Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[JimmyJeffers]

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

Yes it is!

 

[LinekersLegs]

So you've picked two examples which aren't really a fair portrayal of what is open: I don't see any coffee shops open, but I have seen bakeries for bread etc.

I do also see butchers, fish mongers, cheese shops (it's food) and takeaways (less of a necessity I accept) which are all feeing the country and providing a service.

As long as they're complying for social-distancing regulations like your wonderful supermarkets, I see no wrong doing; in fact, I expect that they're safer.

Here in the US the restaurant trade tends to use different suppliers than the supermarkets. By keeping the restaurants open for takeaway not only give those businesses/employees a lifeline that might help them survive, helps those not able to cook for themselves and reduces the amount of food destroyed. It also eases the supply strain on the supermarkets and a potential rise in their food prices at a time when many have less cash.

The Farm-to-Table Connection Comes Undone

A direct pipeline to chefs that took decades to build has been cut off by the coronavirus, leaving small farmers and ranchers with food they can’t sell.

www.nytimes.com

California is now using restaurants to help feed the elderly

California effort will employ restaurant workers to provide meals for seniors amid coronavirus crisis

The program will provide $66 a day per senior in funding for daily meals. Newsom said the effort will launch immediately, focused on seniors who are at risk for COVID-19 or have limited income.

www.latimes.com

 

[PhilM]

Here in the US the restaurant trade tends to use different suppliers than the supermarkets. By keeping the restaurants open for takeaway not only give those businesses/employees a lifeline that might help them survive, helps those not able to cook for themselves and reduces the amount of food destroyed.It also eases the supply strain on the supermarkets and a potential rise in their food prices at a time when many have less cash.

The Farm-to-Table Connection Comes Undone

A direct pipeline to chefs that took decades to build has been cut off by the coronavirus, leaving small farmers and ranchers with food they can’t sell.

www.nytimes.com

California is actively recruiting restaurants to help fee the elderly

California effort will employ restaurant workers to provide meals for seniors amid coronavirus crisis

The program will provide $66 a day per senior in funding for daily meals. Newsom said the effort will launch immediately, focused on seniors who are at risk for COVID-19 or have limited income.

www.latimes.com

Our restaurants / takeaways are mainly the same regarding their supply chain and their continued use will, like in America, support further businesses.

The same points could be argued here regarding how they can remove the strain on supermarkets, and to provide another source of income for the economy.

My point, which I probably didn't explain well, is that they're arguably less of a necessity if you were considering it in the context of a severe lock down.

 

[Brisan123]

Perhaps a good idea of what people seem to be advocating is around the vaccine. I heard today that Czech scientists are working on a vaccine, along it seems with most other countries. Do we think that all of these projects are looking at the problem in novel ways or there's a huge amount of duplicated effort going on?

I think a lot are collaborating on research
Breaking it up into different sections and each taking one piece and reporting their findings to the group
I know Trinity college Dublin is doing this

 

[Jebus_lives]

By the way, on the day when the UK officially became the worst performing nation in Europe on Covid19, where was the Butcher at the press conference?

MIA - again.

You might argue, with the exception of the highly publicised 'boris is at the helm' few days when he decided to attend CobrA and then when he got sick; he's barely been involved.

 

[mill]

You might argue, with the exception of the highly publicised 'boris is at the helm' few days when he decided to attend CobrA and then when he got sick; he's barely been involved.

It worked perfectly during the election. Why change it up?

 

[Jebus_lives]

It worked perfectly during the election. Why change it up?

According to some it's a sign of a true leader, a political heavyweight surrounded by political pygmies.

Apparently true leadership is sniping from the sidelines; hiding when things go badly, looking for scapegoats while promising you can fix everything if you were only allowed to do it.

 

[mill]

According to some it's a sign of a true leader, a political heavyweight surrounded by political pygmies.

Apparently true leadership is sniping from the sidelines; hiding when things go badly, looking for scapegoats.

Churchill was EXACTLY the same.

 

[Goat]

...but but but it's difficult to compare different country performances...the government are just following scientific advice...

The only advice they are taking is from Mein Kempf.

 

[peteblue]

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.

It’s a different world.....

 

[COYBL25]

Stuck behind Boris.

Carrying a takeaway coffee too, should’ve been shot on sight.

 

[Brisan123]

Anyone who read this whole post in one go deserves a medal

To be fair our lot are more intelligent and mentally agile than your lot

 

[Harryflashman]

I see a scientist from SAGE has quit after breaking lockdown rules to meet a married woman he’s seeing .

not for the first time , nor do I expect the last time , in this thread I find myself typing “don’t do as I Do , do as I say “

 

[peteblue]

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

it is....

 

[peteblue]

Massive effort to meet one arbitrary figure then back to business as usual.

Sums this Government up really. Throw out some rhetoric that sounds good, Lie, cheat and mislead rather than deliver.

Didn’t you take the credit for this the other day.....