Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[tsubaki]

imagine taking the opportunity to make a joke about how you got mugged in a speech following 20000 people dying

 

[gonetomorrow]

Are you going to resign Prime Minister?

 

[COYBL25]

I am concerned this “everybody wear masks” practice is going to be seen as a solution for allowing normality to resume too quickly.

That seems to be the mood music.

Boris will invariably do the opposite, just out of spite for @davek lol

 

[zzr45]

In principle, I've nothing against drafting furloughed workers into helping combat the Corona menace, but using them to help maintain a failing intensive agricultural business requires a lot more justification imo.

Heaven forbid the cost of strawberries going up 50p at Wimbledon!.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Fake News by those bad Daily Express teds.

 

[Chris O'Connor]

Fair enough from Johnson,

Sensible statement, he speaks well, especially when compared to that stilted robot Raab, but all in the detail and we may start to get how the easing for certain businesses will happen (at a future time) later this week, but it's not the right time yet.

It always looks more likely that later in May is possible.

 

[Harryflashman]

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Eh, if it was a farm down the road (live in a dairy and lambing region so there’s not actually that much in terms of labour needed - have friends who have 500 head herds they manage alone) and the pay at the end of the week was actually worth considering, I’d do it.

Farms have made these jobs as unattractive to UK workers as possible for years, they are now reaping what they’ve sown in that regard.

Cheapest possible food is what the rest of market demands.

 

[Jebus_lives]

That seems to be the mood music.

The EDL brigade will be fuuummmin' at having to wear something covering the face. I'd expect a number of European countries might have to change existing legislation before encouraging the use of face masks.

 

[Walken]

Not aimed at you specifically, but the general sneering attitude towards farm work perhaps explains why labour tends to be imported. It seems to be work that's viewed as beneath many Brits.

It's well known they they feed beefburgers to swans, they've only themselves to blame

 

[Brisan123]

Is it a really stupid question to wonder how on earth so many are getting this virus in the first place, after weeks of lock down?

lock down does not apply to all
One quarter of all cases in ireland are frontline health workers
Plus you have all the tits who do not observe the rules

 

[Bruce Wayne]

The EDL brigade will be fuuummmin' at having to wear something covering the face. I'd expect a number of European countries might have to change existing legislation before encouraging the use of face masks.

Judging by the US, they'll be the first muppets to demand things are opened up again, coz they don't fear no virus.

 

[Walken]

Fair enough from Johnson,

Sensible statement, he speaks well, especially when compared to that stilted robot Raab, but all in the detail and we may start to get how the easing for certain businesses will happen (at a future time) later this week, but it's not the right time yet.

It always looks more likely that later in May is possible.

........

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It's well known they they feed beefburgers to swans, they've only themselves to blame

If it means strawberries are 50p cheaper, they can bring out an army of robot @Joey66 for all I care.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Are you going to resign Prime Minister?

We've got 250,000 tests revised to 100,000, and now revised again to 100,000 capacity, I would love to hear his explanation