love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

Note the Trumpism

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Kim Johnson (Lab) asks about housing in Liverpool. She says the government’s plans for planning reform will allow slums to return. Will he abandon them?

Boris Johnson says his government will deliver beautiful new homes.

the "mad-ism" letter is signed "rawlsian"

Great stuff.

so you can see one grandparent at a time in england now?

if you've got the rona and give it to granddad when you see him, what's preventing him from going home and giving it to granny?

the pub. it's on the way.

St Leger meeting decision reversed. This government listens

Just lucky that all of today's attendees are immune

Is it just my imagination or has Michael Gove completely disappeared over the past few months? Hancock, Sunak, Raab, Patel, Williamson and Sharma have all been fairly prominent over the summer and even Johnson has pulled his finger out a little bit. Suggests that Gove knows this is a disaster that is going to end multiple political careers and wants to keep as low a profile as possible.

Mark Francois also disappeared for some reason

Give reportedly came up with this “break the law” wheeze and pushed for it

the master strategist at work

televised update at 4 on bbc1.

i was looking forward to The Repair Shop, but i guess that won't happen now

If we have built capacity for 200k tests and Hancock is complaining that people without symptoms are getting tests... does that mean he thinks he's built capacity for 200k active daily symptomatic tests?

Also if only 25% are ineligible why aren't we reporting 150k new daily cases? What the fuck do these 148k symptomatic people per day have that isn't covid?

he doesn't know what he's doing.

https://i.imgur.com/lVoLCWe.png

not great really is it

are we going climbing again?

Not great but also a bit misleading because there were so few tests done in March/April — you only got tested if you were already in hospital, so that actual number of cases then would have been massively higher xp

Lovely that the messaging to young people is literally now ‘you will kill your grandparents if you don’t follow this arbitrary rule’

But like do go to work yeah and maybe nandos on your way home

BoJo now using over testing of non symptomatic as a positive.

I can't work out how 500k negative tests a day enables normal life. It would take 2 months to test the country in which time all the normal life people have covid.

Yet another variety of herd immunity but not really

This Salford moonshot doesn't make sense to me either. At all.

You can't live your life as normal if you get a negative test, because you could still catch it the minute you walk out the testing centre.

An antibody test is perhaps one thing that could let you do that, but it looks like antibodies aren't staying around for long enough for that

(as I understand it, and that's not much)

antibodies not lasting isn't really seen as a problem as your body is programmed by your first infection to reproduce them

2 or 3 reinfection stories recently maybe suggests otherwise

That's true stet but deaths look to be creeping up slightly as well - most since July.

.@Peston asks if Christmas is cancelled?

Boris Johnson says he is 'hopeful' that 'in many ways' we could be able to get some aspects of our lives back to normal by Christmas

He refers to 'moonshot' of daily testing, but says govt 'cannot be 100% sure' if can deliver that

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) September 9, 2020

is there a reliable daily link for keeping up with rona new cases/deaths?

antibodies not lasting isn't really seen as a problem as your body is programmed by your first infection to reproduce them

That's true stet but deaths look to be creeping up slightly as well - most since July.

is there a reliable daily link for keeping up with rona new cases/deaths?

Talk of goose and figs is a bit insensitive now that Christmas is cancelled

"A dose of Coronavirus you got from licking lampposts"

rejected B&S lyric

is there a reliable daily link for keeping up with rona new cases/deaths?

Daily is difficult but I'm using this for cases. It's not 100% up to date (I don't think anywhere public is) but it at least gives you an idea of where the hotspots are:

https://russss.github.io/covidtracker/map.html

There was one on, I think, the Time Out website that had case data down to a ridiculous level of local granularity but also seemed to be lagging behind by a week or so.

highlight (of the 5 minutes i didn't ffwd through) was bj telling pesto to unmute

How is it possible that he still hasn't worked that out?

Some real hard cases in my office still can’t tbf

i’ve got it set up to permamute except when i’m holding down the spacebar. works v well for me

It is ridiculous that people ask the current UK PM questions, in good faith, expecting reasonable answers, truth, logic or anything related.

You would not do this with Donald Trump. And most of the UK journos would chortlingly agree that you wouldn't.

So don't do it with the UK PM.

Don't bother unmuting.

Literally give me 1/10 of what Bobby P is paid for this shite and I’ll do a (metaphorical) reign of terror that makes Jeremy Paxman look like Holly Willoughby.

― scampo italiano (gyac), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:44 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Setting up a crowdfund for this

Good things are possible

Lord Alan Sugar has said his central London property investments are "suffering" due to office workers staying home https://t.co/y2pyy3qxhu

— Evening Standard (@standardnews) September 9, 2020

Labour to the core

100% this is what this whole thing is about, the government don't especially care if Pret goes under or if a few Spanish baristas have to find new jobs, but if they do then rents will have to go down and the collapse of the Central London property market is going to hit a lot of anonymous Tory donors where it hurts.

I am going to get a several copies of the Standard everyday if commercial rents are fucked it's going to be so good.

Operation Moonshot then.

the SAGE guy on PM thought the best case scenario at the moment was slowing the rate of growth of the R rate, we are so getting locked down before winter

“The prime minister has tasked the secretary of state for health and social care with delivering a Mass Population Testing Programme, currently called Operation Moonshot, before the end of the year.

“This is described by the prime minister as our only hope for avoiding a second national lockdown before a vaccine, something the country cannot afford. He would also like this to support the opening up of the economy and allow the population to return to something closer to normality.”

The leaks confirm private sector organisations are to be encouraged to carry out testing to help their own trade and protect their workforce.

“Businesses could support our testing strategy by providing ‘testing at the door’ to enable large scale ‘high-risk’ events to take place, such as football matches, theatre productions, concerts or conferences,” the strategy says. “The costs of travel or leisure activities could include the costs of accessing tests beforehand.”

Absolute bullshit.

Jess Phillips MP (Labour) tweeted :
Might get a t-shirt to where to work that says "Grow a Spine" on the back "There's no point being a captain on a burning wreckage" There is nothing more disappointing in Westminster than the weasley complete lack of courage.

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Jess Phillips MPDeleted about 16 hours ago after 2 minutes, tweeted using Twitter Web App

if Jess didn't delete all her best tweets she could have bin a contender.

operation moonbeam

she can't help but to burn so brightly after being the beneficiary of a Russell Group Uni and a grammar school education. I can't help - as a thick bastard - being so jel of her oh so honeyed classicism. actually tbf most of my first draughts are that bad as well!

I came here to post about the obviously knocked up in 10mins PowerPoint presentation that's doing the rounds but I got distracted by this:

This is a fabulous photograph of a reflective PM, with a lot on his mind. I can’t help noticing that he’s pulled off some timber. I hope his team continue to find him the time to continue training. https://t.co/i1Ma25O6ZR

— Tom Watson (@tom_watson) September 10, 2020

Very relieved to figure out that it means "has lost weight"

wtf.

when body fascism is just fascism