Corona virus
- 24 April 2020 16:40362449Captain Haddock wrote:And now the Leader of the Free World recommends mainlining Dettol while on a sunbed?
Presumably why Boris decided they needed to speak on the phone. Shared expertise is always good. Maybe Jacinda Ardern might have been a more appropriate source of wisdom? - Jan Higgins
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24 April 2020 16:45362450Just read the following on FB, it certainly makes me wonder, what a dangerous idiot that man is.
"After Donald Trump suggests 'injecting disinfectant' to treat coronavirus, millions of furloughed workers wonder why they are currently out of work when the world's biggest imbecile isn't."Brian Dixon likes this-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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24 April 2020 23:09362452ray hutstone wrote:Presumably why Boris decided they needed to speak on the phone. Shared expertise is always good. Maybe Jacinda Ardern might have been a more appropriate source of wisdom?
Jacinda Ardern a source of wisdom?
.....Yep, you can’t beat a virtue signalling globalist leftie if you need advice! - 25 April 2020 07:50362453John Buckley wrote:Jacinda Ardern a source of wisdom? .....Yep, you can’t beat a virtue signalling globalist leftie if you need advice!
And one whose actions have saved lives. As opposed to a feckless poltroon and an unelected swivel-eyed eugenicist whose actions have had the opposite effect.
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25 April 2020 10:13362454I refuse to join in the left versus right argument, the NZ coronavirus problem seems to have been sorted over there and I hope it stays that way so the Kiwis can get their lives back to normal unlike us for the foreseeable future-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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25 April 2020 11:58362456What about Trump. Wat a clownALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - Weird Granny Slater
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25 April 2020 17:18362459Captain Haddock wrote:Yeah. Complicated isn't it. Except we are about to get to 100,000 tests whereupon every Muppet with access to a computer or a column in a national newspaper who knows f**k all about anything will 'obviously' point out either
1. They are the wrong sort of tests.
Or
2. They are the right sort but 'obviously' the Government should have introduced them earlier.
Meanwhile 251(?) Procurement Managers from NHS trusts are applying for early retirement with an index linked pension.
Phew! Just as well someone who knows everything about everything warned us in time. Thanks.
P.S. Will testing prove as successful as IC's modelling?
P.P.S. Pensions just went down the pan, don't they know?'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus - 26 April 2020 07:46362466Those damned Procurement Managers have sure made this PPE thing a lot worse.
https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1520/hp-sauce?fbclid=IwAR1y3hMDnq57rCQpOVmjUyfSEXL8EPePZUYHCNTKSrX1WPIvSESp3Zlr2DU - Captain Haddock
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26 April 2020 12:57362467P.S. Will testing prove as successful as IC's modelling?
P.P.S. Pensions just went down the pan, don't they know?
1. No. The game plan (in absence of vaccine) has to be keeping infection rate running 'hot' without boiling over and overwhelming NHS. Testing, apart from random sampling to understand spread, fairly unimportant.
Rather a long plateau than a second 'spike'. See Singapore. Loadsa people are going to end up dead over the next year in UK due to CoronaVirus. Suck it up.
2. NHS pensions watertight. Like mine!
Unfortunately for those like L&G whose pension fund is 'invested' in the likes of St James' in Dover ....."We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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26 April 2020 15:59362476Bob I think you will find loads of people are going to end up dead by the end of the year just like always, I reckon that it will not be significantly higher than the ONS rolling 5 year average.Weird Granny Slater and Jan Higgins like this"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
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While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi - Jan Higgins
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26 April 2020 16:37362477I know this sounds horrible so I apologise. It is possible that many of those that have unfortunately died were coming to the end of their life span due to underlying health issues or simple old age so this virus has simply hastened their death.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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26 April 2020 17:46362478No need to apologise, JH, since, though distressing for the people concerned and their friends and families, that's pretty much the way it is.
For 2018 (the last year for which there's complete data), total deaths in England, Wales, Scotland, & Northern Ireland = 616,014 (i.e. a weekly average of over 11,800). Obviously higher in the winter months, when influenza comes visiting, e.g. excess winter mortality in England & Wales in 2014/15 (December to March) was 43,900, i.e. over 2,500 a week above the weekly average for the other 8 months, even with a vaccine. (All stats ONS, NRS, NISRA) Scotland's winter mortality was particularly bad in 2017/2018 ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-45876204 ). But I don't remember any headless panics, economic shutdowns, house arrests, televised influenza briefings, fun police, or compulsory clapping, let alone imposed social distancing.
(Oh, and lest anyone takes offence, I'm not comparing covid-19 with influenza.)'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus - Captain Haddock
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26 April 2020 17:49362479More death stats https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - Captain Haddock
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26 April 2020 17:53362480The man on the Clapham Omnibus he say.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 26 April 2020 20:10362484I'm wondering how far away can Mr Shout Down A Microphone be heard from this week?
Was tempted to report a lockdown breach (he's literally encouraging people to "C'mon" and leave their houses and gather in the street) but my browser and operating system are too out of date apparently. - Reginald Barrington
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26 April 2020 20:43362485You have my sympathy, but thankfully the wind is in the wrong direction, so i am able to enjoy the jungles of Suriname.TheThinWhiteDuke likes thisArte et Marte - 26 April 2020 21:23362488Reginald Barrington wrote:You have my sympathy, but thankfully the wind is in the wrong direction, so i am able to enjoy the jungles of Suriname.
Surely the "right" direction if it means you can't hear the arse.Reginald Barrington likes this - Jan Higgins
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27 April 2020 08:32362491TheThinWhiteDuke wrote:I'm wondering how far away can Mr Shout Down A Microphone be heard from this week?
Was tempted to report a lockdown breach (he's literally encouraging people to "C'mon" and leave their houses and gather in the street) but my browser and operating system are too out of date apparently.
There is always noise abatement or environment health.
I have just seen someone called Mandy Gaffney on FB doing the same sort of thing but she was worth hearing and very professional plus she was doing it for charity.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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------------------------------------------------------------------- - 27 April 2020 17:25362493Jan Higgins wrote:There is always noise abatement or environment health. I have just seen someone called Mandy Gaffney on FB doing the same sort of thing but she was worth hearing and very professional plus she was doing it for charity.
Is she local? By "...the same sort of thing", do you mean, "...in the street and so loud they can be heard a couple of miles away"? I wouldn't mind if it was kept online for his fanbase but half the town doesn't want to be forced to hear his antics I'm sure.
Mr Shouty B*ll***s is also claiming "It's for charidee", but along with "...it's to lift spirits", I'm again calling nonsense on that. It's all about pretending to be some kind of celeb on the internet, as proved by the comments a la, "..look at all the followers we've got...", in the KM coverage the other week (who deigned not to print my alternative viewpoint to their story in their comments section).
As for EH etc. I'm amazed nobody's contacted them already. I consider doing it every Sunday. From what I can gather it's pretty hard to do anonymously, and despite my vitriol on here I don't think I really want to start a feud with the neighbours. Despite how annoying they're being. - 27 April 2020 18:32362494Mandy (and her husband Sean) are professional musicians not karoake wannabees. As with virtually all pro musicians they are otherwise unoccupied in these troubled times.TheThinWhiteDuke likes this
