Tea_drinker
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There was a suicide in the flat opposite mine yesterday. Definitely one of many due to this lock up.
Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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Rook
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-Boris has no strategy. He never had a strategy and only cares about himself.
-yes he'll talk to the press and come Sunday you'll hear faint vague arguments for both ending the continuing the lockdown. So when the numbers spike he'll mess up his hair and face the press w/ that oh woe is me "I tried to save the lockdown but you people kept going to the park" look and the press will eat up the whole "poor Boris, he's trying sooooooo hard" shtick. Plus it leaves him wiggle room to take credit if the numbers by some miracle the numbers drop.
It probably hasn't helped that B&Q (etc.) and the supermarkets have continued to sell cuttings, so the balance in the industry has swung towards them.
I'm not saying that those above are wrong to sell horticultural stuff because they need to survive and prosper themselves, but it must be galling for the others.
however, I do know that a garden centre not too far from us (Aigburth Hall Nurseries) is actually open.
Toast
Player Valuation: £80m
If he had stayed open he would have made serious money in hindsight.
They sell fancy Gin and could potentially have got round it that way ?
But it's a tough call to make when you need to look after your staff.
( unlike a football manager it would seem )
True, it's easy to say in hindsight what people could or should have done. I'm not sure how they (our local one) has got around it unless it was their cafe?
Coronavirus: 'Modest' lockdown changes announced in Wales
People will be allowed to exercise outside more than once a day, First Minister Mark Drakeford says.
www.bbc.co.uk
I actually like the fact that Scotland, Wales and NI are setting the precedent as it should hopefully force the hand of Westminster to act sensibly too.
Obviously, I wish they would be working with a more unilateral approach, but hey ho we can't expect wonders when all things are considered.
Welsh government have just announced that restrictions are to stay in place for next 3 weeks.
Only small adjustments are as follows
1. You can now exercise more than once a day but it must be local.
2 . allowing garden centres to reopen but with social distancing in place
3. Allowing councils to see about opening libraries and recycling centres
Only small adjustments are as follows
1. You can now exercise more than once a day but it must be local.
2 . allowing garden centres to reopen but with social distancing in place
3. Allowing councils to see about opening libraries and recycling centres
Send an invite to @Tipp blue. Makes a quality brisket (see BBQ thread)
Cafes will be shut though .....main source of income ....
arminisgod
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Food shops are essential! Them stores decided to shut weren't told to.
Testing....
BrendanGOT
Player Valuation: £30m
Yeah it was Neil Fergusons science that locked the place down. Same guy who got caught breaking his own rules to see the woman he's having an affair with lol couldn't make it up.
I'm glad though as hopefully we see the last of him now, while I agree the lockdown is necessary, yer man Ferguson is a wrongun. I think his career has been a case of money rules science. His models are always over inflated and I have a feeling his models are based on whoever is funding him and their agenda.
"1. In 2005, Ferguson said that up to 200 million people could be killed from bird flu. He told the Guardian that ‘around 40 million people died in 1918 Spanish flu outbreak… There are six times more people on the planet now so you could scale it up to around 200 million people probably.’ In the end, only 282 people died worldwide from the disease between 2003 and 2009.
2. In 2009, Ferguson and his Imperial team predicted that swine flu had a case fatality rate 0.3 per cent to 1.5 per cent. His most likely estimate was that the mortality rate was 0.4 per cent. A government estimate, based on Ferguson’s advice, said a ‘reasonable worst-case scenario’ was that the disease would lead to 65,000 UK deaths.
In the end swine flu killed 457 people in the UK and had a death rate of just 0.026 per cent in those infected.
3. In 2001 the Imperial team produced modelling on foot and mouth disease that suggested that animals in neighbouring farms should be culled, even if there was no evidence of infection. This influenced government policy and led to the total culling of more than six million cattle, sheep and pigs – with a cost to the UK economy estimated at £10 billion.
It has been claimed by experts such as Michael Thrusfield, professor of veterinary epidemiology at Edinburgh University, that Ferguson’s modelling on foot and mouth was ‘severely flawed’ and made a ‘serious error’ by ‘ignoring the species composition of farms,’ and the fact that the disease spread faster between different species.
4. In 2002, Ferguson predicted that between 50 and 50,000 people would likely die from exposure to BSE (mad cow disease) in beef. He also predicted that number could rise to 150,000 if there was a sheep epidemic as well. In the UK, there have only been 177 deaths from BSE."
If we're being honest, the best thing Johnson has done during this whole affair is get sick so we didn't have to hear from him.
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