Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Barnfred 55 said:
sometimes I wish that Labour had won the last election and were in charge of managing this crisis. Not because I believe they would be performing much better (they would have the same logistical problems and issues of quality of permanent government depts), but because the country would be a lot more unified behind them in tackling this monster
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I seriously doubt that.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
Given that the media seem to upset so many people on here, I really don't know why so many seem to read/watch what they produce? It just seems to be whipping up anger. There are lots of reputable, non-partisan sources of information about the virus that mean you don't need to set eyes on a broadsheet or tv news channel. Those sources are by and large curating and filtering information on your behalf, which if you're time crunched can be great, but if you've got enough time to post religiously on here, I'd imagine that doesn't qualify for most of us.
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It is weird.

I think Twitter has a huge part to play. I stay off it and the only right wing corporate media I tend to see is posted on here by people annoyed by it, which is quite ironic. Often it is links to Twitter with people raging about media they disagree with.
 
Barnfred 55 said:
I think it's great that somebody is prepared to walk away from a job on principal Lou. Well done her. I never had the balls to, but in banking every company was basically the same so it would have been a frying pan/fire situation. I often regret not leaving the industry earlier. I hated my job in the end and the company I worked for.

Needless I'm thoroughly ashamed of the self serving attitude all the banks are displaying in the current crisis. Especially given the bail out they had in the last financial crisis which was largely of their own making anyway
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As she's climbed the ladder in her profession mate the one thing she has never forgotten is why she got into it in the first place, and that was to try and help people the best she could.

I would imagine the banking game can be a tad ruthless and if you were one of the people (not you specifically mate) near the top of the chain you had to be almost emotionless because of the decisions you have to take on a daily business. At least now the banks are getting their act together.
 
Brennan said:
It is weird.

I think Twitter has a huge part to play. I stay off it and the only right wing corporate media I tend to see is posted on here by people annoyed by it, which is quite ironic. Often it is links to Twitter with people raging about media they disagree with.
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Aye, I read the Guardian and BBC primarily for their sports reporting, but bar the Economist each week, I only get stuff from universities and research institutes. Obviously people are free to do what they want, but it doesn't appear to be making many happy.

I should caveat that, of course, because my friends in the media tell me that readership has sky rocketed over the past few months, so a lot of people are clearly spending their time consuming a lot of media content, but whether it's helping or not...
 
Barnfred 55 said:
Not really. It just suits his political agenda to believe that. If Corbyn won the last election he would be blaming the Chinese too.

I've not said this before but sometimes I wish that Labour had won the last election and were in charge of managing this crisis. Not because I believe they would be performing much better (they would have the same logistical problems and issues of quality of permanent government depts), but because the country would be a lot more unified behind them in tackling this monster
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They wouldn't... The press coverage alone would have Corbyn linked to 'supplying Marxist with Masks' if he had given PPE to China, 'Corbyn admits failure and calls in Army 'when that happened, lockdown would be a 'Stalinist measure reminiscent of the dark days of the USSR' and I guarantee there would be some shoehorned way to suggest something was anti Semitic.

Just imagine what @peteblue would be saying if it weren't his teen crush Boris in charge. Do you really think he'd be talking about not apportioning blame, unity Governments and blind support for the Government action in difficult times?
 
Boris is doing today's daily briefing, supposedly only going to be an update on the "fight against this disease and the steps we are taking to defeat it"

Rumoured to be nothing on how they will go about lifting restrictions (or not lifting them) If that's the case then why not, we were told on Monday that in the next few days to follow the government would be outlining their plans. Now I'm not saying we need chapter and verse, but something that points to them having a strategy would be good. I foresee another Boris speech fall of sound bytes though.
 
LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
Boris is doing today's daily briefing, supposedly only going to be an update on the "fight against this disease and the steps we are taking to defeat it"

Rumoured to be nothing on how they will go about lifting restrictions (or not lifting them) If that's the case then why not, we were told on Monday that in the next few days to follow the government would be outlining their plans. Now I'm not saying we need chapter and verse, but something that points to them having a strategy would be good. I foresee another Boris speech fall of sound bytes though.
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Rule number 1 in managing a Pandemic: Never disclose any lockdown exit strategy, otherwise coronavirus will know our plans and it will weaken or ability to fight it.
 
Zatara said:
If Corbyn got in...

He would have done what Italy did.

Backroom deals galore and stakes all over the place given to China...

With Corbyn praising the Chinese, stating that no one is to blame and how theyve given free medical equipment to him and how amazing they are.

General Public praising him etc...then the papers leaking that all these deals with China for ventilators and masks have come at a great cost as hes given the Chinese all the goodies incl 5G and all the cream.

There isnt a cat in hells chance Corbyn would be standing up to China now...his supporters would all be mimicking him as well.

Has he disappeared yet?

Not sure on the new labour leader, or Johnson

But its pretty acceptable that @peteblue can be anti china and pro British Government.

I find it quite surprising for anyone to have an opposing view.
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Various Tory Governments over the last ten years have signed hundreds of billions of with trade deals, and to boot we have allowed them to construct nuclear power stations... The condescending line of doing business with them was to tame them and bring them into fold, well how has that worked out?

Its the timing, listening or reading any Tory being virtuous over our relationship with China is like taking note of the person who has repeatedly stuck his hand in fire and burnt all tissue and bone up to the shoulder, who is now proclaiming it hurts.

China says jump UK will ask how high and how long. Pete or you are not telling us anything new about China, we've been trying tell you the Tory Governments don't have our best interests at heart, and here is the proof, China...
 
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