Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[davek]

Normally we have a bus, comes through once or twice a day, but it’s been stopped since the lockdown....

I wonder why? I expect it's for the same reason you cant get your Daily Telegraph.

 

[Methuselah]

I havnt got a phone that does apps. It barely does texts.

I am going to be a statistical anomaly.

Get in.

Same here. Basic mobile phone which I keep in the car in case of breakdown. Never use it otherwise.

 

[peteblue]

No. I believe everyone should be disciplined and try and see this virus off...still, if a free born Englishman really really needs their pastie or latte then they must get it.

Bon appetite.

I must admit to being shocked by the report of drivers in a queue for a coffee.....

 

[roydo]

You know why? YOUR governments that you support kept on shutting public transport down.

My village has never had a bus.

Tractors a gogo, but no buses.

My mate owns the local butcher shop, and he gets all his stuff, eggs included, from local sources, his lamb comes from my village. He has stayed open, and invested in a bigger van so he can deliver far more stuff to local folk. He is cheaper, (and way better), than your wonderful supermarket, he employs about 8 folk in the shop/butchery, and by him staying open, the local farms and dairies and that have a customer for their produce. (which would otherwise rot)

Spiv you say.

What exactly have you done to help and preserve some normality of life in this?

You should applaud these people. But you wont.

 

[Brisan123]

Going to have to hire decent doormen to manage numbers and stop drunks trying to sneak in.

Just hope they aint the same doormen who operate in Concert Square otherwise you'll only be allowed in if you have a pair of tits and fake lashes.

Well @Paris has dated a few of these,granted they have testicles as well

 

[roydo]

Said all that.

Cake shops and a curry? Essential?

Ok.

Cake shop = bakery.

Kinda with you on the take aways mind. But I rarely use them. Perhaps for folk who do, (shift workers like nurses and that) might feel different.

 

[davek]

So, THE news of the day is that the Sick Man of Europe is the UK...and England in particular.

On the day that SAGE hold their hands up to say that their decisions were wrong in failing to stand up to the Tory Party and carry on trace, track, test from the beginning of March.

And there's people here who think that a shadow organisation to act as a watchdog to these witchdoctors is "unhelpful"

 

[LinekersLegs]

Heartbreaking article. Really needs to be a full accounting of how cornavirus was handled, especially in nursing homes.

 

[Methuselah]

You know why? YOUR governments that you support kept on shutting public transport down.

I thought transport was a Local Authority responsibility? You know, like TFL in London.

 

[Brisan123]

Interesting article by an Irish immunologist, he suggests that lock downs aren’t as effective as social distancing, hygiene methods. While another interesting point is the effectiveness of testing is not on the number of tests you do, but the she speed in getting the results and tracking contacts - he thinks testing is useless unless results can be gotten with 24/48 hours.

Top immunologist questions if Ireland's lockdown is necessary to fight COVID-19

Prof Moynagh’s comments come as the Department of Health announced last night that 25 more people have died from Covid-19

www.dublinlive.ie

Try and observe social distancing on public transport at peak times or in schools etc
Man is talking poppycock

 

[davek]

My village has never had a bus.

Tractors a gogo, but no buses.

My mate owns the local butcher shop, and he gets all his stuff, eggs included, from local sources, his lamb comes from my village. He has stayed open, and invested in a bigger van so he can deliver far more stuff to local folk. He is cheaper, (and way better), than your wonderful supermarket, he employs about 8 folk in the shop/butchery, and by him staying open, the local farms and dairies and that have a customer for their produce. (which would otherwise rot)

Spiv you say.

What exactly have you done to help and preserve some normality of life in this?

You should applaud these people. But you wont.

I am a local hero in my own way. Modesty forbids me to elaborate.

As for your farmer mate: he's 'kin raking it in. They called it profiteering in the war.


Cash from chaos.

 

[peteblue]

I wonder why? I expect it's for the same reason you cant get your Daily Telegraph.

To stop the spread of the virus.....

 

[davek]

I thought transport was a Local Authority responsibility? You know, like TFL in London.

...d'you mean the Local Authorities that have seen their funding cut to the bone?

 

[davek]

To stop the spread of the virus.....

...that's why your newsagent shouldn't open too.

...which brings us all back on topic again.

 

[zzr45]

I am a local hero in my own way. Modesty forbids me to elaborate.

As for your farmer mate: he's 'kin raking it in. They called it profiteering in the war.


Cash from chaos.

Being a peeping Tom is not the same as neighbourhood watch.