SkyBlueDom26
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And with Boris sending out his letter, it feels like the next week/2 are going to be really bad, let’s hope everyone stays in
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And with Boris sending out his letter, it feels like the next week/2 are going to be really bad, let’s hope everyone stays in
Astute
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I would guess the next month will be bad. Thousands walking around not knowing they are infected. They infect thousands more. They take it back to their families. And so it continues.
How are we supposed to stop the spread when we are getting so close on public transport?
Astute
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Tommo1993
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Think they need to add the words ‘at least’ to it.
Wyken Sky Blue
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Yeah thats more like it.
If it helps combat this awful virus and keep the UK death tool to under 20,000 then I am prepared to stay indoors for another 2.5 months
Frightening, there are hundreds of British in India looking to get back home but on return will they be tested or isolated immediately and if there is a plane load how are they going to keep two metres apart.
hill83
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Fucking hell. I did not need to read that right now.
Colin Steins Smile
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So far this week we've had over 20 flights into the UK from New York [which is particularly bad] & flights continuing from Spain, Italy & China.
There has been no testing at airports and passengers have been given advice to self isolate.
The Home Secretary has pushed to stop those flights but the Prime Minister & Dominic Raab have over ruled her! So don't expect any testing this week.
Grendel
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Chinese markets have re opened so get used to living like this - there will be more and more pandemics
SkyBlueDom26
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You have got to be fucking joking, they have reopened them animal markets mate??? Fuck sake
You’re right there will be. As predicted in this paper from 2007.
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RegTheDonk
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Thats going to be really tough. The real heartbreaking thing is also those shanty towns and temporary camps in countries where refugees are living a hair's breath from each other. A few reports on the news highlight the conditions they are in with food pretty basic without al this. They've got no fucking chance. I donate every month to a few charities, but what difference it will make once this gets hold god only knows.
RegTheDonk
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Taking heart in people finally waking up. Hindsight is a great thing and maybe if the Gov had been stricter from the start they wouldn't need to be gearing up so much for a flood of deaths.
If you HAVE to go outside, keep clean and keep your distance.
SkyBlueCharlie9
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Whilst the cause is still unproven and UK media hyped it up, I do hope our 'beloved' government work with China to tackle this long term? ...... but it's not straightfoward as deeply ingrained in local cultures, diets, beliefs and economics. Simply shouting shut the Chinese street markets is naive and smacks of classic Tory arrogance at simplifying highly complex issues in a reactive manner based on hindsight. Boris has not planned properly and is backpedaling big style. Need to get our own act in order with flights and ferries still coming in.... still let's blame the Chinese markets !!! FFS.
TewkesburySkyBlue
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Keep safe Pipkin you’ll get through this just think of the city playing in the Chanpionship next season PUSB .
Ring Of Steel
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yes that’s all very well and good, but what is the endgame? How is the virus actually brought under control so that life can approach some kind of normality, or does lockdown continue to the day a vaccine has been administered to 7 billion people?
I know from speaking to family and friends that one of the things that’s freaking people out the most is “when the fuck is this going to end?”
As well as sending out 30 million letters telling everyone that their lives are over for a few months but that ‘we will overcome’ etc, we should be telling people HOW we are going to beat it. That way people understand why we’re doing it, because at the moment it just feels like the message is “hide under your beds until it goes away”, with no real idea as to what happens then.
I’m sure there is a plan, but why not give everyone a boost by telling them a little bit about what it is, so that when it gets to ‘day 63’ or whatever of not being able to live properly, they know how it all fits in- people will crack up and sooner or later will just think fuck it, and go out whatever the consequences.
TomRad85
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Disgusting.. and anyone who defends this as 'part of their culture' needs a slap. Was hoping that the one good thing to come from this would be these horror shows get closed down.
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TewkesburySkyBlue
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Remember it is the Daily Mail for God sake that rag and truth is an oxymoron
Ring Of Steel
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its horrendous. But I also find it massively unlikely that someone dealing with that situation has time to prepare a well written & lucid article. And the ending is pure Hollywood- I do not doubt what’s happening, but I also call bullshit that a health worker wrote that.
This is why the government comms strategy is so frustrating and condescending. Every time a journalist ask them a question they duck it or say something “well of course we can’t predict exactly what will happen but the situation will change over the coming weeks”. Well no shit.
Several days in a row journalists have asked when they think the peak might be so people know what they’re in for and can steel themselves yet have optimism there’s a worst bit to get through and then things might slowly improve but instead we’re spoken to like fucking children.
It might make more sense if we didnt all have access to the internet and were getting half the information to build the picture from there.
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Ring Of Steel
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meanwhile you have Michael Gove on TV saying he’s been ‘assured by senior figures in the NHS’ that they’re happy with how supplies will be ramped up, and there was never any need to join forces with the EU to procure more equipment.
Ring Of Steel
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Definitely. And if this carries on with no real picture on what’s going to happen, the army really will be needed because people will have had enough and/or lose their marbles and just head onto the streets. We’re not fighting the Germans any more, we don’t need to keep secrets.
And yet there are daily warnings from NHS staff that they don’t have the right equipment.
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SkyBlueDom26
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Flying Fokker
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I’m sickened that they have no real humane way of butchering any animal. We do it poorly in this country but
I cannot look. It as terrible.
skybluetony176
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Not to forget that the U.K. has its own share of zoonotic viruses, illnesses and disease. TB being the big one over the last few years in cattle. How do we know that this won’t mutate and trigger events close too what’s happening now. Mad cow disease, I read an article not that long ago that predicts a second wave of cases. To do with a certain type of inherited gene, there is two types of this particular gene and you either inherit one of these genes from each parent. One of these genes is immune to CJD the other isn’t and it’s people who inherited two of the latter gene who were susceptible to CJD straight away but they’re now finding that people who inherited one of both genes are suffering a delayed effect of CJD so a second wave of victims is now expected. Salmonella, it’s a bacteria in the gut of a lot of animals in the food chain. Let’s not forget that it’s only a couple of years since the advice for pregnant women and elderly to only eat fully cooked eggs was relaxed. As long as humans are involved in the production and consumption of animals and animal byproducts there’s a risk of something like this happening and happening anywhere again. We all need to take a look at our behaviour to stop something happening again, it’s not just a Chinese problem.
TomRad85
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Its absolutely disgusting and people need to start having very uncomfortable discussions, immediately.
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skybluetony176
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There is no humane way of butchering any animal.
Ring Of Steel
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As far as I’m concerned eating any animal is barbaric, and if you’ve got yourself convinced there is a “humane” way to kill something, I’m telling you now there is zero fucking way to do it humanely.
shmmeee
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Realistically what are you going to do with China? They’re massive, run key infrastructure for us, have by far the biggest population and we rely on them for trade in almost everything.
We should be pressuring them on this, but they’ll point to their bullshit numbers and say they handled it better than us. If we can’t stop them setting up concentration camps we aren’t likely to persuade them to be nice to animals.
We should be pressuring them on this, but they’ll point to their bullshit numbers and say they handled it better than us. If we can’t stop them setting up concentration camps we aren’t likely to persuade them to be nice to animals.