Coronavirus

[Derby Wolf]

Times long read:

When Dominic Cummings appears before MPs on May 26, his evidence will focus on 5 critical days in September

A deep dive into how Cummings, Case, Whitty & Vallance tried - and ultimately failed - to convince PM to implement a lockdownhttps://t.co/tsxGj0ax7c

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) March 20, 2021

 

[Kenny]

Yep and earn millions doing his after dinner, book, articles career. Which will be relief as he struggles on the basic living wage a PM gets.

 

[BillyDee]

Gotta pay for redecorations somehow when you can no longer get party donors to do so...

 

[Freddeno]

Trump 1.5..not as extreem but the other things

 

[SSB]

Watched a bit of today’s protest on YouTube live. Towards the end there were a mob targeting and kicking riot vans as they past them at 20mph. They then moved further down the road and found about 20 vans parked up. They hadn’t got a clue what to do then. Most just took their phones out and started taking selfies of themselves.

 

[Sniffer]

Times long read:

When Dominic Cummings appears before MPs on May 26, his evidence will focus on 5 critical days in September

A deep dive into how Cummings, Case, Whitty & Vallance tried - and ultimately failed - to convince PM to implement a lockdownhttps://t.co/tsxGj0ax7c

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) March 20, 2021

It’s a good job he claims to love buses. He’s about to be chucked under one.

In the grand scheme of things It won’t matter because the 50% of the country who have been blinded by Johnson’s lies won’t give a shit.

 

[lemonjelly]

there's a fair list of conservative mps lining up to argue international travel has to resume asap, and we gotta start having our foreign holidays. apparently to defer any of the currently announced re-opening dates would be excessively over-cautious.

 

[Derby Wolf]

It’s a good job he claims to love buses. He’s about to be chucked under one.

In the grand scheme of things It won’t matter because the 50% of the country who have been blinded by Johnson’s lies won’t give a shit.

Might be all part of the exfiltration plan Johnny and Kenny are talking about; show Johnson up on May 26th, let people demand his resignation, a few carefully inserted rumours from their trusted media pals and then it becomes "well if that's what you really want..." either shortly before or after June 21st.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

there's a fair list of conservative mps lining up to argue international travel has to resume asap, and we gotta start having our foreign holidays. apparently to defer any of the currently announced re-opening dates would be excessively over-cautious.

We're already being over cautious to be honest, pretty much anyone in actual danger has been vaccinated now. Yet I still have to look like Frank Gallagher for three more weeks, apparently it's ok for dentists to be open but not hairdressers.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

We're already being over cautious to be honest, pretty much anyone in actual danger has been vaccinated now. Yet I still have to look like Frank Gallagher for three more weeks, apparently it's ok for dentists to be open but not hairdressers.

If you've ever had really bad toothache you'd understand the priority of dentists over hairdressers.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Yes, but from a safety point of view it makes no sense, and why is it not ok tomorrow, but it will be ok in three weeks? There's no rationale there at all, the situation will be exactly the same.

 

[Tredman]

It’s incremental increase to R, you choose things to open based on perceived priority. I’d imagine they think teeth are more important than hair..

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

R is irrelevant though if people aren't dying.

We don't close pubs because there's a tummy bug going around.

 

[Tredman]

It is though if you want to prevent mutations or spread of new variants.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

That's always going to happen though. Flu mutates multiple times, every single year. People still die from flu even though we've had vaccinations for decades.

They say "data not dates" and then stick to dates, rigorously. It doesn't make any sense. The virus doesn't know what day it is.

 

[Kenny]

Over 873,000 vaccinations yesterday. So over 2m done in just 3 days

 

[YoungWolf]

If you've ever had really bad toothache you'd understand the priority of dentists over hairdressers.

I have learnt this in the past couple of weeks the hard way

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I don't mean to snap at people but the approach has gone from one extreme to the other. "Get back to the office" to "wait in your home for months, for no reason".

I'm not saying a haircut is massively important to me (I'd like one, of course) but please tell me why it's not acceptable for me to get one on 22 March with the barber in full PPE, whereas it'll be fine on 12 April with the barber in full PPE. When 50% of the population are vaccinated, which is essentially nearly everyone who is at risk of dying.

It's lockdown fatigue, combined with my own condition, I don't want to deal with this shit any more.

 

[Freddeno]

Here in Sweden we havent had any lockdowns yet, feels good actually

 

[YoungWolf]

I don't mean to snap at people but the approach has gone from one extreme to the other. "Get back to the office" to "wait in your home for months, for no reason".

I'm not saying a haircut is massively important to me (I'd like one, of course) but please tell me why it's not acceptable for me to get one on 22 March with the barber in full PPE, whereas it'll be fine on 12 April with the barber in full PPE. When 50% of the population are vaccinated, which is essentially nearly everyone who is at risk of dying.

It's lockdown fatigue, combined with my own condition, I don't want to deal with this shit any more.

I get what you are saying - I feel like barbers would be fine, but I guess if they let them open their would be other businesses wanting to be allowed to open too etc

and I desperately need a haircut too!