Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[tsubaki]

We're not sheep though, are we?

Apparently not, though we seem to be treated as if we are.

 

[coollino]

When did the health service become a charity rather than, you know, a fully funded public service that we (well not me, but y'know) pay for through general taxation?

Pretty patronising isn't it, but let's clap!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Bruce expertly fishing for somebody to trot out "Sheeple", there.

@JEBUS_LIVES said we need to get a hobby

 

[Harryflashman]

Yeah you’d think so. Absolved of blame. If they try throwing various health advisers under the bus for this at a later date, a better picture of what’s gone on will likely get leaked.

Personally I’d certainly have a degree of nerves if I was a scientific advisor as I think it’s obvious who’ll be offered up in any enquiry .

I was joking yesterday that the woman at the briefing had been at the sherry but she’s also the one who said interesting hypothesis over the athletico game . Maybe she’s thinking about the future and just keen to not commit herself to too much on camera.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

The Agenda Police have arrived!

The agenda is well noted beat and bankrupt. The government have been wanting on readiness of any pandemic, they been have found to be fudging death rate figures, wheeling out excuse after excuse, the best one being social care is mainly privatised and its hard to collate the figure, dont stop other countries with similar setups getting total figures out...
Just the home care death rates to be collated in the death rates then we have some transparency, hopefully we wont have to wait 9 months for them.

 

[OnlyBlueWillDo]

Boris starts his maternity leave today...

I wouldn't put it past the work shy tw@t...

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Bloody hell, I didn't know he'd given birth... Or was a woman.

It's every man's right to have babies, if he wants them.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

It seems like it, and there seems a particular fervour among those who deep down you suspect are relishing every apparent balls up by the government.

I mentioned it the other day Bruce, there were probably some out there who were disappointed with the home care death figures because it shortened their stick to beat the government with.

 

[Brisan123]

The question of an exit strategy and when will there be one and how will it look, has been a topic in the media recently and with the well reported collapse in the oil price last week, economic matters and can we recover after such huge crisis spending and a worldwide lockdown has been the question.

I must admit to thinking the stock market(s) - since they're global and 24 hrs now - on the verge of a crash only a week ago, but while the oil price continues to cause concern the FTSE100 here has perversely turned higher reaching a seven week high and recovering more than 20% from the March low which is 'bull' market territory, and perhaps the start of a speculative run even higher. The markets nearly always move higher or lower in tandem so pretty much reflected elsewhere.

The only explanation is they're betting on a 'V' shaped recovery where we've hit the bottom with industry and commerce still in sufficiently reasonable shape to respond to the future relaxation of the measures.

Large amounts of cash idle could conceivably fuel a consumer led boom as some return to work in the near future.

Important to note these markets are international in nature and won't just reflect what's going on here.

It seems an extremely optimistic view to me but it's always said they react to what they think is going to happen rather than the situation right now.

So difficult to read and when they do go up to use the old cliché, 'they always climb a wall of fear' with so many predicting the edge of a cliff coming soon - almost at every step of the way up.

Shops in Ireland warned not to have sales or promotions that could lead to large crowds

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I mentioned it the other day Bruce, there were probably some out there who were disappointed with the home care death figures because it shortened their stick to beat the government with.

Which lemon would do such a thing?

 

[Walken]

It's every man's right to have babies, if he wants them.

and if he doesn't they can be quickly forgotten about and he can concentrate on a political career

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Boris starts his maternity leave today...

I wonder if his baby's nanny will have full PPE...

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

I wouldn't put it past the work shy tw@t...

Here's the thing I learned from reading about him... He is lazy, blinkered, believes that his opinion outranks data but he also is a massive fan of presenteeism, believing he works hard because he is "present" for 14 hours a day. He almost never takes sick days (at any time in his history) because he thinks its a sign of weakness.

Its a really bad profile to work for.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

and if he doesn't they can be quickly forgotten about and he can concentrate on a political career

 

[BlueToff]

The only reason for sitting on the info to start using facemasks is to not deplete the availability of masks to the front line workers, I'm no fan of this Govt so far in all this but that's a valid reason to not suggest the whole population starts using masks.

There is a very minimal benefit from wearing a mask when out doing your weekly shop anyway.

Unless every single person is wearing a face mask, it's not really gonna do much at all.

Doesn't protect you, but it does protect others. Hence, everyone needs to be wearing one.

I'm not saying it should/should not be mandatory - don't really have an opinion on it. Just saying it needs to be a wholesale approach if it is enforced. And not sure you can really track it in any way.