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

expecting someone with the dynamism of a rusty sack cart to hasten the demise of capitalism? The only practical insurgent application of Grayling would be to strap a bomb to him.

Liverpool remains the best.

Social media attack tells 'Brylcreemed sh******e' Labour leader he and deputy Angela Rayner 'should be worried' https://t.co/yUgReSP4Bx

— Liverpool Echo (@LivEchonews) August 18, 2020

shitlorde?

shiteface imo

shtakhanovite

shitehole

Good on Sarah Morton obviously, but I've been struggling with that cryptic clue for a while now: shitehawk(e)? shiteheel(e)? Is this an esoteric Scouseism?

xp see ilx is already on the case

Sir Shittyarse having a bad day again

Cllr Morton wrote: "Watched the first 5 mins of ITV News and it wasn't a Tory that had me shouting at the TV, we know they are self interested, elitist sh***hawks. But Keir Starmer, the alleged leader of the opposition (Trading Standards should be having a word there) attempting to bask in the victory of a hard won U-turn by the thousands of students who took to the streets in the last few days to demand that the government treat them fairly."

she's wrong, it was a Tory that had her shouting at the TV

Shitehawke imo. Don’t understand the extra E but I’ll let it slide for such excellent scouseness.

its canon

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91I-TnVLnqL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

fuckin' hell, look at the height on matthew broderick's forehead

clearly the skull of a future double-murderer

i think the hawke is sat on the top of his head if you look closely

ladyshitehawke one of my fave bands

I've not been this impressed with a Labour Councillor since I saw one remove a dead rat that was lying in the middle of a ginnel, with her bare hands!

I've read a lot of good commentary on the lines of: no matter the crimes of Blairism, being soft to non-existent in opposition wasn't one of them.

so scotland’s schools have been open for a week, let’s check in and see how that’s going

Four more pupils at separate schools have tested positive for Covid-19.

Two of the cases are in Perth and Kinross, one in Renfrewshire and one in North Lanarkshire.

One pupil from Newhill Primary in Blairgowrie and another from Oakbank Primary in Perth are now self-isolating at home. The third attends Todholm primary in Paisley.

A fourth pupil, who attends St Ambrose High School in Coatbridge, has also tested positive.

Three other pupils from St Ambrose High had already tested positive, along with one from St Andrew's High in Coatbridge and one from Caldervale High in Airdrie. There are a further three linked cases, who are not staff or pupils, and 14 cases in north-east Glasgow.

That doesn’t on its own tell you opening schools was bad. Is four kids getting it in a week above what it was before they opened?

as I understand it none so far are suspected of getting the virus *in* school

this hasn't stopped shitty scare mongering headlines about outbreaks being "linked to schools"

what is the Scottish govt's stance on teachers wearing masks?

Do we know what the procedures are if a pupil gets covid and has gone to school?

All of this shit is in the hands of Gavin Williamson so good luck England.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/how-sweden-wasted-rare-opportunity-study-coronavirus-schools

This would have been helpful for virtually the entire world and unless they've started collecting some serious data since it appears that Sweden bungled it.

Be an um, interesting experiment if the UK didn't do this.

Germany to extend coronavirus furlough to 24 months https://t.co/pVmoKAMTvH

— Kam Sandhu (@Kayayemela) August 18, 2020

what is the Scottish govt's stance on teachers wearing masks?

― calzino, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 00:58 (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Teachers may choose to wear masks but are not required to unless they are in sustained close contact with pupils (less than 2m for more than 15 mins iirc)

Do we know what the procedures are if a pupil gets covid and has gone to school?

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 10:00 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Isolation and contact tracing, same as anyone else. Schools will remain open if track and trace is judged to have contained any outbreak.

Is it up to the council to make the decision on whether the school has contained it?

Never saw this coming.

Breaking: A 16-year-old Sudanese boy has drowned in the English Channel while trying to reach the UK

French authorities announced the death with "immense sadness" after his body was washed up on Sangatte beachhttps://t.co/5DKv1KtiZq

— Lizzie Dearden (@lizziedearden) August 19, 2020

horrific

remember when three-year-old alan kurdi washed up dead on a greek beach and the world recoiled in horror at the picture of his corpse for all of 15 seconds before going back to gleefully murdering refugees through neglect and inaction

The unabashed glee on the Mail’s Facebook page about this is the most repulsive thing I’ve seen in the area for a long time. Blaming people for attempting to get to the UK when ... we insist they have to come here to make claims.

refugees: we make 'em, we don't take 'em

Is it up to the council to make the decision on whether the school has contained it?

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 12:53 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

As I understand it track and trace will inform contacts of the need to isolate/test then monitor for related cases - so, contained until they know otherwise. Once those pass what I'm assuming is an agreed threshold in terms of cases and (in)ability to trace it will go to an incident response team who will then make recommendations to the government regarding any required measures such as closures, lock downs, etc.
Going by the Aberdeen outbreak, it looks like councils are informed and consulted but don't get to make decisions on control measures.

Thanks.

My understanding is that councils have only recently been given access to real-time case data.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/aug/19/jeremy-corbyn-governments-coronavirus-policy-was-eugenic-herd-immunity

In an interview with the podcast A World to Win, Corbyn said: “We were involved in meetings with the government throughout the spring of this year and Jon Ashworth and I remember distinctly going to a meeting at the Cabinet Office, where we got a lecture about herd immunity.

“The last time I discussed herd immunity was when I worked on a pig farm 40 years ago. It was absurd that actually [you] would build up herd immunity by allowing people to die.

“And so, while the government was going into eugenic formulas and discussing all this stuff, they were not making adequate preparations.”

the govt trying to deny their policy was ever one of herd immunity when the PM stated it was going to be the approach to C-19 multiple times on television... I just can't.. Jeremy otm.

feel like pure shit, just want him back

apparently there is no political capital to be made from attacking the govt for letting people die and dressing up inaction as bogus epidemiological science, so Jeremy is wrong and the the brylcreemed shitehawk is right, apparently.

Matt Hancock insists no reason not to go back to work as 'little evidence' coronavirus is passed on in offices https://t.co/lJGCQ5jcrd

— Evening Standard (@standardnews) August 20, 2020

Sure, also commuters pick up a copy of the Standard too.

brylcreemed shitehawk

shithawke, remember

Bold to get someone presumed to have caught COVID at work to front the 'you're not going to get COVID at work' campaign.

Just fucking give Pret or whoever the money ffs

Pret 🤝 the suburbs

a combination of suspended ceilings, harsh fluorescent lighting, petty gossip and computers still running windows xp has been proven to effectively kill the virus, thus making offices perhaps the safest places to be right now

The deal to subsidise train operators running near-empty services (which was costing the government about £100 per passenger, per trip last month) expires at the start of September and there's absolutely no way they want to have to renew it at that level.

Fuck me, Hancock is basing this on evidence from Test and Trace that most people are catching it at home. Which means it's evidence from late-April onwards, when ... nobody was in an office. So, yes, empty offices are safe places to be. Genius.

Reporting in from self-isolation: you have to fill out an online form and print it out before you travel back (there was an e-mail from the airline to this effect but still guessing plenty didn't read it), you're supposed to print it out and hand it out to someone on arrival but there was no one there when our plane landed. So yeah, seems pretty easy to disregard if you're that way inclined.

Also does he think everyone drives to the office or something?

Gets driven to the office