love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

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Who Will Run The Prog Hospital?

Matt DC, Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link

Looking at https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus showing deaths in the UK having doubled in three days. Fuck.

nashwan, Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link

you absolutely do not love to see it

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link

We are starting from a relatively low base, Italy is doubling every six days and that's absolutely terrifying.

When were the people currently dying over here likely to have been infected?

Matt DC, Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link

hatt mancock on the tv now giving off powerful nervous-supply-teacher energy as he addressed the nation

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link

Errr also what the fuck is Matt Hancock doing taking a press conference right now? Wasn't he isolating with symptoms two or three days ago?

Matt DC, Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link

he said last week he’d be self-isolating until today

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link

he still should have a permanent Twat sticker on his back

calzino, Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link

well, yeah

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link

100,000 tests a day in the uk before the end of the month u say

mark your calendars

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:42 (four years ago) link

Germany were doing that a week ago.

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:44 (four years ago) link

yeah but we’re doing red white and blue tests

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link

Who did the sums on this repeated no test > bad test claim?

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link

no deal test is better than a bad

deal
test

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link

fucking formatting, you get the idea

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link

what an elegant joke

plax (ico), Thursday, 2 April 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link

I don't really get the clapping thing when the people who are being applauded aren't here to hear it?

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link

some of them might be? I mean I don't like it either, but plenty of NHS staff will be home at 8pm.

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link

every time you clap your hands, an nhs worker gets a piece of ppe

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link

So bang a pot in the hope and expectation an NHS worker lives in the neighbourhood?

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link

And it's not a case of liking or not, it's just a bit strange.

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link

I think it's basically fine in and of itself, just depressing in how it reminds me that the British public will choose sentimental gestures over real change 9 times out of 10.

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link

yes i live three streets from one of london's big hospitals, and at least one medical professional definitely lives in my building

mark s, Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link

New "Stay Home" advert tonight, featuring a quick shot of some doorstep applause.

A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link

oh god was that the Jess Phillips advert as well?

A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link

lol i mentioned on my busiest friends-only whatsapp that CMO chris whitty is three aliens in a trenchcoat and two unconnected ppl said they knew him and had worked with him and he's lovely so i am shamed as a dick

obviously i blame you lot

mark s, Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link

Those two “unconnected people” are the two aliens on the bottom

Microbes oft teem (wins), Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:32 (four years ago) link

chris whitty: three lovely aliens in a trenchcoat

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link

> chris whitty is three aliens in a trenchcoat

"IT'S A TRAP!"

koogs, Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link

I was clapping the Labour membership earlier myself, for showing such great wisdom and forethought by voting for a jellyfish to replace Corbyn.

calzino, Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:59 (four years ago) link

hope you were shouting "THIS CLAPPING IS SARCASTIC" to make sure the neighbours didn't misunderstand your intent

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:01 (four years ago) link

damn, I put up a "SARCASTIC CLAPPING" sign, probably no good in this context :(

calzino, Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link

signs aren't really good unless you make them fairly big and use fairly lights to illuminate them

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link

Errr also what the fuck is Matt Hancock doing taking a press conference right now? Wasn't he isolating with symptoms two or three days ago?

The strain contracted by politicians, actors, newspaper columnists, and other assorted blue ticks is a completely unrelated virus that just happens to share the name. It is without symptoms and not contagious. The risk is that, unknowingly, carriers may also be carrying the more well know version which is contracted more generally by members of the public.

anvil, Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link

WHO say 14 days self-isolation is required, is the UK govt saying it knows better than them again?

calzino, Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link

earlier Dawn Butler posted that her uncle took a fall, ended up in hospital, contracted covid-19 in hospital then died a la Eddie Large. I was telling my mum only yesterday, whatever you do and whatever chances you take .. just don't end up in a hospital right now or the rest of the year and beyond if possible.

calzino, Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link

i mean i kind of hated eddie large but this was not the way for him to go out, poor guy :(

mark s, Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link

At least he wasn't Syd Little.

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link

tbh they always seemed like the most harmless of those club comics made good, no dark secrets, no shitty political grandstanding as far as I remember

(cue somebody digging up dark secrets and shitty politics)

A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link

They were actually signed up as replacements for ITV defectors Morecambe and Wise. No pressure lads!

calzino, Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link

Jesus that's the most inadequate replacement this side of a Dyson ventilator.

A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 April 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link

Always found the differing attitudes towards alcohol & betting genuinely curious. UK on lockdown leads to (as of yet unfounded) concerns about more people betting at home online. We rightly take that seriously. UK on lockdown, let’s all get drunk at home - no problem, apparently. https://t.co/Wk9iWz3glu

— Michael Dugher (@MichaelDugher) April 2, 2020

Tom Watson's Music UK mate seems to be a gambling industry shill now - wow very subtle. Like there is a distinct difference between supping 9 ales in your living room and completely emptying your account in the bet 365 games room. cunt

calzino, Thursday, 2 April 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link

wait there's still stuff to bet on?

nashwan, Thursday, 2 April 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link

South African horseracing, flies running up a window, eye of horus slot machine!

calzino, Thursday, 2 April 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link

Ice hockey in Belarus

calzino, Thursday, 2 April 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link

Kung Volleyball

calzino, Thursday, 2 April 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link

Spanish lottery has been cancelled but most Euro, New York and two Irish ones still running!

calzino, Thursday, 2 April 2020 21:40 (four years ago) link

obv endless Roulette, Poker, Blackjack gaming rooms as well. gambling addicts will be doing much better (or losing much more money) than smack addicts during this pandemic

calzino, Thursday, 2 April 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link

Virtual Cribbage

nashwan, Thursday, 2 April 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link


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