Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (97 Viewers)

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I bet it’s been intentionally leaked to see how shit people think it is.

That is their MO. In other thrilling news, my missus has been told she will need to mark coursework drafts twice over the summer holiday so they can be finalised in September. Think we'll have gone officially bonkers before too long.

 

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[David O'Day]

Got to love Nadine, can always be relied on to spout utter balls

 

[Wyken Sky Blue]

When asked about the news, Leicester Councillor Mr Soshal Distan Singh was said to be surprised and unsure how this has happened

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[David O'Day]

When asked about the news, Leicester Councillor Mr Soshal Distan Singh was said to be surprised and unsure how this has happened

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Looking at the available data there are places showing an larger increase in pillar 1 positive cases and hospital admissions are 6 to 10 a day which isn't that bad.

The Mayor of Leicester thinks they didn't need to do this but they want to be seen to be tough,

 

[fernandopartridge]

Looking at the available data there are places showing an larger increase in pillar 1 positive cases and hospital admissions are 6 to 10 a day which isn't that bad.

The Mayor of Leicester thinks they didn't need to do this but they want to be seen to be tough,

Think they're looking at the 111 call data too. Think they've been having calls at a excess volume for a week now. Looks like Leicester is a pocket as is Barnsley / S Yorkshire.

 

[fernandopartridge]

The knicker stitching factories



Strangely employers not using the furlough scheme....

 

[David O'Day]

Think they're looking at the 111 call data too. Think they've been having calls at a excess volume for a week now. Looks like Leicester is a pocket as is Barnsley / S Yorkshire.

But the reasoning given by hancock was a 135 per 100k case could and 6 to 10 hospital admissions a day. From listening to Peter Soulsby the mayor he doesn't seem aware of any other data.

 

[David O'Day]

The knicker stitching factories



Strangely employers not using the furlough scheme....

They kept on working though as the Government wants people to still buy tat

 

[skyblueusername]

They also say schools aren't vectors of transmission but then close them.

Why close places where school distancing is in place but they don't appear to have stop people meeting in parks etc which is where the current transmissions is likely to have happened.
It's like Matt Hancock doesn't have a clue.

The knicker stitching factories



Strangely employers not using the furlough scheme....

I think you have to be 'on the books' and paying tax before you are eligible for furlough scheme.

 

[David O'Day]

I think you have to be 'on the books' and paying tax before you are eligible for furlough scheme.

Reading the report I am not getting why they would use the Furlough scheme. They were open during "lockdown" but have now had to close due to the amount of staff testing positive for covid-19.

If correct it appears that the outbreak in Leicester is even more localised than the reports are saying.

 

[skyblueusername]

Reading the report I am not getting why they would use the Furlough scheme. They were open during "lockdown" but have now had to close due to the amount of staff testing positive for covid-19.

If correct it appears that the outbreak in Leicester is even more localised than the reports are saying.

Apologies for the blunt post, my point about 'on the books' was more aimed at the general rag-trade in Leicester rather than this particular company.
I'm a lorry driver and in a previous job I had to deliver/collect from a lot of these places and was shocked by the standards,

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Joy.

Flu virus with 'pandemic potential' found in China

 

[shmmeee]

Oh FFS Johnson can’t even do spending properly. His one saving grace was his love of stupidly expensive infrastructure projects and his great solution for these economic times is to spend 0.2% of GDP.

Slow hand clap.

We’re proper fucked with these chancers in power. Come on 1922 Committee, time to do the right thing and pull the trigger.

 

[skybluetony176]

Joy.

Flu virus with 'pandemic potential' found in China

There’s been a new news story like this in the press most weeks for months now.

 

[Nick]

Surely if they are running sweat shops in Leicester with no social distancing then the owners should be prosecuted? Not really essential stuff either, is it?

 

[David O'Day]

Oh FFS Johnson can’t even do spending properly. His one saving grace was his love of stupidly expensive infrastructure projects and his great solution for these economic times is to spend 0.2% of GDP.

Slow hand clap.

We’re proper fucked with these chancers in power. Come on 1922 Committee, time to do the right thing and pull the trigger.

It's really fucking pathetic isn't it. Go big or go home Boris.

 

[skybluetony176]

Surely if they are running sweat shops in Leicester with no social distancing then the owners should be prosecuted? Not really essential stuff either, is it?

Any business not open to the general public was basically considered essential with the exception of chemists, food shops etc. With regards to the social distancing according to my boss the guidance was very blasé, something along the lines of 2 mtrs where possible along with other voluntary measures. Don’t think there was any hard and fast rules on social distancing or the amount of people allowed to work in a specific area of a specific square meters or anything like that.

 

[fernandopartridge]

It's really fucking pathetic isn't it. Go big or go home Boris.

The £5bn reminds me of Doctor Evil and his 1m dollars thing. Problem is that a lot of the British public have no concept whatsoever of what that is the context of overall GDP or public spending or what it'd even pay for.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

The £5bn reminds me of Doctor Evil and his 1m dollars thing. Problem is that a lot of the British public have no concept whatsoever of what that is the context of overall GDP or public spending or what it'd even pay for.

The £1 billion for school buildings on the face of it sounds quite generous. Then you look at how many schools have been requesting funds for this in the last 10 years and the total bill is estimated at around £6 billion.

 

[shmmeee]

The £1 billion for school buildings on the face of it sounds quite generous. Then you look at how many schools have been requesting funds for this in the last 10 years and the total bill is estimated at around £6 billion.

They cancelled BSF that would’ve done this by now anyway. It’s all reannounced spending or less than they cut. They’re really not economically competent enough to govern us through this time. You can’t hoodwink the economy with clever PR.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

They cancelled BSF that would’ve done this by now anyway. It’s all reannounced spending or less than they cut. They’re really not economically competent enough to govern us through this time. You can’t hoodwink the economy with clever PR.

I bet you a pack of Tim Tams that you can!

 

[chiefdave]

With regards to the social distancing according to my boss the guidance was very blasé, something along the lines of 2 mtrs where possible along with other voluntary measures. Don’t think there was any hard and fast rules on social distancing or the amount of people allowed to work in a specific area of a specific square meters or anything like that.

Said this repeatedly when people were talking about what companies would need to do to reopen. There was never any specific requirements just a vague maintain social distancing where possible.

 

[chiefdave]

Hancock on fine form this morning on BBC Breakfast.

Schools in Leicester are closing as children are spreaders. Number of people tested is irrelevant.

No wonder we're so far behind everyone else with these incompetent idiots in charge.

 

[Nick]

Somebody on GMB was saying it was because the information wasn't put out in different languages that some communities didn't understand.

English is my first language and I have fuck all idea.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Hancock on fine form this morning on BBC Breakfast.

Schools in Leicester are closing as children are spreaders. Number of people tested is irrelevant.

No wonder we're so far behind everyone else with these incompetent idiots in charge.

Children are spreaders so let’s pack them all in tight in September?

 

[David O'Day]

The £5bn reminds me of Doctor Evil and his 1m dollars thing. Problem is that a lot of the British public have no concept whatsoever of what that is the context of overall GDP or public spending or what it'd even pay for.

When someone costed the "40 new hospital" lie from before the election that came up at 24bn.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Is it true they’ve used money that was given for pupils with greater needs so I know of a school that out of the billion pounds they come out losing £16k

Absolute bananas

 

[jimmyhillsfanclub]

When someone costed the "40 new hospital" lie from before the election that came up at 24bn.

We're still waiting for our new hospital in Liverpool......its only 3.5 years overdue, with the remedial works currently being undertaken to rectify the clusterfuck left by Carillion expected to cost nearly as much as the original budget.....

...Our governments have always been shit at infrastructure budgets & forecasts, but this current bunch of shysters are on a different level of incompetence.

 

[David O'Day]

So the great new deal that is going to "save" the UK economy is about 5bn in already announced capital spending?

FFS places like Germany are spending 40bn in fresh unannouced spending.

 

[David O'Day]

Lads, Lads, Lads!

The YTS scheme is back! Kids you can now work for a multinational company for nothing.

 

[shmmeee]

Have a look at that study they just did into the views of voters, party members and MPs. Tory MPs are absolutely batshit, like 18th century Dickens villains. They just aren’t cut out to recover the economy.

 

[David O'Day]

Sorry I was wrong, it appears the "new deal" is actually the same amount of money but stretched out over a longer period.

 

[David O'Day]

Not enough capital spending and tax increases.

Depression here we come

 

[skybluetony176]

Children are spreaders so let’s pack them all in tight in September?

Why do you want to lockdown for the next 50 years.

 

[shmmeee]

Hahahahaha haha Tax increases!! Austerity in the middle of a demand shock. Fuck me. I’d genuinely trust my five year old more with the economy than this lot.