Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Daily deaths up from this time last week - and we're on the brink of binning off the lockdown

Is there any aspect of this pandemic that England has dealt with effectively?!

I think we’ve been terrible at it

Contrast is with, say, Japan and it’s nigh on embarrassing

Much bigger population and much closer to China and their death total isn’t even close to how high ours is

It’s been a disaster

 

[Paris]

Back off fella and have another pop tart lol

*regains virtue*

 

[Billy Dean]

To be pacific (instead of to be specific)
An escape goat (instead of a scapegoat)
Damp squid (instead of damp squib)
Nipped it in the butt (instead of nipped in the bud)
On tender hooks (instead of on tenterhooks)
Cold slaw (instead of coleslaw)
A doggie-dog world (instead of dog-eat-dog world)
Circus-sized (instead of circumcised)
Lack toast and tolerant (instead of lactose intolerant)
Got off scotch free (instead of got off scot-free)
To all intensive purposes (instead of to all intents and purposes)
Boo to a ghost (instead of boo to a goose)
Card shark (instead of card sharp)
Butt naked (instead of buck naked)
Hunger pains (instead of hunger pangs)
Tongue and cheek (instead of tongue-in-cheek)
It’s a mute point (instead of moot point)
Pass mustard (instead of pass muster)
Just deserves (instead of just deserts)
Foe par (instead of faux pas)
Social leopard (instead of social leper)
Biting my time (instead of biding my time)
Curled up in the feeble position (instead of curled up in the foetal position)
Curve your enthusiasm (instead of curb your enthusiasm)
Heimlich remover (instead of Heimlich manoeuvre)
Ex-patriot (instead of expatriate)
Extract revenge (instead of exact revenge)
Self -depreciating (instead of self-deprecating)
As dust fell (instead of as dusk fell)
Last stitch effort (instead of last ditch effort)

 

[BrendanGOT]

Daily deaths up from this time last week - and we're on the brink of binning off the lockdown

Is there any aspect of this pandemic that England has dealt with effectively?!

Trends matter not single days. Bank Holiday will have delayed and increased the number also

 

[ste d' indica]

A huge amount of my time..... to sit in front of a video screen and answer a few questions in the interest of being held to account in your handling of the biggest crisis to face the nation in 80 years.

Embarrassing leadership.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Daily deaths up from this time last week - and we're on the brink of binning off the lockdown

Is there any aspect of this pandemic that England has dealt with effectively?!

Yesterday was lower than normal for a Tuesday because everything was a day behind with the bank holiday, the figure today would have been yesterday’s. As mentioned before the 7 day averages have been coming down all week which is more a positive sign

 

[paultheblue]

No But the improvements to the A66 are gonna knock your socks off.

Just to clarity will the A66 be fat in the middle and thin at both ends ?

 

[Kurt.]

 

[LinekersLegs]

A huge amount of my time..... to sit in front of a video screen and answer a few questions in the interest of being held to account in your handling of the biggest crisis to face the nation in 80 years.

Embarrassing leadership.

Wants to be a wartime leader but the fireside chats presumably replaced by a text message.

 

[Tea_drinker]

Just to clarity will the A66 be fat in the middle and thin at both ends ?

Its gonna be multi coloured and wiggly. But yes, in terms of area the middle will be fatter.

 

[Jebus_lives]

 

[paultheblue]

Its gonna be multi coloured and wiggly. But yes, in terms of area the middle will be fatter.
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Thanks for the clarification I will sleep better tonight

 

[davek]

The lapdog BBC told to STFU by its political masters and just accepting it.

Newsnight 'breached BBC impartiality guidelines' with Cummings remarks

Presenter Emily Maitlis said "the country can see" Dominic Cummings had "broken the rules".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Tea_drinker]

Imagine them calling you:

-we hear you were with tom on Friday for 15 minutes who has coronovirus and now you have to stay indoors for at least a week.
-no I wasnt
-he says you were
- hes lying

And so on

 

[catcherintherye]

Totally agree, but what should have been a decision made at the top and based on advice from SAGE, the CMO and CSA, was seen as an opportunity by the Unions to stir up trouble. Then Everyman and his dog decided that they too would decide on school openings or not. It turned political and it shouldn’t have been like that......

I am pretty sure SAGE didn't recommend schools opening. A union is a representative of it's members, only 5% felt it was safe to return, what are they meant to do?

As a slight aside, the point with Cummings is more that parents who clearly have fears about kids returning will cite him as justification for not returning to school. That will make things more difficult.