https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/alexwickham/10-days-that-changed-britains-coronavirus-approach
― Matt DC, Saturday, 21 March 2020 11:23 (four years ago) link
even if a tenth of this happened it's still appalling:
Like this caricature of a trade union bureaucrat praising this as a great victory for class collaboration in the national interest while 5 million people face destitution.https://t.co/AYvVnGChxi— libcom dot org (@libcomorg) March 21, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 March 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link
it seems there were actually limits after all, anyone praising that pencil-necked tory cunt who isn't a tory should be branded. Apparently there might be something aimed at the working poor next week.. but why the drip drip drip of new measures every few days when every hour is precious?
― calzino, Saturday, 21 March 2020 11:42 (four years ago) link
Tories are so good at dividing the British public
― ogmor, Saturday, 21 March 2020 11:53 (four years ago) link
If we are on the road to having death rates that match Italy's then the British public could reach agreement though.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link
You reckon?
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link
We'll soon find out
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
jeremy cunt indeed, what an absolutely shameless display this smug fuck has been putting on about combatting shortages in the nhs he helped inflict
Jeremy Hunt calls for NHS staff to have the protective equipment they need. The former health secretary shared his concerns that not all NHS staff were receiving the correct personal protective equipment (PPE) on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:30 (four years ago) link
Predictable stuff (isn't it always?) from Brendan O'Peasant.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/boris-s-pub-ban-makes-this-a-dark-day-for-britain
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:32 (four years ago) link
Has anyone called it the 'EU virus' yet?
― coco vide (pomenitul), Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
Over the past week, as rumours grew of a government crackdown on public houses, I popped into the pubs near my flat a few times. I wanted to know who was still frequenting these places that have apparently become hotbeds of disease and destruction.It was mostly old blokes, especially during the day. Men in their seventies, usually on their own, sat at a table with a pint and the newspaper. Widowers, perhaps, grateful for a couple of hours out of the house, amongst other people, in the world. It breaks my heart to wonder what will become of these people now.
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:35 (four years ago) link
People should be free to die horrible deaths in an over-capacity hospital after being exposed to coronavirus in a public space, do you see?
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:36 (four years ago) link
The fact that the Spiked cult must be tying themselves in ever more complex and tangled knots at the moment brings some tiny joy.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
Today there are lots of Irish people on Twitter saying B.O.Neil definitely isn't from Ireland and hoping he contracts and dies from Covid19
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:39 (four years ago) link
The fact that he had to go and research what the pub was like speaks volumes.
― I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:41 (four years ago) link
yeah, he was really telling on himself there
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link
Brendan o'Cunt aside tho, I think some people *are* being a little glib or smartarse about the horrible effect that social isolation itself is gonna have on a lot of people. This is probably the right thing to do but imo berating the people, especially the old, who are gonna be climbing the walls is almost as shitty a look as yr average Spiked piece.
― I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:44 (four years ago) link
By all accounts it was millennial men who were packing pubs out the most, a doctor friend of mine was in genuine despair at driving past people in the pub last night.
Which isn't to diminish the mental toll that all this isolation is going to take, but from what I can see a lot of people either just don't seem to get it or don't give a shit.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:51 (four years ago) link
I am supremely horny for the barmaid at my local pub and I would happily shred all your lungs just to handle the same bag of peanuts as her. Shame on you, Boris: this is sinister and shit, says Brendan O’Neill pic.twitter.com/wMDbZZgOZk— TheIainDuncanSmiths (@TheIDSmiths) March 21, 2020
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
Also we need to distinguish between people who are going to be going through some very bad mental health or loneliness issues over the next few months and a load of total ledges who want one last night out on the lash with the lads, not to mention the pricks who want to go out and contract or spread a lethal virus to own the snowflakes.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 21 March 2020 14:27 (four years ago) link
like any middleton perhaps?
Ant Middleton is spreading the rona pic.twitter.com/ftbxNDNxBX— Niall Moran (@niallmoran_) March 21, 2020
Ant Middleton update:He's in NZ, where his top secret show has been cancelled due to #coronavirus. He's now trying to fly back to Britain. Unfortunately all flights to Britain from NZ have been cancelled...due to #coronavirus Don't F with Karma. pic.twitter.com/WrksOyLNbi— Cromwell (@Cromwell606) March 21, 2020
― ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 21 March 2020 14:43 (four years ago) link
Easy to be a tough guy when your shitty TV job relies on you being somewhere remote, away from any major population centres. Dick.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
"but what I am an expert in is life" is prime #accidentalpartridge
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 21 March 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
You'd think he'd be good at taking orders
― I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 March 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
I haven’t done this myself yet but most of the young people I know were drinking with friends in mass video chats and the like. Strange, but that’s where we are now. There are ways around it, the more people stay in, the easier it will be to get past this stage, and at least the pubs are closed now. Weirdly because some of my best friends live overseas, and because I play PS4 with people too, a lot of the stuff people are doing now is easy for me to introduce them to.
― some of you are enjoying this (gyac), Saturday, 21 March 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
professional jealousy innit, ant spent his life learning to slot enemy combatants and now some pissant virus has overtaken his lifetime killcount in a matter of days
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 21 March 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
Enemy combatants? Aye, right.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
We are all @andrewismaxwell pic.twitter.com/cdppxhsR18— Naomi O'Leary (@NaomiOhReally) November 4, 2018
― some of you are enjoying this (gyac), Saturday, 21 March 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
morelike direspora, amirite
― calzino, Saturday, 21 March 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
We've been using Houseparty for group video chats which is pretty fun if you're all drinking together because the mobile version has quizzes and other games built in, so you can make it feel more pubby.
Zoom is good too but I definitely think of that as more of a work thing. Tbh it was pretty considerate of humanity to finally achieve half decent videoconferencing at this precise moment in history.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 21 March 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
Was thinking the same thing today!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 21 March 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link
NEW: Boris Johnson initiated a partial shutdown only after Macron threatened to close the border, warning that the rest of Europe would follow suit. “We clearly had to threaten him so that he would finally move.” https://t.co/BM8HBEplbX— Benjamin Ramm (@BenjaminRamm) March 21, 2020
― stet, Saturday, 21 March 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
And via one of those briefing things he has tonight told people not to visit their mothers. These fucking incompetent cretins, fuck me.
― stet, Saturday, 21 March 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
We can also see it was ~10 days after China’s lockdown that its mortality curve slowed.Countries are looking at daily deaths in the dozens and thinking "It’s not that bad".Next week it’ll be 100s, and by the time lockdowns flatten the curves, daily death tolls could be 1,000+ pic.twitter.com/1fXUnmFZuR— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) March 21, 2020
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Saturday, 21 March 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
Sorry wrong link, should be this
And it’s probably worse than that.Italy locked down in stages. It closed schools 17 days ago. It locked down its worst-affected region 13 days ago.So: UK is already on a steeper mortality curve than Italy, and has apparently learned no lessons so is locking down more slowly. pic.twitter.com/ovp6nUpXRU— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) March 21, 2020
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Saturday, 21 March 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link
" On current trends, UK could hit Italy’s death count in ~9 days. Italy locked down 10 days ago. UK is already behind that schedule. https://t.co/Ywf1dsdzVS "
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Saturday, 21 March 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link
Breaking:NHS strikes unprecedented deal with private hospitals to boost fight against #COVID1920,000 clinical staff to join the NHS from MondayPrivate sector will reallocate practically its entire national hospital capacity to the NHS, includes 8,000 beds, 1,200 ventilators— Andrew Gregory (@andrewgregory) March 21, 2020
― Matt DC, Sunday, 22 March 2020 00:58 (four years ago) link
1200 ventilators will barely scratch the surface but still
― Matt DC, Sunday, 22 March 2020 01:01 (four years ago) link
‘strikes deal’ means they’re paying our money to private enterprises to bolster a health service that they spent the last decade stripping of its essentials
trebles all round, eh what
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 22 March 2020 06:53 (four years ago) link
Thousands of nurses have responded to the NHS and are going to join the register temporarily. 4000 was the number I saw.
― some of you are enjoying this (gyac), Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:05 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETs0cG5U4AAn6xU?format=jpg&name=large
"protect the economy, if some pensioners die that's too bad"
"Herd Immunity" will be the end of this government.
― calzino, Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:13 (four years ago) link
What paper is that?
― plax (ico), Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:18 (four years ago) link
Sunday Times
― calzino, Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:19 (four years ago) link
Paul Johnson.. I might be wrong
― calzino, Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:21 (four years ago) link
sorry.. Its the Graun I'm on the phone
― calzino, Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:22 (four years ago) link
It is the ST I think.
Cummings will get the blame (or as much blame as can’t be shifted onto the public) but Johnson is responsible.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:26 (four years ago) link
Also being reported that they’ve only taken the half-baked lockdown measures they have because Macron and others threatened to close off EU borders if they did not.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:30 (four years ago) link
this is the (free to read) article
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-ten-days-that-shook-britain-and-changed-the-nation-for-ever-spz6sc9vb
― Number None, Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:34 (four years ago) link
This is why it bugs me that anyone at all is going along with the narrative that the reversal of their strategy was due to “new data” - they could have “seen what was happening in Italy” before they came up with the strategy because it was already fucking happening in Italy at that point, and it didn’t take a bombshell study from imperial college to see that the same would happen here. Half the world and the WHO was screaming “what the hell are you doing you reckless idiots” at us, it didn’t only become a thing when some our own boffins said so
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:35 (four years ago) link
A lot of it is face-saving from journalists and commentators who swallowed and then took to social media to start mocking members of the public who expressed perfectly rational fears and doubts about the approach. This is different from the group who took the approach "I don't really know enough about but this but I'm relieved they're listening to the experts", who in general aren't parroting absurd lines about the science changing.
Johnson bears responsibility for elevating Cummings to a position of power unprecedented among recent aides (even Alistair Campbell didn't feel as dominant) and then not putting enough of a check on him, because all Johnson ever really wanted was the status of being PM with other people to do the difficult bits. But Cummings will get the blame, a lot of the media, virtually the entire civil service and probably a large chunk of Tory MPs are absolutely desperate to get rid of him.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 22 March 2020 10:16 (four years ago) link