Camrath posted:

Awooga! Awooga! Fudjit is now open for March orders!

Camrath posted:

And this month’s goon special: ‘The Great Divider’, made with the dreaded Terry’s Chocolate Orange.

namesake posted:

I'm afraid he'll get in on full membership votes, the liberalism is deep in the party membership.

Sanford posted:

When my new pet beetles are scared they stick their bum in the air and it looks like a scary little monster. My wife says I was more visibly delighted by this than I was when our daughter was born.

Cerv posted:

shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to campaigning for the locals in May

stev posted:

C... can't you just take them out before they go down the plug?

Pilchenstein posted:

I was in tesco an hour ago and they had shitloads of arserag left tbh, don't think we're all gonna die in the great andrex war of 2020 just yet despite journalism's wishes to the contrary

Guavanaut posted:

lol @ roast beef

SpicePro posted:

I recently made four jars worth of piccalilli that I'm scared to eat incase I've done something wrong, still, they have been in the fridge for 5 weeks now and there is no mould so that's a good sign right?

WhatEvil posted:

If anybody didn't bother to click through, this was an opposition day motion on health inequalities, proposed by Corbyn. It was as far as I can see, proposing investigations into health inequalities - poor people suffering due to cuts. Nadine Dorries was in the No lobby with 300+ other total shits voting against it.

If there's any justice in the world, they all have coronavirus now. It would be the most perfectly ironic and fantastic thing to ever have happened in the history of the world.

Darth Walrus posted:

https://twitter.com/samcoatessky/status/1237701021813612544?s=21

This seems promising.

peanut- posted:

Does the number of politicians and footballers getting this thing not suggest that the idea we've got a few hundred or low thousands of cases is completely fanciful? 600 cases in the whole country and two of them happen to be Mikel Arteta and Callum Hudson-Odoi?

hemale in pain posted:

uk is taking the pickup artist dating approach to combat a viral disease.

quote:

However, of this the current model estimate was that "81 percent of those infected will have minor symptoms. They will be sick for less than a week but will be expected to remain infectious for up to two weeks so will be isolated for that period.

"We have an estimate of 15 percent of those infected who will be described as having moderate symptoms and will be ill with what will feel like the flu.

And there is an estimate model of four percent of those infected who will need hospitalisation.

ThomasPaine posted:

I'm guessing they're just guesstimating based on the percentages in China/Italy/Elsewhere

jabby posted:

I know I haven't been in the thread much since the election, but I just wanted to give you a quick medical update:

Soylent Yellow posted:

Most of the 70 and 80 year-olds I know will straight-up ignore a restriction like that while wondering what all the fuss is about. Just try telling my neighbour that Bingo night is cancelled.

ThomasPaine posted:

That seems... good??

Azza Bamboo posted:

I like how in all these "flatten the curve" diagrams they show some kind of surplus capacity in the healthcare system like it's not already balls-to-the-wall.

namesake posted:

Oh wow the USA is absolutely hosed.

We're merely heavily in deep loving trouble.

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

gently caress me. So to avoid unnecessary deaths they'd have to slow the infection to the point where it took about 12 years to finish?

And the US has more ICU capacity per capita than the UK?

Guavanaut posted:

I'm sure they'd send some painkillers

Z the IVth posted:

Some people will say Boris & Cum don't know what they're doing but in reality they are hoping to purge the population of "undesireables" but instead of building camps and gas chambers hey there's this handy virus that's just come about. Neither of them are in a high risk category after all.

namesake posted:

Gotta say I'm of the opinion that covid 19 would bring down any UK government and would have absolutely ruined any policy Labour had tried to roll out before now or in response to the virus given the press and political atmosphere they would have created towards it.

While the battlefield is radically different to what people were expecting and hoping for this is absolutely a second chance to get it right.

jabby posted:

Journalists are also not helping by repeating essentially government propaganda. Like this:

https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1238882397124526080

This was shown on Newsnight with the green line representing the government's approach, and the blue line the potential consequences of the approach all other countries are taking. Where does it come from you ask?

https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1238882902580092935

Eagle eyed viewers may note that in the original paper the green line actually represents "social distancing in place THROUGHOUT the epidemic" while the blue line is more stringent measures initially that are then lifted.

No line is drawn for the government's actual approach, which is no social distancing measures initially and then when they are introduced they remain for a limited time. Possibly because it's the worst of both the blue and red lines. But no, we are (according to journalists) the green line.

EDIT: Also important to note there are no numbers on the graph, because as the example from the US earlier shows as soon as you start using numbers it might become obvious that you'd have to spread the outbreak over an entire decade to prevent the health service collapsing. And we can't tell people that.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

What a plank (Bastani).

https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1238979079174524936?s=20

StarkingBarfish posted:

crispix posted:

I think this is the ideal time to finally be rid of the handshake forever. What would you all like to see it replaced with? I personally quite fancy the sharp teutonic head bow

Pencils R Cool posted:

https://www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-schools-close-all-children-key-workers posted:

Schools 'to close to all but children of key workers'

The government is set to announce that schools will be closed for a few weeks in response to the spread of coronavirus – but remain open to children of key workers, such as nurses, according to reports.

In the next stage of the government's plans for dealing with Covid-19, skeleton staff will remain in schools to provide childcare and keep public services up and running, while other pupils will have to stay away, it was reported last night.

On the Sophy Ridge on Sunday TV show this morning, health secretary Matt Hancock confirmed that the government would be making an announcement on the next stage of its plans on Tuesday, following a Cobra meeting on Monday.

This week, the NEU teaching union joint general secretaries Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney wrote to prime minister Boris Johnson to demand answers about the risks of infection to staff and pupils of schools staying open.

The letter says: "Every day, we are increasingly getting asked why schools aren't closing if mass gatherings are to be suspended.

"We all want to limit and delay the spread of the coronavirus and we do think medical advice and expert scientific guidance is important in this regard."

TES are reporting that we might actually get school closures?

endlessmonotony posted:

So last I heard the UK government's response was something along the lines of "we have stockpiles of everything necessary, including sherry, and no one Fortunate enough to live in Britain is going to die of the cough".

Has anything changed?

namesake posted:

Well herd immunity is a thing, that's not what the problem is. The problem is getting it through population level exposure rather than vaccination with inadequate monitoring of cases or protection of high risk category people.

endlessmonotony posted:

I heard something about making sure the elderly don't leave their homes recently though.

StarkingBarfish posted:

Long-tailed tits are the tits.




There's a load of robins as well but they don't hang around the feeder, they fly in, grab something and fly out. I'm shooting manual focus so this makes it near impossible to catch them.

ThomasPaine posted:

UK a promising underdog in the back there lmao

StarkingBarfish posted:

Have a very photogenic bluetit doing the 'guardian op-ed journo' pose:

justcola posted:

Guavanaut posted:

StarkingBarfish posted:

Your daily garden bird update:



~chirp~

Mebh posted:

Yay birbs.

Necrothatcher posted:

Anyone else feel like a frog in water that's slowly getting warmer?

Darth Walrus posted:

https://twitter.com/prospect_clark/status/1240774932952428544?s=21

Well then.

Undead Hippo posted:

Schools are now being used only for the children of key workers, such as those responsible for medically treating the virus and with the highest infection risk. Thus ensuring that when the children of those key workers are infected they have maximum mixing with the children of other keyworkers. And so we maximally ensure the complete infection of all key workers in as short a timeframe as possible.

StarkingBarfish posted:

This essential worker arrived to have breakfast with me this morning:

pumpinglemma posted:

One parent who's a key worker? That's just taking the piss.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

This explains why every pawn shop in Hackney had "Face masks £1.99 each" signs in the window.