other.

[Jimmy Floyd]

30 from 2 households? Are we talking about the Royal Household?

[Andy]

I think I read it used to be 30 from 2 households or 6 from multiple. Presumably the former has been taken away?

Imagine how silly the cunts who followed any of this charade from day 1 feel now they can see it for what it is.

What a joke of an announcement. Make it look like they ate making sweeping changes to protect us all when in reality the changes effect a tiny percentage of the country.