Johnson says he regrets that Starmer did not take back his claim about the system being on the verge of collapse. He repeats the point about it doing a “heroic” job. The medium journey is under 10 miles, he says.
Having to travel 10+ miles for your test - pure heroism.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 11:15 (four years ago) link
Tories: BREAKING THE LAW!
Guardian libs: be polite before killing me.
Losing it at these Guardian comments describing what "Starmerism" means to them. "Politeness", the end of "mad-ism", "a reminder that the age of enlightenment did actually happen"? We are so screwed. pic.twitter.com/z9NTHqVJGo— Stephen Buranyi (@stephenburanyi) September 9, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 11:22 (four years ago) link
looking forward to hearing the ronas and riders
― this is my clean tone (NickB),
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― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 11:22 (four years ago) link
big lack of the famed forensics on brexit here
― stet, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 11:25 (four years ago) link
Note the Trumpism
44m ago12:32Kim Johnson (Lab) asks about housing in Liverpool. She says the government’s plans for planning reform will allow slums to return. Will he abandon them?
Boris Johnson says his government will deliver beautiful new homes.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 12:18 (four years ago) link
the "mad-ism" letter is signed "rawlsian"
― mark s, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
Great stuff.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 12:41 (four years ago) link
so you can see one grandparent at a time in england now?
if you've got the rona and give it to granddad when you see him, what's preventing him from going home and giving it to granny?
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link
the pub. it's on the way.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link
St Leger meeting decision reversed. This government listens
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
Just lucky that all of today's attendees are immune
― chonky floof (groovypanda), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
Is it just my imagination or has Michael Gove completely disappeared over the past few months? Hancock, Sunak, Raab, Patel, Williamson and Sharma have all been fairly prominent over the summer and even Johnson has pulled his finger out a little bit. Suggests that Gove knows this is a disaster that is going to end multiple political careers and wants to keep as low a profile as possible.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
Mark Francois also disappeared for some reason
― chonky floof (groovypanda), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 13:30 (four years ago) link
Give reportedly came up with this “break the law” wheeze and pushed for it
― stet, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 13:31 (four years ago) link
the master strategist at work
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 14:10 (four years ago) link
televised update at 4 on bbc1.
i was looking forward to The Repair Shop, but i guess that won't happen now
― koogs, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
If we have built capacity for 200k tests and Hancock is complaining that people without symptoms are getting tests... does that mean he thinks he's built capacity for 200k active daily symptomatic tests?
Also if only 25% are ineligible why aren't we reporting 150k new daily cases? What the fuck do these 148k symptomatic people per day have that isn't covid?
― オニモ (onimo), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
he doesn't know what he's doing.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/lVoLCWe.png
not great really is it
are we going climbing again?
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
Not great but also a bit misleading because there were so few tests done in March/April — you only got tested if you were already in hospital, so that actual number of cases then would have been massively higher xp
― stet, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
Lovely that the messaging to young people is literally now ‘you will kill your grandparents if you don’t follow this arbitrary rule’
― crisp, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
But like do go to work yeah and maybe nandos on your way home
BoJo now using over testing of non symptomatic as a positive.
I can't work out how 500k negative tests a day enables normal life. It would take 2 months to test the country in which time all the normal life people have covid.
Yet another variety of herd immunity but not really
― オニモ (onimo), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
This Salford moonshot doesn't make sense to me either. At all.
― stet, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
You can't live your life as normal if you get a negative test, because you could still catch it the minute you walk out the testing centre.
An antibody test is perhaps one thing that could let you do that, but it looks like antibodies aren't staying around for long enough for that
― stet, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
(as I understand it, and that's not much)
antibodies not lasting isn't really seen as a problem as your body is programmed by your first infection to reproduce them
2 or 3 reinfection stories recently maybe suggests otherwise
― オニモ (onimo), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
That's true stet but deaths look to be creeping up slightly as well - most since July.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
.@Peston asks if Christmas is cancelled?Boris Johnson says he is 'hopeful' that 'in many ways' we could be able to get some aspects of our lives back to normal by ChristmasHe refers to 'moonshot' of daily testing, but says govt 'cannot be 100% sure' if can deliver that— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) September 9, 2020
― scampo italiano (gyac), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
is there a reliable daily link for keeping up with rona new cases/deaths?
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
― stet, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
Talk of goose and figs is a bit insensitive now that Christmas is cancelled
― crisp, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
"A dose of Coronavirus you got from licking lampposts"
rejected B&S lyric
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
Daily is difficult but I'm using this for cases. It's not 100% up to date (I don't think anywhere public is) but it at least gives you an idea of where the hotspots are:
https://russss.github.io/covidtracker/map.html
There was one on, I think, the Time Out website that had case data down to a ridiculous level of local granularity but also seemed to be lagging behind by a week or so.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
highlight (of the 5 minutes i didn't ffwd through) was bj telling pesto to unmute
― koogs, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
How is it possible that he still hasn't worked that out?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link
Some real hard cases in my office still can’t tbf
― stet, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
i’ve got it set up to permamute except when i’m holding down the spacebar. works v well for me
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
It is ridiculous that people ask the current UK PM questions, in good faith, expecting reasonable answers, truth, logic or anything related.
You would not do this with Donald Trump. And most of the UK journos would chortlingly agree that you wouldn't.
So don't do it with the UK PM.
Don't bother unmuting.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
Literally give me 1/10 of what Bobby P is paid for this shite and I’ll do a (metaphorical) reign of terror that makes Jeremy Paxman look like Holly Willoughby.
― scampo italiano (gyac), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:44 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Setting up a crowdfund for this
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:54 (four years ago) link
Good things are possible
Lord Alan Sugar has said his central London property investments are "suffering" due to office workers staying home https://t.co/y2pyy3qxhu— Evening Standard (@standardnews) September 9, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
Labour to the core
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
100% this is what this whole thing is about, the government don't especially care if Pret goes under or if a few Spanish baristas have to find new jobs, but if they do then rents will have to go down and the collapse of the Central London property market is going to hit a lot of anonymous Tory donors where it hurts.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
I am going to get a several copies of the Standard everyday if commercial rents are fucked it's going to be so good.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
Operation Moonshot then.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
the SAGE guy on PM thought the best case scenario at the moment was slowing the rate of growth of the R rate, we are so getting locked down before winter
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link
“The prime minister has tasked the secretary of state for health and social care with delivering a Mass Population Testing Programme, currently called Operation Moonshot, before the end of the year.
“This is described by the prime minister as our only hope for avoiding a second national lockdown before a vaccine, something the country cannot afford. He would also like this to support the opening up of the economy and allow the population to return to something closer to normality.”
The leaks confirm private sector organisations are to be encouraged to carry out testing to help their own trade and protect their workforce.
“Businesses could support our testing strategy by providing ‘testing at the door’ to enable large scale ‘high-risk’ events to take place, such as football matches, theatre productions, concerts or conferences,” the strategy says. “The costs of travel or leisure activities could include the costs of accessing tests beforehand.”
Absolute bullshit.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
Jess Phillips MP (Labour) tweeted :Might get a t-shirt to where to work that says "Grow a Spine" on the back "There's no point being a captain on a burning wreckage" There is nothing more disappointing in Westminster than the weasley complete lack of courage.
0 0Jess Phillips MPDeleted about 16 hours ago after 2 minutes, tweeted using Twitter Web App
if Jess didn't delete all her best tweets she could have bin a contender.
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
operation moonbeam
― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
she can't help but to burn so brightly after being the beneficiary of a Russell Group Uni and a grammar school education. I can't help - as a thick bastard - being so jel of her oh so honeyed classicism. actually tbf most of my first draughts are that bad as well!
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link