Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (136 Viewers)

Brighton Sky Blue

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Fuck off! Really?

Send her the best of luck.

It’s insane and she gets anxious at the best of times so it’s sent that into overdrive. She did nearly break the screen yesterday when the dude said ‘some people have been working throughout this you know’
 

Sky Blue Pete

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The ultimate madness is that my missus is getting one of her remote lessons observed tomorrow morning
I don’t mind the observation and support even with my union hat on but I do mind judgement or pressure. Especially when it’s not clear what the observation is for or even worse when it’s clear what it’s for and then it’s used to do something else
 

skybluetony176

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Their own scientific advisers seem to be distancing themselves (pardon the pun)
With yesterday’s briefing and now this I’m getting the impression that the scientists are positioning to throw the government under the bus before the government throws them under. They’ve probably realised by watching Starmer dismantle Boris this government of poor man’s Diane Abbott’s are easily hung out to dry by simply stating facts.
 

Skybluefaz

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With yesterday’s briefing and now this I’m getting the impression that the scientists are positioning to throw the government under the bus before the government throws them under. They’ve probably realised by watching Starmer forensically dismantle Boris this government of poor man’s Diane Abbott’s are easily hung out to dry by simply stating facts.
Corrected for you
 

jimmyhillsfanclub

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The University issue is gonna really hit hard...

..If I was enrolled, there is no way i'd pay the full £9K for an online course.......may as well go to the Open University who are cheaper and have been doing it well for years.

Taking the long term view, I suppose it can be seen as an opportunity to fix the broken HE model..... but its gonna get messy
 

Brighton Sky Blue

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I don’t mind the observation and support even with my union hat on but I do mind judgement or pressure. Especially when it’s not clear what the observation is for or even worse when it’s clear what it’s for and then it’s used to do something else

I would mind it less if

a) We were remote teaching as a form of experiment and not in a pandemic

b) It was to see different ways of remote teaching being delivered instead of to scrutinise the teacher (as has been implied)

c) The school wasn’t throwing out all kinds of excuses for kids who aren’t doing any work or showing up to remote lessons

Observations are a normal part of this job though they can be and are used in a malicious way sometimes. Under these circumstances they shouldn’t be happening at all unless voluntary.
 

hill83

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The Liverpool Echo is reporting that our “leader” is missing PMQ today.
Boris Johnson to miss PMQs again as public raise questions

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shmmeee

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Priti Patel has been doing just that.

In other news, get ready for all your data to end up with the CIA



All our data is already with the CIA. Five Eyes get around not being allowed to hack their own citizens by hacking each other’s and sharing the results.
 

chiefdave

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Their own scientific advisers seem to be distancing themselves (pardon the pun)
Whitty starts most of his comments with can i just add before saying something completely different to the minister that has just spoken! You do have to wonder if the scientific advisors fear they are going to be made the scapegoats with all this 'follow the science'. The briefings certainly give the impression something isn't right behind the scenes.
 

David O'Day

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Boris probably wishing he had avoided PMQs today. Rattled as fuck and has just agreed to 200k tests not 200k capacity

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Brighton Sky Blue

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Whitty starts most of his comments with can i just add before saying something completely different to the minister that has just spoken! You do have to wonder if the scientific advisors fear they are going to be made the scapegoats with all this 'follow the science'. The briefings certainly give the impression something isn't right behind the scenes.

As a scientist myself ‘follow the science’ pisses me off and I imagine it’s worse for those who are being relied on to provide a fall back for the government. When the dude said children are nearly as infectious as adults it blew a massive whole in the argument the government had been making. So they had to admit it’s about reopening the crèche and not really about education.
 

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