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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > UKMT April 2020 - The Betacoronavirus and the Virgin Atlantic
 
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Loonytoad Quack
Aug 24, 2004

High on Shatner's Bassoon
Why are we using the US spelling of metre in the thread title? Pls fix.

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Loonytoad Quack
Aug 24, 2004

High on Shatner's Bassoon

Oodles posted:

I was very excited to spent all my weekends tidying up the garden. Then my council stopped the garden waste collection.

:argh:

This is what fire is for.

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Loonytoad Quack
Aug 24, 2004

High on Shatner's Bassoon

sebzilla posted:

563 today :smith:
Definitely looks like an Italy track we're following at the moment, Cheltenham Races was such a stupid thing to allow to go ahead, criminally so, I doubt we've even seen the full impact of that yet.

In slightly more amusing news, The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 appears to have criminalised being over 18:
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Loonytoad Quack
Aug 24, 2004

High on Shatner's Bassoon

Oodles posted:

https://twitter.com/bbcbreaking/status/1246894412472483841?s=21

https://twitter.com/geraldinreverse/status/1045907408474664961?s=19

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Loonytoad Quack
Aug 24, 2004

High on Shatner's Bassoon
Welp, we're giga-hosed:

https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1250754796950368263

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Loonytoad Quack
Aug 24, 2004

High on Shatner's Bassoon

Pablo Bluth posted:

Updated NHS Coronavirus stats



Unless there's still extra lag due to the long weekend, it does feel like we might be at a turning point.

Today's number of deaths is 861 which means that first red bar is actually now a much taller blue bar, so don't get too excited yet.

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Loonytoad Quack
Aug 24, 2004

High on Shatner's Bassoon

WhatEvil posted:

This is shady as poo poo:

https://twitter.com/DrFuck_/status/1252278640336949248?s=20

Click through for thread on this, then at the bottom of that thread there's a link to another thread with more details.

The official DHSC account is currently doing this:



Which is totally normal behaviour for the Twitter account of a government department. (It goes on for pages and pages more.)

They shook.

MOD EDIT: made the img tags into timgs so people don't have to scroll past an 8000 pixel image

Somebody fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Apr 21, 2020

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