Coronavirus - UK
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Government whinging because employees smarter than Ministers
The Government can’t have it both ways
This could get very interesting
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@mikethesnow the government can’t?
Don’t you mean the lazy arsed mother fuckers refusing to go back to work?
Fuck them.
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@majorrage said in Coronavirus - UK:
@mikethesnow the government can’t?
Don’t you mean the lazy arsed mother fuckers refusing to go back to work?
Fuck them.
Classic Tory blame deflection and mis-information campaign.
The vast majority of people still on furlough are in industries where they’re unable to go to work because of Government restrictions.
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@mikethesnow if that’s your view, that’s cool snd it may have some merit.
But that’s not what the bbc article is about.
I stand by my words against that article.
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - UK:
I haven't read this thread much cos too much Covid news etc, but the 10k per day sparked my interest. How is the NHS coping these days, is there concern or are the 10k mostly mild symptoms and a bit of a misnomer?
It’s all good at the moment. Doesn’t mean it will stay that way, but very little nhs action.
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@majorrage said in Coronavirus - UK:
@mikethesnow if that’s your view, that’s cool snd it may have some merit.
But that’s not what the bbc article is about.
I stand by my words against that article.
On furlough because the Government hasn’t reopened their sector
On furlough because the Government had told them to shield due to a pre-existing health condition
On furlough because they’ve gamed the system
Can’t think of any more
The last group are tiny compared with the first two groups, and there will always be individuals who abuse the system much like benefits cheats and tax avoiders
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - UK:
I haven't read this thread much cos too much Covid news etc, but the 10k per day sparked my interest. How is the NHS coping these days, is there concern or are the 10k mostly mild symptoms and a bit of a misnomer?
1316 patients in hospital, 210 on ventilators. Nothing like it was peak but rising a bit in the last fortnight. Some good data below.
There is no case at all that I can see for the UK government tightening restrictions, but I think it is prudent to delay the easing of restrictions while serious cases are going up. Once they flatten or go down again then HMG should ease restrictions almost immediately.
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@sparky said in Coronavirus - UK:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - UK:
I haven't read this thread much cos too much Covid news etc, but the 10k per day sparked my interest. How is the NHS coping these days, is there concern or are the 10k mostly mild symptoms and a bit of a misnomer?
1316 patients in hospital, 210 on ventilators. Nothing like it was peak but rising a bit in the last fortnight. Some good data below.
There is no case at all that I can see for the UK government tightening restrictions, but I think it is prudent to delay the easing of restrictions while serious cases are going up. Once they flattened or go down again then HMG should ease restrictions almost immediately.
By which time epsilon will be sashaying in from somewhere in S America
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@mikethesnow Being really crap at quarantine and securing the borders has been the UK government's biggest failure in 2021.
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@sparky said in Coronavirus - UK:
@mikethesnow Being really crap at quarantine and securing the borders has been the UK government's biggest failure in 2021.
Leaky Borders
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@sparky said in Coronavirus - UK:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - UK:
I haven't read this thread much cos too much Covid news etc, but the 10k per day sparked my interest. How is the NHS coping these days, is there concern or are the 10k mostly mild symptoms and a bit of a misnomer?
1316 patients in hospital, 210 on ventilators. Nothing like it was peak but rising a bit in the last fortnight. Some good data below.
There is no case at all that I can see for the UK government tightening restrictions, but I think it is prudent to delay the easing of restrictions while serious cases are going up. Once they flatten or go again then HMG should ease restrictions almost immediately.
I agree with this point. As much as it sucks balls not to be unleashed tomorrow, much worse would be a relaxation followed by another lockdown. I don’t think Boris could make that one fly.
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Piss boiled and it’s not even 9am
FFS
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@mikethesnow Is that news or just a factual account of somebody's day?
She's right though. It's disgraceful that her considerations weren't taken into account when working out the logistics of vaccinating 70 million people. Twice. Disgraceful lack of government support.
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@mikethesnow Just noticed the best part. It took two people to write that story.
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@siam said in Coronavirus - UK:
Incredible state of affairs really. Voluntarily infecting myself with a virus just to travel
Ahh, that's not unusual.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - UK:
@siam said in Coronavirus - UK:
Incredible state of affairs really. Voluntarily infecting myself with a virus just to travel
Ahh, that's not unusual.
Yes it is. There are suggestions for vaccine compliance to travel interstate.
Also the emphasis is on the social reasons for vaccinations far outweighing the health ones - a common phenomenonon this board alone. My quote comes in response to a poster who already had covid and now was vaccinated to aid travel.
There's a context at play here.
But maybe I've missed something. Before covid, exactly what travel was banned without an appropriate vaccination? And how widespread was that restriction of travel due to being unvaccinated?
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@siam said in Coronavirus - UK:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus - UK:
@siam said in Coronavirus - UK:
Incredible state of affairs really. Voluntarily infecting myself with a virus just to travel
Ahh, that's not unusual.
Yes it is. There are suggestions for vaccine compliance to travel interstate.
Also the emphasis is on the social reasons for vaccinations far outweighing the health ones - a common phenomenonon this board alone. My quote comes in response to a poster who already had covid and now was vaccinated to aid travel.
There's a context at play here.
But maybe I've missed something. Before covid, exactly what travel was banned without an appropriate vaccination? And how widespread was that restriction of travel due to being unvaccinated?
The one question that you've missed off there though is how widespread and infectious are the other diseases or viruses that such vaccines apply to.
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@catogrande sure mate, but I was replying to "that's not unusual "
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@majorrage said in Coronavirus - UK:
@mikethesnow Is that news or just a factual account of somebody's day?
She's right though. It's disgraceful that her considerations weren't taken into account when working out the logistics of vaccinating 70 million people. Twice. Disgraceful lack of government support.
First world problems