Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (6 Viewers)

[chiefdave]

More knob heads marching / protesting in London today

Just stay at home

Anti-lockdown demonstrations are under way in central London, as MPs urge the government to change the law to allow peaceful protest.

Aren't those two separate things? I'm very much in favour of the right to protest and concern about the plans to remove it but for me that's entirely different to a restriction on public gatherings during a pandemic.

 

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[Evo1883]

Aren't those two separate things? I'm very much in favour of the right to protest and concern about the plans to remove it but for me that's entirely different to a restriction on public gatherings during a pandemic.

Well the difference is they are moving I suppose... The one thing that remains true is many of them are gathered together.

Im all for protests... Etc
Not the best time though eh

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Aren't those two separate things? I'm very much in favour of the right to protest and concern about the plans to remove it but for me that's entirely different to a restriction on public gatherings during a pandemic.

This type of protest, and allowing it or not, is genuinely interesting to me. I know Grendel brought it up elsewhere but... it got a bit lost...

I am generally in favour of the right to protest and, tbh, it's one of the more worrying aspects of a lockdown, if that is removed. What *does* complicate it is if it's a protest against the very thing you're trying to prevent, and if you consider that a deliberate provocation. I'm not sure I have the answer myself to that.

 

[baldy]

More knob heads marching / protesting in London today

Just stay at home

Eurgh...wimpy voice in the darkness

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

710,000 jabs today, the biggest daily total so far. Keep it going until the supplies go down and we can afford a bit of time below average.

 

[chiefdave]

710,000 jabs today, the biggest daily total so far. Keep it going until the supplies go down and we can afford a bit of time below average.

The 2nd dose numbers should be going up significantly in the next couple of weeks as well.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

The 2nd dose numbers should be going up significantly in the next couple of weeks as well.

That's been at or above 100k for a few days, will be the bulk of April's jabs which I'm OK with.

 

[Brylowes]

Just spoke to my sister,A very qualified and respected senior nurse at UHCW and she reckons Boris has smashed it along with her colleagues agreeing about the roll out.
She was a remainer but now realises if we hadn’t left we’d be still scratching around for vaccines and would be bottom of the favoured list.
So if you are a remainer/still a remoaner be grateful of our government getting things done.
Still expecting the few/Many on here finding a positive of being an EU member.
Can you imagine If Gina Miller had got her way? Or Corbyn voted in and we’d remained?
Scary really.
Fancy another referendum now? I would think you’d get your arses kicked remoaners also cannot wait for that by election could be interesting up north which Starmer should win easily.
Anyway PUSB!!!

I find it very difficult to believe that any qualified or respected person would admit to knowing you.
Including your sister.

 

[shmmeee]

Aren't those two separate things? I'm very much in favour of the right to protest and concern about the plans to remove it but for me that's entirely different to a restriction on public gatherings during a pandemic.

Courts have determined protest is legal and scientists have determined its safe sooo

 

[clint van damme]

Courts have determined protest is legal and scientists have determined its safe sooo

And Gillian McKeith gave it her support and she's got a certificate that says she's a doctor!

 

[lordy_87]

 

[Brylowes]

So you could then say they should be worn in the concourse and such areas but not in your seat.

And once in your seat just slide it up to cover your eyes.

 

[David O'Day]

And Gillian McKeith gave it her support and she's got a certificate that says she's a doctor!

Too be fair looking at a load of shit is right in her wheelhouse

 

[SomersetSB]

I find it very difficult to believe that any qualified or respected person would admit to knowing you.
Including your sister.

I think she knows a little bit more about the virus/Roll out than you pal as having had it and seen over the past year of how things have improved especially with the finding of the relatively cheap steroid which they use now.
Cheer up

 

[David O'Day]

Just spoke to my sister,A very qualified and respected senior nurse at UHCW and she reckons Boris has smashed it along with her colleagues agreeing about the roll out.
She was a remainer but now realises if we hadn’t left we’d be still scratching around for vaccines and would be bottom of the favoured list.
So if you are a remainer/still a remoaner be grateful of our government getting things done.
Still expecting the few/Many on here finding a positive of being an EU member.
Can you imagine If Gina Miller had got her way? Or Corbyn voted in and we’d remained?
Scary really.
Fancy another referendum now? I would think you’d get your arses kicked remoaners also cannot wait for that by election could be interesting up north which Starmer should win easily.
Anyway PUSB!!!

Why do you lie so much?

The whole sister nurse things is an obvious lie


Also Gina Miller won, she got her way. You keep mentioning her but don't actually know what she went to court for. Her case was that Parliament would have to vote on any Brexit deal and the SC agreed. Thusly she won, her court case was not about "stopping brexit"

 

[David O'Day]

Another thread hijacked. Just wait until DOD gets a sniff of it too

Weirdo

 

[shmmeee]

Why do you lie so much?

The whole sister nurse things is an obvious lie


Also Gina Miller won, she got her way. You keep mentioning her but don't actually know what she went to court for. Her case was that Parliament would have to vote on any Brexit deal and the SC agreed. Thusly she won, her court case was not about "stopping brexit"

Awww but he’s been told a story about the scary women taking his Brexit away.

 

[SomersetSB]

Why do you lie so much?

The whole sister nurse things is an obvious lie


Also Gina Miller won, she got her way. You keep mentioning her but don't actually know what she went to court for. Her case was that Parliament would have to vote on any Brexit deal and the SC agreed. Thusly she won, her court case was not about "stopping brexit"

No need to lie she trained at Walsgrave/UHCW 30+years ago started as a SEN and worked here way up through different roles and been all over the world in between through the armed forces.
I think she knows a tiny bit more than you

 

[David O'Day]

No need to lie she trained at Walsgrave/UHCW 30+years ago started as a SEN and worked here way up through different roles and been all over the world in between through the armed forces.
I think she knows a tiny bit more than you

Cool story, needs more dragons.

Maybe she would know more than me but she doesn't exist.

 

[Grendel]

Is David wearing his pearly king gear today while listening to Chas and Dave?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Genuinely what is the point of getting everyone vaccinated if this is the future

We've got more now from Dr Mary Ramsay, the head of immunisation at Public Health England, who has told Andrew Marr some restrictions, such as social distancing and wearing a mask, could last for years.

“People have got used to those lower level restrictions now, and people can live with them, and the economy can still go on with those less severe restrictions in place."

“We are talking about quite a long period of time," says Dr Ramsay.

“So I think certainly for a few years, at least until other parts of the world are as well vaccinated as we are, and the numbers have come down everywhere - that is when we may be able to go very gradually back to a more normal situation.”

Asked about opening up big events, such as football matches, Dr Ramsay also says they will need "to be monitored very carefully" with some clear instructions about necessary restrictions in place.

She stresses it is “very important that we do not relax too quickly.”

The vaccine rollout means the chances of death and hospital admissions are much lower, but any circulating virus would inevitably pick up on anybody who is vulnerable.

“We have to look very carefully before any of these restrictions are lifted.”

 

[David O'Day]

Is David wearing his pearly king gear today while listening to Chas and Dave?

You been drinking again Graham? Been laughed at on the City page so you've come over here?

What you pretending to be today?

 

[Grendel]

You been drinking again Graham? Been laughed at on the City page so you've come over here?

What you pretending to be today?

The only Sexton Blake is you me old geezer

 

[Brylowes]

Genuinely what is the point of getting everyone vaccinated if this is the future

I absolutely think this will be the case, I’ve long since given up hope of my business opening up again to a normal world, I just see endless restrictions and perpetual lockdowns.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I absolutely think this will be the case, I’ve long since given up hope of my business opening up again to a normal world, I just see endless restrictions and perpetual lockdowns.

If teaching is permanently to be as it is I’m quitting.

 

[baldy]

I absolutely think this will be the case, I’ve long since given up hope of my business opening up again to a normal world, I just see endless restrictions and perpetual lockdowns.

And all for what? A virus that is 99% recoverable - absolutely shocking

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

And all for what? A virus that is 99% recoverable - absolutely shocking

Supposing we get to the point where every adult is double jabbed by the autumn (or has at least been given the opportunity) and your probability of hospitalisation is very low, why still restrict everything? Many just won't bother to get jabs in such a case.

 

[Ian1779]

If teaching is permanently to be as it is I’m quitting.

I don’t think it will. I think we will be back as normal in schools from September.

 

[Brylowes]

I don’t think it will. I think we will be back as normal in schools from September.

It could well be ‘hospitality on the other hand is a completely different proposition.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I don’t think it will. I think we will be back as normal in schools from September.

That would contradict the messaging above.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

750,000 first jabs, 95,000 second. Another record breaking day!

 

[Liquid Gold]

If we have to social distance for years I'm moving to Australia where they already don't have to do that.

To be fair I'd be living in Australia already if covid hadn't happened. My partner's job was being transferred out there and we both had working visas and a leaving date. Now we're stuck here. Fuck covid.

 

[jimmyhillsfanclub]

Supposing we get to the point where every adult is double jabbed by the autumn (or has at least been given the opportunity) and your probability of hospitalisation is very low, why still restrict everything? Many just won't bother to get jabs in such a case.

I'd still bother getting jabbed....in fact I have developed a little vaccine envy considering my age and potential condition....but after everyone's been jabbed twice, all the lockdown rules and laws can fuck right off.

 

[jimmyhillsfanclub]

It could well be ‘hospitality on the other hand is a completely different proposition.

Just go the "speakeasy"route mate.....if they actually do follow through with extended restrictions beyond vaccination, you certainly wont be alone.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I'd still bother getting jabbed....in fact I have developed a little vaccine envy considering my age and potential condition....but after everyone's been jabbed twice, all the lockdown rules and laws can fuck right off.

So have I, but many my age won't get one if they want to keep restrictions in place regardless.