Coronavirus Death Thread

[Shindig]

Oh. Oh, dear. Some of it's a little naff (retreats to his country manor) but it's terrible how many times he's said or done something bad.

[Spikey M]

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[Manc]

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52604676

Whelp, so much for that.

[Magic]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52604676

Whelp, so much for that.

Was always going to happen though, just need to be mindful of the vulnerable. Shouldn't be an issue.

[Don]

Here it is:

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December 31st China alerts WHO to new virus.
January 23rd Study reveals a third of China’s patients require intensive care.
January 24th Boris Johnson misses first Cobra meeting.
January 29th Boris Johnson misses second Cobra meeting.
January 31st The NHS declares first ever ‘Level 4 critical incident’ Meanwhile, the government declines to join European scheme to source PPE.
February 5th Boris Johnson misses third Cobra meeting.
February 12th Boris Johnson misses fourth Cobra meeting. Exeter University published study warning Coronavirus could infect 45 million people in the UK if left unchallenged.
February 13th Boris Johnson misses conference call with European leaders.
February 14th Boris Johnson goes away on holiday. Aides are told keeps Johnson’s briefing notes short or he will not read them.
February 18th Johnson misses fifth cobra meeting.
February 26th Boris Johnson announces ‘Herd Immunity’ strategy, announcing some people will lose loved ones. Government document is leaked, predicting half a million Brits could die in ‘worse case scenario’
February 29th Boris Johnson retreats to his country manor. NHS warns of ‘PPE shortage nightmare’ Stockpiles have dwindled or expired after years of austerity cuts.
March 2nd Boris Johnson attends his first Cobra meeting, declining another opportunity to join European PPE scheme. Government’s own scientists say over half a million Brit’s could die if virus left unrestrained. Johnson tells country “We are very, very well prepared.”
March 3rd Scientists urge Government to advise public not to shake hands. Boris Johnson brags about shaking hands of Coronavirus patients.
March 4th Government stops providing daily updates on virus following a 70% spike in UK cases. They will later U-turn on this amid accusations they are withholding vital information.
March 5th Boris Johnson tells public to ‘wash their hands and business as usual’
March 7th Boris Johnson joins 82,000 people at Six Nations match.
March 9th After Ireland cancels St Patrick’s day parades, the government says there’s “No Rationale” for cancelling sporting events.
March 10th - 13th Cheltenham takes place, more than a quarter of a million people attend.
March 11th 3,000 Atletico Madrid fans fly to Liverpool.
March 12th Boris Johnson states banning events such as Cheltenham will have little effect. The Imperial College study finds the government’s plan is projected to kill half a million people.
March 13th The FA suspends the Premier League, citing an absence of Government guidance. Britain is invited to join European scheme for joint purchase of ventilators, and refuses. Boris Johnson lifts restrictions of those arriving from Coronavirus hot spots.
March 14th Government is still allowing mass gatherings, as Stereophonics play to 5,000 people in Cardiff.
March 16th Boris Johnson asks Britons not to go to pubs, but allows them to stay open. During a conference call, Johnson jokes that push to build new ventilators should be called ‘Operation Last Gasp’
March 19th Hospital patients with Coronavirus are returned to care homes in a bid to free up hospital space. What follows is a boom of virus cases in care homes.
March 20th The Government states that PPE shortage crisis is “Completely resolved” Less than two weeks later, the British Medical Association reports an acute shortage in PPE.
March 23rd UK goes into lockdown.
March 26th Boris Johnson is accused of putting ‘Brexit over Breathing’ by not joining EU ventilator scheme. The government then state they had not joined the scheme because they had ‘missed the email’
April 1st The Evening Standard publishes that just 0.17% of NHS staff have been tested for the virus.
April 3rd The UK death toll overtakes China.
April 5th 17.5 million Antibody tests, ordered by the government and described by Boris Johnson as a ‘game changer’ are found to be a failure.
April 7th Boris Johnson is moved to intensive care with Coronavirus.
April 16th Flights bring 15,000 people a day into the UK - without virus testing.
April 17th Health Secretary Matt Hancock says “I would love to be able to wave a magic wand and have PPE fall from the sky.” The UK has now missed four opportunities to join the EU’s PPE scheme.
April 21st The Government fails to reach its target of face masks for the NHS, as it is revealed manufactures offers of help were met with silence. Instead millions of pieces of PPE are being shipped from the UK to Europe.
April 23rd - 24th Government announces testing kits for 10 million key workers. Orders run out within minutes as only 5,000 are made available.
April 25th UK death toll from Coronavirus overtakes that of The Blitz.
April 30th Boris Johnson announces the UK has succeeded in avoiding a tragedy that had engulfed other parts of the world - At this point, The UK has the 3rd highest death toll in the world.
May 1st The Government announces it has reached its target of 100,000 tests - They haven’t conducted the tests, but posted the testing kits.
May 5th The UK death toll becomes the highest in Europe.
May 6th Boris Johnson announces the UK could start to lift lockdown restrictions by next week.

EDIT: Turns out it was put together by the person who did my wedding photography, rather than doing the rounds per se, so feel free to fact-check it.

Tell the cunt to start training for a new career instead and not waste his time.

[John Arne]

Heard the UK has decided against the policy of not refusing to reject the decision to reverse the uplifting of the enforced lockdown.

[Spikey M]

Heard the UK has decided against the policy of not refusing to reject the decision to reverse the uplifting of the enforced lockdown.

What?

[John Arne]

What?

Twitter seemed to suggest that the message was somewhat unclear.

[Shindig]

Eight people have been fined for breaking lockdown regulations after a fight broke out at a birthday party attended by 40 adults and children.

Phenomenal.

[Baz]

Tell the cunt to start training for a new career instead and not waste his time.

What do you mean?

[Yevrah]

4 minutes in and he's not said anything of substance.

[Yevrah]

So we're at level 3.8?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I stopped listening to him very quickly, entranced by the signer's low key mullet.

[Boydy]

There we go, "get back to work". Typical fucking tories.

[Yevrah]

There we go, "get back to work". Typical fucking tories.

Sigh. If you're going to take this approach you're as bad as Jim and Lewis.

[Baz]

What’s the actual message(s) outcome, for those who missed it?

[Shindig]

I don't think the construction site next to office ever really stopped, to be fair.

[Yevrah]

What’s the actual message(s) outcome, for those who missed it?

I've honestly no idea. This is the worst 13 minutes of communication I've ever seen so far.

[Yevrah]

I don't think the construction site next to office ever really stopped, to be fair.

The construction industry was never formally told to stop.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They never told people who can't work from home to stop working anyway, so I don't see what has changed, other than being slightly more liberal on the exercise front.

[Boydy]

What’s the actual message(s) outcome, for those who missed it?

Get back to work, peasants, but don't take the train or bus.

[Waffdon]

Pre recorded

He’s worse than Trump.

[Shindig]

1. Unlimited Exercise.
2. Schools might open on June 1st at the earliest.
3. Terror level 4 ... ish.
4. Quarantine on air travel ... soon.
5. Some hospitality might open in July.
6. Go back to work if possible.

[igor_balis]

fuck is it with these mad tory cunts, obsessed with "individual liberty" and a small state, lol yeah go to the park but you be alert, if your nan dies it's your fault. but as soon as someone wants to make facesitting porn or some shit they get their grubby victorian noses up in your business. fucking mental patients.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I might have missed it because he just sounded like he was phoning the whole thing in, but he didn't say anything about social contact, did he? i.e. I still can't see my parents for the foreseeable?

[Kikó]

That was fucking awful. Get back to work plebs, how dare you all stop working (except those who are still working from home). Get back into construction (who were still doing this anyway) and keep safe. But don't get the bus.

[Pleb]

That was a fucking dumpster fire.

[Kikó]

I might have missed it because he just sounded like he was phoning the whole thing in, but he didn't say anything about social contact, did he? i.e. I still can't see my parents for the foreseeable?

He said maintain the social distance from non household people.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Lovely. Well I've started a relationship with my brown armchair so at least I can go for exercise with him.

[Lewis]

It was a bit disappointing that he didn't have specific plans made up for me personally, which raises more questions than it answers, but otherwise it seemed about right. Incremental changes, loose timetabling... I still think this great tracing wheeze is balls, in principle and inevitably in reality, but there we are.

[Andy]

Fuck knows if I'll be going back to work tomorrow, haven't heard anything.

Will only be able to really go back to work if the big builders merchants open up, I cant see them mobilising in time for tomorrow. Probably this week though.

[Yevrah]

Will only be able to really go back to work if the big builders merchants open up, I cant see them mobilising in time for tomorrow. Probably this week though.

They'll all be open soon in some form or other. They've been planning it for days now.

[Shindig]

We'll know from the Yevrage.

[Spikey M]

This woman whinging about the lack of clarity in when the Hospitality Industry can open is good fun, with the BBC stamping 'Hospitality Services open in July' across her chest.

[Andy]

They'll all be open soon in some form or other. They've been planning it for days now.

That's good, assume for once they will actually all be trade only for a while.

[Don]

Getting Sir Keir on to spout the 'it wasn't clear' propaganda within 10 mins of the speech was quality, so much for BBC being on the Tories' side.

I said it when news programmes were doing it but using this bullshit R-number generator as the fulcrum of life is idiotic.

I really thought we'd have some fucking indication of bubble-based freedoms by now. Fuckin joke, send the ethnics and the oldies to the gas chambers.

[Lewis]

Peter Oborne has praised the broadcast, which proves the moaning about it is largely mong-driven.

[Shindig]

Careful, Taz. You're one of them.

[Don]

Fuck off, I'm not even at peak footballer age.

[Waffdon]

Can walk side by side all day with complete randoms but nothing on seeing family/friends etc. What a time to be alive.

[Kikó]

Getting Sir Keir on to spout the 'it wasn't clear' propaganda within 10 mins of the speech was quality, so much for BBC being on the Tories' side.

I said it when news programmes were doing it but using this bullshit R-number generator as the fulcrum of life is idiotic.

I really thought we'd have some fucking indication of bubble-based freedoms by now. Fuckin joke, send the ethnics and the oldies to the gas chambers.

You do realise the leader of the Conservatives spoke unchallenged for 10 minutes before that right?

[Don]

You do realise the leader of the Conservatives spoke unchallenged for 10 minutes before that right?

He's OUR leader.

Plus, the Starmer shit-stirring was a choice for the BBC and a potent one.

[Kikó]

The leader of the opposition can have airtime. That's normal.

[Don]

Yeah but not necesaarily at such a critical time to shaping how the public will perceive the message.

I'm all for it, just raise a smile next time someone calls the BBC openly biased.

[Boydy]

Especially now he's not a threat to the capital class.

[Kikó]

There are a lot of ways to call out the BBC but having the right to reply to an unchallenged video broadcast by the opposition, isn't a sign of bias.

[Lewis]

The media twats are desperate to get Keir Starmer over. They gave him a very easy ride during their leadership contest, and it's been wall-to-wall wanking ever since.

[phonics]

Because he’s one of them. It works the same for Boris and Dave and Gideon.

[Spikey M]

Nothing says bias like allowing both sides of an argument to be heard.