Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (123 Viewers)

[Deleted member 5849]

It’s been the issue throughout. Reminds me of a shit supply teacher who values being liked over keeping discipline. And I should know about them!

As a small aside, I used to teach in universities. I always got great ratings off the students at the end of year because they liked me. The lecturer who actually got them doing work, and punished them for not doing work, got rubbish ones.

I often wondered what the point of getting the students to rate the tutors was!

 

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[Otis]

There are already plenty of Disney conspiracies out there

Like, which dwarf got Snow White pregnant and what Pinocchio really got up to with that nose?

 

[shmmeee]

Like, which dwarf got Snow White pregnant and what Pinocchio really got up to with that nose?

Reminds me of the joke about Snow White sitting on Pinocchios face shouting “lie you bastard!”

 

[NortonSkyBlue]

Like, which dwarf got Snow White pregnant and what Pinocchio really got up to with that nose?

Or how did the wizard of oz know about David O'Day in the song "if I only had a brain" in the late thirties?

 

[steve cooper]

The problem with this is, I think the so called scientific experts got it wrong. Politicians cannot be expected to be experts on everything and have to rely on experts on these kind of things. Patrick Vallance (herd immunity proposer) has been in post as Chief Scientific Adviser to the government for 2 years and was not appointed by Boris

 

[PVA]

This is in America, but this crisis really is bringing out the worst in some people:

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Wetherspoons are refusing to pay their staff any money until they get it from the government, and Tim Martin is saying that his staff should work in supermarkets in the meantime to earn money.

He is an utter c**t.

Wow, he can take pride of place alongside Mike Ashley. Never thought he'd have a rival

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

This is in America, but this crisis really is bringing out the worst in some people:

The US government is just giving a one off means tested payment of $1200. Meanwhile they have also created a $500 billion 'slush fund' for corporations to help themselves to.

 

[Mcbean]

Id recommend Disney plus for this lockdown. Just downloaded it and its got everything you can ever imagine. Every disney film ever, every marvel film ever, every Pixar and every single simpsons episode.

In this time of uncertainty i feel its good to watch a film from your childhood to bring back memories of happier times and perk us up, even if its for an hour or so. Working for me!

Not got Debbie does Dallas which I specially remember from
My childhood

 

[usskyblue]

Meanwhile, in Florida.

You can’t fly in to the US from anywhere in the world...but you can fly in to Florida from New York (where the attack rate of the virus is 5 times worse than anywhere else in the country) ?

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

This is in America, but this crisis really is bringing out the worst in some people:

They go on the shit list.

We should keep a running tab of these, so when it all blows over karma can be given.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Meanwhile, in Florida.

You can’t fly in to the US from anywhere in the world...but you can fly in to Florida from New York (where the attack rate of the virus is 5 times worse than anywhere else in the country) ?

This may be of interest- state by state projections and breakdown

This model predicts the last day each state can act before the point of no return

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

This may be of interest- state by state projections and breakdown

This model predicts the last day each state can act before the point of no return

Fucking hell some of them models are optimistic with May being virtually no hospitalised cases

 

[Liquid Gold]

I love spoons, just a place to go and have a cheap pint with mates but can never understand why nobody has copied the business model. Literally no frills pints and nothing else. I wish there was an alternative that wasn't run by stig of the twat.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Fucking hell some of them models are optimistic with May being virtually no hospitalised cases

In states with few cases if they went into 'Wuhan style lockdown'. Check out NY

 

[Liquid Gold]

Also I tend to find people that vote Labour and say "we need to win back the northern working class" are also the ones to turn their noses up at places like spoons. Fucking class snobs.

Still fuck em now though hey.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Also I tend to find people that vote Labour and say "we need to win back the northern working class" are also the ones to turn their noses up at places like spoons. Fucking class snobs.

Still fuck em now though hey.

I was in Spoons last week. A guy proudly shouted 'I didn't vote for Boris I voted for beer! Hahaha'

 

[shmmeee]

The problem with this is, I think the so called scientific experts got it wrong. Politicians cannot be expected to be experts on everything and have to rely on experts on these kind of things. Patrick Vallance (herd immunity proposer) has been in post as Chief Scientific Adviser to the government for 2 years and was not appointed by Boris

Convenient. By that logic no politician should ever be held accountable as they always have expert advice.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

so called scientific experts

Lol

 

[fellatio_Martinez]

I love spoons, just a place to go and have a cheap pint with mates but can never understand why nobody has copied the business model. Literally no frills pints and nothing else. I wish there was an alternative that wasn't run by stig of the twat.

There was the gimmicky £1 a beer pub chain opened a few years back.

Not sure if it's still going or not.

Pound Pubs are pumping up trade insists businessman behind new discount chain

 

[Saddlebrains]

On a side note anyone seen the pictures of tubes and London transport?

Fucking cretins. Can see the army on the streets there soon

 

[shmmeee]

On a side note anyone seen the pictures of tubes and London transport?

Fucking cretins. Can see the army on the streets there soon

As someone pointed out on Twitter, one line has something like 15 hospitals, several delivery businesses, several supermarkets, etc and is down to one train every 10/15 minutes so it’s perfectly possible all of them actually need to be there.

There’s definitely a lot of employers who have suddenly decided they’re “essential” as well.

 

[David O'Day]

On a side note anyone seen the pictures of tubes and London transport?

Fucking cretins. Can see the army on the streets there soon

Mate most them are being made to go to work as they are either self employed and can't live on ssp or their bosses are making them.

 

[Astute]

No astute says full lockdown will be 2-3 days not 28 days

It will be in about 2 to 3 days if it continues to mirror what France has done. At the moment there isn't a lot to stop us from travelling about. We have been told not to and nothing else. They have no clue where we have been or why as things are.

It was a few days after the French were told to stay at home that it was made law. You had to print off a sheet to fill out where you were going. If the police/army don't believe you then you get fined. They have upped the fine twice since.

 

[Astute]

Oh David.. you really should be holed up at home with internet privileges denied. We know you are a fool but I do worry for you nevertheless.
You really are a nasty piece of shit and i urge you to use this period of isolation to reflect on where it went wrong? Maybe I should ask Astute?

You would have to ask as I can't see a word that idiot says

 

[Liquid Gold]

On a side note anyone seen the pictures of tubes and London transport?

Fucking cretins. Can see the army on the streets there soon

People who can't afford to stay at home are cretins? People that make it so they can't afford to stay at home are the cretins mate, oh and you. c**t.

 

[shmmeee]

It will be in about 2 to 3 days if it continues to mirror what France has done. At the moment there isn't a lot to stop us from travelling about. We have been told not to and nothing else. They have no clue where we have been or why as things are.

It was a few days after the French were told to stay at home that it was made law. You had to print off a sheet to fill out where you were going. If the police/army don't believe you then you get fined. They have upped the fine twice since.

Serious question: what if you don’t have a printer?

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

This may be of interest- state by state projections and breakdown

This model predicts the last day each state can act before the point of no return

Can’t open it

 

[Astute]

Serious question: what if you don’t have a printer?

You can also hand write them.

What a lot of people are doing is getting a copy and filling them out in pencil. It is what the wife is doing. Her neighbour gave her a few copies when they first brought them out. You have to put the date and tick the box on what you are doing. So then they can work out where you live to where you say you are going/have been. You get a fine if they don't believe you.

 

[BackRoomRummermill]

Wow, he can take pride of place alongside Mike Ashley. Never thought he'd have a rival

And that Dyson twat moving production to India

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Mate most them are being made to go to work as they are either self employed and can't live on ssp or their bosses are making them.

And there are now less trains!

 

[chiefdave]

Convenient. By that logic no politician should ever be held accountable as they always have expert advice.

There's definitely questions that need to be answered when this is all over. Hopefully it won't just be a shrug of the shoulders and 'nothing we could do'.

Seen this floating around on twitter today:
https://chpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/CHPI-report-GettingBehindCurve-Dec-2013.pdf
It's a report from the Centre for Health and Public Interest assessing how the changes to the NHS made as part of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act impact its ability to respond to a pandemic. Doesn't make good reading for the government.

Don't think 'we couldn't have predicted this' or anything like that is going to be enough.

 

[Broken Hearted Sky Blue]

China got it right, no cases for several days you can all go out now it’s all over er 78 new cases yesterday

 

[Astute]

i've been thinking this. Lot of people here don't have home computers/laptops/printers as they are UK prices on a Hungarian income.

What do you have in place to show why you are out?

 

[Broken Hearted Sky Blue]

And that Dyson twat moving production to India

He always was a twat when he first moved all production to Singapore