Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Jebus_lives]

 

[peteblue]

Who?

Some ex Labour MP.....Andrew something.......

 

[Zatara]

Some ex Labour MP.....Andrew something.......

Never heard of him, aside from Dave ranting about him.

 

[Brisan123]

just looked on wikipedia Gordon Brown payed out £850 billion to bail out the banks due to the financial crash of 2008.
So I think it stands to reason that, if he did not we would not have had austerity. We simply could not let the banks
fail. But under capitalism we should have let them fail.I'm confused.com.

No Government no matter what its ideology can afford to let its banking system collapse

 

[OnlyBlueWillDo]

It is a bit of a silly message though "Stay Alert".

Should have been "Keep Your Distance", much clearer message and an instruction that really matters.

 

[PhilM]

The plan is that there's no plan on safety.

It's now a matter of pacifying big business (especially the financial institutions) and getting the furlough ended and managing the national debt.

While it's obviously not this simple, I can see two things happening:

1. Cops will not act because they're not sure of the legitimacy of their actions: am I able to still fine them etc?
   
   
2. Cops will act in good faith, but some enforcement (fines or arrests) will then get dropped or eventually quashed.

The latter brings its own issues and arguably dangers, which will be all too evident, so there'll be a fair will who will stick with the former.

 

[peteblue]

View attachment 86354

hahaha......maths have never been a strong point of the government or the NHS......

 

[Brisan123]

TBF France might be a bit of an outlier in that it appears to have handled this relatively well, but got a savage death rate anyway.

As an island Britain was better placed to deal with the pandemic

 

[peteblue]

It is a bit of a silly message though "Stay Alert".

Should have been "Keep Your Distance", much clearer message and an instruction that really matters.

This is the first sensible post on this message that I’ve seen today......

 

[Minimeister]

I think those tests are useful to get NHS workers/vital workers back to work, but largely pointless for a general population.

Populist measures and a blag to claim testing is happening.

Only worthwhile tests for the general population IMO, is the blood tests.

Totally agree. It's also quite a good indicator of how rampant it is and the areas most affected.. 4/5 weeks ago I'd say the positives were about 1 in 3, now it's more 10%. Hope that's positive news.

 

[Jebus_lives]

You see, this is where you went wrong: there was NO lockdown in place at that time.

In a lockdown it should have been total and totally enforced.

No, you see, and don't worry I know you don't your own stance from one day to the next*, but at the time you were proclaiming this pandemic Government scare mongering, had they enforced a lockdown you would've just changed your 'murderers' line to 'facists'.

*We can all patronise.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Of course it is. You may not get paid, but if you believe you will die going to work then refuse to go....

What a great outcome.

 

[peteblue]

As an island Britain was better placed to deal with the pandemic

Apart from the fact that it is densely populated and has more people flying in from China than anywhere else.....

 

[peteblue]

What a great outcome.

I didn’t say it was, but at least it’s your own choice.....

 

[Brennan]

It is a bit of a silly message though "Stay Alert".

Should have been "Keep Your Distance", much clearer message and an instruction that really matters.

Good shout