Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Tubey]

People refusing to participate in the app because the Tories are asking them to.

Just do it you bad bunch of tossers.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

As Americans Shelter in Place, Traffic, Emissions and Fuel-Tax Revenues Decline Dramatically

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www.ucdavis.edu

 

[Bruce Wayne]

People refusing to participate in the app because the Tories are asking them to.

Just do it you bad bunch of tossers.

To be fair, it's the Isle of Wight so the very thought of a mobile telephone may be somewhat alien.

 

[roydo]

To be fair, it's the Isle of Wight so the very thought of a mobile telephone may be somewhat alien.

It makes perfect sense from a control point of view. (By control, I mean as a science based thing). They can easily stop movement on and off the island, thus making tracing easier.

If this bit of witchcraft works, I will be pretty impressed.

 

[davek]

Interesting to see the level of posting on this, the most used Covid19 thread on GOT since the crisis really accelerated from the last week of February to the present.

Weekly number of pages in this thread since Feb 22nd to 3rd May (Week 1 = February 22nd-29th, and so on)





Second half of March (weeks 4 and 5) seems to have been the peak...something which chimed in with the u-turn performed on the herd immunity-lockdown strategy and the aftermath.

 

[roydo]

Interesting to see the level of posting on this, the most used Covid19 thread on GOT since the crisis really accelerated from the last week of February to the present.

Weekly number of pages in this thread since Feb 22nd to 3rd May (Week 1 = February 22nd-29th, and so on)



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Second half of March (weeks 4 and 5) seems to have been the peak...something which chimed in with the u-turn performed on the herd immunity-lockdown strategy and the aftermath.

The green one was when Kieron got banned and @Yarrgh started his Aldo diaries.

 

[Blues Harp]

Dianne Abbot?

Patel, Hancock, Raab, Gove, Bozo, Truss, Rees Mogg......The list goes on eh mate? Is it because I am black???
lol lol lol lol

 

[YoboCopter]

Spoke to lanlord today, expects january opening

 

[Toast]

Well 80% of the Isle of Wight have said they will download it.

They could just shout to eachother that they've got symptoms.
No need to use a phone app.

 

[roydo]

They could just shout to eachother that they've got symptoms.
No need to use a phone app.

Sainsburys had dried lasagne today.

Feel a bit like a slut telling you that!

 

[Harryflashman]

Feel a bit like a slut telling you that!

 

[GwladysBlue]

So the Furlough Scheme is being phased out and businesses are to get back working with social distancing in place. What about the businesses that can’t socially distance?

‘We’re all in this together’ Don’t make me laugh. They are and always will be, Tory scum.

 

[peteblue]

So the Furlough Scheme is being phased out and businesses are to get back working with social distancing in place. What about the businesses that can’t socially distance?

‘We’re all in this together’ Don’t make me laugh. They are and always will be, Tory scum.

I must have missed this. Where has it been said that the scheme is being phased out ?.....

 

[GwladysBlue]

I must have missed this. Where has it been said that the scheme is being phased out ?.....

Chancellor preparing to wind down furlough scheme but promises 'no cliff edge' | ITV News

The Chancellor's Job Retention Scheme has proved extremely popular since it went live two weeks ago. | ITV National News

www.itv.com

Here you go, Pete. I eagerly await your right stance to this.

 

[COYBL25]

I must have missed this. Where has it been said that the scheme is being phased out ?.....

They haven’t.