Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Jebus_lives]

I honestly dont see what time this will buy. It's the appearance of a lockdown where a real one should be. There's nothing to it - again. Even the gormless lap dog Starmer grew fangs and had to point that out today.

Pubs dont have to close if they have the gumption to get round the rules; restaurants dont even have any rules to contend with. WTF is closing a couple of hundred gyms and betting offices going to do in containing the runaway infection rate? Not that much I would think.

Any intervention that reduces mixing and puts in the public consciousness that things are more serious will have an effect on spread.

It remains to be seen how much (I think more should've been done because of where we told ourselves) but it buys some time. I think the real worry is Christmas, for the likely spread and the god awful press it would bring. So the measures seem to hope to reduce steadily towards Xmas in the hope that hospitality stays afloat and deaths/hospitalisation isn't too widespread.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

They’ve learned precisely nothing. Same mistakes repeated 7 months later.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Had they funneled £0.5bn of public money to shell companies for PPE?

There has been embezzlement of EU subsidies before, so it wouldn't surprise me.

 

[JLW]

What a shambles our government are, with these guidelines and the way they’ve handled the last 8 months this type of life will be here for at least another 12 months.
There’s no strategy from them and no one can see the end of this, like I’ve said before the aftermath of this is going to be devastating because it will effect so many families, health, homes, businesses.
The government handouts will be focused on London to keep that thriving and the rest of the country will be left to pick itself up from their knees.

Very few jobs will be out there and taxes will be raised in time, to claw the money back they’ve handed out during this. They will use the NHS as the reason why taxes need to be raised.
Absolutely Grim times ahead.

PS. If you voted Tory you’re scum

 

[mill]

They’ve learned precisely nothing. Same mistakes repeated 7 months later.

They aren’t mistakes. Absolutely nothing you are seeing is a ‘mistake’.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

This lot are geniuses, oh and like cronyism...

 

[orly]

Unemployment at 4.5% in August. Will be significantly higher now. Would have thought 7-8% by the end of the year.

 

[zzr45]

They’ve learned precisely nothing. Same mistakes repeated 7 months later.

The problem being that SAGE are in over their heads, which the government know and thus won't take their opinions into consideration. Toadism has cost us massively.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Who would have herd immunity approach to COVID is unethical... Many a Liberal and Tory salivated at the prospect, even here...

WHO chief says herd immunity approach to pandemic 'unethical'

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cites lack of understanding of virus and lasting health effects

amp.theguardian.com

 

[LostLegend]

They will use the NHS as the reason why taxes need to be raised.
Absolutely Grim times ahead.

PS. If you voted Tory you’re scum

I am convinced they’ll use this as an excuse to sell the NHS off to US Pharma under the guise of ‘saving the economy’

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

The problem being that SAGE are in over their heads, which the government know and thus won't take their opinions into consideration. Toadism has cost us massively.

Yeah, I mean who to trust on this, a committee of medical experts or Johnson & Sunak. Toughie

 

[JLW]

I am convinced they’ll use this as an excuse to sell the NHS off to US Pharma under the guise of ‘saving the economy’

Of course they will.

 

[abelard]

 

[grandjoeblue]

Would a 2 week lockdown even make a significant impact? The last lockdown was significantly longer and that still did not work in the long term.

 

[tsubaki]

The problem being that SAGE are in over their heads, which the government know and thus won't take their opinions into consideration. Toadism has cost us massively.

They aren’t - dealing with pandemics is not completely unknown science, we have genuinely world class experts in this country who are giving the correct advice, and have been since the start of this.

The problem is that this advice is being at worst ignored, or compared against political concerns that do not exist.