Coronavirus Death Thread

[Ian]

Margaret and Bob can't say nuffink these days.

"I'm not racist! I don't have any problem with foreigners, our milkman was a [racial slur]! I just think...."

[Magic]

Ethnicity across the country is 87% white.

There's definitely a sense in the regions about London elites having foisted multiculturalism/multiracialism on them without their consent (to what extent this is true is debatable). The central tension is them saying well hang on, shouldn't we have some say in what our locations/communities look like, and shouldn't everybody living here have a proper stake in the whole place rather than just their narrow ethnic community; and their opponents saying no why would you have a problem with any of this, unless of course you are a RACIST.

Personally I think it's much less about colour and much more about language - people really don't like hearing foreign languages spoken around them, it takes away their innate sense of place and makes them feel uneasy. It's easy to throw RACIST at any such feeling, but this isn't a rational argument, it's about feelings, and you can't control your feelings.

No but you can be aware of them.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yes and you can choose not to express them for the good of yourself and others. But I'm not sure you can help having them in the first place.

[Lewis]

My school had the largest catchment area in England, almost two-thousand kids, and you couldn't have fielded a non-white football team. Every teacher was white as well.

[Spikey M]

If your feelings on a subject are ridiculous - such as caring what language someone is speaking when they aren't even talking to you - then you should try to change your feelings and I think you absolutely can.

I used to dislike religious people and all their bollocks. My feelings have changed to not giving a fuck.

[Magic]

Yes and you can choose not to express them for the good of yourself and others. But I'm not sure you can help having them in the first place.

I meant you can be aware of them and start to internally challenge them not just bite your disgusting racist tongue.

[Lewis]

We also didn't have a pregnancy until someone transferred in year eleven from one of the town schools. She was an absolute sort as well, so I wonder whether she's four kids into being a state these days, like a disproportionate amount of the better looking/more popular people are now.

[Lewis]

The issue is multiculturalism, insofar as every historical example of it leads to communalism and violence, and language is the visible tip of that particular shiteberg.

[Spikey M]

We also didn't have a pregnancy until someone transferred in year eleven from one of the town schools. She was an absolute sort as well, so I wonder whether she's four kids into being a state these days, like a disproportionate amount of the better looking/more popular people are now.

it's always better to be a late bloomer. Most of the lookers I went to school with are some form of addict with a face to match. Shame. The ugly ducklings are donning it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If your feelings on a subject are ridiculous - such as caring what language someone is speaking when they aren't even talking to you - then you should try to change your feelings and I think you absolutely can.

I used to dislike religious people and all their bollocks. My feelings have changed to not giving a fuck.

I doubt you arrived at that via a painstaking logical process though. You likely stopped caring, or started caring more about other things instead. That does happen over time with almost everything (I said that colour wasn't much of a thing now - I suspect that in the 50s-80s it was a massive thing), but it does take time, perhaps a generation.

People may instinctively feel a certain way - for example, 'Things were one way when I was a kid, now they're another way and I feel uneasy about it'. If the response from wealthier sections of society when they express that feeling is that they are called a filthy racist, when they genuinely don't believe that they are a filthy racist, then, taken in combination with the general decay of social institutions and public services, they're probably going to end up voting against the status quo in a referendum. Maybe, in 20 years, they'll look back and think hmm, maybe I was a bit racist, I can see things more clearly now. But there's no time for that incubation period in the short run. They'll just think no, fuck you, you don't walk all over me just because you have money and an education.

[Don]

Supermarkets bringing back purchase limits, here we go. Full lockdown presumably in 2 weeks or we thinking sooner?

[Spikey M]

October Half Term

[Boydy]

October Half Term
When in October is that? The end of October around Halloween? It'll be too late then.

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This is so grim. I feel sorry for these poor kids. They were encouraged to go to uni this year and there was no proper planning to deal with this, was there?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Maybe this is when everyone realises that undergrad university is a con and the corporate admins are all on the take, never more so than when it comes to accommodation.

[Don]

“[The new restrictions] are pretty drastic and it’s all a bit scary,” says Ralph Bennett-Richards, a first-year Glasgow student. “Moving up from London, living away from home for the first time, was scary enough without people now saying that we may not be able to home for Christmas. That’s made me really upset and I did have a little sob last night.”

Proper Boydy is Ralph :D You expect it from a double-barreller from London tbf.

[Ian]

I haven't looked at the limits supermarkets are imposing. Is it the same as last time where it's only the dickhead shoppers likely to be affected anyway?

[Shindig]

The usual stuff, pasta, rice and bog roll.

[Pepe]

Students. :violin:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I haven't looked at the limits supermarkets are imposing. Is it the same as last time where it's only the dickhead shoppers likely to be affected anyway?

Yes.

It also seems that they're doing it before all the mental dickheads have wiped everything out.

[Alex]

It's difficult for the students. On the one hand I think that surely it was obvious that university was going to be an absolute shit show this year, and had "defer" written all over it. On the other, what else do you do for a year? It's probably not the easiest job market to get involved in. Presumably they can only defer a certain number of places without the knock-on effect absolutely fucking the 2021 intake too.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I was surprised they didn't just all (at least the ones who don't need to be in labs etc) do distance learning and Zoom lectures. I know it's not the full ticket but it's an education.

I think the main thing is the unis, the housing providers etc and the subsidiary businesses desperately all need the cash from them being there.

[Lewis]

Universities need to be allowed to go to the wall along with other 'unviable' businesses, and I would bail the students out if necessary (i.e. if it interrupts their degree).

[Spikey M]

"Took them 3 days to get an online shop"

:D fuck off.

[niko_cee]

That's probably a shorter turnaround than most students take to figure out where the shop is, or how to do laundry, tbf.

[Pepe]

Over here, "food insecurity" is all the rage among idiot faculty. Apparently, our poor students are starving to death (in a uni that costs over $70,000 a year to attend), so they have created a gofundme campaign to buy the kiddos gift cards to the local supermarkets. The fancy ones though, because even under famine, we are too good for Walmart. I checked the application and it asks you how much money you want in your gift card (up to $50) and how frequently (every week, every two weeks, etc.) and it all seems to be done on the honor system. Tempted to go in and get myself a free $50 a week. Unsurprisingly, that is the most popular choice, which is taken as evidence of the MASSIVE problem we are dealing with, of course.

[Lofty]

Baby wipes appeared to be wiped out in my local tesco as I conducted a flying visit this evening.

[Dquincy]

I was surprised they didn't just all (at least the ones who don't need to be in labs etc) do distance learning and Zoom lectures. I know it's not the full ticket but it's an education.

I think the main thing is the unis, the housing providers etc and the subsidiary businesses desperately all need the cash from them being there.

The majority of them are remote Zoom lectures. That's what makes it even more retarded that Universities have encouraged the students to move into halls.

[Boydy]

"Took them 3 days to get an online shop"

:D fuck off.

I took this to mean that that was the earliest they could get a Tesco or Sainsbury's or whatever delivery. That seems about right in my experience? You can't get it the same day anyway. And if loads of students are locked down and demand for it in that area has gone up then you definitely won't get it any quicker.

Remember at the start of lockdown how hard it was to get one? You had to book them three weeks in advance at midnight when the new slots were released.

[Spikey M]

I took this to mean that that was the earliest they could get a Tesco or Sainsbury's or whatever delivery. That seems about right in my experience? You can't get it the same day anyway. And if loads of students are locked down and demand for it in that area has gone up then you definitely won't get it any quicker.

Remember at the start of lockdown how hard it was to get one? You had to book them three weeks in advance at midnight when the new slots were released.

I get what it means, it remains horse shit. Nobody there has anybody near(ish) that could drop some food round? And you can get food within half an hour on Uber. Cornershops included.

[Waffdon]

Correct.

They’re not allowed going to the pub or restaurant for this weekend. Wow. Two whole days. If we tested positive or were in contact, we’d be in the same position. At least they’re in the same boat of hundreds in the same complex.

What are they all even studying to be going back anyway? My girlfriends whole course for this term is on Zoom as well as my brothers and his mates. Twats.

[ScousePig]

I live next door to the Leeds University halls of residence, and they've been making a bloody racket.

[Dquincy]

Any sexy slutty ladies on show?

[Don]

Went to the local today and fucking hell. Selling masks at the door for those who don't have one because you now need one at all times until your first drink is at your table. And of course, wear one as soon as you stand up to go mens. No mixing under any circumstances. This is a Greene King one but clientele are fairly rough round the edges let's say so I imagine this isn't at the top of the percentiles where control and compliance comes into it. If they don't ease up I give it about 2 months before mass rejection of pubs and closures starts surfacing.

On the plus side, the masks do mean upsides of talking to people [illegally] without worrying about their spit particles ifyou were OCD like me even before this shit. Additionally, I'm home by 11, this is the way a civilised society should have been but we've tasted the apple now and there's no going back so open the fucking clubs.

[Waffdon]

Nightclubs are for 17 year olds and rapists.

Greene King are pretty strict here but then I think most chain pubs will be. Your locals still won’t give a fuck. I was in Edinburgh staying over on Monday and you were having to do get your temperature checked in every single pub I went in. Bit weird.

[Boydy]

I get what it means, it remains horse shit. Nobody there has anybody near(ish) that could drop some food round? And you can get food within half an hour on Uber. Cornershops included.

I dunno, if they've moved away to uni, probably not.

Fair point on uber though.

It's still shit for them. They're just kids. Going to uni is a scary enough time without all this shit.

[Boydy]

What are they all even studying to be going back anyway? My girlfriends whole course for this term is on Zoom as well as my brothers and his mates. Twats.

Thwy were encouraged to go back by greedy bastard universities who want the rent for their shitty accommodation.

[Don]

Universities need to be allowed to go to the wall along with other 'unviable' businesses, and I would bail the students out if necessary (i.e. if it interrupts their degree).

This is bang on. COVID hasn't so much been a tool of destruction as it has a glorious push for refinement.

Obese and those who disregarded their health? Fuck off.
Lax hygiene care and controls? Fuck off.
Long commutes and pointless desk-sitting? Fuck off.
£5 coffees and £15 lunches? Fuck off.
£40 return flights and weekend city breaks? Fuck off.

Allah is cleansing us and realigning us on the path to righteousness.

[Boydy]

Shut the fuck up.

[Waffdon]

Thwy were encouraged to go back by greedy bastard universities who want the rent for their shitty accommodation.

More fool them then.

[Lewis]

This is bang on. COVID hasn't so much been a tool of destruction as it has a glorious push for refinement.

Obese and those who disregarded their health? Fuck off.
Lax hygiene care and controls? Fuck off.
Long commutes and pointless desk-sitting? Fuck off.
£5 coffees and £15 lunches? Fuck off.
£40 return flights and weekend city breaks? Fuck off.

Allah is cleansing us and realigning us on the path to righteousness.

On the other hand, high-speed rail is still happening, and we're going to be paying more taxes until forever, so... Swings and roundabouts really isn't it.

[Don]

Higher taxes are very high in my original list and I'm not just saying that to appease the Boydys. If we can keep the momentum on this 'oh look, turns out there are people who benefit financially from our misfortune' bandwagon, we could even bring in the gamechanger billionaire taxes and at that point I'll establish the church of Covid.

[niko_cee]

This covid inspector bullshit is probably the busybody highwater mark, putting society on the precipice of descent into a full blown thought police driven dystopia.

Imagine the sort of arsehole you'd need to (volunteer) be to be one.

[Spikey M]

Traffic Wardens must be feeling popular as fuck right now.

[Shindig]

Imagine the sort of arsehole you'd need to (volunteer) be to be one.

Or you could just be out of work and in need of something to do.

[Giggles]

This is bang on. COVID hasn't so much been a tool of destruction as it has a glorious push for refinement.

Obese and those who disregarded their health? Fuck off.
Lax hygiene care and controls? Fuck off.
Long commutes and pointless desk-sitting? Fuck off.
£5 coffees and £15 lunches? Fuck off.
£40 return flights and weekend city breaks? Fuck off.

Allah is cleansing us and realigning us on the path to righteousness.

Whatever about any of the rest of it you can ram your allah up your cunt.

[Don]

You'll be first up against the wall come Yawm ad-Din, you infidel.

[Spikey M]

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:lol:

[Giggles]

That’s the twattery we’re up against.

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[Lewis]

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And then you see this bloke (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8775319/British-tourist-29-thought-Covid-b-t-posts-video-struggles-breathe.html) would be filed under 'no pre-existing condition' as if he isn't clearly twenty stone. :happycry:

[Shindig]

It must be tough when your beard mixes with your chest hair.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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The 10pm closures are working well...

[Lewis]

I've got about ten jokes.

[igor_balis]

I am constantly amazed by how easily the tinfoil bunch will believe any old shit. Some guy on my FB just shared this:

https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.15752-9/120374907_330051978278500_7605519261483477890_n.jp g?_nc_cat=101&_nc_sid=b96e70&_nc_ohc=BVWJpXIouRsAX-UyWf-&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-1.xx&oh=d670e0e1fcbe430d3f2e809f54ca43ed&oe=5F94CBAE

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how?

[Smjffy]

:D You couldn't completely rule it out, mind.

[niko_cee]

How to what?

I would assume better reproductive health services means better access to birth control options, and, whilst perhaps slightly counter-intuitive, better outcomes on infant mortality via vaccination probably correlates to people having less babies in the developing world.

[Kikó]

Yep. More women in education results in lower children per family which results in a lower population.

[Giggles]

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The 10pm closures are working well...

They’re all ‘forced’ to do it no doubt.

[Shindig]

Yep. More women in education results in lower children per family which results in a lower population.

Yeah, there was something out a couple of months ago in relation to that. With 2050 apparently being where the birth rate dips below 2 per couple. And the baby boomers are dying off.

[Don]

Man on the ground Don reporting in for another post-sesh assessment of state of affairs.

London is same as my Friday report of MK. Controls taking the piss, businesses fucked, melts empowered to snitch on any misdemeanours, society crumbling, anger about to spill out onto the streets. Missed a cracker yesterday but I'm fully there at the next lockdown protest and not solely for the hype and scenes. If I have to form a union with the nutter brigade to fight for what's right then that's just the way it is.

[Giggles]

You should run riot with a meat cleaver.

[Yevrah]

Ben Nevis done and I now can't stand up from a sitting position without grabbing onto something, but despite that it was worth it.

[Magic]

Was it busy? Did Mayar and Dreish that wasn't too bad.

[Yevrah]

We set off at just before 7 and it was fine on the way up, but a bit congested on the way down.

Absolutely amazing views though and the top felt like I'd walked through a portal to Mordor.

[Spikey M]

K2 next?

[Yevrah]

In all seriousness, I think that was my limit.

The way down was horrific, took ages and I still can't stand up without using something to help me.

[Baz]

:lol:

[Yevrah]

It's all about the knees. If you have strong knees then it'll be a lot easier, but I didn't know whether I did or not and it turns out I don't.

[Spikey M]

I basically only have one knee so it's a no go for me then.

[Manc]

Them genetics. :drool:

[SvN]

My dad had both knees replaced by 50, and my brother (who's 45) can barely walk because his are so bad.

So I've got that to look forward to.

[Giggles]

Mine are nearly gone.

[Pepe]

I've heard cycling is good for people with dodgy knees.

[Giggles]

A bike or elliptical would definitely be less strain than a treadmill if someone wanted to exercise.

[Pepe]

Do it:

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[Don]

Such genetic flaws are to be expected when you're shagging your cousin, Giggles. Woiiii oiiii

[Disco]

I have one dodgy knee and one dodgy ankle, both rugger bugger related, and cycling is indeed much lower impact. Swimming is even better but a bike seemed easier to organise than an entire pool.

[Shindig]

We had something through the door that had some info about a couple of walking trails near me. I'll probably give them a shot at some point.

[Don]

Great bit on the news - people crying about not being able to visit their 'loved ones' in care homes. Some old lady looking cushty in a nice conservatory of her ample-sized house moaning that 'the carers do great work but they don't know what makes my mum tick, that's why family is so important'. Love, you binned your own mum off to some Zimbabwean nurse, do us a favour.

Andy Burnham calling for a 9pm alcohol curfew on supernarkets too :****)

[Jimmy Floyd]

This whole thing is absolutely mental, and that's having lived through the first lot. Geordies banned from pubs, students locked inside halls of residence, Andy Burnham trying to induce a network of speakeasies across Greater Manchester.

This plan of betting the farm on a quick vaccine is absolutely ridiculous and isn't going to work. Open everything up, tell people to social distance and wash their hands, and let's see how long it takes for the Nightingales to fill up.

[Spoonsky]

Montreal is now CODE RED - lockdown starting Thursday for some reason. I spent the first wave in a barely-locked down Utah so it'll be interesting to finally live a proper one. Interesting and mostly shit, I guess.

[Pepe]

Done with college yet?

[Spikey M]

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Cap still on the syringe. Nice little gift for the Anti-vax mob. :face:

[Andy]

My surgery sent out a letter saying they've used all the flu vaccines for 18-64 year olds and cant get anymore.

[Yevrah]

We're all going to be distancing, sanitising and isolating still anyway, so I'm not sure how much it matters.

[Yevrah]

Well, those of us without kids at least. Good luck to anyone that has.

[Spikey M]

We're all going to be distancing, sanitising and isolating still anyway, so I'm not sure how much it matters.

Flu is more contagious than Covid, no?

Edit: apparently not.
https://www.healthline.com/health/r-nought-reproduction-number

[Shindig]

Well, that certainly shoots the 'it's no worse than flu' brigade. Covid's done 4 season's worth of deaths in the US. In six months.

[Magic]

'according to' - 'a study by' - 'fuck off'.

[Spikey M]

Well, that certainly shoots the 'it's no worse than flu' brigade. Covid's done 4 season's worth of deaths in the US. In six months.

The vulnerable aren't vaccinated against it though. We'd need to know the mortality rate of Flu if there were no vaccine. I imagine it would do some very real damage.

[Shindig]

'according to' - 'a study by' - 'fuck off'.

CDC's own website has flu deaths between 12,000 and 61,000 in the US.

[Magic]

CDC's own website has flu deaths between 12,000 and 61,000 in the US.

Because they are categorising it properly rather than 'tested positive 28 days ago now he dead from canc0rz but we still put him down as Coevid'.

[Shindig]

How is that different from how flu deaths are reported? Is causation not a factor in that?

[niko_cee]

If you sneeze and die in a car crash you didn't die of flu.

[Spikey M]

This conversation isn't going to be any less retarded the third time around guys.

[Magic]

How is that different from how flu deaths are reported? Is causation not a factor in that?

If I get stabbed in the heart it's the knife that killed me, not the heart rupture.

[Magic]

Also if the flu variance is 12-61000 (lol) then the Bovid shit must be the same if not even more wide ranging? So we could be looking at less than 5000 deaths lads. :drool:

#clubsopen

[Giggles]

This conversation isn't going to be any less retarded the third time around guys.

Magics spellchecker has put it straight to the top of the retarded list.

[Alex]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54342688


Boris Johnson has apologised saying he "misspoke" when asked to clarify details of new tighter coronavirus restrictions in north-east England.

The rules, banning households from mixing in indoor settings, affect nearly two million people and are due to come into force at midnight.

However, confusion arose over whether this included outdoor settings such as pub beer gardens.

Labour said the PM was "grossly incompetent" for not knowing the rules.

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:D

What a shower of shit.

[Kikó]

Clarks is gone @waffles :(

[Don]

I don't think even the article's author is aware of where exactly he went wrong which is a good reflection of the idiocy of it all.

[Yevrah]

I understand that they're trying desperately to avoid a (potentially necessary in their eyes) 2nd national lockdown, but the thing that struck me the first time round is just how many people don't consume any actual news, so if the rules are any more complicated than about 5 things you can or can't do (that either do or don't apply in any given location), they've got no chance.

[Waffdon]

Clarks is gone @waffles :(

I thought it was the 24/7 bakery at first. Pub will be back whenever normality resumes. Wasn’t open that often anyway

[Don]

71 deaths would be worth a little stroke if we hadn't outed it all as a fraud.

[Giggles]

As if Kiko goes anywhere that waff would.

[Alex]

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I do miss the good old days, when you just checked what you wanted to do in the "big book of dream jobs" and were allocated a position accordingly.

[Jimmy Floyd]

From my experience of the first decade of my working life, I would genuinely advise any young person that the best way to get where you want to be is to dream small, and let your ambition be limited to maybe one day affording the premium supermarket sandwiches for lunch (eg. ham hock and mature cheddar) as opposed to the meal deal standards. That way, everything feels like an achievement, as opposed to one long failure.

[Waffdon]

As if Kiko goes anywhere that waff would.

Two classy individuals.

[Shindig]

Agreed. Fuck going to space or being famous. All you should ask for is a job you can do that pays fine. Take it from there.

[Don]

Crispin Sommerville who runs a few restaurants in Soho has seen his revenues hit by 25%. Won't somebody think of the [immensely priveleged] children.

[Magic]

Agreed. Fuck going to space or being famous. All you should ask for is a job you can do that pays fine. Take it from there.

Where have you taken it Shinners?

[Shindig]

To financial security, mostly.

[Spikey M]

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[Kikó]

As if Kiko goes anywhere that waff would.

Actually the in-laws loved it. Live 'soul' music.

[Magic]

To financial security, mostly.

:happycry:

[Baz]

Ham hock butties in the posh bag :drool:

[Spikey M]

Bojack Johnson on the telly again tonight after the massive amount of difference it made last time. :happycry:

[Lofty]

Not sure what the point of this is.

[Lewis]

Wor Boris still looks shot to bits. He'll be gone/going within a year.

[Smjffy]

Wales announcing Flintshire goes into Lockdown tomorrow at 6pm....

Smiffy lives in....

FML. :-D

[Raoul Duke]

So, I have coronavirus :moop:

Got my positive test results back today. Felt feverish since Sunday but mostly feeling better now. Still a little bit under the weather but overall not too bad.

[Ian]

Well that sucks.

Is that the first TTH confirmed case?

[Spikey M]

This is worse than Taz and his soppy tastebuds. Inject a bit of drama into it ffs.

[Smjffy]

How was your breathing, Raoul?

[Raoul Duke]

Fine. Little bit stuffy but otherwise no different.

[Baz]

Did you feel ashamed when you told people you’d been in contact with, as if you caught it by sniffing glue? That’s the impression I get.

[Raoul Duke]

No, because I haven't been in contact with anyone. I'm in a new city where I don't really know people, socially, all that much. I told the test + trace person where I'd been (only a couple of places) but from what I gathered there wasn't anywhere specific it could be narrowed down to.

[Spikey M]

Increase the drama you slag.

[Disco]

Should we have a separate thread for the dirty infected posters?

[Pepe]

A separate forum altogether.

Anyone has the keys to the refuge?

[Spikey M]

It's OK as long as you're both wearing a Firewall.

[Foe]

Infected by Amsterdam nearly instantaneous. What a shagger :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54369002

The prime minister's father, Stanley Johnson, has been pictured shopping without a face covering, breaking current Covid-19 restrictions.

Mr Johnson - a former Tory MEP - has apologised, claiming he may not be "100% up to speed" with current rules after returning from abroad.

:harold:

[Ian]

I bet he definitely quarantined upon his return though.

[niko_cee]

Aye, quarantining by shopping alone.

Bit like this numpty (https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/6105009/quarantining-man-5k-pub-coronavirus/).

The bigger question is, of course, what sort of maniac would go for a pint in a place like that, but it takes all sorts I guess. Probably a paedo.

[Kikó]

My friend had Covid and she told me today which is quite handy as it's 14 days after I met her (and 12 days after she started displaying symptoms). I only played football twice and went for a meal and drinks in the meantime. Thankfully, if I had it, I was asymptomatic.

[Spikey M]

Getting his defence in place early doors like all good bankers. :cool:

[Pepe]

Were the drinks casual?

[Kikó]

On a scale of 1 to casual, it was 9.

[Giggles]

No, because I haven't been in contact with anyone. I'm in a new city where I don't really know people, socially, all that much. I told the test + trace person where I'd been (only a couple of places) but from what I gathered there wasn't anywhere specific it could be narrowed down to.

How do you reckon you got it then?

[Raoul Duke]

How do you reckon you got it then?

No idea really. I've only been to a couple of different places and both those were masked up and for a brief amount of time. Could be off a delivery person or maybe the bins (Amsterdam has a system where you have various big containers at most street intersections that you lob stuff into, but you have to touch them to open the hatches).

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That prostitute was coughing a lot too...

[Raoul Duke]

Keep your Ukraine stories to the appropriate thread please

[Dquincy]

So, I have coronavirus :moop:

Got my positive test results back today. Felt feverish since Sunday but mostly feeling better now. Still a little bit under the weather but overall not too bad.

Not to sound like Magic, but IF the vast majority of infected people only feel like this (or milder) when they get it, then I say open it all up.

[Luca]

No idea really. I've only been to a couple of different places and both those were masked up and for a brief amount of time. Could be off a delivery person or maybe the bins (Amsterdam has a system where you have various big containers at most street intersections that you lob stuff into, but you have to touch them to open the hatches).

This would be weird. I'm not sure there's ever been a single case linked to fomites, and if you were masked up and in somewhere for a short stint the chances of getting it must be astronomically low. Could it be someone in your building + poor circulation somehow?

[Luca]

Maybe Duke has met the Donald in private and hasn't told us?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hope-hicks-trump-positive-covid-19-1.5747343

[John Arne]

Boris catching Covid, almost dying, and the whole country rallying together for 5 minutes seems like years ago.

[Luca]

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Gahahahahaha

[Ian]

Somebody get him injecting the bleach, please.

[Yevrah]

I want all of the memes.

[Spikey M]

Please let him die. :drool:

[Yevrah]

See, I wouldn't advocate assassination or anything like that, but if it were to happen this way, well, it'd be nature's way. Straight from a lab in CHIna.

[Ian]

I see my local MP has had symptoms of the Rona, travelled to Westminster anyway, been confirmed to indeed have the Rona and then travelled back by train.

[Giggles]

Too convenient. Not a hope he has it.

[Baz]

Too convenient. Not a hope he has it.I was thinking this.

[Spikey M]

Too convenient. Not a hope he has it.

You are almost certainly right.

[Bernanke]

They launched their nuclear command flights as a deterrent an hour before he tweeted. He has it. What possible positive effect could faking it have anyway?

[Shindig]

Not to sound like Magic, but IF the vast majority of infected people only feel like this (or milder) when they get it, then I say open it all up.

I'd be the same if it wasn't for the fact that we were registering more daily covid deaths than cancer and heart disease at the peak. It's still the 3rd highest cause of deaths in the US.

[mugbull]

Hid advisor has it, so he probably does. Wouldn't put it past him to fake it tho

[Jimmy Floyd]

If he's not seen on a golf course in the next three days, he has it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Food for thought however from my colleague at the next desk, who says: 'Trump and Boris, two of the unhealthiest people going around, Boris is walking around drinking pints in Westminster, are we supposed to believe they had it? They would both be dead if they got it.'

A sanguine and well thought-out point to which I have no rebuttal.

[Shindig]

Of all the leaders who've picked it up, he's been the closest to death. Bolsonaro took a while to shift it as well.

[Lofty]

My Covid denying mate has pointed out if it is anywhere near as bad as the media have made out then Trump is definitely dead, which is a fair point.

Though last night he forwarded me an image of a cropped headline about a 'Covid revolt' in Middlesbrough and said 'I bet the media won't cover it!' To which I pointed out it was a cropped image of the Daily Mail :D

[Spikey M]

In what world is it a fair point? Most old people survive it. The odds aren't as comfortable, but it's not fucking Ebola.

[Yeldoow]

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:chortle:

[Boydy]

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[Spikey M]

:D

[Shindig]

I wonder what would do for the election? Does Pence stand in as the Republican nominee?

[Lofty]

In what world is it a fair point? Most old people survive it. The odds aren't as comfortable, but it's not fucking Ebola.

He ticks all the comorbidity boxes does he not? If he shrugs it off easier than Boris who is a lot younger than him then it seems suspect.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's like 99.2% survival for people in his age group as opposed to 99.9%, and not everyone gets it the same. You can't read anything into anything.

[Don]

I'd deffo be getting excited if it wasn't just the fact he's got a big arse and is a little old that people seem to think he is walking towards the light. Boris wasn't the norm.

[mugbull]

It's like 99.2% survival for people in his age group

What are you smoking?

[Don]

Team Panic trying to claw back a late consolation goal. Cute.

I'm seeing 5-13% as the case fatality rate for 70-79s. Wipe off the millions not getting tested because they're not eating Northern takeaways and Jimmy probably ain't far off.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm smoking cold, hard statistics.

[John Arne]

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[-james-]

I'm smoking cold, hard statistics.

Alright Simon Gleave.

[SvN]

A baby at my son's nursery has tested positive, so the entire place has been shut down for two weeks. Brilliant. Fuck knows what we're going to do.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Alright Simon Gleave.

Look, if I could pass off reading out the UEFA coefficient tables as 'analytical insight' then I would, but I'm not that kind of jazzer. I am but a humble mathematician of the soul.

[mugbull]

Team Panic trying to claw back a late consolation goal. Cute.

I'm seeing 5-13% as the case fatality rate for 70-79s. Wipe off the millions not getting tested because they're not eating Northern takeaways and Jimmy probably ain't far off.

Yeah maybe if you have the maths level of a 5 year old. South Korea tests everyone and their fatality rate for that age group is 8-9%, so if you take an obese American who eats Filet o' Fish every day I'd wager it'd be around 20%. He'll get the best bleach injection treatment around though so Trump's personal ticker is probably around 5-7%

[randomlegend]

There is no special magic treatment that only rich people get for covid. I don't understand this thinking in the general public. We aren't reusing needles and getting the cleaner on a pair of bellows instead of a ventilator for the plebs.

[randomlegend]

Actually, they probably are in America.

[Don]

Yeah maybe if you have the maths level of a 5 year old. South Korea tests everyone and their fatality rate for that age group is 8-9%, so if you take an obese American who eats Filet o' Fish every day I'd wager it'd be around 20%. He'll get the best bleach injection treatment around though so Trump's personal ticker is probably around 5-7%

The discussion is strictly around his age group, not his diet.

It's all well and good that Yu So Yung and his buddies are getting 8% but Spain are getting under 5% and not testing every one so ya man.

[Baz]

A baby at my son's nursery has tested positive, so the entire place has been shut down for two weeks. Brilliant. Fuck knows what we're going to do.Not get poorly, probably. :thbup:

[mugbull]

The discussion is strictly around his age group, not his diet.

It's all well and good that Yu So Yung and his buddies are getting 8% but Spain are getting under 5% and not testing every one so ya man.

Spain's is 15% for his age group

[Don]

You're looking at a May report into mortality rate.

Here is where you shall find up to date case fatality rates.

https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid

[Magic]

I know Mokkers doesn't drive (obviously) but if he did he'd be the sort of wet weekend that gets overtaken by lorries on the motorway. Absolute blanket.

[phonics]

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Jesus.


I know Mokkers doesn't drive (obviously) but if he did he'd be the sort of wet weekend that gets overtaken by lorries on the motorway. Absolute blanket.


You pissed yourself in an airport from the stress of being in an airport.

[Pepe]

I know Mokkers doesn't drive (obviously) but if he did he'd be the sort of wet weekend that gets overtaken by lorries on the motorway. Absolute blanket.

:lol:


You pissed yourself in an airport from the stress of being in an airport.

:lol:

[Kikó]

Food for thought however from my colleague at the next desk, who says: 'Trump and Boris, two of the unhealthiest people going around, Boris is walking around drinking pints in Westminster, are we supposed to believe they had it? They would both be dead if they got it.'

A sanguine and well thought-out point to which I have no rebuttal.

Boris looks absolutely fucked in fairness to the fair point.

[mugbull]

You're looking at a May report into mortality rate.

Here is where you shall find up to date case fatality rates.

https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid

Did they gouge out your eyes as part of a fatwa? That's all age groups.

[mugbull]

I know Mokkers doesn't drive (obviously) but if he did he'd be the sort of wet weekend that gets overtaken by lorries on the motorway. Absolute blanket.

I don't know a single American my age who doesn't drive

[Offshore Toon]

Did that really happen, Magic? That's amazing.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He said it did a while back. It's something that should be brought up every time Magic calls someone a wet blanket.

[Boydy]

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[Don]

Did they gouge out your eyes as part of a fatwa? That's all age groups.

Scroll a bit further down, dear :****)

You've sucked the fun out of this donning such is the magnitude of it now ffs.

[mugbull]

Scroll a bit further down, dear :****)

You've sucked the fun out of this donning such is the magnitude of it now ffs.

Oh, you mean the graphic based on March 24th figures? A week into their breakout? I was giving you the benefit of the doubt on that one since you were claiming I wasn't using up to date figures but if you want more recent figures: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105596/covid-19-mortality-rate-by-age-group-in-spain-march/

The level of data illiteracy has reached new heights with this pandemic. Your average Joe is no match for infographics these days.

[Dquincy]

Did they gouge out your eyes as part of a fatwa? That's all age groups.
Setting aside the fact that Magic is retarded, even with those figures, a 70 year old is still odds on not to die from it. So all this hoopla about him possibly dying is a bit silly, He'll be fine.

[Magic]

I got lost in Gatwick I think it was, think it was SvN who attributed this to me pissing myself in fear.

[mugbull]

Setting aside the fact that Magic is retarded, even with those figures, a 70 year old is still odds on not to die from it. So all this hoopla about him possibly dying is a bit silly, He'll be fine.

Hence me giving him 14:1 odds of dying to it. Call me Nostradamus

[Don]

I've had a shocker. Going to be a long road back from here boys so I'd appreciate your support.

Does my original point stand? Quite possibly but who cares at this point.

[Baz]

Fair play for admitting defeat and not doubling down on it.

Well tripling, cos you did kinda double down. Point stands though.

[Disco]

How long this time, six months? A full year?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Don't you piss yourself at airports?


I did the first time I had to fly to London solo, but not subsequently.




I got lost in Gatwick I think it was, think it was SvN who attributed this to me pissing myself in fear.

Orly?

[Magic]

Yes piss as in have an anxiety meltdown not actually piss myself.

[Don]

Team Panic have dealt some solid blows today. If they weren't all...no, sorry, ignore that. Let's fall back and do a headcount, lads.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Let me go on the counter-attack with this graph (today) from Public Health England:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjU-ovsWkAAc3Vn?format=png&name=900x900

Fans in grounds tomorrow please.

[Boydy]

NI has just had more than double their previous daily high of new cases (which was recorded earlier this week).

[Magic]

Nearly all of Scotlands are from these student halls. So it's making it LOOK SO BAD OMG even though it's just a bunch of limp-wristed architects in training with sniffly nozes.

Though that SNP twat has really made for some amazing lols right across the board. Corona even more politicised in Scotland than the rest of the UK. :harold:

[phonics]

This government where only 3 people get to decide anything leading the 'Take Back Control' narrative is so funny.

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[Jimmy Floyd]

The SNP woman being done is the nadir of everything so far, on the political side. Loads of sneery Tories saying 'HA, she criticised Cummings!' and loads of sneery lefties saying 'HA, you defended Cummings!' ad infinitum. Somebody turn the tap off and let's talk about nesting puffins or something.

[Lewis]

I'm not sure why people think local authorities should have any say in it whatsoever. For better or worse, we barely give any significant powers to councils, so why would they suddenly get to have any input now?

[Ian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Az3WhfPv0

[Kikó]

She did what any responsible parent would do and ...

[Magic]

The rabid defending of her by the SNaziP followers is quite something. The Cummings card has lost all value and meaning now, and what she did was infinitely worse than him.

[Kikó]

Calling them Nazi is fucking retarded.

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[Giggles]

NI has just had more than double their previous daily high of new cases (which was recorded earlier this week).

What’s happened there? Delay in results or what?

[Lewis]

If we work on the assumption that 'Daws' gravitates to the smuggest cunts possible (and vice versa), then we have to imagine that his Sawney in-laws and their associates will be right 'civic nationalist' whoppers, and that he spends Boxing Day in his tartan Christmas jumper nodding along to 'Tam' (real name: Henry Thomas Fraser) telling him that, actually, although you probably wouldn't know this, the first English colony was Scotland. Then it's back to England and deleting FW:FW:FW:FW WEE GINGER DUG!! e-mails without even reading them.

[Boydy]

What’s happened there? Delay in results or what?

I dunno, I don't think so. Like I said, we had the previous daily high just earlier in the week. Yesterday's was down a bit from that but even then the difference between yesterday's and the high wouldn't make it up to the 900-odd today.

[niko_cee]

If we work on the assumption that 'Daws' gravitates to the smuggest cunts possible (and vice versa), then we have to imagine that his Sawney in-laws and their associates will be right 'civic nationalist' whoppers, and that he spends Boxing Day in his tartan Christmas jumper nodding along to 'Tam' (real name: Henry Thomas Fraser) telling him that, actually, although you probably wouldn't know this, the first English colony was Scotland. Then it's back to England and deleting FW:FW:FW:FW WEE GINGER DUG!! e-mails without even reading them.

:D

I didn't think the jocks did Boxing Day but it seems they do.

[Lofty]

I'm not sure why people think local authorities should have any say in it whatsoever. For better or worse, we barely give any significant powers to councils, so why would they suddenly get to have any input now?

Isn't that what the government want though? Priti Patel squawked about how it was local authorities responsibility not the goverment's for everything negative she was asked about on a visit to a food bank in Barrow.

[Lofty]

“It’s not the government, though, is it? Everybody just says ‘the government’ as if it is this sort of bland blob that, you know, you can just go and blame.”

Pressed further, she added: “Actually, it’s, well, it’s not [the government’s fault], because it’s all parts of society and the structures. Local authorities have a role to play, education, public services, which are locally led and locally run.”



Not my words Lynn, the words of the Home Secretary.

[Lewis]

Was she talking about responding to a pandemic there?

[Shindig]

There is no special magic treatment that only rich people get for covid. I don't understand this thinking in the general public. We aren't reusing needles and getting the cleaner on a pair of bellows instead of a ventilator for the plebs.

It's more about access, right? A VIP like Trump will probably be given more attention as well. And he's been taking Hydroxythingymabob as a preventative measure. That .... that's something. :D

[phonics]

Trump has gone from ‘asymptomatic’ to ‘mild symptoms’ to ‘high fever’ in less than a day. So funny.

All the people trying to do the ‘sympathy to the commander in chief’ stuff to a guy they accused of destroying the country a week ago is so funny.

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[Baz]

The amount of people on Twitter encouraging him to stay positive is probably some kind of collaborative world record.

[phonics]

Personally, my favourite way this works out is him being so self absorbed and scared that he asks for some experimental treatment that kills him in 3 days instead of just recovering in 7.

[Queenslander]

Such bullshit. If Peter Dutton dies from anything Im getting a cake made to celebrate.

[phonics]

QL, the extended CumTown bit about Trump refusing to comment on multiple terrorist attacks in favour of complaining about Robert De Niro sucking off dudes was the best the pods been in years.

[Queenslander]

QL, the extended CumTown bit about Trump refusing to comment on multiple terrorist attacks in favour of complaining about Robert De Niro sucking off dudes was the best the pods been in years.

Bloody oath :D

This is a close second.


https://youtu.be/ryEcxjuJAdw

[randomlegend]

It's actually called 'Cum Town'?

[phonics]

Also the child with issues spending his 50$ gift card on Fruit Loops and Nerds was good.

I just listen to the first 10 minutes and if they haven't hit a good bit by then I delete the ep.

[randomlegend]

'Cum town'?

[Giggles]

'Cum town'?

It’s edgy.

[randomlegend]

Maybe if you're 9.

[Disco]

Judging by that clip 9 is about their level.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Their target audience.

[Spikey M]

Is that one of those things that's only good because it's so bad?

[Kikó]

If we work on the assumption that 'Daws' gravitates to the smuggest cunts possible (and vice versa), then we have to imagine that his Sawney in-laws and their associates will be right 'civic nationalist' whoppers, and that he spends Boxing Day in his tartan Christmas jumper nodding along to 'Tam' (real name: Henry Thomas Fraser) telling him that, actually, although you probably wouldn't know this, the first English colony was Scotland. Then it's back to England and deleting FW:FW:FW:FW WEE GINGER DUG!! e-mails without even reading them.

Tbf it's not too far away. My father in law is a prominent Scottish historian.

(I don't have one type of friend though)

[phonics]

Is that one of those things that's only good because it's so bad?

Mostly.

[Don]

Is he the pre-eminent Scottish historian scholar?

[Spikey M]

That's probably why it seems so bad then.

I remember trying to introduce a friend to Alan Partridge via YouTube clips and it was awful. Tumbleweeds at every turn.

[Queenslander]

It isnt anything to be proud of Id never defend it.

The missus caught it once and was disgusted.

[Lewis]

One minute you're beaming in your Christmas jumper, then smug cunt 'uncle Davie' (real name: Hugh David Edward Strachan) goes 'They did look for Dawson tartan...', and they all fall out over who is and isn't a true Scotsman.

[phonics]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270326079648956433/761698276650778674/unknown.png
https://i.imgur.com/OVZoCqT.png

[Spikey M]

:drool:

This is the transfer we didn't know we needed. Can we track the plane/car/ambulance?

[Kikó]

One minute you're beaming in your Christmas jumper, then smug cunt 'uncle Davie' (real name: Hugh David Edward Strachan) goes 'They did look for Dawson tartan...', and they all fall out over who is and isn't a true Scotsman.

We share the same tartan 😎. Ancient incest.

Anyway, trump 🍆

[phonics]

While I like the enthusiasm, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say you can track the car to the hospital they mention.

[Giggles]

One minute you're beaming in your Christmas jumper, then smug cunt 'uncle Davie' (real name: Hugh David Edward Strachan) goes 'They did look for Dawson tartan...', and they all fall out over who is and isn't a true Scotsman.

Is Kiko English or Scottish? Did he pretend to be Italian for a while too years ago?

[Lewis]

Citizen of the World mate. International parasite class, looking down at the likes of us salt of the earth types over his bender Google glasses.

[Kikó]

Is Kiko English or Scottish? Did he pretend to be Italian for a while too years ago?

English. Grandmother is Italian. Married to a Scot/Portuguese.

[Luca]

Giggles pretending like he doesn't wish Kiko good morning every day in The Group. :drool: