Residents in deprived areas have experienced double the death rates of those in affluent areas, new figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal.
the human cost of the business as usual/lockdown social divide is there for all to see.
― calzino, Friday, 1 May 2020 10:09 (four years ago) link
Bosses just having a laugh as usual:
Various universities are looking at cutting zero hours staff & not renewing fixed term contracts. The first place they should look to save money is on salaries for high earners. VC cuts of 20% are pitiful.At Durham salary caps at £100k-60k would save £1.5m to >£3.8m pic.twitter.com/zhdxdy2qy4— Sol Gamsu (@SolGamsu) May 1, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 May 2020 10:11 (four years ago) link
going back to work is inevitable. no govt and especially not this one is going to subsidise people like me (non essential retail worker) to stay at home for a year or more.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 1 May 2020 10:17 (four years ago) link
That's why it was almost certainly better to have gone for an earlier and more comprehensive lockdown. The economic hit of repeated lockdowns/a big second spike is going to be worse than for countries that pursued a more sensible policy and will be able to rebound much more quickly.
The idea that man-made economic laws can possibly trump a lethal virus that spread around the world in a matter of weeks is just fundamentally stupid on so many levels.
― Matt DC, Friday, 1 May 2020 10:23 (four years ago) link
Quite easy to envisage a scenario where reports from Ireland or New Zealand show people going about their business more or less normally in the autumn/winter while British people have to batten down the hatches all over again. The government isn't going to get such an easy ride in that scenario.
― Matt DC, Friday, 1 May 2020 10:25 (four years ago) link
The Dutch and UK government seem to be in step with one another (the Dutch have been as vocal as Germany in regards to Corona bonds).
Let me try to bring some clarity to my position: I don't think at this stage any government is in a position to "solve" this problem. There is simply not enough knowledge about this disease to articulate solutions. But what I do expect is for governments to protect lives— Flavia Dzodan (@redlightvoices) May 1, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 May 2020 10:45 (four years ago) link
Why contact tracing won't happen..
“We don’t have the health service infrastructure at regional level” that we used to have ten years ago, says former regional director of public health Dr Gabriel Scally, which would make contact tracing more difficult #Newsnight pic.twitter.com/YCWdqYJsDd— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) April 30, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 May 2020 10:51 (four years ago) link
I mean obv you want to see all countries getting a grip on this thing, but I feel like if a few of our neighbours get their lockdown easing badly wrong then it takes pressure off the UK govt to get their act together. And they would be craven and self-centred enough to use other states mistakes and the resulting death spikes to try and put shade on their own monumental fuck ups. We need some success stories and a govt that learns to copy successful strategies.
― calzino, Friday, 1 May 2020 10:52 (four years ago) link
Have British journalists missed the mood of the country on coronavirus? A significant minority think they haveI dig into the narratives underlying this "critique of the critics", and ask, can the press ever reconnect with the populists? And if so, how?https://t.co/uiQLpAlvRB— Jay Owens (@hautepop) April 30, 2020
This is interesting - a deep dive into that idiot meme that's doing the rounds and why it's so popular.
― Matt DC, Friday, 1 May 2020 11:03 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/01/cavalier-tory-leader-botched-pandemic-response-1957
A couple of gaps here as I don't know if we will ever see any significant economic growth again and the press could also be decimated in a few years. Besides this pandemic will last for longer than the '57 one seemed to. It's almost certainly killed more than 30k already and there's a long way to go.
OTOH we don't have a sharp Lab leader.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 May 2020 11:06 (four years ago) link
No surprises, just confirmation:
Very striking from @ONS Covid related death rates in most deprived areas are more than twice those in least deprived areas. The socio economic gap in Covid mortality appears bigger than the general mortality gap https://t.co/PnWhiCiU3x pic.twitter.com/lIzMuHlpU2— Paul Johnson (@PJTheEconomist) May 1, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 May 2020 11:42 (four years ago) link
What would be the outcome of this
The @BoardofDeputies strategy of dealing with #LabourAntisemitism is flawed because it keeps giving carrots to the leadership instead of using sticks sometimes. BOD should tell @Keir_Starmer if both @HackneyAbbott & @BellRibeiroAddy not suspended by Monday, we cease contact— Tal Ofer טל עופר تل عوفر (@TalOfer) May 1, 2020
― gyac, Friday, 1 May 2020 11:46 (four years ago) link
o no
― ShariVari, Friday, 1 May 2020 11:47 (four years ago) link
And they didn't have one until 6 years after the 1957 pandemic.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 1 May 2020 11:52 (four years ago) link
Excellent passive-aggressive hashtag usage there, so glad that the advent of the Kier-era hasn't put a stop to this stuff
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 May 2020 11:53 (four years ago) link
we cease contact
seems like a carrot tbh
― nashwan, Friday, 1 May 2020 12:05 (four years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZqXfuZ_Sk_E/hqdefault.jpg"the advent of the Kier-era"
― calzino, Friday, 1 May 2020 12:11 (four years ago) link
Carrots, in the kier-era, are too orange
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Friday, 1 May 2020 12:11 (four years ago) link
tbh, don't sign up to absurd guilt-by-association 10-point pledges when you aren't going to stick to their unworkable conclusions - which goes for RLB equally.
― ShariVari, Friday, 1 May 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link
Weren't there like 600 people on that Zoom?
― Matt DC, Friday, 1 May 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
Yeah they were and I’m pretty sure it was to discuss the racism of the leaked report!
― gyac, Friday, 1 May 2020 12:21 (four years ago) link
so they got disciplined by Starmer for participating in a mass zoom event that happened to contain a few unsavory characters. Fucking joke.
― calzino, Friday, 1 May 2020 12:25 (four years ago) link
Friendship ENDED
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 May 2020 12:28 (four years ago) link
Dark day for Manchester, whose local politics & Labour Party is in the grip of the property lobby.This was *thrown out* at the planning meeting in April. Approved yesterday by extraordinary committee of 3, which included the council's (unelected) Chief Exec. https://t.co/mIFpnk1c3n— isaac rose (@_isaacrose) May 1, 2020
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Friday, 1 May 2020 13:02 (four years ago) link
layla moran calling for UBI
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Friday, 1 May 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
what a hotbed of radicalism the LibDems have become since Swinson has gone. I totally forgot they don't even have a leader at the moment, how could any party manage to run a leadership election in a slower fashion than Labour.
― calzino, Friday, 1 May 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link
739 new deaths, def time to consider relaxing our restrictions
― julian sprinkles (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 May 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link
that doesn't sound like past the peak to me
― calzino, Friday, 1 May 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
Only 427 in hospitals, which is definitely down on a few weeks ago, with the remainder in care homes, which is way up. How long before we're at parity?
― Matt DC, Friday, 1 May 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
The Russian oligarch and major Tory donor Sky interviewed earlier certainly thinks the peak is passed - get the proles back to work (or the Tory Party is getting no more money from me).
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 1 May 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
JUst reading word taht what counts as a test having been carried out has changed from being a swab waiting to be analysed to a test being sent out to an individual now to a test being sent out to distribution centre. Nice way to massage numbers.
I thought the Guardian headline this morning about being past the peak might be a little premature just from who it was attributed to
― Stevolende, Friday, 1 May 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/may/01/uk-government-faces-legal-challenge-coronavirus-lockdown-businessman-simon-dolan?CMP
Absolutely fuck this guy.
― Matt DC, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
Seems like an intelligent caring guy
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link
sky news just wiping the floor w the bbc lately. the latter reduced to rephrasing govt statements then appending a “some claim that (x)” rejoinder. on sky rn i’m watching a 20-minute report on makeshift morgues and mass graves in new york, ride-alongs with hearse drivers, amazing stuff tbqh.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 May 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
now they’ve moved on to louisiana and talking about the disparity in outcomes for black americans. whole thing’s an hour i think. called “coronavirus: america’s reckoning”
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 May 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
stunned that someone who wrote a book called How to Make Millions Without a Degree is a raging bellend
and right at the end of the article...lives in Monaco
― nashwan, Friday, 1 May 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
DT Mike Gapes: RT The Independent Group for Change: Read the letter from Anna Soubry MP Chris Leslie Ann Coffey Mike Gapes Joan Ryan MP here ◽ https://t.co/lNjuHFjvtF https://t.co/mktUOtWSU5— Tweets MPs Delete (@deletedbyMPs) May 1, 2020
DT Chris Leslie: RT The Independent Group: Today, seven MPs have left Labour and formed a new, Independent Group. They’re from different backgrounds but are united i… https://t.co/8p5LiTWZtz— Tweets MPs Delete (@deletedbyMPs) May 1, 2020
whoever runs the Chuka, Gapesy, Chris Leslie etc twitter accounts are doing a bit of spring cleaning today and deleting all their year old + highly embarrassing tweets relating to the brief existence of CuK
― calzino, Friday, 1 May 2020 20:49 (four years ago) link
They'll always have Nandos
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 May 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
and there is probably a thousand screenshots out there of all the most nauseating twitter content from the hilarious peak-hubris period of the CuK timeline that will live on to embarrass them for at least another decade.
― calzino, Friday, 1 May 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
ok good piece on paramedics in NI on the 10 i must admit.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 May 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW11_dnWAAAI81W?format=jpg&name=large
I can't believe five dangerous radical infiltrators who work for the NHS actually despise Tories and the lefty BBC gave them a platform to criticise the UK govt when they are doing such a cracking job of dealing with this pandemic.
― calzino, Saturday, 2 May 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 1 May 2020 bookmarkflaglink
He has his wish.
Guess they’ve published that exit plan. pic.twitter.com/jchzPB6aB1— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) May 1, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 2 May 2020 07:31 (four years ago) link
Anyway I'm sure lockdown will be unpopular and people will go on as normal, spending like crazy on those sky subs to get to +20 GDP in q3.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 2 May 2020 07:37 (four years ago) link
big red line go down, virus less deadly now, i am very smart
― Rams Valley Residents Insuring Future From Chaps Quotes (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 2 May 2020 07:44 (four years ago) link
Is there a bank holiday weekend in the UK too? I assume Mayday has been a traditional holiday there and may be why Ireland has one.Anyway. Is this going to be the first one ever when people all stay home in droves.
Cos otherwise think things might not go as planned. & everything must go as tories planned mustn't it.Can you have a revolution and keep social distancing.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 2 May 2020 07:59 (four years ago) link
See what can be achieved when you have a functioning opposition keeping the conversation about ending the lock-down and taking some pressure of the billionaire tory donors who want the same thing.
― calzino, Saturday, 2 May 2020 08:19 (four years ago) link
In the uk the May Day holiday has been moved to a Friday for reasons (nth anniversary of VE Day) although it’s been quite badly publicised, which would be quite annoying if anything were still going onIn any case the first bank holiday ever where ppl stayed home in droves was... the 4-day Easter weekend we just had a few weeks ago
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Saturday, 2 May 2020 08:24 (four years ago) link
I was talking about Mayday and being a bit sarcastic since I bet there are going to be a lot of hotspots this weekend if the weather stays as good as it looks outside. Rain has just been a couple of showers when it has happened.So expecting a resurgence in a couple of weeks.
Bank holiday Friday doesn't sound great.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 2 May 2020 08:34 (four years ago) link
I've been a workshy layabout for so long now that bank holidays long since lost any significance to me. When I was self-employed they used to be a pain in the arse when I wasn't making enough money and didn't get paid for them. I forget that normal people like to do stuff on bank holidays!
― calzino, Saturday, 2 May 2020 09:20 (four years ago) link
there's a spring bank holiday at the end of the may as well (in england anyway). the 26th, in that "article", is the tuesday after BH Monday.
― koogs, Saturday, 2 May 2020 09:58 (four years ago) link