We need to crack skulls and ban flights and end it.
We need to crack skulls and ban flights and end it.
And I'm sure the people pitching themselves off cliffs will feel much better about that after the already depleted mental health services are culled.
Agreed. We all, as in every country in the world, needs to China the cunt out of existence. 6 weeks of pain and it's gone*.Originally Posted by Giggles
*Well, presumably it's still knocking about in the Animal Kingdom but you monitor it and keep an eye on it as if it were Ebola.
He'll be dead soon Spike, just leave it yeah.
As has been noted elsewhere, the people who talk about the 'economy' as some separate entity not to be considered in any of this tend to be the same wallies who think some spending reductions killed a hundred thousand people.
It's also important to note there has been no ease-up of lockdown conditions outside of your fucking tabloid tweets from your limp-wristers and looks as if there won't be anything significant this Sunday.
Absolutely howling at Spanish street party footage on news to celebrate minor easing and how participants got €1k fines for it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52594023
UK 'to bring in 14-day quarantine for air passengers'
Lol
My mother in law was under the impression everything was going to be tickety boo monday so the media giving it the big one has definitely distorted expectations. There will be plenty of people like that, plenty of people flouting it because they're fed up and plenty of people who just don't give a fuck and never have.
I've 2 idiots on my Facebook that have asked a variation of 'why do we have to wait until Sunday night for lock down to be lifted?'
Ill download the app if Im allowed to drink in a pub again instead of drinking with my cockatiels.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-...-week/12217544What can you do from Saturday May 16?
Gatherings of a maximum of 10 people in a public place
Dining in at restaurants, pubs, clubs, RSLs and cafes for a maximum of 10 patrons at one time (no bars or gaming)
Recreational travel of a radius of up to 150km from your home for day trips
Some beauty therapies and nail salons for up to 10 people at one time
Reopening of libraries, playground equipment, skate parks and outdoor gyms with a maximum of 10 people at one time
Wedding guests increase to 10 people
Funeral attendance increased to 20 people (30 outdoors)
Open homes and auctions with a maximum of 10 people at one time
Reopening of public pools and lagoons with a maximum of 10 people at a time or greater numbers with an approved plan
Logging on just after midnight to get a Tesco click and collect slot doesn't seem to be working any more. They can't all have gone already, can they?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52594023
Not until the end of the month? Fucking hell, it should have been in place ages ago.UK airlines say they have been told the government will bring in a 14-day quarantine for anyone arriving in the UK from any country apart from the Republic of Ireland in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The new restriction is expected to take effect at the end of this month.
Surely it is going to be circulating around Europe for the rest of time?
Am I going mad? I'm sure when I read that earlier it said the aviation industry had decided to do it and now it says the government have told them to?
No, the Aviation industry were bleating that a 14 day quaratine would kill air travel, as if this pandemic wasn't going to do that anyway.
Is it too early to call America a failed State?
It's too late.
Mike Pence's aide has turned positive. Not to be confused with Mike Pence turning positive for AIDS.
And I've decided to see how many cases have turned up in the UK the last fortnight to see what our active case number <might> look like. 62,987. Now let's add the 40% of probable asymptomatic lads and lasses. 88,181. Finally, let's take out the deaths because those cases have resolved. 56,940.
This means 70% of the people testing positive for Coronavirus in the UK have (probably) recovered. I dunno. Flimsy numbers leads to flimsy maths by a flimsy man.
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A couple of interesting long reads on the new tech fallout from the pandemic. The race to having all our personal data farmed off to American tech giants (or if you're in China you're lucky enough to already be under mass surveillance).
1)https://t.co/NkH1EZr5zg?amp=1 - Naomi Klein
2) https://t.co/eD3Qol88B0?amp=1n- article about neo iliberalism.
Booked Sevilla in October.
Ambitious. I'm a bit concerned about Portugal in March 2021.
Yeah, I might leave my international travel until March. Would probably fly to London this year at some point, though. 3 hours in an airport > 3 hours on a train.
...... why?Booked Sevilla in October.
Anyone booking now would surely be considered too stupid to warrant a refund when it’s cancelled.
Yep. No chance any of the insurance companies pay out on it. It'd be up to the good will of the provider letting you move your dates.
This basically. Easyjet allowed us to change at no extra cost so we got flights from Edi in school holidays inc baggage for 70 quid return. If it gets cancelled then we change again. If they go bust who cares.
This was for my April Hamburg trip.
Fair enough.
Ah. I'm still surprised BA didn't offer me that and just went for a straight refund.
It's a little Mad Max out there.
It's taken no time at all to get to 4m cases. We're stuck with this.
Women > *
Also didn’t realise Brazil was doing so badly.
I'm a twit
Brazil is very black.
Their president is also still convinced that this is a cold.
It is to most of the population.
If 'Stay Alert' really is the new government slogan as of tomorrow then I might have to decamp and hop aboard Yevrah's open topped parade vehicle.
I'm already conscious about clearing my throat in public.
Tory Britain
Having read around the political side of it in the last 48 hours, I think what's happening is the Tory party are seething and desperate to unlock everything now (a la Trump) but the government (as in Boris and pals) know that's a bad idea, so we end up with a nothingy messaging shambles like this.
Time for a temporary national government.
It's basically reverting back to the pre-LOCKDOWN guidance and ties into this terror threat level system they are introducing. You don't have to stay inside, but mind how you go there is still a risk. I think people will understand that, unless performative idiocy is more widespread offline than I imagine.
Why do they have to brief this shit 24 hours before they announce anything? What happens if something goes catastrophically wrong tomorrow but they’ve already announced this to the press and they have to row back?
The press as a whole as well needs a long hard looking at after all this. Absolute cunts the lot of them. No one asks any real questions, no one asks why there is no form of screening at airports or ports, or why we haven’t hit the fabled 100k tests a day for a week. But they moan that we need a lockdown. Then when it’s implemented they moan it’s going on for too long and things need to be lifted.
The press must have covered every eventuality over the last week so I'll believe what we're actually going to do next when I see it.
One thing's for sure though, if it's based around the pre-lockdown approach, and by extension that means everything is fair game but the public need to voluntarily act responsibly, we'll all be back inside again pretty soon.
There's more than enough idiocy about to see the R back above 1. Southend seafront was busy yesterday and the street parties going on up and down the country on Friday are probably enough to see a surge in cases in a few weeks as it is.
Second wave, here we come. If you're right about the next steps, anyway.
Last edited by Spikey M; 10-05-2020 at 07:02 AM.
It's abdication of responsibility. Provide mixed messages, if we spike again then it's because the public couldn't behave rather than them reading the newspaper and watching Mildred having a street party.
Beyond useless.
Now, as a bloke who very much likes the status quo and peacetime, I would not be against dropping the odd bomb to galvanise the nation into staying the fuck in.
Are you still a bit of a recluse because having worked with the general public for most of my life until recently I can tell you that the thickest person you know is probably average intelligence for the country.
We are supposed to still be in a fairly strict lockdown (level 3 as it's called here), but I drove past what looked like an organised football game in full view of the main road yesterday. Either there is some exemptions I'm not aware of, or people have stopped caring.
Now I sort of understand this, as we've had multiple days with less than new 2 cases per day, so it's a very easy mindset to think the chances of meeting someone who has the virus is minimal. But it is still definitely going against the government rules.
I went around to help my parents move, which included visiting another family that had been storing boxes for us. Social distancing was non-existent, even when at the start of this pandemic they were the ones most worried. You could argue that human beings either forget very quickly, adapt very quickly, or just give up very quickly.
Like everything in life, it's a numbers game, even if people don't realise it.
Let's say we each live for a thousand months (around 82/83 years). People want to make the most of those 1,000 months and are not going to be too interested in being locked down and essentially not be able to do anything more than survive. Obviously the only thing that would change that opinion would be the chance of a much earlier death. CV19 presents that chance, but it's really a very low % chance. The freedom people are willing to give up, and the length of time they will give it up for, will therefore be somewhat proportionate to the risk of death presented. Two months of their thousand have gone by and most people have neither died nor have a close loved one who has died. As such, they're kind of done with it I think.
If ebola was out there, people would stay indoors. If there were state snipers stationed on the roads gunning down people who went out, then people would stay indoors.
But for covid alone, no one will stay indoors for long.
Last edited by Jimmy Floyd; 10-05-2020 at 10:45 AM.
And rightly fucking so.
I like the snipers idea. It’s got to the stage where virus threat be damned, people need to be shown they can be put into line purely because they’ve flouted the fuck out of this so much.
If the rationale for us needing to still be inside isn't explained this afternoon, and we're locked down for another 3 weeks, then I think even more people will be fucking it off, probably closely followed by businesses opening up that haven't been given the green light.
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