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Jul 18, 2021 03:33
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Javid has the Vid. Wonder how he got it despite two vaccine shots.
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Jul 18, 2021 06:42
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You've already been banned for being too dumb for c-spam, which is a hell of an achievement, but for the benefit of anyone else reading - because no vaccine is 100% effective which is why it's essential as many people as possible get vaccinated and you don't get to point and laugh at the idea of the unvaccinated population dying - they're going to take us all down with them.
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Jul 18, 2021 08:02
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I loving hate these people so much. The Guardian posted:Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will not isolate after being ‘pinged’, says No 10 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/18/boris-johnson-and-rishi-sunak-will-not-isolate-after-being-pinged-says-no-10
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Jul 18, 2021 08:22
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My understanding is that you can still contract the virus and test positive but are dramatically less likely to develop serious illness after vaccination?
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Jul 18, 2021 08:24
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Loonytoad Quack posted:I loving hate these people so much. Part of a "pilot scheme"... kudos to whatever Cummings hire pulled that out of their arse. It's all so predictably cynical.
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Jul 18, 2021 08:41
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This is not going to go well for them. Even Bootlicker Podges is outraged. This could well mean they only extend their lead over Keith by another 5 points https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1416661432817553408
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Jul 18, 2021 08:41
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I love the beeb take that it's okay that Saj visited a care home t'other day because everyone there is double vaccinated. You know, like the guy they're talking about who has caught and likely spread the plague. Any of the million who are getting pinged this week that isolates, is a total mug. But then we all are aren't we?
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Jul 18, 2021 08:54
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Across the nation echoes the sound of millions of phones deleting the Covid App
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Jul 18, 2021 08:58
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Marmaduke! posted:Any of the million who are getting pinged this week that isolates, is a total mug. But then we all are aren't we? I haven’t been pinged and Im going to be isolating anyway. Taken the week off work, plenty of netflix to catch up on while I hide and wait for the dust to settle
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Jul 18, 2021 09:11
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I work for a London theatre and they've sent out an email to staff saying it's full speed ahead starting tomorrow. A thousand people packed into auditorium seating with ventilation from 1970s air handling units, what could go wrong.
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Jul 18, 2021 09:22
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There's just been a positive case at my kid's nursery so we've got a week at home with an energetic two year old who just wants to go outside and see his friends. Makes me wonder why we bother
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Jul 18, 2021 09:24
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Soricidus posted:I haven’t been pinged and Im going to be isolating anyway. Taken the week off work, plenty of netflix to catch up on while I hide and wait for the dust to settle To be fair it's what we should all be doing, except without taking holiday, ie general strike. If our opposition had any spine they would at least walk out whenever they're in the same chamber as the PM/Chancellor but that won't be happening. Even Don Hodges has more spine.
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Jul 18, 2021 09:35
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Guavanaut posted:If you say 'non-story' five times in a mirror then they all appear and remind you why it never makes the news. I thought this caused Michael Gove to appear instantaneously within your house but remain completely invisible unless glanced through a mirror.
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Jul 18, 2021 09:36
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kecske posted:A thousand people packed into auditorium seating with ventilation from 1970s air handling units, what could go wrong. Better get these queued up for the news tomorrow evening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwxjYFqP35A
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Jul 18, 2021 09:37
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gently caress it might as well triple post  What happens when a far right anti-immigration covid denier breaks immigration and quarantine rules? https://www.theguardian.com/austral...arantine-claims the article posted:British far-right figure Katie Hopkins has been dumped as a cast member of Seven’s Big Brother VIP and will leave the country after breaching her contract, Guardian Australia can reveal.
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Jul 18, 2021 10:02
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Convex posted:gently caress it might as well triple post I know it’s Australia but I’m absolutely baffled at a major TV station booking her for a high profile show. It’s not like her views are well-hidden.
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Jul 18, 2021 10:08
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Marmaduke! posted:I love the beeb take that it's okay that Saj visited a care home t'other day because everyone there is double vaccinated. You know, like the guy they're talking about who has caught and likely spread the plague. That struck me, too. For their sakes I'm glad, and in a visit like that they should have been keeping socially distanced, but who knows if any of the MPs stuck to the rules in their private meetings. It's already been announced that from the 16 August double vaccinated people won't need to self isolate, so what are they 'trialling'? Under what circumstances would they change this requirement?
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Jul 18, 2021 10:09
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Lady Demelza posted:That struck me, too. For their sakes I'm glad, and in a visit like that they should have been keeping socially distanced, but who knows if any of the MPs stuck to the rules in their private meetings. They're trialing the new "one rule for us" system.
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Jul 18, 2021 10:11
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stev posted:They're trialing the new "one rule for us" system. More like "one rule for you, no rules for us" at this point.
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Jul 18, 2021 10:14
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Yeah I'm British and live in Australia and today heard that my Gran's dementia is taking a turn for the worse back home at about the same time that I heard that Katie loving Hopkins was allowed in to piss around in Australian hotel quarantine. Pretty loving livid about it to be honest.
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Jul 18, 2021 10:26
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Dabir posted:"Being grown-up" is defined as "liking the Tories", which explains both why the politics of a 70 year old lifelong politician are now being called "childish", and why you're very mature for your age, aren't you, my dear *smiles wolfishly* Late 70s, early 80s they had a spate of tv programmes about school leavers' applying for Oxbridge, their interviews and the interviewers' post-interview discussions. Several times, the discussions by interviewers relating to 17/18 year old applicants who had said they were supporters of the conservative party described them as 'mature' on that basis.
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Jul 18, 2021 10:33
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Just a total and utter loving clown show: https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1416694051617837058?s=19 e: https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1416693412674297857?s=09 Maybe think your actions through before taking them in future you utter morons. Loonytoad Quack fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Jul 18, 2021 |
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Jul 18, 2021 10:41
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Remember when Boris called Jeremy Corbyn a mugwump and the media spent a full 48 hours soyfacing about what a literary genius he was.
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Jul 18, 2021 10:50
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I put this change entirely down to the garbage defence offered by the Housing Minister on the Marr Show half an hour ago where there was no good reason given for why it was okay for the Cabinet but not most other businesses in the country.
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Jul 18, 2021 10:52
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Convex posted:I thought this caused Michael Gove to appear instantaneously within your house but remain completely invisible unless glanced through a mirror. My friends and I were talking about a little film making competition for our Halloween party this year, and you've just written my entry for me.
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Jul 18, 2021 10:57
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I'm lost, what is "the pilot"? Ignoring pings and going to work places anyway?
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Jul 18, 2021 10:58
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm lost, what is "the pilot"? Ignoring pings and going to work places anyway? LCF test every day and they're allowed to go to work but then isolate at home.
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Jul 18, 2021 11:01
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm lost, what is "the pilot"? Ignoring pings and going to work places anyway? Still carrying out 'essential work', taking a daily test, refraining from all other social activity - was what I half overheard earlier. Does this actually exist though, or is it a cobbled together excuse that's now been dropped the very same morning?
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Jul 18, 2021 11:01
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Well the telegraph reported on it last week so it seems that they had a tiny bit of forethought about what the isolation system will do and then decided they need to get around it https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/07/13/ministers-secretly-take-part-get-jail-free-covid-trial-avoid/
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Jul 18, 2021 11:10
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Does that mean I'm still young - Not conservative - Not eligible for the shingles vaccine yet (according to the NHS page I found anyway) - Posts in the UKMT Yep, your young-card has been renewed for another 5 years 
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Jul 18, 2021 11:12
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Tomberforce posted:Yeah I'm British and live in Australia and today heard that my Gran's dementia is taking a turn for the worse back home at about the same time that I heard that Katie loving Hopkins was allowed in to piss around in Australian hotel quarantine. Pretty loving livid about it to be honest. My uncle is Australian with 7 kids (two wives) and he hasn’t been able to see anyone of them or his 94 year old mum since the pandemic started,  I have a uplifting story about the youngest one. Now this kid was a dreadful neckbeard weeb, living at home off rich parents deep deep into MRA land. Few years back there was that massive heatwave and this kid just vanished one day, they didn’t think he’d taken clothes and had no idea if any of his stuff was missing. 2 weeks later he phones in. Turns out the lad had A Moment Of Clarity when he couldn’t take the heat any more and went “what am I doing with my life?”. He’d got these limited edition figures worth an absolute fortune that he’d blown his money on, so he sold them. Took the cash to the airport and got some sort of courier seat to Japan. He got himself a job teaching English and an apartment. He’s now married to another Australian ex-pat teacher out there and they got a baby,
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Jul 18, 2021 11:16
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Answers Me posted:Still carrying out 'essential work', taking a daily test, refraining from all other social activity - was what I half overheard earlier. It appears that the pilot programme for some of the cabinet offices + other "essential" government businesses was already in place. Of course, I strongly doubt the loving PM was part of the original plans until yesterday.
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Jul 18, 2021 11:18
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Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:My friends and I were talking about a little film making competition for our Halloween party this year, and you've just written my entry for me. Please share the output with us (albeit with the necessary  caveats)
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Jul 18, 2021 11:28
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My family what's app is absolutely on raging fire this morning about Johnson. They're mostly burnt out lefty people who just don't care anymore because of how hopeless it all feels sometime, but I've not seen them get this riled up in a while.
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Jul 18, 2021 11:34
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The pilot scheme to compare isolation vs daily testing for fully vaccinated people is a real thing, but it's supposed to be random which group you are allocated to. If it's not random, then it's not a proper scientific study. The odds that all the government ministers who joined the pilot this weekend were randomly assigned to the daily testing group are incredibly small. Obviously if the daily test comes back positive, then they immediately have to isolate. Without having seen much written about it, it seems the pilot scheme is to see whether asymptomatic/pre-symptomatic transmission in vaccinated people is low enough that self-isolation is unecessary. I'm interested in the ethics of it, especially as the mask and socia distancing requirements are being scrapped tomorrow. How many unvaccinated people would be happy that the maskless person standing very close to them had been in contact with a Covid patient, and was part of an experiment to see how contagious they were?
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Jul 18, 2021 11:35
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At my school some staff have been given the choice between doing a lateral flow each day or isolating. Not sure how the decision has been made. It's all just seemed very random. Obviously there was nothing random about Boris & Rishi.
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Jul 18, 2021 11:43
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Jul 18, 2021 11:51
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smellmycheese posted:This is not going to go well for them. Even Bootlicker Podges is outraged. This could well mean they only extend their lead over Keith by another 5 points I knew it was bad but not this bad sez British journalist before instantly forgetting how bad it is again
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Jul 18, 2021 12:28
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Some of you might be interested (Twisto?) Free event (but you have to book). real life (London) + online stream + vid to go up on Youtube afterwards. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectures/seeing-the-city-digitally-from-picturing-urban-spaces-to-animating-urban-life/ quote:Seeing the city digitally: from picturing urban spaces to animating urban life
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Jul 18, 2021 12:33
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