Coronavirus - UK
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - UK:
@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - UK:
@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - UK:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
@pakman Read that a day or so ago. It's more about vaccine development IIRC.
Here's a mainstream UK media piece on the UK's vaccine efforts...
"I Teach At Oxford, But I Don’t Want It To Win The Coronavirus Vaccine Race
The story will be clear: China, once again, has unleashed a threat to civilisation. But the best brains of the UK have saved the world"Interesting take.
The Huffington Post is not mainstream media in the UK.
Did anybody read the bottom before looking at this piece of toilet paper? Here it is:
Dr Emily Cousens researches vulnerability and gender at Oxford Brookes university and teaches on the women’s studies masters course at University of Oxford.
It's not a take. It's woke-trash piece of shit.
I always hate opinion pieces written by people who have no expertise in the field that they are writing about
and yet you spend so much time here.
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@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - UK:
I've still got most of my marbles rolling around my swede but I can't fathom the events over the past 48 hrs?
Can someone please explain why England is heading back to Lockdown?
We're not fully out here in Wales.
Qué? Can you explain why you think that's the case?
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - UK:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - UK:
@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - UK:
@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - UK:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
@pakman Read that a day or so ago. It's more about vaccine development IIRC.
Here's a mainstream UK media piece on the UK's vaccine efforts...
"I Teach At Oxford, But I Don’t Want It To Win The Coronavirus Vaccine Race
The story will be clear: China, once again, has unleashed a threat to civilisation. But the best brains of the UK have saved the world"Interesting take.
The Huffington Post is not mainstream media in the UK.
Did anybody read the bottom before looking at this piece of toilet paper? Here it is:
Dr Emily Cousens researches vulnerability and gender at Oxford Brookes university and teaches on the women’s studies masters course at University of Oxford.
It's not a take. It's woke-trash piece of shit.
I always hate opinion pieces written by people who have no expertise in the field that they are writing about
and yet you spend so much time here.
Thanks for picking a hole in my argument
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@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - UK:
I've still got most of my marbles rolling around my swede but I can't fathom the events over the past 48 hrs?
Can someone please explain why England is heading back to Lockdown?
We're not fully out here in Wales.
Think it's parts of Manchester & West Yorkshire where some restrictions are being reintroduced as infection rates have spiked. People from 2 different households can no longer meet indoors. Announced last nite.
People were ignoring social distancing rules apparently.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - UK:
I've still got most of my marbles rolling around my swede but I can't fathom the events over the past 48 hrs?
Can someone please explain why England is heading back to Lockdown?
We're not fully out here in Wales.
Think it's parts of Manchester & West Yorkshire where some restrictions are being reintroduced as infection rates have spiked. People from 2 different households can no longer meet indoors. Announced last nite.
People were ignoring social distancing rules apparently.
Sorry, posted late and tipsy.
More localised restrictions in large areas of England.
Based on more cases, but no more hospitalisations or deaths if I'm reading things correctly.
What gives?
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@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - UK:
Sorry, posted late and tipsy.
Had an '04 Bordeaux myself last nite....
Localised measures are the new normal. Seems to be areas with a high Muslim population preparing for Eid which were impacted. Decision was made with Northern mayors yesterday afternoon.
Usual misinformation from the media, esp. the BBC, claiming Hancock announced it on Twitter and surprised everyone. He actually told the media yesterday late afternoon and released a recorded interview to go out at 10pm.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - UK:
Sorry, posted late and tipsy.
Had an '04 Bordeaux myself last nite....
Localised measures are the new normal. Seems to be areas with a high Muslim population preparing for Eid which were impacted. Decision was made with Northern mayors yesterday afternoon.
Usual misinformation from the media, esp. the BBC, claiming Hancock announced it on Twitter and surprised everyone. He actually told the media yesterday late afternoon and released a recorded interview to go out at 10pm.
Yep
4.5 million impacted
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This boils my piss
Is it social disorder and general grubbiness - Sun's Out, Scum's Out
or breaking social distancing guidelines?
To my knowledge no spike from June beach visits
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@MiketheSnow went crabbing with the family in West Mersea on Sunday. Fuckers down the pier had no idea what social distancing was.
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I'm concerned. As of yesterday 800 or so cases(going up) and 38 new deaths, 83 the day before. When big mike said UK is heading into lockdown again I don't think he's wrong, it certainly feels like we are going the wrong way. Work wise GP land or in my CCG at least we were preparing to more forward having more patients in the building for face to face appointments, and that has halted abruptly and we are staying as we are for now as it is fully expected that figures are going to shoot through the roof again, flu season prep has moved forward and is a huge focus at the moment.
As much as I'd like to say common sense will guide people, it won't, people are idiots, and they are bored of it.
It's a beautiful day here and I know after I finish WFH the local parks will be chocka so we will stay home and enjoy our garden instead.So sick of it all now.
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General feeling from local folks in Cornwall is a lot of visitors are acting like dickheads. Ignoring social distancing in shops, jumping in front of queues and being demanding, arrogant fluffybunnies. Probbly the same people would normally piss off the locals in the Costa del Sol every summer.
Mini-holiday village up the lane has had to ask some visitors to leave as they were deliberately ignoring the Covid-19 rules in the showers and laundry block, FFS.
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - UK:
@MiketheSnow went crabbing with the family in West Mersea on Sunday. Fuckers down the pier had no idea what social distancing was.
They'll probably blame the government for not explaining the rules clearly enough. That and not sending each household one and two metre measuring sticks and their own personal instructor on the guidelines.
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@R-L
Local lockdowns/restrictions are the new normal. Just love the way people are now moaning the authorities are acting too quickly..
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
@R-L
Local lockdowns/restrictions are the new normal. Just love the way people are now moaning the authorities are acting too quickly..
Hah yeah I found that hilarious yesterday. I've witnessed the same people blaming the government for not locking down early enough are now the same people complaining about governnment restrictions and not even wanting to err on the side of caution.
"But island group X has no new cases!"
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
@Bones said in Coronavirus - UK:
@MiketheSnow went crabbing with the family in West Mersea on Sunday. Fuckers down the pier had no idea what social distancing was.
They'll probably blame the government for not explaining the rules clearly enough. That and not sending each household one and two metre measuring sticks and their own personal instructor on the guidelines.
Considering the pier was closed to boat owners only, there are a fuck load of boat owners more interested in crabbing than boats.
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - UK:
Hah yeah I found that hilarious yesterday. I've witnessed the same people blaming the government for not locking down early enough are now the same people complaining about governnment restrictions and not even wanting to err on the side of caution.
And the same bloke who complained that the government wasn't doing enough to protect BAME people is now complaining the government is targeting BAME communities with the new containment measured in Nth England.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
@Bones said in Coronavirus - UK:
Hah yeah I found that hilarious yesterday. I've witnessed the same people blaming the government for not locking down early enough are now the same people complaining about governnment restrictions and not even wanting to err on the side of caution.
And the same bloke who complained that the government wasn't doing enough to protect BAME people is now complaining the government is targeting BAME communities with the new containment measured in Nth England.
UK media in a nutshell
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
@Bones said in Coronavirus - UK:
Hah yeah I found that hilarious yesterday. I've witnessed the same people blaming the government for not locking down early enough are now the same people complaining about governnment restrictions and not even wanting to err on the side of caution.
And the same bloke who complained that the government wasn't doing enough to protect BAME people is now complaining the government is targeting BAME communities with the new containment measured in Nth England.
Who's that please?