Coronavirus Death Thread

[Manc]

I don't understand how golf can be enjoyable if you're garbage. A friend of mine has been playing most of his adult life and has a handicap of 24. Give it up.

[Giggles]

It’s not. Granted I’m not the clientele that would be welcome on a golf course here but I never got any better in all the years I played in the UK either so I probably wouldn’t bother any more anyway. It’s a frustrating cunt of a game.

[SvN]

I'm dogshit and love golf. I've only just started playing again after a 20 year hiatus though, so perhaps the novelty will wear off soon.

[Yevrah]

I don't understand how golf can be enjoyable if you're garbage. A friend of mine has been playing most of his adult life and has a handicap of 24. Give it up.

I am shit and cannot drive or iron (this is only the second time I’ve played) but when I made it to the green I sunk that ball in two shots or fewer on half the holes, which was so satisfying.

[Spikey M]

As long as your competition is a similar level of shite, any sport can be fun.

Apart from Cricket.

[niko_cee]

You don't have to be good at golf to enjoy it. It's probably the reverse, the better you get, the more frustrating it becomes. No matter how bad you might be at golf (within obvious limits) it is still possible for you to hit a shot any professional would struggle to match, on occasion. It's just you do it once every 5 rounds or so, whereas they beat you on the other 349 shots (you take 500).

[Mellberg]

I'm shit at golf too, but can hit it miles. So long as I get a few sweet connections per round, fuck all the time spent in bushes and three putting.

[Foe]

If you’re not playing golf exclusively with friends in the sun with snacks, you’re not playing the same game as me.

I’m shit at golf and decided a few years ago to just abandon hopes of being able to use a driver. 5 iron off every tee of par 4 and 5s is fine. Can hit it pretty far with my 5 iron. Shot 92 round an absolute horror of a course with water and trees galore, and it beat any other round I’ve done by 7-10 shots. As long as I hit one good shot per round, I’m happy.

The sooner you accept you’re shit and golf, and always will be, the more enjoyable it becomes.

[Spammer]

The idea that you need to be good at something to enjoy it, or for it to be worth doing :D

What a world that would be, if everyone thought like that.

[Pepe]

Most activities do have a minimum level of competence required for it to be enjoyable, imo. I do not know what that level is for golf, never played.

[Don]

Can the gammons keep it to whatever golf thread is going on, already having to withstand enough of it in the betting thread.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've always wanted to go golfing but it would be on my own, I'd need lessons and I'd imagine it would cost a lot of money upfront, right?

[Spammer]

I think most people just learn by doing. It's golf, it's not a high-risk thing. Just go with someone who is good at it and listen to them.

Not played proper golf in absolutely ages. Played crazy golf with the missus about a year ago but that's about it.

[Queenslander]

I just picked the missus up from her final surgery and the ward was empty. Apparently elective surgery is at a bare minimum at the Mater because the majority of the nurses are out at fever clinics and vaccination hubs. We are currently at zero community transmissions and Zero deaths fuck knows how bad it could get if we were a bunch of Sydney shit cunts?

[Queenslander]

Speaking of those shit cunts they haverecorded another record 177 cases. This is going to take a year or more to fix as they just don't care at all.

Poor ItalAussie

[Giggles]

I've always wanted to go golfing but it would be on my own, I'd need lessons and I'd imagine it would cost a lot of money upfront, right?

You wouldn’t be on your own though as it would be full of other players. I don’t think I ever played a full round in my life because if there was a group of sneers coming up behind me I always just picked the ball off the tee and moved to the next hole.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I am a poor golfer but that just makes the 5 good shots per round feel even better. If you love it, you love it.

[Kikó]

I just picked the missus up from her final surgery and the ward was empty. Apparently elective surgery is at a bare minimum at the Mater because the majority of the nurses are out at fever clinics and vaccination hubs. We are currently at zero community transmissions and Zero deaths fuck knows how bad it could get if we were a bunch of Sydney shit cunts?

Take this shit to the golf thread.

[Queenslander]

I don't understand. :moop:

[Kikó]

cos this place has become the golf thread not the covid thread and i was doing a funny.

[Giggles]

I lolled a bit.

[Queenslander]

cos this place has become the golf thread not the covid thread and i was doing a funny.

:D

I'm dense

[SvN]

You wouldn’t be on your own though as it would be full of other players. I don’t think I ever played a full round in my life because if there was a group of sneers coming up behind me I always just picked the ball off the tee and moved to the next hole.

What the fuck? :D

[Giggles]

What the fuck? :D

Better option than a 25 yard drive into the ground.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I think most people just learn by doing. It's golf, it's not a high-risk thing. Just go with someone who is good at it and listen to them.

Not played proper golf in absolutely ages. Played crazy golf with the missus about a year ago but that's about it.

I don't know anyone who would be interested in going golfing let alone someone who is good at it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Nobody has ever 'been golfing'.

[Disco]

Just go to a driving range if you want to have a go without all the added bother.

[Giggles]

Nobody has ever 'been golfing'.

This should be good. Why?

[Pepe]

The real question (I think) is: cart or walking?

[Boydy]

I haven't played golf in ages. Must get back into it.

[Lewis]

I caved and went for a walk.

[Spikey M]

This should be good. Why?

It's like saying "I'm going footballing".

[-james-]

I've never been golfing. I hate being shit at things and the precision/fluidity that I suspect is required is definitely not my bag. I'm dreading turning 40 and everyone around me suddenly getting into it.

[Pepe]

I can lend you some of my spandex.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This should be good. Why?

Because golf is not a verb. You might as well say you went footballing.

[Pepe]

*soccering

[Baz]

Just go to a driving range if you want to have a go without all the added bother.

Honestly I’d struggle to think of an activity I’d rather do less (within reason) than going the driving range. Thankfully that craze seems to have gone away, although that could be because of a) everything went away due to covid or b) everything went away cos my mates are shite these days and nobody does anything anymore.

[Disco]

Sure, but if you just want to try hitting a few balls to get the hang of it then it's easier than going to a course.

[Offshore Toon]

What defines long COVID? I'm a free man tomorrow but still feel knackered with the odd mild headache and lightheadedness.

[Ian]

Yeah I've got other symptoms coming and going still but being a bit headachey and lightheaded is the constant so far.

[Lofty]

Lack of smell and taste, generally being a fanny.

[Kikó]

I've still got the tiredness, feeling it more the last few days. Smell/taste is nearly back which is superb.

[Yevrah]

Lack of smell and taste, generally being a fanny.

It’s a fair bit worse than that.

[Lofty]

I was being facetious.

[Yevrah]

I know, but we have morons who’ll take it seriously.

[Magic]

Tomorrow will be week 3 since I got symptoms.

I still can't smell or taste. Still have fatigue. Still some minor brain fog. Sickness is coming and going. Sleeping is all over the place. I've still got my trembling chest and coughing but that's more the pneumonia I think.

[-james-]

#novid

[Magic]

Been mask free apart from some fat cunt in a taxi POLITELY ASKING me to wear one the whole time. :drool:

[Don]

Almost 16 months to the day since I could smell my own farts. Brutal.

[Lewis]

My smell and taste are mostly back, and I've just got the lingering annoying cough, but I had that for about three weeks last February. Otherwise my immune system has done the business once again.

[Lewis]

AND I read that people who have had both vaccinations are more likely to spread it because they don't know they have it, so, whether that is true or not, if any of the old cunts at work try giving it the big'un about me spreading it there I can tell them to fuck off and blame them.

[SvN]

I know, but we have morons who’ll take it seriously.

I love the self own here.

[Magic]

Almost 16 months to the day since I could smell my own farts. Brutal.

So you're still finished?

[Lofty]

Fabian Delph joins team Novid.

https://i.ibb.co/88Pscjr/FB-IMG-1627490446133.jpg

[Spikey M]

So he was the Everton Nonce after all.

[Magic]

Me, Quince, Taz, Gillian McKeith and Fabian Delph. What a team. :drool:

[mugbull]

Almost 16 months to the day since I could smell my own farts. Brutal.

Same. 9 months in now and haven't smelled or tasted a single thing apart from this eucalyptus essential oil I bought to aid in my recovery that has smelled like athlete's foot this whole time

[Don]

Honestly, we'd fucking rape the local powerleagues.

[Don]

Mug, any mental knock-on effects of it? Can't tell if my growing nihilism is linked to it or not.

[Dquincy]

Honestly, we'd fucking rape the local powerleagues.

Was wondering where that sentence was going for a second there. :uhoh:

[Yevrah]

I love the self own here.

Not sure what you mean?

[Jimmy Floyd]

So in this world where you can't taste anything, are you still cooking/eating properly, or are you just shoving any old nutrients down your neck until you stop feeling hungry? Sounds terrifying, tbh.

[Pepe]

Covid might be the best thing to ever happen to Mealsquares.

[Magic]

So in this world where you can't taste anything, are you still cooking/eating properly, or are you just shoving any old nutrients down your neck until you stop feeling hungry? Sounds terrifying, tbh.

I've opted for avoiding shite because what's the point if it tastes of nothing. So yes, all nutritional and fresh.

[Shindig]

How many times did you hit up Greggs? Be honest.

[Magic]

Disclaimer to say I'm actually fit and healthy anyway so don't eat much shit by default. #savingtheNHS

[Shindig]

You can't be that fit and healthy. You've just had your lungs punched. :D

[Spikey M]

Race you round the block Magic.

[Pepe]

Show us those abs Magic.

[Magic]

I am getting there. Not many other cunts could be where I am now after such a serious illness.

[Pepe]

Who beat Covid harder? Magic or Tronald?

[randomlegend]

I am getting there. Not many other cunts could be where I am now after such a serious illness.

:henn0rz:

[Manc]

Not many other cunts could be where I am now after such a serious illness.

:happycry:

[Luca]

I think he means his mental illness, not #novid.

[mugbull]

Mug, any mental knock-on effects of it? Can't tell if my growing nihilism is linked to it or not.

I've gotten much more suave. Probably a side effect of mental fog.

You gonna sign up for studies wrt smell & taste if you get the chance?

[mugbull]

So in this world where you can't taste anything, are you still cooking/eating properly, or are you just shoving any old nutrients down your neck until you stop feeling hungry? Sounds terrifying, tbh.

Definitely not cooking anymore. I'm seriously considering incorporating Soylent/Huel into my diet because why not.

[Kikó]

It massively impacted my appetite as well. Usually I can have an apple and it'll trigger hunger not long after due to the sugar spike but without the mental trigger due to the dead senses, you can just eat when you think you have to.

[Magic]

I haven't had a coffee for 3 weeks. Tastes really, really bitter and disgusting. :(

[Don]

I've gotten much more suave. Probably a side effect of mental fog.

You gonna sign up for studies wrt smell & taste if you get the chance?

Absolutely. This is no way to live out the rest of our days.

[Queenslander]

239 today Sydney and they have never felt so far away.

England feels a billion miles away these days.

[niko_cee]

Was speaking to a friend who lives in Sydney and he said he'd been identified as a close contact (I think he's had both vaccines as he's got risk factors) and the government wanted to put him in a quarantine hotel, but due to said risk factors it was considered too, erm, risky to do so. Is that right? Are the Australian government routinely removing residents from their homes to hotel quarantine and do they have to pay for that? Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick as that sounds mad.

[Queenslander]

Either that or a hospital. It is mental now that you have brought it up as I have just zoned out about how strange it is here.

You only pay if you are entering Queensland I'm not sure about the other States.

[niko_cee]

Christ, and we thought heads had gone here.

He's lucky he gets to be confined to a small flat in Harbord for 14 days, I guess.

[Queenslander]

At the start Peter Dutton did genuinely send the very first lot to Christmas Island.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51352145.amp

[niko_cee]

That's probably not so mad. Back in the day we shipped our first few loads of Wuhan evacuees to some rural NHS child abuse centre for everyone to gawp at through the long lens media. Good times.

[Queenslander]

I forgot It is also home to a detention centre for people to live in limbo.

[Luke Emia]

That's probably not so mad. Back in the day we shipped our first few loads of Wuhan evacuees to some rural NHS child abuse centre for everyone to gawp at through the long lens media. Good times.

With the bloke sat in the fully hazmat gear and the poor old bus driver didn’t even have a mask on. If anything summed up the governments handling of this whole thing I think it was that.

[Baz]

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[Lewis]

The little home testing thing says I am negative, so either 1) they're shit; or 2) I must have had it weeks ago and not realised (lad who sits next to me at work has tested positive lol).

[Yevrah]

The home testing things are indeed shit.

[Baz]

The biggest waste of money in our lifetime.

[Shindig]

What's the problem with them? Aside from the dubious efficacy. Actually doing the tests isn't that bad.

[Baz]

If something is made to tell you either A or B, but most of the time tells you A regardless, it’s not really fit for purpose.

[Yevrah]

What's the problem with them? Aside from the dubious efficacy.

That's the problem. They allowed the virus to get into hospitals and probably care homes due to how shit they were.

So while relatives couldn't see their dying family members, Nurse Jackie was bringing in COVID as she started her shift, blissfully unaware, as as far as she was concerned she was COVID negative.

I don't really know why more hasn't been made of it.

[Kikó]

I think I caught covid on the night of the final. I was going lateral flows every other day pretty much and they were negative until day 9 when I tested positive. I stopped testing positive 4 days later. These things are meant to catch symptomless covid but only started when I went full blown.

In summary, they're useless.

[Kikó]

That's the problem. They allowed the virus to get into hospitals and probably care homes due to how shit they were.

So while relatives couldn't see their dying family members, Nurse Jackie was bringing in COVID as she started her shift, blissfully unaware, as as far as she was concerned she was COVID negative.

I don't really know why more hasn't been made of it.

Private eye has been talking about the uselessness of lateral flows for months.

[Spikey M]

That's the problem. They allowed the virus to get into hospitals and probably care homes due to how shit they were.

So while relatives couldn't see their dying family members, Nurse Jackie was bringing in COVID as she started her shift, blissfully unaware, as as far as she was concerned she was COVID negative.

I don't really know why more hasn't been made of it.

The decision to move the elderly out of hospitals into care homes without testing them first should see people in prison.

It was mental at the time and it's not aging any better.

[Yevrah]

The decision to move the elderly out of hospitals into care homes without testing them first should see people in prison.

It was mental at the time and it's not aging any better.

I think that's why Lee stopped posting, he realised he or his colleagues had genuinely been responsible for killing people. BUT, I genuinely think using tests on doctors and nurses that didn't work is also up there (albeit clearly second) in terms of horrific fuck ups.

[Kikó]

It's really not why Lee stopped posting 😂

[Yevrah]

It's really not why Lee stopped posting ��

Well I'm glad if that is the case. Wouldn't want that on my conscience or to have to work with people who did.

[Kikó]

What in Jesus fuck are you on about?

[7om]

I wonder if he shagged his secretary eventually

[Yevrah]

Is it not clear from the words I'm using or are you a bit slow?

For further context, one of Lee's last posts before he vanished was one where he'd realised what had happened with the hospital/care home fuck up and it was the words of a man who looked absolutely haunted by it.

[Shindig]

"If Lauren won't do anal, I'll find someone who will."

[Kikó]

He has no lingering guilt. If anything, he wish he'd killed more.

[Magic]

I, for one, am glad he's dead.

[randomlegend]

Lee stopped posting because I kept donning him.

[randomlegend]

Fact

[phonics]

I was never a big fan before but RL with an arrogant attitude like he's not the worlds most beta beta is the worst gimmick on this place in a long time.

[Magic]

I was never a big fan before but RL with an arrogant attitude like he's not the worlds most beta beta is the worst gimmick on this place in a long time.

Get back to your depressed hovel you cunt

[Disco]

It's amazing the amount of projection you see here sometimes.

[Yevrah]

It is all going a bit Lord of the Flies.

[Foe]

I still love you all, except John because he probably would stab me.

[phonics]

I've got the Conch and Magic is Fatty.

[Queenslander]

They are sending the Army in.


https://youtu.be/h4uU19wl8jk

[Baz]

I still love you all, except John because he probably would stab me.

He’s dead, fella. Rejoice. :dance:

[Foe]

Prick would knife me from the ground if he had half a chance. Never let your guard down.

[Lewis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-58011922

He was probably sat with his feet up lolling and has had to cover himself with that.

[Spikey M]

It's a hell of an alibi, you have to give it to him.

[Dquincy]

Get back to your depressed hovel you cunt

:lol:

[Dquincy]

Is it not clear from the words I'm using or are you a bit slow?

For further context, one of Lee's last posts before he vanished was one where he'd realised what had happened with the hospital/care home fuck up and it was the words of a man who looked absolutely haunted by it.
Genuine question, are you on the spectrum?

[Yevrah]

Genuine question, are you on the spectrum?

Just because you start a sentence with 'genuine question' it doesn't make it one.

[Don]

Latest from the Group, Lee would like to make it clear he isn't feeling any guilt and that him stopping posting is because he finds the Group a superior means of getting his social activity in as he finds a few of you to be mean.

[Dquincy]

Just because you start a sentence with 'genuine question' it doesn't make it one.

Was genuinely interested. If you keep shutting me down, our friendship will never blossom.

[Dquincy]

Latest from the Group, Lee would like to make it clear he isn't feeling any guilt and that him stopping posting is because he finds the Group a superior means of getting his social activity in as he finds a few of you to be mean.

The group can suck my dick.

[Queenslander]

Who is the best smoocher in the group?

[Queenslander]

Brisvegas will be back in lockdown within a few days with 2 random cases popping up today.

[Kikó]

Latest from the Group, Lee would like to make it clear he isn't feeling any guilt and that him stopping posting is because he finds the Group a superior means of getting his social activity in as he finds a few of you to be mean.

:harold: You wish you were in the group (again).

[Manc]

Applications are welcome.

[Spikey M]

Banned for insufficient teeheeing :(

[Giggles]

As if the clientele of the group would allow ethnics.

[Kikó]

We have twice actually.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

As if the clientele of the group would allow ethnics.

They need a token one to let Keeks feel even more of a hero.

[Spikey M]

Don't be a twat. I'm in another group with Kiko and he's hardly ever racist.

[Queenslander]

Snap stage 4 lockdown for 3 days as a school has 6 delta cases of unknown origin. All sport cancelled...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-31/queensland-coronavirus-brisbane-south-east-lockdown-4pm-saturday/100339092

Edit: Must stay within 10km of your home.


Lol

"Sydney protests: Exclusion zone, police checkpoints in place" https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/exclusion-zone-police-checkpoints-in-place-to-prevent-protests-in-sydney-s-cbd-20210731-p58enp.html

"Sydney lockdown protest organisers warn of ‘trap’" https://amp.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/sydney-lockdown-protesters-warn-saturday-rallies-are-a-police-trap/news-story/56f63efdc3a98ab44f2dcb6c12db2ed6

[Queenslander]

Holy shit!


Truck drivers lose pay waiting days for COVID tests due to cross-border rule changes



https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-31/trucks-freight-drivers-lose-pay-over-covid-border-testing/100339598

[Magic]

This self destruction is most amusing to observe.

[Don]

The tests for departure were faff that led me to choosing the big name Boots but this Day 2 and 8 testing on arrival system led me to the list of providers on the govt website:

https://www.find-travel-test-provider.service.gov.uk/test-type/amber

It's such cowboy territory it's unreal. 394 listed providers, sorted by price except some are listing their on-site testing prices (under £10 and possibly sold out too so not even an obligation to adhere to that) and getting all the traffic at which point the general customer yields and just books a random one having seen no discernible way to choose the cheapest without going through 50+ sites. All the sites are fucking amateur hour creations so you know what sort of charlatan is behind them too. Real big money to be made in this shit if you create one and list your on-site price as 1p.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/31/cheapest-covid-test-kits-for-travellers-on-uk-government-site-unavailable

They got a month of corruption out of it :happycry:

[Pepe]

Biden considering a new lockdown. :face:

Please bring Donnie back.

[Luca]

Who is the best smoocher in the group?

Samadini

[Yevrah]

Australia are close to winning the award for worst country at dealing with this. I assume New Zealand are a close second but no one cares about them after the novelty of their prime minister worn off.

[Lewis]

My news of Australia comes mainly through what they are putting their sports though, and league players, who are all in bubbles in holiday resorts, are getting fined for going onto their hotel balconies. What exactly do they think their way out of it is?

[Magic]

Australia are close to winning the award for worst country at dealing with this. I assume New Zealand are a close second but no one cares about them after the novelty of their prime minister worn off.

They're being crushed under the pressure of some other respiratory illness. :harold:

[niko_cee]

I think NZ are doing alright, in the same way that their complete remoteness allowed the evolution of the likes of the Kiwi and that bastard parrot that wrecks cars, animals which in any other country would be exterminated by the most mundane of rivals.

[Shindig]

As opposed to Australia's deformed duck-fish?

[Spikey M]

Leave Kylie alone.

[Shindig]

Dannii should've been the famous one.

[Dquincy]

Dannii should've been the famous one.

Dan had the better tits, but her sister had the better bottom. Just need to merge them together.

[Queenslander]

Australia are close to winning the award for worst country at dealing with this. I assume New Zealand are a close second but no one cares about them after the novelty of their prime minister worn off.

I wouldn't go that far. I still don't know of a single person who has had covid and I have barely.been effected by covid lockdowns compared to what you have been through over the last 18 months.

[Queenslander]

My news of Australia comes mainly through what they are putting their sports though, and league players, who are all in bubbles in holiday resorts, are getting fined for going onto their hotel balconies. What exactly do they think their way out of it is?

Triple header at Suncorp today. :cool:

[Queenslander]

Stage 4 lockdown extended until 4pm Sunday. The source is from bloody Indonesia.

The QLD Chief Medical Officer said that the red pilled boomers are still refusing to get the AZ jab.

Edit: Sydney has recorded another 200+ cases with 54 in ICU see you next year dickheads

[niko_cee]

This has to be getting into a generation out of power for the government type levels of fuckuppery, so good luck with whoever your new Paul Keating is. What's Kevin Rudd up to these days? Or does the federal system allow ScoMo&Co to shift blame onto the (Labor?[sic]) state governments?

[Queenslander]

Yeah Scummo has used the Murdoch media to attack QLD, WA and Victoria. He has refused to lead from the front with vaccines, federally run quarantine facilities. The Billionaire Wagner family of Toowoomba own their very own International Airport West of Toowoomba and want to build a massive quarantine facility. They aren't National donors so Scotty said no.

I kid you not Australian big wigs in America contacted Kevin Rudd while he was in New York and begged him to contact the pfyzer CEO to fix the Government's fuck up when they first bought off them.

The Liberals sent Young staffers on Scummo's behalf and they fucked it.

Western Australia and Queensland's borders are that of Nation States ATM, sort of...

Edit: Scummo also stayed silent when the media went on their massive AZ scare campaign. I swear for a period they would report on every AZ death that occurred in the UK.

[Dquincy]

Lewis Hamilton claiming to have long covid.


Lewis Hamilton's long COVID concern after dizziness and fatigue at Hungarian Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton has said he has symptoms of long COVID after requiring medical help following Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.

The seven-time world champion had performed superbly to move from last place to third in the Hungarian Grand Prix, later being upgraded to second place after the disqualification of Sebastian Vettel.

Hamilton's hard-fought performance in the 70-lap race gave him the lead in the Formula One world championship.

But afterwards, he appeared to be struggling (seen below) - he needed help to get to the podium and appeared too weak to hold the celebratory bottle of champagne.

He was taken to see the Mercedes team doctor and was later said to be suffering from dizziness and fatigue.

At a post-race news conference, the 36-year-old said: "I haven't spoken to anyone particularly about long COVID, but I think it is lingering there.

"I was having real dizziness and everything got a bit blurry on the podium. I have been fighting with staying healthy following what happened at the end of last year, but still it's a battle."

[Queenslander]

The military will be supportig the NSW Police in Sydney for 6 weeks. :lol:

[Ian]

I hadn't really noticed it the week after I initially got my positive test but I've come to the conclusion over the weekend that the rona has knackered my sense of smell. Taste seems to be basically fine though, so that's something.

[Kikó]

I understand where Hamilton is coming from. Rona knackers you out a lot quicker mentally as well as physically.

[Shindig]

Did he catch it again? He caught it last year and there was a race where he was clearly knackered on the podium.

[Queenslander]

10 kids 9 and under have the Delta in Brisbane.

[Don]

When I get it I get called a middle-aged female but when Sir tax-dodging BLM of Monaco gets it it's all "aww yeah it's tough, I've been struggling to smell Lewis' crack when eating his ass on a daily, too". Typical gammons.

[Spikey M]

I don't think we're in any position to be throwing stones at the Australians for how they've handled Covid, but this is quite the fuck up when they have vaccines readily available. Just bizarre.

[Queenslander]

I don't think we're in any position to be throwing stones at the Australians for how they've handled Covid, but this is quite the fuck up when they have vaccines readily available. Just bizarre.

We deserve all the ridicule.

[Spikey M]

Probably, but we are in a sizable glass house. Potentially only Brazil have fucked this harder than we have.

[Queenslander]

England is too far away to register these days.

India, Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam are a shambles.

[Manc]

What are the current scores on the doors? John Arne

[Spikey M]

The only doors he's watching these days are the cell doors. Knew he was a nonce. Wife in Vietnam indeed.

[Queenslander]

Definitely in a Prison in the Jungle.

[Yevrah]

The only doors he's watching these days are the cell doors. Knew he was a nonce. Wife in Vietnam indeed.

:D Cue Kiko arriving to say he's definitely not a nonce.

Logged in 3 days ago but hasn't posted for 3 months, something dodgy is definitely going on.

[Giggles]

It’s the authorities logging on.

[Yevrah]

Sadly that actually makes more sense than it being him.

[Manc]

Is he definitely based in Nam and not just pulling an Igor?

[Don]

I'm getting widespread reports of people having marked issues with the quality of their sleep recently. Headaches qnd muscular strains around back, neck and shoulders also linked. No mention of it yet on TTH afaik, can we do a quick check to see if anyone else has noticed such a phenomenon?

[randomlegend]

Apparently a manager told a nurse to come to work with covid symptoms whilst awaiting a PCR result (maybe lateral flow was negative idk?). PCR was positive and now we've got 6 nurses off.

[Boydy]

I'm getting widespread reports of people having marked issues with the quality of their sleep recently. Headaches qnd muscular strains around back, neck and shoulders also linked. No mention of it yet on TTH afaik, can we do a quick check to see if anyone else has noticed such a phenomenon?
I hurt my shoulder on saturday :uhoh:

[Spikey M]

There's definitely more unmasked faces in the Supermarkets now. :drool:

[Yevrah]

There's definitely more unmasked faces in the Supermarkets now. :drool:

Yep. I'm gonna give it until whenever that date is in August when the double vaxxed don't need to isolate and I am done.

[Magic]

There's definitely more unmasked faces in the Supermarkets now. :drool:

Even up in Bovid Central Land there's less masks. Most notably on public transport. :drool:

[Kikó]

:D Cue Kiko arriving to say he's definitely not a nonce.

Logged in 3 days ago but hasn't posted for 3 months, something dodgy is definitely going on.

No, we had it confirmed he is.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Crewe/Vietnam as a background must make it a 1/8 shot or so.

[Baz]

Is he definitely based in Nam and not just pulling an Igor?

What did igor do?

I think you mean mokbull.

[Queenslander]

He definitely lives in Vietnam. :cool:

[Queenslander]

My Facebook this morning is notifying me of numerous cunt mother's on the Sunshine Coast boasting about not getting their kids tested. Time to set up an open air prison up there I reckon.

[John Arne]

I'm alive, and definitely not a nonce :moop: / :D

Our cases per day are still relatively low (7,000), but the lack of vaccines made the Gov shit the bed when the delta variant started taking control.
You can't leave your house unless you are going to your designated shop, and use you Gov issued shopping voucher (aka ration card), there are police checkpoints everywhere. Total curfew after 6pm. It's a bit grim, but nice and quiet.
Vaccines are finally starting to arrive, with HCMC and Hanoi being prioritised. Factories are hit worst; my mates factory having 120 positive cases, and the Gov don't want them to leave, so they basically stay at the factory in a separate area. Most factories have about 25%-50% workers living on site - saw one video of the cops shooting into the air to stop people leaving an infected factory. Everything else is closed, with the Gov handing out tiny stipends (£45 a month) to the market traders and the like. The last week has seen a mass exodus of workers returning to their hometowns.

Fair to say that as well as the Gov did last year in dealing with the initial outbreaks, they're panicked now with Delta, and fucked around ordering vaccines to end up at the bottom of the queue. At one point with Pfizer, they tried to renegotiate a previously agreed price just before it was due to ship.. Pfizer told them to fuck off.

[Queenslander]

Designated shop is something Sydney needs to implement.

[Luca]

How was jail, JA?

[John Arne]

Managed to buy my way out before too many arse intrusions.

[Queenslander]

What intrusions out of curiosity?

[Giggles]

Cleaning up.


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[Kikó]

Not surprised Ewan McKenna is included on that list. Used to be relatively interesting and lost himself to nonsense.

[Giggles]

Haven't heard tell of him in a long time. He used to be on a show here but I think he moved to South America.

[Queenslander]

Allowing Australians to drink in the Village is a rookie mistake.


A group of Australian athletes left their rooms in the Olympic village “in a messy and unacceptable state” — including vomit and a hole in the wall — before departing Tokyo, the Australian Olympic Committee said.

The athletes, from the men’s rowing and rugby teams, had finished their events at the Olympics and, though details are unclear, appeared to have embarked on a drunken, rowdy evening that resulted in the damage to the rooms, Australian media reported.


https://www.facebook.com/5281959998/posts/10152741475819999/?sfnsn=mo

[Magic]

Yeah all those 120ml cans of Fosters. Mental.

[Queenslander]

Thought I posted in the Olympics thread dammit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I could have guessed the two sports involved first time.

[Queenslander]

Add Malaysia to the list.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/2/malaysia-deploys-riot-police-as-mps-attempt-march-to-parliament

[Kikó]

Haven't heard tell of him in a long time. He used to be on a show here but I think he moved to South America.

I think he's in Portugal now. He's gone deep down the contrarian route, flirting with the rabbit hole of conspiracy.

[niko_cee]

Do they Irish really get miffed by people on the take?

I mean, seriously? Fetch me another Double Irish.

[Offshore Toon]

I spoke to my doc yesterday and he said it can take up to twelve weeks for symptoms to go, then we're in long COVID territory. Until then, I can't see anyone until I've had two days without symptoms. It feels never ending at this point. I'm so fucking bored.

[Spikey M]

Wait... it can take 12 weeks for all symptoms to go and you're expected to isolate for 12 weeks if it does? :D

[Ian]

I thought it depended on the symptoms.

If you're feverish, sneezing, throwing up or have diarrhoea then keep isolating until two days after those symptoms are gone, anything else (a cough, loss of taste/smell, headaches, etc.) you crack on and hope they don't take too long to fuck off.

[Offshore Toon]

Nah, I asked "what if it's just a headache, do I still need to isolate?" and he said "any symptoms."

I've got a test on the 12th so if I'm still fucked but that's negative, am oot.

[Spikey M]

That's mental. I've had a cough for months after having colds before.

[Offshore Toon]

He did mention to try and arrange a test, so the advice wasn't to stay at home till it goes.

[Ian]

That's mad, though I was just going off the "How long to self-isolate" NHS page rather than speaking to a doctor so maybe what doctors have been told is different to what's on the NHS page or something.

[Lewis]

My test yesterday has come back negative, and I have no remaining symptoms. Read it and weep long covid betas.

[Offshore Toon]

I'm happy being in the company of Jamaal Lascelles and Allan Saint-Maximin.

[Lewis]

Taz and mokkers make that some five-a-side.

[Kikó]

You don't need to isolate if you can't smell your own shit.

[Lewis]

You would say that.

[Offshore Toon]

Taz and mokkers make that some five-a-side.
They're in the B Team behind Tom Hanks and Gwyneth Paltrow.

[Giggles]

Do they Irish really get miffed by people on the take?

I mean, seriously? Fetch me another Double Irish.

He’s not on the take, he’s being given it which is worse.

Though I’m not sure what the sentiment means anyway, or what the Double thing is about.

[Giggles]

You don't need to isolate if you can't smell your own shit.

Has your shit ever stank?

[Boydy]

Some anti-Irish little Englander brexit bullshit.

[Giggles]

Some anti-Irish little Englander brexit bullshit.

Indeed, I’d assumed he’d pulled it out of one of the jingo pockets but he’d need to elaborate a bit for thick micko innit.

[Kikó]

Has your shit ever stank?

:youpi:

[Spikey M]

I had someone on the phone the other day lamenting furlough being over because it meant they had to give up their part time job to go back to their full time job on less money. Bless 'em.

[Giggles]

All us cunts that kept working will have to foot the bill for the lazy fucks too.

[niko_cee]

Some anti-Irish little Englander brexit bullshit.

:lewis:

The Double Irish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement)

[Spikey M]

All us cunts that kept working will have to foot the bill for the lazy fucks too.

Today's teenagers get the privilege of paying it off for the entirety of their working lives. Their pension age will be about 107.

[Shindig]

Went over to the Riverside earlier and the park was absolutely packed. Although it was all down to the kids being off. Nice park if you can deal with dead moles.

[Giggles]

That’s a new one. Run out of builder jokes?

[Magic]

I spoke to my doc yesterday and he said it can take up to twelve weeks for symptoms to go, then we're in long COVID territory. Until then, I can't see anyone until I've had two days without symptoms. It feels never ending at this point. I'm so fucking bored.

You're mental. I've been hitting the club's and I'm still fucked.

[Pepe]

Some hope for Team Long Covid:

https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/covid-19-took-my-sense-of-smell-then


On Twitter, a friend, @hormeze, alerted me to some reports of people who had spontaneously restored their sense of smell upon taking psychedelics. It sounded weird. But given that I’m fairly comfortable with psychedelics, I was willing to give it a try. Also, I noticed that, in online patient accounts of anosmia, the early trajectory seemed to determine completeness of recovery; people who got it back quickly got it all back more consistently. So I wanted to take whatever actions I could, early.

And it totally worked. Fully and near-instantaneously. Like a light switch turning on.

Get on it lads.

[Queenslander]

Drug induced schizophrenia combined with long covid sounds terrible.

[Queenslander]

5000 people are currently in home lockdown and they are saying unless something special happens they will probably exten lockdown for another week.

I have my 2nd pfyzer jab next week at a bloody show ground 20 minutes away.

Edit: 20 year old bloke in Sydney died in his home from covid. He had no chronic pre existing conditions and was regular checked on by a nurse.

[Magic]

Bullshit.

[Queenslander]

:D

"Covid death of Sydney man Aude Alaskar, 27, prompts calls for young people to get vaccinated | Sydney | The Guardian" https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/04/covid-death-of-sydney-man-in-his-20s-prompts-calls-for-young-people-to-get-vaccinated

[Yevrah]

Why are Australia not treating people who have it before they go into hospital/die? I get why we never did - we had tens of thousands of cases a day - but don’t understand the logic over there.

[Queenslander]

Containment I guess is easy with a small amount of cases.

[Spikey M]

Delta changes that. Spreads like a bitch.

https://www.google.com/search?q=australia+covid+cases&oq=australia+covid+cases&aqs=chrome..69i57.12780j0j7&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

[niko_cee]

Why are Australia not treating people who have it before they go into hospital/die? I get why we never did - we had tens of thousands of cases a day - but don’t understand the logic over there.

To use the phrase of the moment, heads have gone. In Australia's case compassion went a long time ago [see their treatment of overseas nationals] and leaving someone to die at home rather than allowing them to seek help for fear of them spreading the virus is just further evidence of this.

Also, what is the point of using this poor sap's death as a plea for vaccination? They haven't vaccinated any of the actually at risk groups so even if he'd wanted it would he have been able to be vaccinated?

[Queenslander]

In Qld if you have covid you must go to hospital.

[Kikó]

Some hope for Team Long Covid:

https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/covid-19-took-my-sense-of-smell-then



Get on it lads.

Magic should definitely not do lsd.

[Queenslander]

Delta changes that. Spreads like a bitch.

https://www.google.com/search?q=australia+covid+cases&oq=australia+covid+cases&aqs=chrome..69i57.12780j0j7&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Spread through a few schools in Brisbane pretty quickly.

[Yevrah]

Containment I guess is easy with a small amount of cases.

Yes, but traditionally when people get ill they see a doctor. You're not letting them do that and just leaving them to get better or die. Surely as soon as someone has mild symptoms (which as I understand it are actually pretty unpleasant) a doctor should be treating them.

[Yevrah]

Also, what is the point of using this poor sap's death as a plea for vaccination? They haven't vaccinated any of the actually at risk groups so even if he'd wanted it would he have been able to be vaccinated?

Indeed. Wouldn't they need to get that shipment of AZ on its way to PNG back first before 27 year olds are anywhere near the front of the queue?

[Queenslander]

Yes, but traditionally when people get ill they see a doctor. You're not letting them do that and just leaving them to get better or die. Surely as soon as someone has mild symptoms (which as I understand it are actually pretty unpleasant) a doctor should be treating them.

I agree Sydney is failing.

[Yevrah]

Anyway, back here and I haven't checked any numbers for well over a week now, but I knew they were going down. How? You may ask. Well, it's because the BBC has had nothing about them on their main page for days. After a week or so of that, we normally get a think piece on how things are going and what's that on there this morning?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58078900

Bingo.


When the government in England announced it was lifting nearly all remaining restrictions, it was branded a "dangerous" and "unethical" experiment by critical scientists.

These SCIENTISTS should never work again.

Here is one of them.


Prof Christina Pagel, a member of Independent Sage and one of the signatories of the letter.

"Covid is so unpredictable"

I mean, is it really? I'd say the weather is probably a harder one to get right. But I'm curious to see where you now stand.


I acknowledge I was wrong on what was going to happen

Wow, did not expect that. So, time for a balanced (vaccine inclusive) view on what the future may hold?


but that doesn't mean it's over. We need to get cases down even further - if we go into autumn with 20,000 cases a day I would be very worried."

Oh.

These people are absolute charlatans.

[Yevrah]

I agree Sydney is failing.

When I said you were one of the worst performing countries on this a week or so ago and you disagreed, is this continued shit changing your opinion?

[Yevrah]

Deepti is also turning against science when it doesn't suit her opinion.

https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp %7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Marvellous.

[Queenslander]

When I said you were one of the worst performing countries on this a week or so ago and you disagreed, is this continued shit changing your opinion?

No because Sydney is 1000km away it doesn't effect me at all.

[Yevrah]

No because Sydney is 1000km away it doesn't effect me at all.

Fair enough.

[Queenslander]

Yeah things are much different down here since the start of last year. It is all about the States doing the heavy lifting independently of each other.

[Yevrah]

Yeah things are much different down here since the start of last year. It is all about the States doing the heavy lifting indepently of each other.

I'm looking at the country as a whole, but I've also decided to choose peace so am happy to leave it there.

[Shindig]

I still think the SCIENCE crew are in the business of worst case scenarios. Other scenarios hold no value when you're trying to, at every stage, mitigate spread. And it covers their arse if something does set us back like whatever the surge was a couple of weeks back.

[Yevrah]

I still think the SCIENCE crew are in the business of worst case scenarios. Other scenarios hold no value when you're trying to, at every stage, mitigate spread. And it covers their arse if something does set us back like whatever the surge was a couple of weeks back.

There's worst case scenarios based on something and then there's just reading from the doomsday book, they've been doing the latter for ages.

These people have been consistently wrong on this throughout 2021, I think because they refuse to properly acknowledge the impact vaccines are having, but whatever the reason, in any other walk of life we'd have been ignoring them (as an entire society) for months. But here they still are, on front page BBC articles. It's enough, they're useless and they need to go.

[Manc]

Second jab booked for this evening. How many days before I fully shift into lizard form?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I had some (pretty minor) side effects from my second one last week - felt a bit off for a couple of days. Obviously carried on with life, because I'm not a fanny.

[Yevrah]

Obviously carried on with life, because I'm not a fanny.

:D

[Kikó]

Pagel is a statistician not a doctor/immunologist/virologist.