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| R. Allin-Khan |
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80 | 21.33% |
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72 | 19.20% |
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177 | 47.20% |
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Mar 13, 2020 23:45
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Prince John posted:https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/no-boris-johnson-isnt-behaving-like-donald-trump-on-coronavirus_uk_5e6bf216c5b6dda30fc8edef?vso Surely the solution to that is quite simple - close the school for everyone except the children of NHS staff who are too young to be home alone.
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Mar 13, 2020 23:56
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Prince John posted:https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/no-boris-johnson-isnt-behaving-like-donald-trump-on-coronavirus_uk_5e6bf216c5b6dda30fc8edef?vso I would really like to be in a position where I could take faith in this kind of appeal to authority and decorum, but the general tone in this piece of "please stop being rude and just wait and see if people die before questioning your well meaning appointed betters too strongly, citizen" is a tad vexing. not to mention maybe not the best strategy given recent evidence in how public opinion is swayed?
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So if the plan is for as many people as possible to get the virus for 'herd immunity' and also for police to have special powers over people suspected of having it, that's a pretty worrying situation.
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Mar 14, 2020 00:00
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Its not even a U - Turn since they arent going to put this measure in place until next weekend. gently caress these ghouls.
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Mar 14, 2020 00:01
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part of me thinks a little freak like cummings is seizing on this as an opportunity to crash the NHS disruptor style, and that's why the plan is so weird and suicidal.
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Mar 14, 2020 00:06
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Guavanaut posted:So if the plan is for as many people as possible to get the virus for 'herd immunity' and also for police to have special powers over people suspected of having it, that's a pretty worrying situation. If not enough people get it for herd immunity, the police will come round and rub your face into the armpit of an infected
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Mar 14, 2020 00:09
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Lmao it's dither and delaaaaay
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So I was having a fun evening with two good friends, one from Iran! Talking and drinking way too much. Went to ASDA to get more booze. Not ten doors down I see sirens. There's an ambulance and loads of folks in masks literally wheeling a loving corpse bag out of a house. Everyone in hazmat suits... One starts yelling at me to stay back. What. The. gently caress. I'm getting very very drunk now. Polish guy with no hands in asda said he has 100 percent proof of life after death and not to worry about corona. He'll tell me more if I want when I see him next. Fuuuucking hell.
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Mar 14, 2020 00:16
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Mebh posted:Polish guy with no hands in asda said he has 100 percent proof
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Mar 14, 2020 00:22
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smart move to wait for all the sports events to be cancelled before calling for them to be cancelled, makes it clear that you are forward-thinking, pragmatic and proactive and really builds public confidence in your judgement and leadership I suppose waiting till the weekend won't actually make much difference as most mass events will be on the weekend (and most of the biggest ones had already been cancelled by the organisers obv) also they're still being poo poo on basic things like just saying "companies should help everyone who can work remotely to do so", which is free, not particularly economically harmful, not something people are likely to be "fatigued" by and which they could have done weeks ago the guardian posted:Whitehall sources said the country would move toward widespread home-working, although details had yet to be thrashed out. but hey at least they got the newspapers to say they're finally doing something!
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One of my work friends kind of off-handedly mentioned her partner was sick earlier this week. Didn't think much off it because she just said he was throwing up all night. Today at lunch she told us he had "flu like symptoms". When pressed she revealed he had been off work all week with this, and his office had been told he was self-isolating. We managed to convince her to go home but the damage is (likely) already done and I'm fully prepared to not be in the office next week. This is someone who has been obsessively following the news, keeping up to date with everything, constantly talking about the symptoms. And she... just decided it didn't apply to her, I guess. This is going to get real bad, real quick. I think the government wants that to happen. A quick short burst on the NHS is easier to explain. We're in a pandemic. There's not enough beds. We couldn't do anything. A longer, more drawn out period would highlight the underfunding of the NHS. They don't want that. Who cares if it sacrifices the olds and poors.
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Cool, cool. So with the emphasis on kinder, gentler politics, everybody will come out and loudly condemn her, right? Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:u-turns into u-turns into u-turns Cool, cool. So we're now changing health policy in response to public outcry, not on scientific evidence? (Obviously this is the right decision, but clearly made for the wrong reasons)
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XMNN posted:also they're still being poo poo on basic things like just saying "companies should help everyone who can work remotely to do so", which is free, not particularly economically harmful, not something people are likely to be "fatigued" by and which they could have done weeks ago see if everyone starts working from home at once then there will be a sudden mass dip in productivity as everyone takes a few weeks to gets past the wanking stage. we need to have it carefully staggered so as to keep the economy afloat
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Mar 14, 2020 00:31
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Grassroots pandemic management ie the big society Cameron kept going on about
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Mar 14, 2020 00:34
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I'm trying to finish writing an article from home and literally all I've done so far is jack off and play video games and drink out of boredom
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm trying to finish writing an article from home and literally all I've done so far is jack off and play video games and drink out of boredom Didn't know you worked for the guardian.
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Mar 14, 2020 00:37
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Russell approves.
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OwlFancier posted:Didn't know you worked for the guardian. loving hell this is good poo poo
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Mar 14, 2020 00:41
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Mebh posted:So I was having a fun evening with two good friends, one from Iran! Talking and drinking way too much. Went to ASDA to get more booze. Jesus.
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Mar 14, 2020 00:48
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Just said on Sky news that a yougov poll shows 55% think the government is doing a good job on Coronavirus :smdh: Trump said might be going to put UK on his ban list (is this because the golf has been cancelled?)
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Just said on Sky news that a yougov poll shows 55% think the government is doing a good job on Coronavirus :smdh: That's the group that's going to die so it's okay.
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OwlFancier posted:Didn't know you worked for the guardian. Lol Tbh I'd love to be paid 60k to sit on my arse and fart out garbage takes
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Mar 14, 2020 01:10
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Mar 14, 2020 01:10
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Yeah that basically means half the people polled think thr gov is doing a bad job as we head towards a horrible pandemic, noice stuff. One thing I'll say for the ol' roni is it's got me bookmarking this thread again for the first time since the election
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Took about 30 days for 1 in 200 over 70’s in Italy to get the virus and 1 in 8 of them died. Johnson’s already facing front page stories about potential triaging options. There’s likely going to be a story soon about rationed ventilators and maybe then people will recognise what a colossal oval office he is / has made of this
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Mar 14, 2020 01:31
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The people of this country are as thick as pig poo poo so they won't.
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Mar 14, 2020 01:36
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I made really good cheeseburgers tonight. And I was happy. loving hell we're all gonna die.
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Mebh posted:I made really good cheeseburgers tonight. And I was happy. loving hell we're all gonna die. don't worry, only a percentage of us will die! doesn't that make you feel better! the rest of us must stay alive in order to carry out furious vengeance on what will remain of the ruling classes
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It occurred to me that the fact that the government are so desperate to reduce economic and logistical disruption that they’re willing to let thousands of their own voters die at least bodes well for the end of the Brexit transition period.
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Angepain posted:don't worry, only a percentage of us will die! doesn't that make you feel better! the rest of us must stay alive in order to carry out furious vengeance on what will remain of the ruling classes A percentage of me is already dead
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Angepain posted:don't worry, only a percentage of us will die! doesn't that make you feel better! the rest of us must stay alive in order to carry out furious vengeance on what will remain of the ruling classes My local CLP are full of melty loving melt blairites. Its so endemic and head noddingly agreed on that I don't know how to even begin. Decorum and both sides bad PS Corbyn is why everything is bad.
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Mar 14, 2020 01:51
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Mebh posted:Polish guy with no hands in asda said he has 100 percent proof of life after death and not to worry about corona. Just keep washing your hands and you'll be- oh.
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Asgerd posted:Just keep washing your hands and you'll be- oh. Yeah he had literally no hands... Just. Yeah . OK.
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a girl I know from a few years ago has been posting on facebook non-stop about how this is all overblown by the media and it's all scaremongering and only 0.5% of people under 50 will die etc etc etc (I have been calling her out about the hospitalisation rate but it's fallen on deaf ears) tonights post is pics of her by the pool as she's just flown off for "two weeks self isolation" and she's gutted that she might have to put future holidays on hold. unbelievably tempted to comment, "it's just the flu lol" but whatever. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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0.5% of the population of the UK is still like 300 thousand people lol. So it's basically like saying it wouldn't matter if someone wiped newcastle off the map. (if they are a southerner this may not elicit much response)
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OwlFancier posted:0.5% of the population of the UK is still like 300 thousand people lol. i know it's absolutely mind boggling. Another one posted "well if we're going to get it we're going to get it, it's just your time", I said "if your child trips down the stairs and splits their head open, and the hospitals are overloaded and there's no space left, are you going to tell your child it's just their time?" no answer to that one and I told a friend (in real life) two weeks ago to go and do a big shop, she went loving yesterday and put on facebook that it was a disgrace that the shelves were almost empty so loving angry
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For most people this is the first time ever that the news has been something that happens to them instead of just another TV show. And to be fair I include myself in that, I’m having trouble thinking of another big event that affected my life to a degree where I couldn’t have ignored it if I’d wanted to.
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So, I'm all the way over in Australia but my parents who are in the 80s and my sister and her family are all in England (parents in the north west, sister in the south west), and I'm freaking out about Boris' herd immunity plan. Like I'm genuinely worried for my parents because there is no way I can help them other than urging them to stay at home and not let anyone in. My mum has asthma too and has had so many health issues over the years. They won't have stocked up either because my dad thought it was all overblown, so my sister is helping with online shopping for them. I honestly feel so helpless from being so far away and not being able to travel back home now  Sorry to drop this on you thread.
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