Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[PhilM]

Got my 1st vaccine 3 weeks ago, a little arm soreness, a bit of static. Honestly I couldn't make out anything. Yesterday I got the booster and holy @#$% its like Bill Gates is next to me 24/7.

Can I ask whether your brain is now running Windows 95 or XP?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Agreed that zero Covid is not possible for us but if we were to have all over 18’s vaccinated by the summer I am not seeing why we would not have something resembling normality domestically but with strict border controls even if France are lagging

The wife remarked yesterday about the war, and how even as Britain was hungry it still sent food to Germany and elsewhere in Europe because they knew the trouble that would brew if our neighbours were in the crapper. Same principles apply here imo.

 

[bullybeef]

Gove on GMTV now completely refusing to acknowledge that mistakes have been made.

This Government are scared of taking responsibility in fear of the numerous litigations that would inevitably follow.

Self serving monsters who have blood all over their hands.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Pretty please

WHO team exits Wuhan quarantine to start Covid fact-finding mission

Mission is politically charged as China seeks to avoid blame for alleged missteps in response to outbreak

www.theguardian.com

 

[jonnyboy316]

The wife remarked yesterday about the war, and how even as Britain was hungry it still sent food to Germany and elsewhere in Europe because they knew the trouble that would brew if our neighbours were in the crapper. Same principles apply here imo.

I am sure that is what will end up happening. I do wonder what would happen if the roles were reversed.

 

[davek]

Economy = livelihoods. You know that.

I don't disagree that they've cocked up. I do disagree with you comparing him to Hitler.

Guns before butter; economy before health.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Gove on GMTV now completely refusing to acknowledge that mistakes have been made.

This Government are scared of taking responsibility in fear of the numerous litigations that would inevitably follow.

Self serving monsters who have blood all over their hands.

Billions wasted on dodgy PPE and Track and trace. The has been some sense of them realising their hand in this mess as we approached 100,000 dead as they have let the NHS and Councils get on with vaccine roll out , rather than trying find a way to shoe horn their cronies in somewhere, bet they debated long and hard on that decision, the pain of it for them.

 

[BlueToff]

Gove on GMTV now completely refusing to acknowledge that mistakes have been made.

This Government are scared of taking responsibility in fear of the numerous litigations that would inevitably follow.

Self serving monsters who have blood all over their hands.

I agree.

Just like every MP and the London-centric media proved they were in December, too, with the decision to put London into tier 2.

Still stand by that that decision was one of the worst they have made.

 

[navidson]

The government are not going to hold their hands up and admit their mistakes because politics is a game

At the end of the day, this lot will be asking for your vote again soon enough - and that's all that matters to them

Keep denying responsibility and enough stupid people will absolve them of blame eventually - and revote for them

 

[tsubaki]

The government are not going to hold their hands up and admit their mistakes because politics is a game

At the end of the day, this lot will be asking for your vote again soon enough - and that's all that matters to them

Keep denying responsibility and enough stupid people will absolve them of blame eventually - and revote for them

This is why Starmer should start asking what they are going to do to protect us from future waves of this / other pandemics.

 

[Deckard2049]

The government are not going to hold their hands up and admit their mistakes because politics is a game

At the end of the day, this lot will be asking for your vote again soon enough - and that's all that matters to them

Keep denying responsibility and enough stupid people will absolve them of blame eventually - and revote for them

They will soon be taking credit for the unbelievable rollout of the vaccine thanks to the NHS. And people will lap it up.

 

[Neiler]

Pfizer-BioNTech say its Covid vaccine is effective against UK and South Africa variants

It follows a similar announcement by Moderna this week.

www.thejournal.ie

 

[BlueStevie35]

Got to commend the Track and Trace service for the work they are doing but bloody hell they need to be data checking. Since yesterday afternoon I’ve had 3 texts and 2 phone calls asking after a guy named Nathan to let him know he has to isolate (my name being Stephen), now it could be as simple as this bloke having a similar number to mine but 1-2 digits over or someone has used a fake name and number to get round it but it’s rather annoying

 

[maccavennie]

Got to commend the Track and Trace service for the work they are doing but bloody hell they need to be data checking. Since yesterday afternoon I’ve had 3 texts and 2 phone calls asking after a guy named Nathan to let him know he has to isolate (my name being Stephen), now it could be as simple as this bloke having a similar number to mine but 1-2 digits over or someone has used a fake name and number to get round it but it’s rather annoying

Easiest thing to do in this situation mate is just forget your past life as Stephen.

Your new name is Nathan, your 31 years old and live in Surrey. Your a pharmaceutical salesman and you caught the rona on a trip up to Manchester in the Premier Inn breakfast lounge as it wasn't cleaned properly. You have a wife, an 18 month old daughter called Zola and a mistress called Stacey who you've been seeing on trips to Newcastle for the past 3 years.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

They will soon be taking credit for the unbelievable rollout of the vaccine thanks to the NHS. And people will lap it up.

For sure they have tried already, seen their sycophants parrot the message here. However, they cant get away from the figure, 100,000 British dead, a civilian death toll worse than world war 2, much worse in fact, V for victory and all that...

And of course worse still for the Government they themselves contextualized what a good result would be by putting 20,000 dead as a good result, with measures put in place... Here we are not 10 months on from bold prediction of 20,000 dead, now at 100,000+ dead people.