Coronavirus Death Thread

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Aww, he's hurt his thumb now.

[Shindig]

He's last pick. He always goes in goal.

[Don]

The health heavyweights are onto me.

[Lofty]

Had my second AZ jab this time last week. Woke up with a headache today. Pray for me lads.

[Kikó]

Good luck Lofty.

[Shindig]

Open the rollercoasters.

[Yevrah]

Another day, another grossly over the top article.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57150871

These things are just offensive now.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm genuinely baffled by the hype around this variant. I think the main thing driving it is that the modern day media is completely set up for sensationalism, to the point of existential doom if it doesn't amass clicks and shares.

[Yevrah]

It's discussing them against a backdrop vaccines not existing that really gets me. It'd be like talking about car safety now, with current speeds, but using death data before seatbelts were brought in and extrapolating that.

You'd be laughed out of the room.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The article does at least subtweet Deepti and co being wrong about everything, consistently, since the first vaccine went into the first arm.

[Lofty]

https://www.indy100.com/viral/woman-bolton-street-indian-variant-gmb-b1849227

:D

[Kikó]

You can see your vaccination travel pass on the NHS app if you want to. Snazzy.

[Don]

It's discussing them against a backdrop vaccines not existing that really gets me. It'd be like talking about car safety now, with current speeds, but using death data before seatbelts were brought in and extrapolating that.

You'd be laughed out of the room.

But isn't their defence that they don't have the evidence to say the vaccine works against it? Of course, our attack is there's also no evidence of vaccine evasion but if it is significantly more transmissible and given how everyone is such a soft shite, their approach is understandable.

[7om]

Another INDEPENDENT SAGE expert on the BBC just now moaning. When did SCIENCE become so militant and patronising?

[Yevrah]

Another INDEPENDENT SAGE expert on the BBC just now moaning. When did SCIENCE become so militant and patronising?

I know people think/thought I'm mental with this take, but it's potentially dangerous, dangerous stuff.

[7om]

People are going to get tired of their shit at some point. Hopefully that doesn’t end up with the wider public lumping actual scientists with these dickheads. The sooner they fuck off back to their Twitter the better.

[Kikó]

Independent Sage are knobs.

[Spikey M]

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[Andy]

Got my jab booked in on Thursday. Surprised when it came as I thought it would still be a month or so till they got to 35 year olds.

[Pepe]

For the anti-SCIENCE crowd:

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-danger-of-fact-ist-politics

[Jimmy Floyd]

Having gone to an indoor pub last night for the first time since whenever, I can assure you there is nothing more absurd in this whole era than being required to wear a mask for literally three paces between the door and the table.

[Spikey M]

Having gone to an indoor pub last night for the first time since whenever, I can assure you there is nothing more absurd in this whole era than being required to wear a mask for literally three paces between the door and the table.

It's the same at my Gym. It lasted the first day or 2, nobody bothers at all now. If you're asked, just give it the big "I'm exempt m8" and carry on walking.

[Andy]

No one gave a toss at my local. Other than table service it was no different than normal.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think the general rule I've observed is the more corporate a place is, the more desperate they are to follow every rule to the letter. The place I went was a sort of mini-'chain' place so they probably take it more seriously than a local.

[Shindig]

The Indian variant may not be as transmissible as initially feared, a leading scientific adviser said.

Professor Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, said there was a “glimmer of hope” that although the variant of concern appears to have a significant advantage over the Kent variant, the “magnitude” of that could be lower than initially thought.

Well, yeah.


Prof Ferguson said it was introduced from overseas, principally into people with Indian ethnicity which means there is a higher chance of it being located in multi-generational households and often in quite deprived areas with high density housing.

Idea for a new religious festival: Jabadan.

[Magic]

But didn't they say 10k dead per day.

[Manc]

If by dead you mean cases then yes.

[Yevrah]

Having gone to an indoor pub last night for the first time since whenever, I can assure you there is nothing more absurd in this whole era than being required to wear a mask for literally three paces between the door and the table.

Hang on, is that actually in the rules or guidance?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Hang on, is that actually in the rules or guidance?

I don't know, but your man intercepted me to make me put it on.

[Waffdon]

It was last year so I presume it’s the case again. A load of shite but a worthy sacrifice for a pint of Heineken

[wullie]

We went to this place a few weeks ago and had to wear a mask when entering and leaving which struck me as a little pointless considering the entire thing is outdoor

https://i.imgur.com/YOKau85.jpg


Had my second AZ on Sunday and Monday was fine but then yesterday was a complete write-off. Unless the timing's coincidental and I had something anyway which is always likely with a 2-year old around, it was way worse than the first.

[SvN]

Had my first Pfizer vaccine yesterday. No reaction at all so far, but from what I've heard, it's the second one that knocks you out.

Also back in the office 3 days per week. Feels nice to start getting back to pre-COVID life.

[Foe]

My gym is properly picky about face masks. One girl in particular seems to take it as a personal mission to invoke it.

A group of 4/5 young lads were attempting to bench press and she made them all stand 2m apart watching on as their friend completed the closest thing to suicide I’ve ever seen.

What’s the bigger risk here? Crushing from an unspotted, poorly thought out bench press, or being within touching distance of your pal?

[Kikó]

Hang on, is that actually in the rules or guidance?

This is all guidance at this point.

[Magic]

It's the rule in Scotland.

[Spikey M]

Sorry to hear Yev.

Anyone else noticed the iPhone weather app just has it down as constantly raining 24/7 for the past 3 or 4 weeks? No matter where I look in the UK it seems to be the same. It’s been warm the last few days and hardly rained the past week. Some sort of covid conspiracy to keep us inside

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-57150846

I take it all back. They're watching us lads.

[Waffdon]

Don’t be doubting my conspiracy theories again, Sir.

[7om]

The rule of thumb seems to be that AZ knocks you out on the first dose and is better on the second dose and vice versa for Pfizer. I had my second AZ on Sunday and had no side effects. The first jab made me feel like I’d been run over by an 18 wheeler.

[Ian]

My sister and parents have had AZ and that sounds about right, felt rougher the first time than the second. They felt a little rough but were definitely worse the first time.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I had the same experience with the AZ.

The first jab was horrible but nothing after the second.

[Spikey M]

Personally, I won't believe it until 8 people have posted to say so.

[Ian]

You'll believe something just because more people have said it?

Fucking sheep. You'll be ripe for the Bill Gates Epstein-chip mind control.

[Magic]

I won't be getting one.

:eyemouth:

[Kikó]

Of course you won't.

[Yevrah]

:D

[Lewis]

The man whose house I'm renting a room in at the minute is refusing to get one. He started telling me he had 'read some bad stuff about them', and I'm stood there trying not to laugh in his unfit sixty year old face, but then he said he knows someone who got a blood clot after their first dose and is now paralysed so you wot mate.

[Magic]

Don't get me wrong, if I was middle-aged, or had underlying health issues (or was a Premier League virtue signaller) I'd get it. But I'm a peak condish 31 year old, so fuck that.

[Lewis]

https://i.imgur.com/Ej1t69I.png

You could use a blood clot Beadle Boy.

[Magic]

That's 2018 me. Also I'd just had my wedding ring sawed off my finger, which almost did cause a blood clot.

[Lewis]

Worth the side effects chief. :cool:

[Shindig]

That's 2018 me. Also I'd just had my wedding ring sawed off my finger, which almost did cause a blood clot.

The video you put up of that was genuinely tense.

[Magic]

Fucking right it was.

[Shindig]

Your Dad's got a steady hand. You should get him to jab you up.

[Mike]

Got my first jab next Tuesday.

[Shindig]

Booked in for Saturday.

[Baz]

I've booked mine too. The Sunday before bank holiday.

[Don]

Public information with some mad ethnically diverse group gathering demonstrating we are to keep our windows open to be safe :D would absolutely love to meet these cretins who heed the advice still.

[Spikey M]

I can book mine but not sure if I'm allowed yet. Seem to remember it having to be a certain amount of time after a positive test?

Also not sure it's really worth bothering if I've had the real deal?

[Shindig]

I'd probably skip it in your shoes. Although the BHF has this to say, "Whether you’ve had Covid once, twice, or not at all, doesn’t make any difference to the safety of the vaccine. You should still have the vaccine. Your immune system won’t be “overloaded” if it has already fought off the virus once before. "

[Don]

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thefutureisflexible-new-era-of-rail-travel-arrives-with-new-flexible-season-tickets

:thbup:

Hopefully the end of the convoluted mess that is the current ticketing.

[Magic]

I'd probably skip it in your shoes. Although the BHF has this to say, "Whether you’ve had Covid once, twice, or not at all, doesn’t make any difference to the safety of the vaccine. You should still have the vaccine. Your immune system won’t be “overloaded” if it has already fought off the virus once before. "

So why does he need it then?

EDIT: @ the guidance

[Magic]

Public information with some mad ethnically diverse group gathering demonstrating we are to keep our windows open to be safe :D would absolutely love to meet these cretins who heed the advice still.

It's funny but it's not funny as it gives the rule merchants a banquet of ridiculous regulation to gorge on and make everyone else's lives a fucking misery. Especially the case in public sector and education. Absolute wanks.

[Spikey M]

I'd probably skip it in your shoes. Although the BHF has this to say, "Whether you’ve had Covid once, twice, or not at all, doesn’t make any difference to the safety of the vaccine. You should still have the vaccine. Your immune system won’t be “overloaded” if it has already fought off the virus once before. "

I think I'm going to get it purely so I have the VACCINE PASSPORT should we be able to go abroad this autumn

[Magic]

There won't be a vaccine passport.

[wullie]

NHS app is showing an option that I didn't have before to share proof of my COVID status for travel. Look out Skeggy, here I come

[Yevrah]

There won't be a vaccine passport.

I'm absolutely convinced there'll be countries that won't let us in without quarantining if we can't show proof of being vaccinated.

[Queenslander]

I'm absolutely convinced there'll be countries that won't let us in without quarantining if we can't show proof of being vaccinated.

Hello

[Spikey M]

There won't be a vaccine passport.

There will be. Be it an official "passport" or otherwise, there will be countries that only let vaccinated tourists in.

[Magic]

So what countries are they then chaps? The ones that almost rely on tourism to function? Aye, very good.

[Yevrah]

My gut would be probably nearly all of the countries that have it under some form of control, particularly if they have much to do on the vaccine side of things.

[Spikey M]

So what countries are they then chaps? The ones that almost rely on tourism to function? Aye, very good.

Well, Australia for starters as has been shown. Who will follow? I don't know. But I'm not going to risk ending up on the wrong end of it for the sake of 2 free and harmless injections.

[Magic]

Can you imagine the misery of having to go through a non-EU passport check, then a fucking vaccine check (when everyone is using their own version of what this 'passport' should look like)?

No chance, mate.

[Queenslander]

We aren't looking good with the jabs ATM.

[Magic]

Well, Australia for starters as has been shown. Who will follow? I don't know. But I'm not going to risk ending up on the wrong end of it for the sake of 2 free and harmless injections.

You already need various bollocks to get in there, same as US. They aren't reliant on tourism. The EU most certainly is.

[Yevrah]

My gut would be probably nearly all of the countries that have it under some form of control, particularly if they have much to do on the vaccine side of things.

EU aside, I should have said.

[SvN]

You already need various bollocks to get in there, same as US. They aren't reliant on tourism. The EU most certainly is.

"Various bollocks" being a form you fill in that takes 30 seconds.

[Spikey M]

It's mainly just news to me that Airports might worry about keeping people waiting.

[Pepe]

I'm absolutely convinced there'll be countries that won't let us in without quarantining if we can't show proof of being vaccinated.

I have a Canadian friend who has already been vaccinated. To get into her own fucking country (from the US), she needs to show a negative test taken a few days before arriving, then she needs to quarantine for a week, and then have another test after that. Complete fucking madness.

[niko_cee]

Hello

You're not going to be letting anyone in, vaccinated or not, for a very long time.

[Spikey M]

Pfizer jab booked for tomorrow morning (that is the one that doesn't fist you on the first dose, right?)

[Kikó]

It's mainly just news to me that Airports might worry about keeping people waiting.

Brexit means brexit.

[Queenslander]

You're not going to be letting anyone in, vaccinated or not, for a very long time.

Wee bit of Facism down here maybe I'm an idiot though

[Andrew]

NHS app was updated with a special category data

Information of the individuals mental and physical health wellbeing, information relation to the individuals family, individuals lifestyle, ethnic origin, genetic information, criminal record or alleged criminal behaviour..

What the hell has this got to do with proving you have one one or two jabs.

[Don]

If you've got the app, you're a nonce.

[Queenslander]

Social Credit Score :drool:

[Baz]

If you've got the app, you're a nonce.Absolutely.

[Andrew]

I am not a number I am a free man!!

Only app that I have willingly installed on my phone is youporn..

[Baz]

Android or iPhone?

[Magic]

If you've got the app, you're a nonce.

This, along with being caught in the act of molesting a child, are the only two ways to 100% confirm noncery.

[Kikó]

NHS app was updated with a special category data

Information of the individuals mental and physical health wellbeing, information relation to the individuals family, individuals lifestyle, ethnic origin, genetic information, criminal record or alleged criminal behaviour..

What the hell has this got to do with proving you have one one or two jabs.

It's your data record in digital form. It has nothing to do with the jabs.

*edit unless you're talking about T&T app.

[Magic]

Vaccine passports required BEFORE you leave Scotland. :D

[Andrew]

Universal basic income being trialed in Wales.

Everyone's on benefits and out of work here so makes sense really..

[Spikey M]

I barely even felt that. These microchips must be tiny.

[Ian]

I've got my date now, I become part of the Clippy hivemind on the 13th.

[Shindig]

It'd be great if this was just a snide way to get more people to activate Windows.

[7om]

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DESPICABLE DEEPTI is seething that the vaccine works against the Indian variant. It genuinely warms my heart to see her losing.

[Pepe]

Dr. Despicable Deepti for you, mate.

[Spikey M]

She's the biggest load of "If my auntie had bollocks" bull shit on the planet.

[Pepe]

Look at the patriarchy seething at the sight of an authoritative womxn.

[Lewis]

Dr. Despicable Deepti for you, mate.

Everything about her says credentials in username, so there must be some residual lowlands Indian caste insecurity at work.

[Shindig]

Israel watch:

7 day averages (30 for cases, 2 for deaths), although they're investigating myocarditis linked to the jab in Under-20s. Meanwhile at Sinopharm ...

https://swarajyamag.com/news-brief/third-dose-in-uae-and-bahrain-raises-concern-over-efficacy-of-chinese-vaccine-heres-what-experts-think

[Magic]

Nobody cares, Shinners. It's done.

[Shindig]

Yeah, totally. Totally done. Lets ignore a nation of a billion people taking duds.

[Lewis]

I have to register with a local surgery to book an appointment, and I think I would just rather never go anywhere again.

[Magic]

Yeah, totally. Totally done. Lets ignore a nation of a billion people taking duds.

And the relevance to your life, bar the outsourced IT support, is...?

[Shindig]

Were you registered anywhere before you moved down there? My details were still under my old address when I booked online.

[Queenslander]

Magic would fit in in Byron Bay

[Lewis]

Were you registered anywhere before you moved down there? My details were still under my old address when I booked online.

That works, but the nearest centre is twenty miles away, so I'll wait.

[Shindig]

I was a bit miffed when I saw the queue but I was all done in half an hour. Efficient. Piece of piss, although one woman did have a wobble in the waiting room.

Now we wait for side effect bingo.

[7om]

Which one did you get?

[Shindig]

Pfizer. I was expecting to be asked but she had one already lined up.

[Spikey M]

My arm has been sore but other than that no side-effects at all. Maybe a bit tired, but both of my kids were dickheads last night so that's probably unrelated.

[Shindig]

When the lass at the desk asked if I had a positive test in the last 28 days, I thought of you. :D

[Magic]

Are we still going to be allowed on the forum without a passport

[Spikey M]

When the lass at the desk asked if I had a positive test in the last 28 days, I thought of you. :D

I meant to post about that; I don't really understand the point of the question. I phoned up before booking it and they said it was fine, I just might get worse side-effects. Then when they asked me while I was in there they didn't bat an eyelid. Just carried on with the questions regardless.

No idea why they bother asking if it doesn't matter.

[Shindig]

Yeah, I keep hearing a theory about infections and side effects but it's obviously not concrete enough to stop people taking the jab. Probably just another data point to collect. You wouldn't normally get told the batch number of the vaccines either.

[Don]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Dominic2306/status/1394245014440529921

Cummings going in. He gives evidence on Wed.

[Lewis]

His version of events will be interesting insofar as he's liable to be the most senior person in any major country to say it was all shit even his own involvement. That said, I don't see his 'having the right people in charge' stuff (and all of his Manhattan Project laments are mental). The usual civil service procurement and health service bullshit fair enough (and the fact they let him take important documents home and haven't bothered recovering them tells you all you need to know there), but they did, as far as anyone knew at the time, have the right people in charge in terms of the initial response.

[Mike]

Are we still going to be allowed on the forum without a passport

It’ll just load slower for you.

[Shindig]

His version of events will be interesting insofar as he's liable to be the most senior person in any major country to say it was all shit even his own involvement. That said, I don't see his 'having the right people in charge' stuff (and all of his Manhattan Project laments are mental). The usual civil service procurement and health service bullshit fair enough (and the fact they let him take important documents home and haven't bothered recovering them tells you all you need to know there), but they did, as far as anyone knew at the time, have the right people in charge in terms of the initial response.

"We could have all got jabs in arms summer." Dom, we are all getting jabs in arms this summer. Unless he means last summer which would've required trials, research and so on before the Chinese even knew about it.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57217246.amp

That sounds nice. :sick:

[Yevrah]

The normally rare infection, called mucormycosis, has a mortality rate of 50%, with some only saved by removing an eye.

"What's the prognosis doc?"

"Well, I've got some good news and some bad news...."

[Magic]

All diabetics too? This really doesn't like fat people!

[Andrew]

Isn't that why the death rate in India is so high because of the Diabetes epidemic there and the steroid treatment that's used to treat Covid causes the sugar levels to go through the roof and that usually kills the patient off.

[Magic]

Get your facts out of this thread.

[randomlegend]

Isn't that why the death rate in India is so high because of the Diabetes epidemic there and the steroid treatment that's used to treat Covid causes the sugar levels to go through the roof and that usually kills the patient off.

What they are talking about in that article is more to do with the immune suppressive effects of steroids than the direct effect on diabetes. Diabetes messes with the immune system in various ways; add the steroids onto that and you are at risk of atypical infections like the one they are talking about.

[7om]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1394245014440529921.html

For anyone interested this is Dom Cummings’ full Twitter rampage that’s been going on for a few days.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm not really sure what the point of most of it is.

[Yevrah]

The stuff on the optimum moment to lock down and the journos buying it is good.

[Spikey M]

We're at a softplay for the first time in a year and there's a family here with a Tyler and Aisla. I've missed the British Public, the tragic bastards.

[Spikey M]

Pretty sure the bird is pregnant too. £10 on Skylar.

[Ian]

Based on the kids I hear about that my nieces know I assume that boys in this area are exclusively called Kaiden or variants thereof.

[Magic]

Ah yes, the the Possil Park variant.

[Lewis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-57227244

Proper :evictory: that.

[Lewis]

If Boris Johnson really did offer to be infected with it live on telly to prove it was nothing to worry about then I take back all the times I said he was shit.

[Yevrah]

Is Cummings' appearance going to be broadcast? Should be absolute dynamite.

[Queenslander]

Melbourne is in for another winter of lockdown.

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/100165610

[Yevrah]

It's absolutely impossible to stop this thing, isn't it?

[Queenslander]

When the population isn't vaccinated.

[Yevrah]

Cummings live on Sky News.

A fascinating reminder of what a fist this was to start with.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Whether you like him or dislike him, he really does have a refreshing approach to this in terms of delivering unabashed truth (even if critical of himself). It is sometimes wrapped up in Manhattan Project / Bismarck wank, but what can you do.

[Don]

Poor Hancock :D

[Ian]

Dominic Cummings describing government behaviour by explaining the Spider-Man pointing meme. Jesus Christ.

[Yevrah]

He used Independence Day as well. :D

[Yevrah]

Whether you like him or dislike him, he really does have a refreshing approach to this in terms of delivering unabashed truth (even if critical of himself). It is sometimes wrapped up in Manhattan Project / Bismarck wank, but what can you do.

It'll be interesting to see how he handles the Barnard Castle stuff, which was clearly bullshit.

[Lewis]

If everything was as bollocks as he describes, which it will have been, the crash response programme comes out of it looking reasonably well.

[Yevrah]

GDPR being a barrier to keeping people alive is absolutely brilliant.

[Yevrah]

Dawn Butler vs Dominic Cummings? This should be interesting.

[Lewis]

And it's a useless question about NHS records.

[Yevrah]

This is tragic.

[Lewis]

She was definitely going down the Trump/Brexit/Facebook data line with this until he pre-emptively called it shite in his answer, and now she's just circling around.

[Don]

That was a superb defence for the Barnard Castle shit. Lol at everyone who took the piss at the time.

[Lewis]

'...but do you have any regrets about looking after your family?'

[Don]

This is good:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/26/dominic-cummings-evidence-to-mps-on-covid-crisis-fact-checked

Started with a solid 'True' before progressively getting more and more desperate to make an article out of it :D

[Lewis]

There can't be a bigger bunch of losers on this planet than paid 'fact checkers'.

[Yevrah]

I've already had one friend text me to say Cummings is only doing this to settle scores, which unlike those fact checkers, I don't buy at all.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't think he's doing it to settle scores. He does appear to have a slightly odd view of human beings in which they are either 'brilliant', or they are useless bollards who should be sacked and replaced by a physics grad. Some of the skill of leadership is working with what you've got.

[Spikey M]

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[Manc]

Amazing. :D

[Don]

"Disingenuous little fucker" :D

[Lewis]

Trying to undermine five hours of his detailed testimony with some anonymous shite briefed to matey journalists.

[Ian]

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"And that was the last time we ever saw him. Some say he's still waving, even now."

[Yevrah]

What the fuck is that bell about?

[Spikey M]

That man has achieved more career success than probably any of us ever will.

Him.

That man.

[Don]

Guardian's giving a 500 increase in daily cases and 14 increase in hospitalisations since last week. Now obviously the former we don't care about (and any one getting tested still needs culling) but can I have a Jimmy report on the numbers to reassure me pls. I'm tired of the mask wearing and social distancing, it's beginning to really weigh upon my soul.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Case numbers are going up slowly but it's not touching the vaccinated, so I don't think you'll see deaths rise (hospitalisations may rise a bit, but only in the unvaccinated).

If there is a mini-wave now it will just take out a few stupid fucks / Asian uncles who wouldn't have the vax earlier, and it will be crushed very quickly as the younger age groups are vaccinated. My only concern is that south Asian pops appear to be extremely stubborn about refusing the vaccine, so in those areas you might see mini peaks.

Can see the 21 June unlocking being watered down and masks staying, but over time it will become more voluntary I think.

[Lewis]

I was on a train yesterday and it was masks around the chin for most of the true lads. Proper party atmosphere.

[Baz]

What’s the BAME demographic like in Nottingham?

I know I’m fine in my little corner of the North West cos we’re all white labour supporting LADS who don’t need an excuse to poke a syringe in our arms, but if Nottingham is off limits come June 21st I’m gonna batter Chris Bart-Williams.

[Queenslander]

AFL Grand Final at the Gabba 2 years in a row. :drool:

https://i.ibb.co/k4WDqJQ/FB-IMG-1622102638105.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)

[Don]

The soft shite brigade seems to have [smartly] adopted the line to take that any gatherings could give rise to a new variant. Some Jap scientist warning that the Olympicgames could lead to the 'Olympic variant'.

Buzzing to bring about the gay sauna variant come 3 weeks' time.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57229848

Well, nobody could have seen that coming.

[Pepe]

Paging Magic

[Boydy]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57229848

Well, nobody could have seen that coming.
You think that's bad? NI's NHS is basically falling apart.

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[Don]

But, but we locked down to protect them. I reckon it's actually irresponsible to get vaccinated now. We need to aid the cull.

[Boydy]

But, but we locked down to protect them. I reckon it's actually irresponsible to get vaccinated now. We need to aid the cull.
I don't know about England but the NHS here was in a state before the pandemic. There were about 300,000 on waiting lists to see to consultants then. That's about a sixth of our population.

[Yevrah]

We just need to stop being so utterly fixated on COVID, a habit that I suspect will take a lot longer to break as a nation than it should.

I turned 40 last summer, which should have led to a 'health MOT' at the GP's. I feel fine, so I'm not overly bothered it didn't happen, but I've no idea when it will and there must be a shit load of people the same age who could really do with one.

[Yevrah]

I don't know about England but the NHS here was in a state before the pandemic. There were about 300,000 on waiting lists to see to consultants then. That's about a sixth of our population.

How are a 6th of the population potentially ill enough to need to see a consultant?

[Baz]

It’s Northern Ireland. Tap water is actually diesel and any countryside is just moss that’s grown on old bonfires.

[Boydy]

How are a 6th of the population potentially ill enough to need to see a consultant?
I don't know.

Presumably a lot of those 300,000 on waiting lists are the same people with various health problems waiting to see different specialists but it's still an awful figure.

[Shindig]

Yeah, it'll be 300,000 appointments pending. The list for dentist check-ups will be mad when they finally get round to doing them. Cutting them down to once a year would be the right thing to do.

[Spikey M]

The mum of one of my wifes friends waited 7 months to have a breast cancer removed last year. It has unsurprisingly spread.

These are the delays and decisions that we're going to look back on with regret. There are many, many illnesses worse than Covid, but they have been largely ignored for a year and alot of people are going to die as a result.

[Baz]

If only 20,000 old and vulnerable had died like Boris wanted, we wouldn’t even remember covid. :(

[Magic]

But PMTSD...!!!

[Lewis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-57224635

Try to find the bits about any sort of virus and/or virus control in there.

[Queenslander]

Nothing to see here totally normal masked up team song from last night...


https://i.ibb.co/4dBH3Tk/FB-IMG-1622255769273.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)

[Queenslander]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-57224635

Try to find the bits about any sort of virus and/or virus control in there.

We will open up after the Liberals lose the next election.

The State Governments have done all the work no where else in the world can be compared to Australia.

State run healthcare, quarantine, power to shut internal borders with other States and Territories. Etc

[Shindig]

I dunno when the next election is but they could open up once they think they've got enough people vaccinated. Tricky to judge though because you don't have the case numbers to really judge when a vaccine is doing it's business.

[Queenslander]

Queensland have jabbed 170 000 Give or take out of 5 million people.

Federal Government is in control of the Vaccine rollout.

Shambles.

[Shindig]

We could do 5 million in a fortnight. :|

I'd advocate Aussies taking flights over here if we could jab them on the sly. Not that they'd be allowed back in Australia at the other end ...

[Queenslander]

We could give you Port Douglas for 10 million jabs

[niko_cee]

You'd only end up ceremonially burning them like some African failed state.

I've seen a lot of those 'fortress' style arguments at home throughout this whole thing. Luckily, by riding on the UK's vaccination coattails (and not being so remote as the antipodes) we've finally managed to turn the tide on the keep the borders shut forever halfwits.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Often it's the same people who are normally advocating for open borders, which I genuinely haven't yet got my head around.

[Queenslander]

RIP Vietnam.


. More than 6,700 cases including 47 deaths have been reported in Vietnam - the lion's share have occurred since April




https://www.sbs.com.au/news/vietnam-says-it-has-discovered-a-new-hybrid-virus-variant

[Spikey M]

The John Arne varient.

[Lewis]

Often it's the same people who are normally advocating for open borders, which I genuinely haven't yet got my head around.

You can file those sorts of people under simply opposing what is being done. Had we closed them they would still be moaning like fuck.

[Yevrah]

Yep. I think Labour have got themselves in a pickle over recent months by doing similar. By luck or good judgement the government have nailed this since the turn of the year, so move on and have a go at something else.

Instead, we get Lisa Nandy arguing semantics over zero COVID with Chris Whitty.

[Spikey M]

The John Arne varient.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-57296803

:uhoh:

[Queenslander]

Nice.

[Queenslander]

https://i.ibb.co/hcKXHxH/FB-IMG-1622361439545.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)

[Spikey M]

Some NHS twat was just on the Radio calling for no relaxation on 21/06 because they've got their backlog to work through.

The neck on these cunts.

[Waffdon]

What is even left to change? Nightclubs? I was looking at the ‘road maps’ for Tier 1 next week and 0 in four weeks and the only thing in Scotland that seems to be different is being able to sit with more people at a table

[Spikey M]

What is even left to change? Nightclubs? I was looking at the ‘road maps’ for Tier 1 next week and 0 in four weeks and the only thing in Scotland that seems to be different is being able to sit with more people at a table

Masks and distancing.

[Waffdon]

Well nobody ‘social distances’ and people who complain about putting a mask on if needed to do so are peados.

[Spikey M]

"If needed" being the important part of that.

[Waffdon]

When do you even have to use them? Public transport and when in the shops? Woah!

I hope folk continue to wear them for years to come. It’s nice never being ill or catching a cold every month

[Spikey M]

People can feel free too, it just shouldn't be enforced. It's the goalposts moving once again. I didn't have you down as one of the tarts.

[Magic]

I've stopped wearing a mask as much as possible.

[Spikey M]

I don't particularly care about masks (aside from when I get somewhere and realise I've forgotten the cunt). I'm mostly just irritated by the suggestion that we should impose restrictions on the Public because a load of surgeons sat eating Easter Eggs for a year and now they've got the ump because they're busy.

[Shindig]

Especially when it's something so minor.

[Waffdon]

People can feel free too, it just shouldn't be enforced. It's the goalposts moving once again. I didn't have you down as one of the tarts.

Why shouldn’t it lol. It’s not like it’s completely gone. Life is already back to normal, wearing a mask when getting your shopping doesn’t change that.

[Spikey M]

Why shouldn’t it lol. It’s not like it’s completely gone. Life is already back to normal, wearing a mask when getting your shopping doesn’t change that.

If your life is back to normal then you must never leave the house.

I'm just back from Center Parcs, there's distancing, orderly queues for everything, half their stuff is closed because distancing isn't possible, the restaurants are running at half capacity and doors are locked to force longer outdoor routes on people.

It's nothing major, but it's a million miles from fucking normal.

[Waffdon]

Restaurants are definitely not at half capacity here and the pubs couldn’t give a fuck about any distancing. Only pubs that I imagine that will are your ‘Spoons and Greene King pubs.

My life is normal, heh.

[Magic]

I went out in the ferry last night mate and it was fucking shite. Hospitality has been destroyed up here.

[Lewis]

I meant in the general sense that people knew what they were meant to be doing. I don't think anyone could seriously claim ignorance about visiting people (for example) when the rules/guidance said otherwise.

One of the people in this house has just told me, as in standing in the kitchen telling me, that his girlfriend has moved in to 'self isolate'. No worries mate.

[Spikey M]

As in she has Covid or has just returned from abroad?

[Lewis]

I didn't ask, and I'll just pretend I never heard it.

[Waffdon]

I went out in the ferry last night mate and it was fucking shite. Hospitality has been destroyed up here.

Brought Ferry is posh. Perth is not. Get to Lochee

[Shindig]

Weirdly, the Durham coffee shops all seem to have recovered. I thought most of them went to the wall but they've all sprang back to business or they've had the shop space usurped by new coffee twats.

[Jimmy Floyd]

At the pub where I watched the final last night, there was all but a bloke with a sub-machine gun in the aisle waiting to riddle you with bullets if you stood up without a mask on. They were absolutely desperate to follow all rules to the absolute letter.

[Magic]

Brought Ferry is posh. Perth is not. Get to Lochee

I was out in Perth on Monday, it was weird but not as.

[Waffdon]

Lack of invite is duly noted, Sir.

[Spikey M]

He didn't want to risk giving you a cold.

[Waffdon]

We’ve shared a lot worse x

[Andrew]

If we are going back to normal from the 21/6 then why are Christmas markets around the country being cancelled again?

On another note the local council swimming center has excelled itself in Covid fuck wittery

They have closed all the changing rooms because they are considered Covid dangerous to then set up porta cabins pool side you can get changed in...

Amazing.

[Shindig]

You know, when you spend money on temporary things, you really need to make use of them. At least enough to justify their existence.

[Spikey M]

1399124859473571843?s=19

:happycry:

[7om]

Twitter needs shutting down.

[Shindig]

"Here's a leaflet explaining how to balance out your humours and a free home Trepanning kit."

[Lewis]

I once met somebody who claimed drinking rainwater and his own piss had made his hair thicker. One for the forum slapheads to try.

[Queenslander]

Toxins. :drool:

[Foe]

I once met somebody who claimed drinking rainwater and his own piss had made his hair thicker. One for the forum slapheads to try.

Hard pass, thanks.

[Magic]

He says thicker not magically grow back.

[Queenslander]

Melbourne is still fucked.

Lol

[Lofty]

We are beginning a 3rd wave according to the disease docs.

[SvN]

At the pub where I watched the final last night, there was all but a bloke with a sub-machine gun in the aisle waiting to riddle you with bullets if you stood up without a mask on. They were absolutely desperate to follow all rules to the absolute letter.

I was sat at a table about 2 steps from the door. When I left, I didn't bother with the mask and literally had a member of staff catch me up in the car park to admonish me. They're fucking nutters.

[Spikey M]

How do they expect that conversation to go? Is there even a response available that isn't "lol, fuck off"?

[Shindig]

In fairness, the staff can't really be shown to be giving any kind of leeway. As soon as one person sees it, they'll all start doing it. Or at least that's the logic they'll operate under.

[7om]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57304515


However, he said the number of people who had been vaccinated in the UK meant this wave would probably take longer to emerge than previous ones.
"There may be a false sense of security for some time, and that's our concern."

What is this shit? Vaccines gives a false sense of security? Maybe we shouldn’t have bothered with them then if they’re useless.

[Shindig]

Especially when our response to this is to get more people vaccinated.

[Lewis]

1399389664222527498

Yeah boi.

[Magic]

Taz feeling conflicted now.

[Spikey M]

Cucking the whole world. :drool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

We can't go back to restrictions now. People are just going to have to live with it.

50% of the adult pop is double jabbed.

[Spikey M]

It won't happen. They can shut everything again if they really want but it won't stop people mixing. Nor should it. It's done. Fuck 'em.

[igor_balis]

In fairness, the staff can't really be shown to be giving any kind of leeway. As soon as one person sees it, they'll all start doing it. Or at least that's the logic they'll operate under.

Yes it was by far the worst part about front of house in the bank during covid. Getting grief from people like magic quoting the magna carta at me when I told them to put their mask on. The best was this mad woman who quickly flashed her "exemption card" at me, which on closer inspection was an expired worcestershire bus pass, and when I told her to leave she threateningly told me "I know people...who are in GOVERNMENT...you will never eat again". Ok. We then received a complaint a few weeks later from her saying I'd physically restrained her and told her I "didn't give a shit" she was disabled...I wish.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm not surprised that you hate the disabled, Igor.

[Magic]

Igor becoming the covid police is quite something.

[Yevrah]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57304515



What is this shit? Vaccines gives a false sense of security? Maybe we shouldn’t have bothered with them then if they’re useless.

I’m not sure how, but I think I’ve reached a zen state with this stuff now. Which is good, because it displays logic that both has the potential to anger and have a bus driven through it.

[Magic]

Seen just one absolute mentalist in the park today walking about with their mask on. Their child will definitely be a wrong un. However that's a great sign people are fed up in Scotland as we've been hammered more than most.

[Baz]

Mask tan lines. :harold:

Although this happened in Scotland where the people cannot tan, so never mind.