I mean what's the point if we can't have a day off and a street party?
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 10:47 (four years ago) link
critical support for comrade covid-19
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 10:49 (four years ago) link
luv to see virus on virus violence
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 10:53 (four years ago) link
Parliament rising today until 21 April so last Jez PMQs at noon.
― santa clause four (suzy), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 10:56 (four years ago) link
Astonishing it's still open.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 10:57 (four years ago) link
The government has also updated the list of premises which are allowed to stay open to include off licenses, which is kind of the perfect encapsulation of "We will be very strict unless you don't want us to be".
On which note I can absolutely see all of this called off for a full Dead Monarch street parade.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 10:59 (four years ago) link
> I don't think anybody wants a dead queen while we're stuck inside in front of the telly
it's bad enough with charles. the same 5 minute clip of him shaking hands with most of a small welsh town is currently being shown on a loop.
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
Charles and Camilla are 'self-isolating' - presumably just them and all their staff then?
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
Charles getting cv should hit the 65+ approval ratings of the handling.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:03 (four years ago) link
fuck the Times but this could be not-shit news
Neil Ferguson of Imperial says his modelling shows that with NHS ICU surge and new national lockdown, Covid-19 demand on hospitals likely to be "within capacity"This could work...— Chris Smyth (@Smyth_Chris) March 25, 2020
― stet, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:16 (four years ago) link
"This" could work? The "this" that the government ineptly managed and were forced to enact totally against their will?
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:20 (four years ago) link
if you think it'll work, why not shut the fuck up about it for a little while longer so people aren't tempted to go out and start it all up again
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:21 (four years ago) link
(also full credit to nv for an incredible screen-name i've only just noticed)
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:22 (four years ago) link
aw shucks, just trying to lift the nation's spirits during this traumatic Royal family scare
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:23 (four years ago) link
Fatality estimates with lockdown now 20,000 but "it could be substantially lower than that"— Chris Smyth (@Smyth_Chris) March 25, 2020
that's still a lot of people, and it could have been less if boris wasn't such a fumbling dipshit
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:23 (four years ago) link
just two days ago i think a doctor on the radio was saying 20k would be 'a miracle'
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link
Too much optimism going on for my liking >:(
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:29 (four years ago) link
yeah i find it very hard to square this sudden sunny-uplands talk with the ongoing stories of vastly under-resourced nhs staff and facilities just a couple of days after the extremely loose lockdown began
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:31 (four years ago) link
also with the ucl study's prediction of ongoing periodic lockdowns for the next 18 months
it's almost as if the media narrative is desperately supportive of the government
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:32 (four years ago) link
The "this" that the government ineptly managed and were forced to enact totally against their will?
And reading between the lines I think they still want to get back to managed immunity. This time with actual testing and quarantine, tbf
― stet, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:32 (four years ago) link
critical support for comrade... julia hartley-brewer???
It is immoral and wrong for Prince Charles to have used a coronavirus test when he has only mild symptoms & they are scarce. No one else would be eligible for such a test with mild symptoms. That test could have been better used by a frontline NHS worker or supermarket worker. https://t.co/uhaKHPVzEK— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) March 25, 2020
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:35 (four years ago) link
I was wondering how the cunt got tested
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link
An Italian view of Britain's virus response: It's been a slow motion train crash, says @FerdiGiugliano https://t.co/8XWXFk2Pkx via @bopinion— Jonathan Hopkin (@jrhopkin) March 25, 2020
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:38 (four years ago) link
Harley Street doing its magic for the rich and celebs as usual. The Royals have permanent medical staff and can get checked out on demand.
― santa clause four (suzy), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:39 (four years ago) link
Twitter full of grovelling twats defending him
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:42 (four years ago) link
Crazy Dom makes a great spectre of death
They should give him the full Seventh Seal make-up, he's a natural
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:43 (four years ago) link
But Chris Whitty, the U.K.’s chief medical officer, and Patrick Vallance, its chief scientific adviser, share the blame. It is normal for politicians to dither as they try to balance different interests — above all, keeping the economy humming. But why were the official scientists not screaming from the rooftop? Did they get their advice wrong, or did they fail to speak truth to power and to the public?
fucking gallows for these cunts
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:45 (four years ago) link
If that's Whitty on the TV advert he looks like they've strung him up already
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:47 (four years ago) link
This "might just work" shite from the same people who brought you herd immunity and ramping up testing and keeping the schools open is low risk.
We're a fortnight from wishing we were Italy.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:48 (four years ago) link
_But Chris Whitty, the U.K.’s chief medical officer, and Patrick Vallance, its chief scientific adviser, share the blame. It is normal for politicians to dither as they try to balance different interests — above all, keeping the economy humming. But why were the official scientists not screaming from the rooftop? Did they get their advice wrong, or did they fail to speak truth to power and to the public?_fucking gallows for these cunts
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:50 (four years ago) link
It’s Iraq all over again. You get the legal or medical advice that fits whatever you were going to do in the first place.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:55 (four years ago) link
First you get the rona, then you get the power, then you get the corpses
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:57 (four years ago) link
Thing is, even now, a complete lockdown and hoping the infection burns itself by midsummer with the minimum possible number of deaths and strain on the health service is still only going to work long-term if the UK closes its borders until the discovery of a vaccine. I'm not sure ANY country has a viable exit strategy yet, as we will probably find if and when this lets rip in China again.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:59 (four years ago) link
Yeah magical thinking seems to be endemic
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:01 (four years ago) link
What difference is closing the borders going to make long term as long as community transmission still happens?
― consultant haste (gyac), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:02 (four years ago) link
Corbyn’s last pmqs :( I’m going to miss him.
― consultant haste (gyac), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:05 (four years ago) link
Community transmission would presumably be prevented to some extent by a major lockdown and the hope that the existing carriers develop immunity in the meantime. But my general point is that even the most draconian of measures don't extend much further than "lock everything down and hope for the best". Especially when there's not enough testing and what exists isn't that reliable.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:06 (four years ago) link
Sure, but it’s other countries going to be locking their doors to the UK, rather than vice versa. Border closures don’t matter much when people aren’t doing lockdown properly.
― consultant haste (gyac), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:08 (four years ago) link
Corbyn talking about care workers not being able to get food for their clients. Now calling out NHS staff having to ask DIY shops for PPE on twitter.
― consultant haste (gyac), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:09 (four years ago) link
Watching Jez here too.
― santa clause four (suzy), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:10 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure ANY country has a viable exit strategy yet, as we will probably find if and when this lets rip in China again
Yeah. I can still see why they wanted to take the herd immunity route first; it still seems like the only thing that is halfway sustainable to the end. (But also they went about it so ineptly and communicated it so awfully that I'm not sure it can saved.)
― stet, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:11 (four years ago) link
FPing Corbyn for pronouncing it “med-cins”. Johnson does too.
― consultant haste (gyac), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:12 (four years ago) link
seems like a very fertile political moment for proponents of a UBI to get some actual, real-world traction
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:34 (four years ago) link
ironically this is probably easier with the Tories in. Doesn't bear imagining how the blue ticks would be reacting right now to a left-wing govt providing left-wing solutions to this
― stet, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:35 (four years ago) link
Med-cin is RP pronunciation.
― santa clause four (suzy), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:40 (four years ago) link
Argh I just did an ‘ATM machine’ sorry everyone.
― santa clause four (suzy), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:41 (four years ago) link
What a lovely day! The perfect day to drive up into the #PeakDistrict for a walk, bike ride, climb or horse ride, isn’t it?No, actually it isn’t. pic.twitter.com/sNkgD2qSa3— Derbyshire Police (@DerbysPolice) March 25, 2020
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:49 (four years ago) link
"Is this cool? Is THIS cool?"
― nashwan, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:54 (four years ago) link