Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[davek]

Stephen Bush: Britain's last (non-FT) journalist.

I like him, but he's a bit "There's this, but then there's that". He puts up a thesis and then counters it with his own antithesis. It's his writing style. Covers all eventualities.

Nothing wrong in not being too dogmatic in principle, I suppose.

I'm unsubscribing from the NS btw: any magazine that employs that [Poor language removed] Philip Collins wont be getting my money.

 

[Toast]

I can see a two week full lockdown over the October school half term.
Any future lockdown will have a specified time scale this time.

Nearly a month since I posted this, and it was generally agreed to be a good idea by members of a football forum, yet only now is it being considered by the actual people who run this country.

Shambles dosent even come close anymore.

 

[roydo]

Nearly a month since I posted this, and it was generally agreed to be a good idea by members of a football forum, yet only now is it being considered by the actual people who run this country.

Shambles dosent even come close anymore.

How is life in supermarket world? Seems quite relaxed, (in a good way), to me.

 

[Toast]

How is life in supermarket world? Seems quite relaxed, (in a good way), to me.

Rolling out Xmas stuff mate.
Nothing has changed recently.
Xmas temps being hired already.

 

[Nymzee]

Was in ASDA before and some woman in front of me at self-service with her kids had her mask on her ears but was under her chin whilst she just coughed all over.

Swiftly reversed and went to a different checkout.

Why stick it on and not wear it properly?!

 

[roydo]

Rolling out Xmas stuff mate.
Nothing has changed recently.
Xmas temps being hired already.

Not been to yours for a while, but Sainsburys is just in normal mode; customers and staff. SD/Masks/gel, good humoured. Zero queues, other than if an elderly couple decide they have to sanitise everything!

 

[davek]

Was in ASDA before and some woman in front of me at self-service with her kids had her mask on her ears but was under her chin whilst she just coughed all over.

Swiftly reversed and went to a different checkout.

Why stick it on and not wear it properly?!

Because she's thick.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Was in ASDA before and some woman in front of me at self-service with her kids had her mask on her ears but was under her chin whilst she just coughed all over.

Swiftly reversed and went to a different checkout.

Why stick it on and not wear it properly?!

The under the nose, the hanging off the ear, the chin hammock, the 'ill take it down to talk' styles are all the rage.

 

[Nymzee]

The under the nose, the hanging off the ear, the chin hammock, the 'ill take it down to talk' styles are all the rage.

Yeh her mum was stood next to her, mask down because she was on the phone. I wanted to just facepalm but thought what's the point.

 

[roydo]

Yeh her mum was stood next to her, mask down because she was on the phone. I wanted to just facepalm but thought what's the point.

Not supposed to touch your face?

 

[Jebus_lives]

Not supposed to touch your face?

lol

 

[Kenshin]

Just reading there labour are marking themselves the party of lockdown.

Now I get the logic , if it says scientists said to do it and Boris ignored it then yes we should be locking down. So hopefully there is a push on that front to do it sooner rather than later.

However it reminds me of the labour is remain ideology .

Not everyone wants that , same as not everyone wants lockdown. It's just not the best way to go about being a political party if you keep siding with a divided option.

 

[bluelife]

Was in ASDA before and some woman in front of me at self-service with her kids had her mask on her ears but was under her chin whilst she just coughed all over.

Swiftly reversed and went to a different checkout.

Why stick it on and not wear it properly?!

Sad thing is the scale of it... you’d like to think it’s a few idiots but seems almost half...think we could do with guided tours around intensive care units myself... might open some eyes

 

[The binman chronicles]

Just reading there labour are marking themselves the party of lockdown.

Now I get the logic , if it says scientists said to do it and Boris ignored it then yes we should be locking down. So hopefully there is a push on that front to do it sooner rather than later.

However it reminds me of the labour is remain ideology .

Not everyone wants that , same as not everyone wants lockdown. It's just not the best way to go about being a political party if you keep siding with a divided option.

Likely the numbers will go ballistic with this halfway house measures and he'll be able to tell you told so. It's like brexit with a much quicker resolution so you can be proven right before the vote.

 

[Nymzee]

Sad thing is the scale of it... you’d like to think it’s a few idiots but seems almost half...think we could do with guided tours around intensive care units myself... might open some eyes

Funny thing is you still get lots of people, loads on here as well, saying they hardly ever see people breaking the rules.

They either live in a Truman Show style bubble or are actually medically blind.