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

That video of Hancock laughing is going to haunt him.

― gyac, Thursday, 28 May 2020 13:12 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm not one for conspiracy theories but you know how Twitter always knows what you're searching for after you type half a character based on your bubble, your location and what's trending? I typed Matt Hancoc and it still didn't know despite there being thousands of tweets today about him laughing. There are also no tweet suggestions for searching on Hancock+laughing.

Maybe it's like Cummings at the weekend where he's blessed with a porn element to his surname.

Searching Matt Hancoc gives me "results for Matt Hancock" so they might have fixed it.

Starmer has spoken following the police thing, is taking a pop at Johnson for being "too weak"

377 deaths yesterday

As of 9am 28 May, there have been 3,918,079 tests, with 119,587 tests on 27 May.

269,127 people have tested positive.

As of 5pm on 27 May, of those tested positive for coronavirus, across all settings, 37,837 have sadly died. pic.twitter.com/zj0HjOtMDG

— Department of Health and Social Care (@DHSCgovuk) May 28, 2020

i have questions

Johnson shutting down any questions about Cummings.

UNAVAILABLE is a fun thing to see on an official government report on critically important information

Laura K and Pesto and left sitting like a pair of dummies.

Whitty and Valance somehow managed to make Johnson look good there.

Nearly 400 deaths, just incredible.

Assuming the opening of schools has been quietly dropped?

lol don't be daft

it's not their families

Searching Matt Hancoc gives me "results for Matt Hancock" so they might have fixed it.

Sorry I was meaning predictive searches that pop up in the app when you begin searching and the suggested tweets that appear below. For example if I start search with 'te' I got loads of test, track, trace type suggestions.
If I type 'laughing hanco' I get nothing. If I complete the text and hit return I see multiple tweets per minute with 'laughing' and 'Hancock' in them.
It seems odd it can't work out what I'm looking for till I really look when it normally intrusively suggests all sorts of current stuff.

#deathsecretary is trending so I suppose I'm being picky

Mind ay when that lol davey cameron fucked a pig story broke, and pretty much the whole anglophone internet was talking about it, but in never showed up on any trending topics or searches tab

Assuming the opening of schools has been quietly dropped?

You're kidding, right? The cunt was almost punching the air and shouting, "Raus! Raus!"

lol don't be daft

― Children of Bo-Dom (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 May 2020 bookmarkflaglink

it's not their families

― Children of Bo-Dom (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 May 2020 bookmarkflaglink

There hasn't been much about it

There was meant to be a consultation to report on Thurs..

Obviously Johnson just says the first thing that comes into his head, of course, especially if he's trying to get out of a tight spot.

once Boris has spoken so mote it be, really can't see anything short of a mad spike or a mass strike between now and next Monday halting this.

i suspect it's mostly a marker for the gov, it'll be interesting to see what actual attendance is like if we get figures

I thought the schools thing was being left up to councils? With most of them staying closed for now?

I'd say it's the opposite - most of them are opening - for R, Y1 and Y6 - either next week or the week after

Last I heard 1500 schools are refusing to open. Don’t know how many there are in total but that sounds like a minority to me.

they'll pay for that come ofsted

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZKcSB4VAAMrvrB?format=jpg&name=large

angry signwriter of Huddersfield otm. I think the column of N.G.s next to MP's names means Not Good which is quite correct!

david shrigley's fallen off

Have we talked about this?

EXCLUSIVE: ITV News has obtained evidence that it was *always* the plan to discharge Covid-19 patients into care homes.

1,800 beds were block booked in care homes by the NHS and councils for that exact purpose.

...And they’re still being discharged. https://t.co/hM8UZWDKoX

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) May 28, 2020

aye turning care homes into Rona Sanatoriums and killing off more oldies sounds a cracking plan!

this morning I heard a report on S Korea saying they'd traced a c-19 outbreak to a warehouse that was that bad they were even finding traces of the rona on workers shoes and were closing the schools again, they seem very flexible and proactive. When that happens in this failed state the schools stay open, the outbreak is played down to a soundtrack of fireworks and bagpipes. Nothing to see, 350+ deaths a day successfully normalised as progress.

w..... t f @ that care home news??

I wonder what it is like not to live in a maintained failed state where the government doesn't seem to almost possess a homicidal urge to have as many of its citizens die as possible.

I'm not convinced that the headline is a smoking gun, is the thing - "the NHS and councils block booked beds in care homes to ensure they were ready to deal with a surge in patients coming from hospital" is the right thing to do if you think there's going to be a surge of such patients - it's the not testing them before discharging that's the scandal, and we already knew that.

meanwhile in the history of shitposting:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZLI19wVAAI8zzq?format=jpg

Andrew - I don't think the government were open about this, for one.

Besides lack of protection and testing it's the treatment of care homes (which was always late in the news) and how they were turned into a mix of a hospital and a hospice. These details add to that picture around the collapse of the response.

after being exposed and immediately prior to becoming infectious, people exposed to c19 will test negative (whitty mentioned this yesterday but obviously its fairly well known), given the increased vulnerability of other patients in care home settings it seems obvious that there needs to be some other measure for isolating those leaving hospital in order to ensure that testing is effective.

the only way this could have been dealt with properly is with pre-existing, properly resourced public health at local levels. A sensible national approach would have been to have coherent central messages and to empower (not responsibilise) local public health workers to organise local responses that take account of the complexity of local factors. At the same time there would need to be platforms for public health workers to share emergent knowledge around successes and failures in such a way that the response can be mobile and take account of emerging factors and complications.

It is obvious that those in charge have very little knowledge of the country they run. Johnson's NRPF comments are the most shocking example of this, but I think the constant "but what if...?" questions from the public, which rarely get translated into questions asked by journalists, repeatedly reveal how disconnected politicians are from the ramifications of their policies. I think its only partly true that the ambiguity is intended to trip everyone into herd immunity, there's also a very real sense in which politicians and *experts* do not understand the difficulties that people will face in trying to comply with all this stuff or how material conditions will make attempts to socially distance increasingly futile for increasing numbers of people in the next few weeks.

The disempowerment of local government and the elitism of whitehall is here compounded by the presence of *top* experts who deal in the high abstraction of epidemiology, communications tech, etc. There also isn't time for trials in the isle of wight to determine that people are more likely to comply with public health directives issued personally over the phone than ones issued from a notification on your phone. Anyone with experience engaging people around health interventions could have told them that. Anyway fuck this government and fuck the clueless, spineless experts who stand beside them enabling this gibberish (while staying out of politics)

how can you go hang out w people and have a BBQ. are we supposed to piss in their borders

don’t all have the superhuman bladders of the cummings family

At least Liverpool can win the fucking league now:

[PART 2] As the Premier League announces it should return on June 17th, me and @WindyCOYS explore why it shouldn't:
1. Unreliable tests bought from a man with a dodgy history
2. Disproportionate risk faced by BME players
3. Inherent dangers of training https://t.co/gVJRQz0UWh

— aut_omnia (@aut_omnia) May 29, 2020

Downing Street Daily Briefing

Government was unable to reduce Coronavirus threat level below 4. Boris Johnson signalled on Wednesday it was likely to be reduced to 3, but the Joint Biosecurity Unit did not agree to this yesterday.

Lockdown lifting goes ahead nevertheless pic.twitter.com/Pt8cDzMVAq

— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) May 29, 2020

wait what

uhhh

you know, I'd be OK with Cummings staying if they said "let him stay and we won't let thousands die"

I mean, I wouldn't, but fuck this is the worst

There is clearly no rationale for easing restrictions and no journalist that I've heard has called them on this

Update on new rules for Hongkongers seeking to live/work in UK: Home Office appears to confirm that if China presses on with security law, *all* 2.9m 'British nationals (overseas)' in Hong Kong will be allowed to come to UK whether or not they *currently* hold a BN(O) passport.

— Hugo Gye (@HugoGye) May 29, 2020

of course slogging your guts out in the fields for minimum wage and dying of the Rona is much preferable to Xi's social credit authoritarian state!

someone at work just said they have to ease lockdown because lockdown's already fucked. if everyone's going to be in the parks/driving to BC, then you might as well make it look like it was meant and pretend you're still in charge.

either that or he's just jealous that the better-run countries are unlocking.

xp presumably facing racism from, scapegoating over failures of, the same political establishment that invited you, if I know britain

you see, dominic cummings was just disruptingly ahead of the curve

either that or he's just jealous that the better-run countries are unlocking.

I see it not so much as jealousy as feeling the need to prove the UK will be financially competitive post-brexit and also preventing people from seeing how other countries are doing, wondering why the lockdown hasn't changed here, and drawing the conclusions. Everything the govt does is about its own PR, not fighting the epidemic.

I wonder how many countries will go down the route of Greece and specifically ban UK residents from entering when the borders re-open.

New NHS 111/999 data on potential covid cases ("based on potential COVID-19 symptoms reported by members of the public to NHS Pathways through NHS 111 or 999 and 111 online") came out this morning. Still showing consistent falls with no e.g. VE Day effect as people speculated. pic.twitter.com/xJbNK6qxYI

— Daniel Howdon (@danielhowdon) May 26, 2020

would the HK people like to pick some fruit?

anecdotally, outside is a lot noisier today, traffic and people. there was even a scooter accident (and a group of people gawping at said accident). usually the noise is idling ocado vans delivering to over the road.