Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[BrendanGOT]

So they start playing in July, finish nine sets of games, plus the FA Cup in a month, then go straight into the 2020/21 season, then onto the Euros, and start the following season early, play the World Cup over Christmas, then see the players collaps from exhaustion.

What could possibly go wrong?

I'm not saying its what I want. I'm saying it's what's they'll prob do. Makes sense that they'll probably push for something like 9 games in a month, scrap the cups. Take two weeks off, 2 weeks preseason and start next season late Sept. They've had around 3 months off now so well rested.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Copy and paste, add one line, take one line out, change the date.

Done

I se this isn’t your first rodeo Tim

 

[mill]

Just like the 19,000 new nurses they were prattling on about during the election. Even being called out on it did nothing .

It’s a ‘3rd of tests delivered by Amazon this week have been returned’ that did it for me.
Are they adjusting the figures for those? Are they double counting if they send them back out?

 

[Jebus_lives]

Well, the U.K. have just done 122,000 yesterday.....so I imagine England did a few.....

I read the Scotland testing as lab tests not testing of individuals.

 

[Toast]

The Mash Report on C4 is very good here.

 

[mill]

“Ms Sturgeon said Scotland now has capacity to carry out 4,350 coronavirus tests a day in NHS laboratories.”........if you really want to have a go at someone, start here......oh, forgot, she’s not a conservative is she....

Ok I’ll bite

population of Scotland 5m. Number of tests in NHS labs 4350. % of population 0.08%

population of England 55m. Number of tests in NHS labs 39150. % of population 0.07%.

 

[GwladysBlue]

Genuinely ashamed this prick had anything to do with the Labour Party.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[ramacca]

There's one way to buy off holding the government to account.

"In support of the print newspaper industry, the government has also announced it will be spending up to £35 million on newspaper advertising over the next 3 months as part of its Covid-19 communications campaign to ensure the whole UK is aware of the latest government guidance and advice.1 day ago"





Earlier today Hancock kicked another pillar over against democracy with his blatant lie about exceeding his 100 000 coronavirus tests a day.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Ok I’ll bite

population of Scotland 5m. Number of tests in NHS labs 4350. % of population 0.08%

population of England 55m. Number of tests in NHS labs 39150. % of population 0.07%.

I'll tell you how this will go:

Pete will completely ignore the different testing models between England and Scotland

He will completely ignore the fact that if you send 100,000 tests out to people, you still have to have capacity to process and communicate those results to people

He will bluff about what an amazing achievement it is that the Government has managed, albeit with some ammendments to their original claims, to have actually delivered a promise

Then he'll make disparaging comments about Scotland and Sturgeon to draw attention away from the detail of your discussion

Say 'some will never be happy' or something to that effect, moaning about making things political while falling to recognise the hypocrisy of his position.

It might not be in that order, but he will repeat those points above as established fact on a semi regular basis, until corrected each time; before leaving the thread as if it were all good sport...

 

[Tubey]

It's just such a pointless lie as well. I mean, the amount they've increased it by is actually decent - if they'd just said "ah well, we set an ambitious target, went hard for it but just missed out, but we're clearly on the right track" then fair play.

But no. They blatantly lie and once again fiddle the numbers.

They don't realise the damage they are doing to the concept of transparent democracy with this type of crap.

But what's more saddening is seeing Tories simply bending the knee and cheering the official party line, knowing full well it's bollocks but preferring to ignore it just so they can "laugh at the left" or something? It's bizarre.

 

[davek]

It's just such a pointless lie as well. I mean, the amount they've increased it by is actually decent - if they'd just said "ah well, we set an ambitious target, went hard for it but just missed out, but we're clearly on the right track" then fair play.

But no. They blatantly lie and once again fiddle the numbers.

They don't realise the damage they are doing to the concept of transparent democracy with this type of crap.

But what's more saddening is seeing Tories simply bending the knee and cheering the official party line, knowing full well it's bollocks but preferring to ignore it just so they can "laugh at the left" or something? It's bizarre.

Have they got anything to really cheer about? They and their leadership have slaughtered 30,000 people so far.

 

[Walken]

The Mash Report on C4 is very good here.

Genuinely more informative than bbc news

 

[ramacca]

Genuinely more informative than bbc news

This is a bit risque for the BBC.

"The UK provided more than 122,000 coronavirus tests on the last day of April, passing the government's target, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.

Mr Hancock said the 100,000 target was "audacious", but testing was needed to get Britain "back on her feet".

The figure includes 40,000 tests sent out, including directly to people's homes, which may not yet have been taken.

Mr Hancock set the goal on 2 April, when the UK was on 10,000 tests a day.

Some 27,510 people have now died in UK hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing positive for coronavirus.

Of the 122,347 tests provided in the 24 hours up to Friday morning, the number of people tested was fewer - at just over 70,000 - as has been the case since the testing programme began. This is because some people need to be tested more than once to get a reliable result.

The total testing figure includes 27,497 kits which were delivered to people's homes and also 12,872 tests that were sent out to centres such as hospitals and NHS sites.

However, these may not have been actually used or sent back to a lab".

To make sure they don't get their collar felt by Johnson and Cummins, they did provide this Tory helpful headline.

Coronavirus: Target reached as UK tests pass 100,000 a day

Even though the article says that nearly 40 000 kits have not been returned and tested.

 

[The Penalty Box Dancer]

Now they've reached their milestone, are they planning on going further?