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| R. Allin-Khan |
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80 | 21.33% |
| D. Butler |
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| P. Flaps |
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177 | 47.20% |
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I cannot wait for my office to close so i can piss about at home for weeks on end The Tory plan to return Britain to the 14th century is ahead of schedule. They haven't lost rulership of Ireland or Scotland yet, but they've managed the two living popes and the pandemic.
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Mar 1, 2020 23:15
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...how exactly are they going to "close down cities?"
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Mar 1, 2020 23:24
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Thatcher managed it.
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Mar 1, 2020 23:25
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I am going to break from thread consensus and say that I love crumbled ruins and overcrenelated poo poo. I do prefer iron age hill forts though.
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Mar 1, 2020 23:28
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Guavanaut posted:Thatcher managed it. I don't think they could do it this time though, especially if more than one needs to be closed, especially in England where there's more people crammed together in cities, o mean do they have enough police to potentially lock London down?
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Mar 1, 2020 23:31
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There's an old WW1 fort built into the hillside down in Portsmouth, called Fort Widley. It gets rented out for larp events and such, and it is so goddamn cool; it's full of dark, cold tunnels and while it has a relatively level rear access, the main way in is a terrifyingly steep spiral staircase deep into the earth. That's my fort story.
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Mar 1, 2020 23:33
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I like riding past the "come see my cat" bunker on the ECML up to scotland.
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Mar 1, 2020 23:38
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Ash Crimson posted:...how exactly are they going to "close down cities?" Churchill spirit, fight the virus on the beaches, we survived two world wars and one world cup, rationing is coming home baby. I actually went looking for 'Boris Johnson Noises' to make this post more realistic, and...  The reality of course is that hahaha we can't enforce a quarantine what the gently caress do you think this is, a country that hasn't stripped its police, hospitals and military to the bone?
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Mar 1, 2020 23:38
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Ash Crimson posted:I don't think they could do it this time though, especially if more than one needs to be closed, especially in England where there's more people crammed together in cities, o mean do they have enough police to potentially lock London down? You order all government offices to close, which they will definitely comply with, you order all public transport to stop, which is really obvious if they don't, you get police on the streets to patrol major junctions and challenge people moving around and you expect all other businesses to close and direct people to stay inside. Fear, lack of places to go, lack of means to travel and some state enforcement will reduce traffic massively. it's not like China had troopers in helicopters swooping down on people out on the street, although perhaps there's a greater expectation of compliance there than here.
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Mar 1, 2020 23:39
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Ash Crimson posted:o mean do they have enough police to potentially lock London down? *policeman points at you* 'ave you got a loicense for that being outside
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Mar 1, 2020 23:45
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how are they gonna deal with our people's rebellious, independent spirit? unlike the deferent and cowed chinese
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Communist Thoughts posted:how are they gonna deal with our people's rebellious, independent spirit? unlike the deferent and cowed chinese Not like that, the Chinese government openly interjects itself into general life to a far higher degree that we have in the UK and so the quarantine is definitely a massive step up but it's less of one than we would see it as.
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Mar 1, 2020 23:49
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Definitely going to be a crowd of pensioners banging on the sainsbury's demanding to know why they aren't open. Like a really naff dawn of the dead.
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Mar 1, 2020 23:52
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Communist Thoughts posted:how are they gonna deal with our people's rebellious, independent spirit? unlike the deferent and cowed chinese  but ... queuing politely to be let into the mass grave at Hyde Park.https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/coronavirus-plan-london-sees-40000-21599929 quote:Contingency plans have been drawn by the London Resilience Partnership (LRP) – which includes the London Resilience Team (LRT) – about what options would be on the table in “significant event” such as a viral outbreak. Oh yeah by the way it looks like 120,000 police, 146,500 across all branches of the military and 36,000 'volunteer reserve' who like to lick government jackboots. So ~300,000 'authority figures' enforcing the quarantine with billy club and musket, on an island of 66.4 million people.
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Mar 1, 2020 23:53
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OwlFancier posted:Definitely going to be a crowd of pensioners banging on the sainsbury's demanding to know why they aren't open. I think the corona might thin they numbers
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Mar 1, 2020 23:53
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this means she'll be gone by tuesday, correct? https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/boris-johnson-priti-patel-confidence_uk_5e5bfa17c5b601022112d1bd?ncid=tweetlnkukhpmg00000008
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RockyB posted:Churchill spirit, fight the virus on the beaches, we survived two world wars and one world cup, rationing is coming home baby. They'll send in the Royal Navy whose two ships are simultaneously defending the English Channel from froggie fishing trawlers and in the Gulf shoring up jingoistic votes for Trump. RockyB posted:
It's gonna be like 'the unburied bodies' side of 'the bins': https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/30/liverpool-gravedigger-strikes https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gravediggers-strike-helped-put-final-13972135 Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Mar 2, 2020 |
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Mar 2, 2020 00:07
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If it was may's government, yes, but hard to tell with boris. He's in a constant battle between laziness and stupidity.
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Mar 2, 2020 00:07
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I was looking for another smilie and saw this, thought I'd bring back the good times of late November.
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Mar 2, 2020 00:22
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It's gonna be like 'the unburied bodies' side of 'the bins':
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Mar 2, 2020 00:28
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We could give visas to Cameron's 70000 Syrian Rebel Fighters to come and defend Our Great Nation against this forinner virus.quote:Well sort of quote, I changed ISIS to Coronavirus
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Mar 2, 2020 00:35
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theyve said alot about old people dying better from corona virus. Is it the same for babies and children?
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Mar 2, 2020 00:38
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i miss skills wallets
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Mar 2, 2020 00:43
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NotJustANumber99 posted:theyve said alot about old people dying better from corona virus. Is it the same for babies and children? No, as of yet there hasn't been a single reported fatality of any children. They seem to only get mild symptoms.
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Mar 2, 2020 00:44
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NotJustANumber99 posted:theyve said alot about old people dying better from corona virus. Is it the same for babies and children? No. It just scythes through the elderly and the medically vulnerable.
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Mar 2, 2020 00:44
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Babies and young kids seem literally immune, there hasn't been a single death so far. Unlike the Spanish Flu which killed by sending the immune system of relatively healthy people into overdrive / causing Cytokine storms, Covid-19 seems pretty much aimed at taking out Boomers / immunocompromised people. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/ Some interesting theories floating around (that I can't find the source for right now) about how more recent exposure to other flu strains in nursery / early life might explain why kids seem not to get it.
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Mar 2, 2020 00:47
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NotJustANumber99 posted:theyve said alot about old people dying better from corona virus. Is it the same for babies and children? Don't think it hits babbies and kids especially hard, thankfully. Also, I don't think it'd be that hard to quarantine a city for a short time, because most people are going to obey the authorities when it's about a viral outbreak. The problems will emerge if the lockdown lasts beyond a certain time and things start running out in homes and whatever stores remain open.
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Mar 2, 2020 00:48
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namesake posted:No. It just scythes through the elderly and the medically vulnerable.
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Mar 2, 2020 00:49
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I have seen the documentary "resident evil"
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Mar 2, 2020 00:52
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The UK 2020 version is called Permanent Resident Evil.
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Mar 2, 2020 01:04
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RockyB posted:Babies and young kids seem literally immune, there hasn't been a single death so far. Unlike the Spanish Flu which killed by sending the immune system of relatively healthy people into overdrive / causing Cytokine storms, Covid-19 seems pretty much aimed at taking out Boomers / immunocompromised people. COVID-19 Is a totally different type of virus than influenza. Exposure to one will not affect the other. There are however four other regular coronaviruses (not MERS or SARS) found in (generally seasonal) circulation that may cause up to 20% of regular 'colds' but there is right now no evidence to support this being the reason children seem to have mild symptoms to COVID-19. Truthfully nobody really knows why this seems to be happening but it's one small mercy.
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Mar 2, 2020 01:09
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Peter Thiel is salivating at the prospect I'm sure.
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Mar 2, 2020 01:15
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Yeah I was using 'flu' as a generic term. The theory goes that more recent exposure to HCoV-OC43 in children than adults might explain why they have milder symptoms. http://virological.org/t/remarkable-age-distribution-of-oc43-vs-sars-cov-2-in-china/399 quote:In their preliminary analysis of the clinical parameters of COVID-19, from the first 425 patients, Li et al noted that there were no pediatric cases, and that the median age was 59 years old. While there are sure to be pediatric cases now that the total number of confirmed cases has topped 70,000, the impression has been that the pediatric age group has been very much spared a major impact from SARS-CoV-2. As always this is probably talking so much bullshit and we won't really know until months down the line, if ever.
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Mar 2, 2020 01:32
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I'm convinced that had social media and media frenzy been at 2020 levels for sars and swine flu and what not, there'd have been the same sensationalism and panic then.
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Mar 2, 2020 01:35
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Did either of those switch off china?
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Sorry for the Torygraph link: torygraph/politics/2020/03/01/downing-street-department-health-locked-row-access-eu-pandemic/ quote:Downing Street and Department of Health locked in row over access to EU pandemic warning system
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Mar 2, 2020 01:54
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https://twitter.com/DavidCayJ/status/1234222655412359172 Paging our mole on the Solent ShaneMcGowansTeeth to tell us if there's similar scenes down there...
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RockyB posted:Yeah I was using 'flu' as a generic term. The theory goes that more recent exposure to HCoV-OC43 in children than adults might explain why they have milder symptoms. Sorry for being a bit blunt just extremely tired of all the misinformation going around about this, the 'its just the flu' stuff really bugs me and it can be hard to tell what's what. I'd almost hope this wasn't the case as other countries might have lower circulation of the specific coronavirus strain responsible which means that kids would be more vulnerable.
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Doctor Teeth posted:this means she'll be gone by tuesday, correct? Eh, she's dumb but also dumbly loyal to Johnson and acts as a kind of meat shield to absorb unfriendly attention that might otherwise be turned on him. I think she's safe.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/DavidCayJ/status/1234222655412359172 Probably not yet, as it takes considerably longer for a ship to get from Shanghai/Singapore/Ningbo/Busan to get to Europe than to Long Beach. We will know in the next two or three weeks I'd wager
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