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OwlFancier posted:If members of the public do not perform the tests properly I am sure you can not possibly hold the government to account, and if it artificially drives down the reported infection rate that can not at all be considered a benefit to them. All tests are sent to the same labs. The tricky bit is that they're counting home orders of tests out for delivery as tests carried out, regardless of whether they've even arrived, let alone been used and sent back to a lab, when previously it was daily lab results.
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Pesky Splinter posted:B-but Boris Johnson said we were just past the peak now! If we can't believe Boris Johnson, who can we believe? By all indications, we are past the peak. It's just that our downward slope is very shallow, and our peak was very high, so we're going to be seeing hundreds of deaths a day for a very long time.
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If the off-licence in town has closed for the duration, where's the best place to order some more unusual beers? I can get Delirium Tremens (the beer, not the beer consequence) off Amazon, but I'm on the lookout for better options than Jeff Bezos to keep my Belgian tripel stockpile up.
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https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1256710774719946754?s=21 Second in the world (and first in Europe) at this stage of the epidemic. 
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OwlFancier posted:Please tell me nobody actually named their daughter Jocasta. Better than Electra, at least. 
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Ms Adequate posted:I named my night elf arched in WoW Jocasta Jocasta is basically saying 'I hope my daughter never has kids'.
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I love the implication that Thompson apparently had -5 hours of sleep per day. Not 5 hours, -5.
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Barry Foster posted:I know, what a wanker Ah, PM, not AM.
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Another fun one we haven't talked about on that shelf is The Irony of Virtue, by Ernest Lefever.quote:President Ronald Reagan nominated Lefever for a post as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in the Department of State. The 1981 nomination was cited by The Washington Post as an effort to appeal to "ultraconservatives" upset that Secretary of State Alexander Haig hadn't appointed conservative "hardliners" to his policy team. Lefever testified to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the U.S. should not act to "promote human rights in other sovereign states". Critics drew attention to his involvement with the Ethics and Public Policy Center and criticized remarks that contrasted regimes that supported the United States which he deemed "authoritarian" that should be the targets of "quiet diplomacy" – stating that "[o]ur friends deserve quiet support and public encouragement in their quest for a more humane society" and that we should be "a steadfast ally" without "moral posturing" – while those that opposed the U.S. were deemed "totalitarian" and could not be the targets of change achieved through diplomatic means.
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Coohoolin posted:There's also this, far more niche piece of holocaust revisionism. This is not entirely fair, given that TFOF was written in the Sixties, and was the source of the 'negative myth' (the idea that fascism was more defined by what it opposed than what it stood for) that Nolte railed against in the Eighties when he became a far-right Holocaust denier. This is not to say it was a great book - it was a quasi-mystical mess that basically saw Hitler as an evil sorcerer - but it was a key work in the early Marxist discourse about fascism.
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The Deleter posted:There won't be any riots in a country where so many people are addicted to the taste of boot polish. Everyone says that about their country until the riots start happening. They're unpredictable, but that's not the same as being impossible.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:
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happyhippy posted:Probably already said, but definitely Brexit. Again, though, it was the Tories who were the prime beneficiaries of the collapse in support of the press.
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https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1258093730730516482?s=21 Brr. Also, bleak lol: https://twitter.com/hancocktom/status/1257881201794113538?s=21
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franco posted:My parents are both elderly and my Dad is especially at risk because of various health issues. I'd had a hell of a time explaining the seriousness and getting them to stay home when this really got into gear. They were being pretty well-behaved. You could always just go 'sorry, I'd love to go, but I've got some health issues that make it a really bad idea'. It gets you out of there, and might make them sit up and think about what they're doing.
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https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1259045346564587522?s=21 This is a good article on what's going on inside the government - long story short, we're seeing a Tory faction war where the last week of briefings were a sustained attack on Number Ten policy by the party far right.
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Jedit posted:The science changed. Science tends to change rapidly when you actually come down with the disease you've been shrugging off. Notice how many of the Tory 'doves' caught the bug.
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https://twitter.com/mrharrycole/status/1259416232987627521?s=21 Faction war stepping up a gear.
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peanut- posted:I know Tories are congenitally incapable of not having a faction war, but it seems a bit weird. They put him in charge and he won them a massive landslide less than 6 months ago, it can't be coming as a shock to the cabinet now that they exist to rubber stamp whatever Boris wants to do. They're ideologues, chief, and the necessary measures to keep COVID-19 from killing millions are anathema to their ideology. To them, Johnson going for a government lockdown is like how we'd feel about Starmer getting into office and privatising the NHS.
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sassassin posted:Some people are putting a lot of effort into reframing Boris and his pals in the top positions as the friendly Tories looking out for us, with some unnamed venomous snakes trying desperately to take him down every Saturday morning on CITV. Johnson not wanting to lift lockdown doesn't mean he's suddenly a good person - he lacks the intellectual or ideological capacity to make that lockdown long-term sustainable, for one thing. Besides, we know who the venomous snakes are, because they're putting their names on Telegraph opinion columns. It's Gove, Javid, Duncan Smith, and Sunak.
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Ash Crimson posted:I just wish Nicola Sturgeon would come out and call boris a piece of poo poo, officially, but she must be doing something right if she's getting stuff like this: I mean, this is a pretty remarkable statement: https://twitter.com/nicolasturgeon/status/1259391575261696000?s=21
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https://twitter.com/zarahsultana/status/1259557030336987136?s=21 Zarah Sultana seems to be trying very hard to be the British AOC, and to be honest, she's doing a pretty decent job of it. One to watch.
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Jose posted:Over 40k deaths officially but it's time to ease lockdown 50K, actually. https://twitter.com/chrisgiles_/status/1260147443976593408?s=21
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It does look from the Financial Times data like Russia and Brazil are rapidly overtaking us in official COVID-19 deaths despite an even worse testing regimen, so we're probably not second in the world any more. We are almost certainly the worst in Europe, although Italy has been slow to release its excess death figures, and they look like they might be really bad.
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stev posted:Is this a 'reject the evidence of your eyes and ears' situation? I'm pretty sure he specifically said 'addicted'. 'A senior government source briefed the Times' that people were 'addicted' to the scheme. My bet is Gove.
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https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1260233393838620675?s=21 We handled this worse than Spain by all metrics, but Italy is still a mystery because their excess death data is now extremely out of date.
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forkboy84 posted:So on one hand that ex-Guido turd Wickham is out of a job so that's funny but on the other Buzzfeed News did a significantly better job of journalism than any paper in recent times. Shame that. Though I still miss when Jamie Ross was there, digging up some of the weirder stories in UK politics. And the total nonsense like making Corbyn try Irn Bru on a visit to Scotland. Wickham was one of the best sources for overviews of internal Tory party politics, which was kind of important since they run the country and all. Not sure anyone else does that job any more - it's just one faction or another advancing their agenda without letting on what's driving it.
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