roydo
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Its been deserted all week.
Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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Its been deserted all week.
NilSatisOptimum
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Just stand at the metaphorical cricket crease and accept political policies have real consequences just like that cricket ball. Either hit it to the boundary or continue waddling to the pavillion just like the Tory Government and it's sycophants!
And this virus is no leveller what condescending twerp came up with that. Good for Matlis, her BBC career must be coming to an end now.
'The disease is not a great leveller': Emily Maitlis praised for powerful coronavirus opener on Newsnight
'You do not survive the illness through fortitude and strength of character, whatever the prime minister’s colleagues will tell us'
www.independent.co.uk
witchdoc187
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No it hasn't. I can assure you. The city has been dead as it is every single weekend but the parks have been relatively busy considering.
Well the headline isn't there to tell the whole story - or people simply wouldn't read the article at all.
I know, the problem is that people only read the headline anyway (for example, the one which suggested the place for the mass graves in New York was only established this week, rather than it long being there - as awful a tragedy as it is - for people who can't afford funerals/have no next of kin).
The headline is there to get people to read the article.
In the article we're talking about here, perhaps it would have been better to split it into two articles - and have one about the NHS staff disagreeing and then another on what the government are doing (which, like you, I don't think is enough).
Barnfred 55
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I'm assuming one of said warriors pulled you up on that post mate. Not in the slightest surprised at that.
roydo
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From looking from Spain? Ok mate.
tsubaki
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some seal of approval this
Just stand at the metaphorical cricket crease and accept political policies have real consequences just like that cricket ball. Either hit it to the boundary or continue waddling to the pavillion just like the Tory Government and it's sycophants!
And this virus is no leveller what condescending twerp came up with that. Good for Matlis, her BBC career must be coming to an end now.
'The disease is not a great leveller': Emily Maitlis praised for powerful coronavirus opener on Newsnight
'You do not survive the illness through fortitude and strength of character, whatever the prime minister’s colleagues will tell us'
I don't know Bruce, but I don't think anything he said in the post you responded to was 'Tory'.
Maitlis will be fine. She's one of the BBC's best journalists and she's gone in on right and left equally as hard.
Just stand at the metaphorical cricket crease and accept political policies have real consequences just like that cricket ball. Either hit it to the boundary or continue waddling to the pavillion just like the Tory Government and it's sycophants!
And this virus is no leveller what condescending twerp came up with that. Good for Matlis, her BBC career must be coming to an end now.
'The disease is not a great leveller': Emily Maitlis praised for powerful coronavirus opener on Newsnight
'You do not survive the illness through fortitude and strength of character, whatever the prime minister’s colleagues will tell us'
superb from matlis that
tsubaki
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Coronavirus: Google data suggests park visits rose on weekend
Warm weather saw an increase in park visits last weekend, but overall activity was lower than usual.www.bbc.co.uk
"In Greater London, the data indicates, visits to parks were down just 15% compared to life before lockdown."
TBF that data point is rubbish - people are visiting parks to walk or jog, not to do things which are temporarily banned. They are doing this because apart from the streets there isn’t anywhere else to get exercise.
witchdoc187
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Are you hungover or something? Most of my mates live in London these days and I talk to them regularly. We've been talking about how busy the parks are because several of them live next to/close to parks. I'm just sharing this info.
Toast
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They 'routinely' tested King Kenny the other day apparantly, despite the fact the staff doing the test themselves probably haven't been tested.
royalblue66
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My garden could do with a good seeing to.
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A Buriram man attempted to commit suicide by walking into traffic on Thursday (April 9), after his application for the government’s Bt5,000 Covid-19 welfare payment was not granted.
Police were notified of the incident by a driver, who saw a man walking on the road near the Juvenile Observation and Protection Centre and trying to be hit by a car.
Officers rushed to the scene and found a 25-year-old man, who police referred to as A, crying on the road.
He told them that his wife was unable to make money after the flea market where she worked had been shut down as part of government measures to contain the Covid-19 outbreak.
He explained that he worked on a construction site, but the salary was not enough to raise their 2-year-old child. Stressed because they were unable to make ends meet, the mother and father had begun arguing.
Then, when his request for the Bt5,000 government handout was rejected, he became desperate and suicidal.
Police contacted his wife to take him home and told him that they would try to help him with the issue.
Man attempts suicide after not receiving Bt5,000 payment
A Buriram man attempted to commit suicide by walking into traffic on Thursday (April 9), after his application for the government’s Bt5,000 Covid-19 welfare payment was not granted.www.nationthailand.com
5,000 THB = £120.
But as @tsubaki has rightly pointed out there's a lot of factors in this mate.
For one, the weather is obviously nicer so of course people are going to want to be getting out when they can for their walk or jog or whatever. In London, the only option they have for that is a park.
If they are either not working or on furlough or even working from home, people have more time. In London, a commute is probably an hour each way on average? That's two hours more each day and these people who perhaps never thought they had the time before are now using it to get out and exercise.
The kids aren't at school, or the vast majority anyway, so families are going to have to get out of the house/flat for their allotted allowed time and again, in London or most of the big cities, the only option is the parks.
Another factor - people who go to gyms now can't use them (obviously) so they are doing their exercise outside.
It's not just that people have suddenly decided they're going to rush to the park.
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