Coronavirus Death Thread

[Kikó]

IT'S A SCAM RL, IT'S A PSYOPS!

or something.

[randomlegend]

People like him should have to go and do a shift in A and E or a covid ward.

[Lewis]

I'm not sure I could eat that many Easter eggs in two hours.

[randomlegend]

I don't work on a covid ward or in A and E, and am extremely grateful for that.

[Magic]

What are you on about?

The winters are usually bad, but not bad enough to cancel elective operations.

This year is bad enough to have delayed elective surgeries.

This is quite straightforward.

No they were cancelled because of this MENTAL WAVE that didn't happen and now we've got an enormous, self-inflicted backlog that was created of our own making. The irony is now there is a WAVE, which we, still, after all these years, aren't prepared for.

[Lewis]

I don't work on a covid ward or in A and E, and am extremely grateful for that.

Can't be that bad then can it sunshine! :evictory:

[Kikó]

what in sweet fuck are you talking about?

@tragic custard

[randomlegend]

They were cancelled because staff vital to running theatres, like anaesthetists, had to be redeployed to support higher ITU capacity.


self-inflicted backlog that was created of our own making. The irony is now there is a WAVE, which we, still, after all these years, aren't prepared for.

Yeah I mean it's almost like the NHS should have been telling the government for the last six years that they are at breaking point whilst the government continued to underresource them.

[randomlegend]

Can't be that bad then can it sunshine! :evictory:

Paediatrics still needs doctors regardless of the covid situation. As I said on the previous page it has got bad enough I am likely to be drafted over the covid wards at some point which is unprecedented.

[Don]

Ooo he's about to be given some work to do, close the clubs.

[Magic]

I'm not having a go at anyone specifically here, just stating facts.

[randomlegend]

Why are people so desperate not to accept the reality of the situation?

We've just had to ship a load of patients in from Essex because their hospitals are completely overwhelmed.

I have emails every day asking people if they can take on any more overtime because we are now getting overwhelmed also.

A couple of weekends ago there were adult wards with one nurse for the entire ward (30+) patients. Do you have literally any idea how I manageable that is?

It is getting really bad, if it isn't there already. But nah you all sit safe in your rooms watching Netflix and making snide comments. You're like spoilt toddlers.

[Lewis]

Is there a cupboard or an empty office that you can lock all the eggs in before the pen pushers scoff them all?

[Magic]

Why are people so desperate not to accept the reality of the situation?

We've just had to ship a load of patients in from Essex because their hospitals are completely overwhelmed.

I have emails every day asking people if they can take on any more overtime because we are now getting overwhelmed also.

A couple of weekends ago there were adult wards with one nurse for the entire ward (30+) patients. Do you have literally any idea how I manageable that is?

It is getting really bad, if it isn't there already. But nah you all sit safe in your rooms watching Netflix and making snide comments. You're like spoilt toddlers.

If it's so bad why do you have time to post on here?

[Kikó]

Fuck off man.

[Don]

Beyond the fact there's a little bit of baiting going on, you need to accept the fact it's not just you and your camp buddies breaking into tears at having to do some work that are finding this difficult.

[randomlegend]

If it's so bad why do you have time to post on here?

Because I'm a human being who needs rest.


Beyond the fact there's a little bit of baiting going on, you need to accept the fact it's not just you and your camp buddies breaking into tears at having to do some work that are finding this difficult.

Firstly, I'm not the one coming on here day after day telling everyone how it's not that bad for you. I've never even spoken about it being hard for me, because frankly I've got off easy so far. I'm just pushing back against the constant insinuation that the NHS are just moaning. They aren't. It is bad. Friends and colleagues are suffering.

Secondly, NHS workers are having to deal with everything you are, plus what it entails being a health care professional in this. So yeah, it probably is harder for 'us'.

Show a bit of humanity for once. Or at least just shut up with the nonsense conspiracy theories.

[Magic]

Kiko being personally offended is huge for me.

[Lewis]

It all evens out with those NHS discounts.

[Magic]

'Us' and 'them'. Nothing but disdain for the people you are supposed to be helping.

[Kikó]

I just think it's laughable how many people think this is some huge cover-up/over exaggeration.

[Magic]

Asking questions = advocating conspiracy theories? Is that where we are now.

[randomlegend]

Vaccine clinics are being extended to 8am-midnight 7 days a week as per the email I just got, so you can fuck off with your don't-work-on-sundays whining.

[randomlegend]

Asking questions = advocating conspiracy theories? Is that where we are now.

Just shut up you brainless cunt.

[Kikó]

Asking questions = advocating conspiracy theories? Is that where we are now.

Have you read your own posts?

[Disco]

Surely nobody bothers doing that.

[Magic]

"How did you rest, Randrew?"

:eyemouth:

[randomlegend]

"How did you rest, Randrew?"

:eyemouth:

"I did online respite for carers of the seriously mentally handicapped"

[Magic]

"I did online respite for carers of the seriously mentally handicapped"

"But aren't they front line workers too so how do they have time to receive that lol"

[Lewis]

Vaccine clinics are being extended to 8am-midnight 7 days a week as per the email I just got, so you can fuck off with your don't-work-on-sundays whining.

What's the weekend rate?

[Jimmy Floyd]

The Sundays stuff was about PHE not driving supplies of the vaccine to clinics on Sundays, not about vaccinations not taking place.

[7om]

I'd stop replying if I were you, RL. Some people are just beyond hope.

[Don]

I was awaiting for the toxicity levels to reignite. I thought we may not have anything left in the tank with the air of defeat and resignation stagnant but we've delivered once again :cool:

Giggles, give us a little stepdance to celebrate, you fuck.

[Spikey M]

I just think it's laughable how many people think this is some huge cover-up/over exaggeration.

It's probably worse to not think it's a scam and go on your jollies up to Scotland, without your test result, when you live in a tier 4 area, but here we are.

[Manc]

:drool:

[niko_cee]

:D

Relentless in here today.

[Magic]

I know someone that's self-tested 4 times and done a drive through as well and been negative each time. :harold:

Imagine being that desperate to be positive for it. FREAK. They've never really been ill either, just a sniffle here and there.

[Spikey M]

Keeks has lost all rights to smugness I'm afraid.

[Lewis]

:lol:

Who says lockdown has to be depressing?

[Spikey M]

Archive the page.

[randomlegend]

What's the weekend rate?

£45 an hour. Cheers Magic.

[7om]

Damn, Spikey.

[Kikó]

It's probably worse to not think it's a scam and go on your jollies up to Scotland, without your test result, when you live in a tier 4 area, but here we are.

Not that the tiers mean anything but it was tier 2 when I left and secondly, everyone in my household was negative (mainly the person who had been in direct contact with the person who was positive who could actually have got the thing).

But yeah, good one. :moop:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What a page this has been.

Keeks really doesn't like it when his actions are questioned, does he? Guess it's been too long since someone challenged him as The Group just nod and smile.

[Kikó]

I'm going to neg rep him.

[7om]

What a page this has been.

Keeks really doesn't like it when his actions are questioned, does he? Guess it's been too long since someone challenged him as The Group just nod and smile.

The powers that be in THE GROUP don't want us challenging their leaders or to ask tough questions! We won't be silenced!

[Baz]

I chat to a Slovakian bloke online who has always seemed like a lovely bloke. Turns out he’s mental:


BTW, can you tell me about the current situation in UK? I heard the usual media bla bla about the new mutated corona version, but has it REAL impact? I am not speaking about the bullshits spoken on TV but if you know somebody from your surrounding who died on muttated corona flu or suffered very much or so...



because franly speaking, Here in Slovakia we didn`t even know anybody with corona experience untill November when the mandatory mass testing of all people in Slovakia aged 18-65 too place. There we have been infected and since then I know dozens of people who had corona. Most of them did not even knw they have it because did not notice anything unusual, anything unusual comparing with any other flu they experienced in the times before corona already.

I know personally 2 people who had more complicated recovery from corona but all other people I was speaking with told me it was not different to normal flu. Some of those people were tested possitive but did not have any symptoms. Felt absolutely heathy. Those official sttatistics are total lies. Practically almost nobody here trusts to the media and is watching TV news anymore. They are saying how we are heavy impacted by corona and have thousands of deaths, but NOBODY knows anyone who really died on corona, neither anybody who would have really complicated recovery from the corona infection.



So I am curious if the new mutated corona flu suddenly discovered in southern UK before X-mas (why exactly there and how did it come there to the isolated island NOW when traveling across the world is stopped? :-)) is some real infection with more serious impact on patients or it is just the same HOAX spread by official media as the "original" "old" corona version from March?



I am considerably more scared from uprising fascism covered up by corona hygienical restrictions than from corona itself. BTW, here in SLovakia the former highets chief of all policemen Milan Lucansky nominated by the previous pre-corona govt was fired by the new corona government (elected in March 2020) in AUgust 2020 and was taken into invetsigative prison oOn December 3rd 2020 when he was occused from corruption. He came there being convinced he is innocent and will proove it. On December 13th he has according to the official report accidentally inured himself when he was doing his exercise in the jail fitness gym. By this self-accident he has broken bone on his head and has lost one eye. On December 30th he was found dead in his jail cell. Officially committed suicide, but even if there are still people whose still believe corona is really dangerous for society and all these fascistic measures are adequate, but absolutely nobody believes the former highest boss of all cops in SLovakia has ripped his eye off when buy doing bench press neither commited suicide. It is clear political murder exactly like during the reign of Hitler, Stalin or Pinochete... And there is total silence about this case. Outside of Slovakia nobody even mentioned this happened here.. Totall media embargo. Neither in neighbouring Czech Republic or in Orban`s Hungary which is together with Poland officially "against" the main stream of Bruxelles. Not a single word.

On friday Lucansky has funeral and our government has forbidden to all people v to visit cemetaries. Not more than 6 people are allowed to be at the cemetery at the sam etime now. It`s all only because of the funeral when thosuands of people wanted to come to express their sorrow after very good and publicly respected police chief and also express their antipathy against the current government..



Pure fascism hidden behind the corona cover up is being spread through the world.

Fucking bad times are comming... :-(

God save FootballGlory, one of the few bright things from the pre-corona times we have not been robber for yet..

I only expect online gaming will be forbidden too in order to stop spreading the corona virus across the borders :-)

(Football Glory is the online football management game we play.)

I’m kinda put off talking to him now, and have no idea how to respond. :uhoh:

[Don]

That's good insight. January window is open and Team 'RL lacks work-ethic' are looking for reinforcements.

[Jimmy Floyd]

To me sounds like a nice friendly bloke who is putting two and two together and getting nine.

[Spikey M]

And if you're from over that way you have fair reason to assume the worst of whoever is in charge.

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2021/jan/07/coronavirus-boris-johnson-latest-updates-covid-donald-trump-live?page=with:block-5ff72d0d8f08c7a368e6e8c6#block-5ff72d0d8f08c7a368e6e8c6

Vaccinations possibly required every 6 months :happycry:

[Yevrah]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2021/jan/07/coronavirus-boris-johnson-latest-updates-covid-donald-trump-live?page=with:block-5ff72d0d8f08c7a368e6e8c6#block-5ff72d0d8f08c7a368e6e8c6

Vaccinations possibly required every 6 months :happycry:

And there it is.

[Boydy]

They'll probably not work after we fuck about with the dosing schedule and end up with a vaccine resistant strain anyway.

[randomlegend]

And there it is.

The possibility of needing boosters has been openly discussed since the beginning.

[Lewis]

If that doesn't legitimise anti-Chinese racism then we're lost as a society.

[7om]

And there it is.

Why is this a problem? Booster vaccinations are a concept as old as time.

[Don]

Yev, boosters, you prick.

[Lewis]

The Army man was reading that NHS praise like a hostage.

[Giggles]

It's probably worse to not think it's a scam and go on your jollies up to Scotland, without your test result, when you live in a tier 4 area, but here we are.

He’s been prodding absolutely begging for a reaction ever since too. I’m surprised I held out myself though that one would have tipped me too. You couldn’t be more right.

[Yevrah]

Asking 'why is this a problem' when it comes to do with anything with Covid strikes me as slightly misunderstanding the situation.

Or it might be me, and I've spent most of the last 9 months indoors and will spend most of the next three months indoors, for no reason.

[7om]

Asking 'why is this a problem' when it comes to do with anything with Covid strikes me as slightly misunderstanding the situation.

Or it might be me, and I've spent most of the last 9 months indoors and will spend most of the next three months indoors, for no reason.

Sorry? Why did you mean by ‘there it is’, then?

I’m telling you that a booster vaccine means absolutely nothing and is a perfectly reasonable requirement. I’m not ‘misunderstanding’ anything.

[Yevrah]

Sorry? Why did you mean by ‘there it is’, then?

I’m telling you that a booster vaccine means absolutely nothing and is a perfectly reasonable requirement. I’m not ‘misunderstanding’ anything.

It's proving a logistical fucking nightmare to vaccinate everyone twice in the first place and you think doing another round every 6 months isn't an issue?

While I'm at it SvN can have some as well in that of course a fucking starter isn't a 'substantial meal'.

Jesus H Christ.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If going for a covid MOT once a year means I get to leave the house then I'll probably do it.

[mugbull]

He’s been prodding absolutely begging for a reaction ever since too. I’m surprised I held out myself though that one would have tipped me too. You couldn’t be more right.

He could be more right, as Kiko explained he was actually wrong

[Spikey M]

He could be more right, as Kiko explained he was actually wrong

I wasn't though. He does live in a tier 4, even if he went via a tier 2. He went up to stay for the week and he did go before he got his test results back. He also positive ripped me and called me an "absolute fucker". An admission of his guilt and shame if ever there were one.

[mugbull]

Fuck it I don't even know what the tiers in your country mean and couldn't care less what Kikkoman gets up to, I just like post replying every time Giggles is wrong about something, even though he has me on mute

[Kikó]

I wasn't though. He does live in a tier 4, even if he went via a tier 2. He went up to stay for the week and he did go before he got his test results back. He also positive ripped me and called me an "absolute fucker". An admission of his guilt and shame if ever there were one.

I was in tier 2 and moved to tier 3 (Manc) so either way it was technically wrong (never in tier 4). And I never thought I had covid as the doctor was with my gran not me and was in another room throughout.

I think it's a different story to believing the thing isn't actually real and/or over egged for some ulterior motive.

[Don]

Lads, he didn't think he had it, back down.

[Giggles]

Ah well that’s grand so long as nobody thinks they have it. Open the clubs Don.

You’re the epitome of exactly why it’s all got to this.

“Everyone is a fucker and should be following the rules, but I’ll bend them because I should be allowed to do x, y, and z and why should I be stopped”.

[Don]

Didn't even need to stir. So proud :happycry:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://media4.giphy.com/media/gl0mkIZOW6Nwc/200.gif

[Kikó]

Totally agree. OPEN THE FUCKING CLUBS.

[Kikó]

“Everyone is a fucker and should be following the rules, but I’ll bend them because I should be allowed to do x, y, and z and why should I be stopped”.

I'd be interested in this quote though - I don't think I've ever had a go at anyone in this thread regarding the rules.

[Lewis]

You saying you were breaking them all along?

[Don]

I'm so pumped for the clapping man. So I assume this counts as your once a day exercise so I might look to call the police on my neighbour who I saw out walking earlier if he dares step foot outside his front door.

[Kikó]

Won't they ask you for their kids bike back?

[Don]

Don't fucking change the subject, you disgrace. Answer his question. Now.

[Kikó]

Only after the 25th May and for eye related activities.

[7om]

Can’t remember where I read it now but apparently resentment is growing in Germany. The EU have absolutely fucked the vaccine rollout and they’re watching truckloads of the BioNtech vaccine leave for the UK while they’re not getting anything.

We’ve now vaccinated 1.5 million apparently. Probably the only thing we’ve got right over the last 10 months.

[Shindig]

France's numbers were absolutely horrid. Thousands.

[Spikey M]

Couldn't agree more. For all the shambles leading up to it, we've done well on getting the vaccine 'rolled out'.

No wars with the Germans over sunbeds this year. :drool:

[Spikey M]

France's numbers were absolutely horrid. Thousands.

I wonder how much of that is due to them being a massive load of Magics though? Hard to roll it out when no cunt will take it.

[Yevrah]

And actually, the vaccine stage is the most important bit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Didn't Twitter burst a blood vessel when Matt Hancock originally said we'd be able to get the vaccine out quicker due to not being in the EU? Where are they now?

[Yevrah]

We need a vaccine page on Worldometer really.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There's one here: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations, although our number seems to be 10 days out of date, it's over 2% of the pop now.

I know I give it to the French on most topics but they are truly excelling themselves this time.

[Lewis]

Didn't Twitter burst a blood vessel when Matt Hancock originally said we'd be able to get the vaccine out quicker due to not being in the EU? Where are they now?

The giant shitfits over not joining their vaccine and ventilator schemes have aged well. Unfortunately you just can't reason with these ideologues. These swivel-eyed loonies. These fucking fruitcakes.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

What the hell is that sound??

Oh right, they're actually clapping again. Committed, if nothing else.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The giant shitfits over not joining their vaccine and ventilator schemes have aged well. Unfortunately you just can't reason with these ideologues. These swivel-eyed loonies. These fucking fruitcakes.

The greatest thing about the next few years will be the 'banging on about Europe' tag reverting 180 degrees from the previous 40 years and they won't even realise it's happened to them.

[Raoul Duke]

We need a vaccine page on Worldometer really.

Bloomberg has a good one: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/

[Yevrah]

Cheers gents.

Right, does anyone know where the responsibility for vaccines in Europe lays, where it starts/ends with the EU and where it starts/ends with member states?

I want to go all in on this one as it's the first proper example that we might actually be better alone, but don't want to do that without the fachts.

[Queenslander]

Here we go!

https://i.ibb.co/8cP8qbS/FB-IMG-1610057374515.jpg (https://ibb.co/k1qcjJW)

[Jimmy Floyd]

It seems to be a situation where having 27 countries in the room becomes a weakness rather than a strength.


Did, as some are claiming, the EU sign deals for vaccines too late? Most of the deals were completed by early August — the Commission just didn’t get EU countries’ sign-off until months later.

It is true that the U.K. and U.S. were able to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of people before European regulators approved the first coronavirus vaccine. There are a few reasons for this, most notably that the European Medicines Agency recommended a conditional marketing authorization, which comes with more strings attached for drugmakers than the British emergency authorization procedures. As a result, if there are any unforeseen issues with the vaccines, the U.K. government will be held liable; while in the EU, drugmakers would be on the hook.

It also takes longer because it requires input from every EU country. Countries largely held firm in their support for this process throughout December, but as they saw footage of Brits and Americans getting vaccinated, the likes of Hungary, Poland, Germany and Italy pushed the EU to go faster.

The EMA moved its recommendation dates forward and the Commission streamlined its authorization process from days to hours, but it seems likely the EU's process will continue to take longer as other countries issue emergency authorizations.

The next decision for the EMA will be on Moderna's vaccine this week, although the American company has limited production capacity in the EU.

The EMA is also conducting rolling reviews of the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines (although the former has not formally submitted a conditional marketing authorization application, which might cause delays).

https://www.politico.eu/article/the-vaccination-blame-game-is-it-all-the-eus-fault/

[Lewis]

I'm going to stick my neck right out and say that however it pans out it will conclusively prove the need for further integration.

[Spikey M]

Here we go!

https://i.ibb.co/8cP8qbS/FB-IMG-1610057374515.jpg (https://ibb.co/k1qcjJW)

3 days? What's that meant to do?

[Queenslander]

3 days? What's that meant to do?

Stop the spread and locate what suburbs are affected by testing sewage and through contact tracing. I was in Algester yesterday where the cleaner visited RIP.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Over there they shit themselves about every case, they aren't hard men like us shrugging off 80,000 a day.

[Queenslander]

Missus has full breast reconstructive surgery on the right sode in 2 weeks. Hopefully it calms down by then so I can visit her.

Ive been mentally preparing for this for a while our luck had to run out eventually.

[Kikó]

All the best to your missus, not the best time to be facing hospital treatment.

[Queenslander]

Thank mate I reckon the surgery will be fine it will be the week in hospital without visitors that I am a bit worried about.

[Queenslander]

Over there they shit themselves about every case, they aren't hard men like us shrugging off 80,000 a day.

80 000 a day would break Australia.

[Spikey M]

Missus has full breast reconstructive surgery on the right sode in 2 weeks. Hopefully it calms down by then so I can visit her.

Ive been mentally preparing for this for a while our luck had to run out eventually.

Good shit mate. <3

[Queenslander]

Good shit mate. <3

:)

[Don]

I can put aside calling Giggles a cunt for a night to send some blessings Mrs Q's way. Inshallah all will be fine.

[Queenslander]

100m line up for the Gabba Coles. Asian grocery next door all clear...

Coles, Woolies and Aldi were not given a heads up before hand. :lol: Peoples Republic is back!


Put all these peopls on Manus Island ASAP
https://www.facebook.com/59944789668/posts/10159369688954669/

[Giggles]

Didn’t win t’war for bloody forrins.

[Queenslander]

Didn’t win t’war for bloody forrins.

Loaded up with Japanese filtered black coffee cans, noodles, 1kg of Shabu Shabu beef and vegetables.

With so much time to spare Ive popped into the pub (closes at 6pm for 3 days) for a couple of phone beers before I head home.

And all those spastics are still lining up either to get in or lining up to leave.

[Giggles]

Australian beer :drool:

[Queenslander]

:D

Great Northern and XXXX are both nectar of the Gods in the middle of a Brisbane summer. :drool:

[Queenslander]

:drool:

https://i.ibb.co/BgprH0B/FB-IMG-1610092118784.jpg (https://ibb.co/SKjdDFB)

[Giggles]

I fucking love the Australians.

[Lofty]

Do they even sell XXXX over here anymore? Seems to have gone the way of Holsten Pils.

Didn't here any clapping round my way last night.

[Magic]

Same. :drool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

I heard some vuvuzelas and saucepan banging, but no clapping. Sums it up.

[niko_cee]

Do they even sell XXXX over here anymore? Seems to have gone the way of Holsten Pils.

Didn't here any clapping round my way last night.

You can probably get it in some sort of specialty supermarket for £2 a can, or in one of those cornershops time forgot.

Without wanting to cast aspersions on the old barbwire, anyone ordering this should probably just be culled (https://www.sanza.co.uk/XXXX_Gold_Lager.asp).

[Baz]

Ive never had XXXX.

[Queenslander]

Clap over a can of XXXX

[SvN]

Didn't hear any clapping here, either. And last time round we had pots and pans, fireworks, airhorns, the lot. I thought Boca v River Plate was going on in my drive.

[Spikey M]

I didn't clap the first time, I'm definitely not doing it this time. Empty gestures aren't really my thing.

[Ian]

I never heard it the first time either. Saw a newspaper headline in the shop earlier in the week saying "The Clap's Back!" and thought Sincere must have visited Scotland recently.

[Lofty]

You can probably get it in some sort of specialty supermarket for £2 a can, or in one of those cornershops time forgot.

Without wanting to cast aspersions on the old barbwire, anyone ordering this should probably just be culled (https://www.sanza.co.uk/XXXX_Gold_Lager.asp).

There is an off licence nearby called 'Booze Brothers' that claims to stock almost all the varieties of drink under the sun so I might make an essential journey to investigate.

[Offshore Toon]

I've been automatically signed up for another test on the 18th, so I'm going for what must be a world record 7th negative COVID test.

"Due to the information that you provided; you are assigned to the group. This entitles you to a further free test every 4 weeks."

Kiko pulling strings. :drool:

[SvN]

There is an off licence nearby called 'Booze Brothers' that claims to stock almost all the varieties of drink under the sun so I might make an essential journey to investigate.

I love those places. I saw some Carling Premier in a corner shop a few weeks ago - I hadn't seen it since my uni days over a decade ago.

[SvN]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55578654

Tragic Johnson is going to be absolutely fuming.

[Giggles]

For all their crying I’d say they’re not short of money.

[randomlegend]

All the people I'm consenting today are here for second doses so doesn't look like there's been any move to the one-for-all idea.

Studies starting to appear showing Pfizer vaccine effective against all current known variant strains.

[niko_cee]

Just had a test this morning.

Seemed better than last time, but maybe I was just more understanding of what was going to happen.

[Magic]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55578654

Tragic Johnson is going to be absolutely fuming.

I don't drink milk.

[Spikey M]

1.1m had Covid in the last week.

Herd immunity pincer attack baby.

[randomlegend]

Moderna vaccine approved in the UK as well.

[randomlegend]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-55578764

42 in ITU is nuts.

[Spikey M]

Giggles mate Michael O'Leary is giving it large on BBC News right now. He is 100% team Open the Clubs / Airport bars.

[Pepe]

I don't drink milk.

:harold:

[Spikey M]

Milk is disgusting.

[randomlegend]

#teammilk

[Kikó]

How is milk disgusting? Are you drinking it when it's spoiled?

[SvN]

I don't drink milk.


I was referring to your chimp out when I said I had to throw away 8 pints because our office was closed.

[Spikey M]

How is milk disgusting? Are you drinking it when it's spoiled?

Because it tastes horrible.

I replace it's necessity with unreasonable amounts of cheese.

[Don]

I've had to replace my Greek yoghurt with porridge to stave off hypothermia and I've adopted oat milk. Given taste is out the window as a factor, I'm yet to do the research to see if oat milk has any deficiencies/is liable to give you tits. Any views welcome.

In other COVID matters, my energy bill (electricity only) was up from £55 in December '19 to £95 last month and that's with me jewing it turning off heaters overnight and shit.

[niko_cee]

Milk is mega.

Maybe not so much that white water shite that passes for milk in the UK, but the good stuff is good.

[randomlegend]

My mum lives near a farm who sells PROPER milk (raw full fat I think). It's amazing.

[Lewis]

Incidentally, olden days skull science maps correspond almost perfectly with general lactose tolerance.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If I were in charge of a genocidal regime in the UK (and it's arguable that I should be), I think the first tranche of victims would be people who drink red-top milk.

[-james-]

A glass of full fat milk is quite simply the best drink available.

[niko_cee]

If I were in charge of a genocidal regime in the UK (and it's arguable that I should be), I think the first tranche of victims would be people who drink red-top milk.

Red top had better be skimmed in this universe (I have little understanding of the UK milk top system). Is it Blue, green, red?

We do Red (full fat, the colour of danger), blue, green here, which has always made more sense to me.

[Disco]

Red - Skimmed and therefore pointless
Green - Semi-skimmed
Blue - Full Fat (sort of)

[niko_cee]

I suppose you could see the red as nature's warning in either system.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Green > *.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Red top had better be skimmed in this universe (I have little understanding of the UK milk top system). Is it Blue, green, red?

We do Red (full fat, the colour of danger), blue, green here, which has always made more sense to me.

Blue is full fat, green semi, red full skimmed. Then there's a god-tier Gold top which is even better than the blue, and which I think can only be accessed with a secret password.

[SvN]

Full fat is definitely where it's at. I used to drink about 4 pints a day when I was a teenager. Delicious stuff.

[Don]

I say this every time but if you ain't having filtered, you're a fool. And obviously anything other than full fat is Mahow territory.

[niko_cee]

This new test before travel thing that seems to be getting some traction worldwide is going to be the biggest conjob going. Cursory searching reveals that the tests are really rather pricey. There must be someway to get in on what is clearly going to be a massive cash grab?

[Jimmy Floyd]

The free market will bosh that on the head once proper mass tourism gets going again, as let's say you have to buy a £125 test to get into Portugal but not into Spain, then nobody is going to be going to Portugal.

[Lewis]

If you made it a crime you could deport the dinghy people for it. #SPAD

[Ian]

If I were in charge of a genocidal regime in the UK (and it's arguable that I should be), I think the first tranche of victims would be people who drink red-top milk.

I'd ban it from being called milk. It's water with an identity crisis.

[Kikó]

I've had to replace my Greek yoghurt with porridge to stave off hypothermia and I've adopted oat milk. Given taste is out the window as a factor, I'm yet to do the research to see if oat milk has any deficiencies/is liable to give you tits. Any views welcome.


Bit more fattening than your soyas and almonds of the world but more ecologically friendly than soya. Good choice.

[Yevrah]

Third vaccine approved in the UK.

We really are nailing this part of this joyous experience so far.

[Magic]

I was referring to your chimp out when I said I had to throw away 8 pints because our office was closed.

Furlough staff yet pour the liquid gold down the drain? Disgusting.

[Magic]

I take almond/coconut milk. :drool:

Only cows milk in tea.

[Yevrah]

Khan reckons there are parts of London where 1 in 20 people have COVID. What on earth are they doing? Have daily lickings been introduced under his nose?

[Spikey M]

They live 30 to a bed.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Next to be hit will be Merseyside (enormous rates of increase there recently), Birmingham and possibly parts of Yorkshire. The south eastern rates are slowly starting to plateau (probably) though today's data isn't out yet.

[randomlegend]

So the current practice is that anyone who's had the first vaccine 4 weeks ago is still coming for their second but anyone having it now won't get their second for 10-12 weeks.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden, a senior intensive care registrar at Royal London Hospital, tweeted: "We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken."

I don't get this. Clearly in many people's judgement Christmas is worth it. And rates in London were soaring to fuck before Christmas anyway. If Christmas did anything it would have been to spread the virus to other regions, not within London.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-55560814

Two women have described how they were surrounded by police, read their rights and fined £200 each after driving five miles to take a walk.

The women were also told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were "classed as a picnic".

lol.

[Boydy]

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Taz is getting his wish.

[Don]

https://i.ibb.co/kSd1s9s/Screenshot-20210108-161512-Chrome.jpg

Pretty filthy.

[Lewis]

I don't get this. Clearly in many people's judgement Christmas is worth it. And rates in London were soaring to fuck before Christmas anyway. If Christmas did anything it would have been to spread the virus to other regions, not within London.

Credentials in her Twitter name strikes again. Shut up love.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Had a quick look at today's numbers and I believe there is further evidence for declining rate of increase (in London/SE which have been the raging areas). Still some way from a flattening though.

[Manc]

We're absolutely riddled with it.

[Magic]

I don't get this. Clearly in many people's judgement Christmas is worth it. And rates in London were soaring to fuck before Christmas anyway. If Christmas did anything it would have been to spread the virus to other regions, not within London.

It's absolute bollocks is what it is.

[Yevrah]

It's happened too quickly for this to be just down to Christmas, irrespective of anything else.

[Kikó]

Maybe it's the muslims again eh Lewis?

[Spikey M]

It's happened too quickly for this to be just down to Christmas, irrespective of anything else.

2 weeks later is exactly when the Christmas cases would start trickling into hospitals, no?

[Lewis]

They won't have been mixing at Christmas. More likely the Catholics.

[Yevrah]

2 weeks later is exactly when the Christmas cases would start trickling into hospitals, no?

Start is the key point. I doubt (m)any of the record daily death toll reported today caught it over Christmas lunch.

[Spikey M]

Start is the key point. I doubt (m)any of the record daily death toll reported today caught it over Christmas lunch.

Oh yeah, not the deaths, another week or so for them.

These are properly disgusting numbers though.

[Alex]

I don't get this. Clearly in many people's judgement Christmas is worth it. And rates in London were soaring to fuck before Christmas anyway. If Christmas did anything it would have been to spread the virus to other regions, not within London.

Urgh. "My heart is broken". :cry:

Honestly, fuck off. I wish her Twitter account was broken instead.

[Yevrah]

Oh yeah, not the deaths, another week or so for them.

These are properly disgusting numbers though.

Yep, they're going to be off the charts once Christmas does kick in fully.

[Giggles]

Giggles mate Michael O'Leary is giving it large on BBC News right now. He is 100% team Open the Clubs / Airport bars.

That’s probably the best reason yet to open nothing.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yep, they're going to be off the charts once Christmas does kick in fully.

We've got about 2-3 weeks of four figure doom from here on I think.

[Yevrah]

These numbers also show why the strategy of the vulnerable shielding while everyone else cracks on would never work as there simply aren't enough of the vulnerable prepared to do that.

You could forgive them first time round, but anyone playing fast and loose this time round would have known well that if they get it it could kill them.

[Giggles]

They won't have been mixing at Christmas. More likely the Catholics.

The Muslims do like a good crowd though.

[Giggles]

When it all boils to it, these numbers are deserved for us all as a whole. Nobody to blame except the public.

[Don]

These numbers also show why the strategy of the vulnerable shielding while everyone else cracks on would never work as there simply aren't enough of the vulnerable prepared to do that.

You could forgive them first time round, but anyone playing fast and loose this time round would have known well that if they get it it could kill them.

This is a mighty point being overlooked by trying to play on heartstrings with these victim reports. A fucking hefty proportion will have caught it because of their weekly swinger parties which went ahead unabated.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-55560814

Two women have described how they were surrounded by police, read their rights and fined £200 each after driving five miles to take a walk.

The women were also told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were "classed as a picnic".

lol.

That's so retarded.

Do have to laugh at the 'throw the book at them' sort of comments on twitter. Plot well and truly lost.

[Shindig]

Who drives five miles for a wal.... Kiko. Nevermind.

[Spikey M]

I would drive 500 miles and I would drive 500 more,
To be the man who coughed his wife's dad right the way out of deaths door.
WALKING BOOTS!
(WALKING BOOTS!)
WALKING BOOTS!
(WALKING BOOTS!)

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Who drives five miles for a wal.... Kiko. Nevermind.

5 miles is nothing though if you want something scenic.

Also claiming a hot drink is a picnic...

[niko_cee]

By the look of them the victims are probably trying to gaining traction on social media from all of this.

Also, aren't that Derby police mob known shithouses on the covid rules front?

[Boydy]

I would drive 500 miles and I would drive 500 more,
To be the man who coughed his wife's dad right the way out of deaths door.
WALKING BOOTS!
(WALKING BOOTS!)
WALKING BOOTS!
(WALKING BOOTS!)

:lol:

[Kikó]

I've been able to walk around smoothly despite the ice due to the walking boots. Sounds like jealousy to me.

[Don]

Even as anti-lockdown as I am, there's great joy to be had from seeing sluts'r'us get fined for their yuppie shit. Designer wellies and a Starbucks for a walk, fucking make it £10K.

[Disco]

Exercise my dick. As if they were doing anything other than using it as an excuse to meet up and 'have a coffee'.

Fine them twice.

[Kikó]

Same police force that tried to shame people walking in the countryside with the drone. Don't they have better things to do?

[Shindig]

Yes, but they can't do them.

[Spikey M]

Atleast burglars socially distance.

[Giggles]

Same police force that tried to shame people walking in the countryside with the drone. Don't they have better things to do?

Wouldn’t have to do it only for all the scrotes that think they’re above it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Same police force that tried to shame people walking in the countryside with the drone. Don't they have better things to do?

The concerning part is less those two being arrested than the statement they put out in defence of it, which suggests that either the Chief Constable or whoever is responsible for coming up with those statements is a complete tosser.

[Kikó]

Wouldn’t have to do it only for all the scrotes that think they’re above it.

I'd rather they spent time on dunno, robberies, assaults and burglaries rather than two daft blondes in a field.

[Giggles]

I'd rather they spent time on dunno, robberies, assaults and burglaries rather than two daft blondes in a field.

I’d rather the two daft blondes, burglars, hardmen and all weren’t cretins in the first place.

[Dark Soldier]

Missus is still rough as fuck, comes in waves, its a weird thing. I developed symptoms yesterday, never felt tiredness like this. Walking upstairs and I'm knackered and out of breath. Test sent off today.

The things a bastard.

[Yevrah]

Jesus, you're pretty young as well no, DS.

Hope you kick the fucker soon mate.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

I’d rather the two daft blondes, burglars, hardmen and all weren’t cretins in the first place.

Driving a few miles to a quieter area for a walk isn't being a cretin though is it?

[Dark Soldier]

Jesus, you're pretty young as well no, DS.

Hope you kick the fucker soon mate.

37 today mate. Been a hell of a birthday!

[Don]

Someone give a compilation of his posts in the food thread.

[Dark Soldier]

Someone give a compilation of his posts in the food thread.

Had a bucket of popcorn chicken two nights ago, Dominos tonight. Cunt's struggling to get through the grease.

[phonics]

I hadn't seen DS post on here or on Twitter for ages and began to worry and then one day he tweeted for the first time in 3 months just with this:

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And I knew everything was okay.

[Dark Soldier]

That salt and pepper box was next level tbf

[Lewis]

That avatar looks like Mark Bridger's fake passport.

[Giggles]

Driving a few miles to a quieter area for a walk isn't being a cretin though is it?

If you’re meant to stay home it is. And it clearly wasn’t for a walk.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

If you’re meant to stay home it is. And it clearly wasn’t for a walk.

You're allowed out to exercise once per day, you can travel within your local area to do so and you're allowed to meet up to exercise with one other.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

If you’re meant to stay home it is. And it clearly wasn’t for a walk.

What blind bit of difference does it make? Were you flying the drones for that police force spying on the walkers in the middle of nowhere last year?

[Kikó]

37 today mate. Been a hell of a birthday!

Happy birthday you old fuck.

[7om]

Missus is still rough as fuck, comes in waves, its a weird thing. I developed symptoms yesterday, never felt tiredness like this. Walking upstairs and I'm knackered and out of breath. Test sent off today.

The things a bastard.

That’s what I had. I’d walk up the stairs and felt like I’d just done a round with Tyson and took me a good 6 weeks to feel right again. Hope you feel better soon.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55586994

The answer within the article is of course 'No', but that hasn't stopped them from slapping another scary headline front and centre.

[Don]

Some government adviser's comments on Radio 4 have got the Guardian running with "calls for tighter lockdown restrictions in UK" :happycry:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Tighter than this? I genuinely don't think they could enforce anything much tighter than this, they don't have the manpower.

I was surprised to see queues around the corner for Costa Coffee in Chertsey this week (mainly because people in Chertsey usually drink toad's blood and stagnant rain water) but I somehow doubt 2m distanced outdoor queues are hotbeds of transmission anyway.

[Don]

These coffeshops are absolutely loving this 12 months. So much so they may just be able to overlook the tragic loss of those highly respectable people who go there for 6 hours to show off their Apple merch and drink 1 coffee.

[Magic]

She's going to ban takeaways. :D

[Kikó]

I'm going to be aggressively pushing for curry tonight.

[Yevrah]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55586994

The answer within the article is of course 'No', but that hasn't stopped them from slapping another scary headline front and centre.

It's ridiculous, isn't it.

I've only just woken up today, so I might have dreamt this, but I swear I saw a news report a couple of days ago with a doctor screaming that people were coming in and dying in their 40s, 30s and 20s. In his one hospital? Give over.

[Yevrah]

Tighter than this? I genuinely don't think they could enforce anything much tighter than this, they don't have the manpower.

I was surprised to see queues around the corner for Costa Coffee in Chertsey this week (mainly because people in Chertsey usually drink toad's blood and stagnant rain water) but I somehow doubt 2m distanced outdoor queues are hotbeds of transmission anyway.

They can't enforce this now. It's only sort of working through our consent, which is of course being given by a lot of people through fear.

Those that aren't scared or don't feel they have a moral obligation to follow rules are just cracking on, which is why we have so many cases and deaths.

[Yevrah]

I was surprised to see queues around the corner for Costa Coffee in Chertsey this week (mainly because people in Chertsey usually drink toad's blood and stagnant rain water) but I somehow doubt 2m distanced outdoor queues are hotbeds of transmission anyway.

They're not. People are just ignoring rules and have been for ages. I can't really blame them, but I really don't want to hear any criticism of the government for deaths this time round as I reckon the vast majority of them are on us.

[Yevrah]

Also, fucking lol at this graph and the other one below it from Jim's link lumping 15-44 year olds together in one category.

https://i.postimg.cc/C5WT4Qpd/116400100-optimised-hosp-by-age-nc.png (https://postimg.cc/bSHByLJj)

What in the actual fuck?

[Shindig]

That BBC article sort of hints at more 45-64 year olds being admitted and winding up on ventilators. But age without context is nothing. Especially when the graph above it (and now above me, Yev) barely hints at change. And if admissions and infections are up, the sheer volume will make it appear younger demographics are being affected.

[Giggles]

:eyemouth:


https://i.imgur.com/QbWVO0s.jpg

[Lewis]

I'm not wearing a mask outside.

[Giggles]

I wear it outside if I have had it on inside and can’t wash and sanitise my hands to take it off.

[Spikey M]

:eyemouth:


https://i.imgur.com/QbWVO0s.jpg

Fuck, you lot are going into orbit. Makes our trajectory look leisurely.

[-james-]

Curve flattened.

[Giggles]

Fuck, you lot are going into orbit. Makes our trajectory look leisurely.

The amount of fuck acting that went on over Christmas was massive, plus not being able to stop thousands of nordies coming down to shop here.

[Alex]

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They shouldn't have bothered with Philip, to be fair. I don't think it's necessary. I'm 98% sure he's un-killable at this point.

[7om]

It's ridiculous, isn't it.

I've only just woken up today, so I might have dreamt this, but I swear I saw a news report a couple of days ago with a doctor screaming that people were coming in and dying in their 40s, 30s and 20s. In his one hospital? Give over.

You didn't dream it, I saw the same report. One person's anecdotal experience doesn't trump the mountains of data that say otherwise. He sounded like a twat.

[Spikey M]

And it's dangerous, because for some it will add plausibility to the Conspiracy nuts claims.

[Manc]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/09/nhs-vaccinate-uk-covid-five-days-oxford-professor

:harold:

[Raoul Duke]

1347923133244854272

They shouldn't have bothered with Philip, to be fair. I don't think it's necessary. I'm 98% sure he's un-killable at this point.

This consistently cracks me up:

https://i.redd.it/hyt7zf8gb6551.jpg

[Spikey M]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/09/nhs-vaccinate-uk-covid-five-days-oxford-professor

:harold:

I mean, he's right in that it's theoretically possible. Get every Dr's surgery, pharmacy and sports stadium pumping them out, but the rather obvious flaw in the plan is that we don't have 120 million doses down the back of the sofa.

[Shindig]

And the obvious problems with crowding in the midst of a virus that's all about a chinwag.

[Manc]

floor in the plan

Surely not.

[Spikey M]

I don't even. :moop:

[Shindig]

Four fuck's ache, lads.

[Yevrah]

The BBC, running short of material seemingly, have batched up all of today's gloom in one tidy soundbite package, brought to you here (front and centre of course).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55609968

Meanwhile, the news that "every adult will be offered a vaccine by autumn", only makes it to the top of the live page.

[Spikey M]

I like this "act like you've got it" stuff. We're all phoning in sick tomorrow, yeah?

[Yevrah]

I like this "act like you've got it" stuff. We're all phoning in sick tomorrow, yeah?

I sent an email yesterday and am now busy arranging funerals for all of my elderly relatives.

[Alex]

The BBC, running short of material seemingly, have batched up all of today's gloom in one tidy soundbite package, brought to you here (front and centre of course).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55609968

Meanwhile, the news that "every adult will be offered a vaccine by autumn", only makes it to the top of the live page.

Look at that poster. It looks like it's advertising a Hollywood disaster movie. :D

[ItalAussie]

Obviously I wasn't on here for a lot of the last year, and it's really rubbish to hear that DS and partner have covid (hope you both get through it!).

Did anyone else here catch it that we know of?

[Spikey M]

Taz / Don has no sense of taste in 2 ways now.

There's a few others too.

Mokkers, are you back in the land of taste yet?

[Yevrah]

Alright Ital.

Taz has had it and he still won't be smelling or tasting any 'gash' when the clubs open by the sounds of it.

[Ian]

Cord reckoned he did over Christmas (no smell / taste, fatigue, etc.), insofar as him posting once a year and occasionally gaming with TTH counts him as a member any more.