Two suspects still on the run, should be found soon though.
If the other people had guns, he wouldn't have got shot
I'm almost thinking malls have come to a point where they will need snipers at various points to take out possible gunmen (because you can't ban them from bringing guns into the mall, 2nd amendment innit). Then watch as a dad gets blown away for taking his son's toy gun out of a bag. Once upon a time in America.
If the dad had a gun... Oh waitI'm almost thinking malls have come to a point where they will need snipers at various points to take out possible gunmen (because you can't ban them from bringing guns into the mall, 2nd amendment innit). Then watch as a dad gets blown away for taking his son's toy gun out of a bag. Once upon a time in America.
Not seen much news on Brazil but Russia looks screwed with the updates I got before. (Edit. on a news app I'm not a Putin ITK or anything)
Do you live in America mate ? I always thought when I was a kid that America was just a bigger version of the UK but things like this show that it's a completely different world over there, don't get me wrong there's plenty of crazy shit that goes on around here but I'm not sure it goes as far as someone taking a gun to the local Asda to pop off any security guards.I'm almost thinking malls have come to a point where they will need snipers at various points to take out possible gunmen (because you can't ban them from bringing guns into the mall, 2nd amendment innit). Then watch as a dad gets blown away for taking his son's toy gun out of a bag. Once upon a time in America.
The US already has the death sentence, and it's clearly not working. There are many problems with the US prison system, but "too humane" doesn't enter into it.
Ha. No problem, I was hoping that was the case, you can't be too sure these days though...
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They should be able to find the suspect. He wasn't wearing a mask.
Looks like a hatchet job by right wingers trying to reduce restrictions too early - it is in The Spectator which is a bit of a giveaway.
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If that is the best a hatchet job can do, I don’t see anything too damning there. In situations like this, only very minor things need to slightly shift to have very different outcomes. There’s a world in which this coronavirus never left China, and there’s another world in which we were hit even worse than we are now. What lay people often struggle to appreciate is that whilst we may ordinarily deal with exact figures and exact predictions, modellers and statisticians deal with confidence interval ranges. Just because a modellers’s worst outcome in their confidence interval doesn’t come to pass, doesn’t mean they were wrong as such.
The footage that led up to the photo on the left is unbelievable. Cops getting right up in someone’s face for not social distancing. Then almost immediately escalating to a violent struggle with a scrum of cops involved. Making absolutely certain that if any individual involved did have the virus to begin with, they all do afterwards.
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America is a completely different place to here - culture and society is entirely different. The only thing we really have in common is some shared history, the language and that's about it.
If we had an extra 150 m people plus legalised guns, you’ll find there’s not much difference!
Yeah but we dont..... Plus we don't want to have guns here in the most part - that's a big difference.
Its becoming more apparent that Covid-19 was around before the Chinese announcement in January. They knew long before they locked down and let it out of the country. It just seems so obvious yet people defend this unforgivable mistake.
You are right, but we’re the same nation who after laughing at Trump thought it was ok to elect a bigot Boris Johnson so.....
It's not only apparent, it's also official and it has been for almost two months. Retrospectively the first official case in China was in early December but they believe that the actual first case was in November.
And what about "ze Germans"? Who cares about the evil drunk Russians anyway, am I right?
I think that's the key thing - the culture in America is all about personal freedom and the 'I'm alright Jack' way of thinking - so a lot of people there just won't buy into the thought that 'we are all in this together' and see the need for society as a whole to be restricted to protect the vulnerable. This is a culture that generally looks down on the vulnerable and the poor and offer little in the way of societal support to those people with or without a virus. You would hope that COVID might change the way they think over there but I suspect it won't as a lot of people see any move to lessen their supposed freedom as an act of war and socialism. Hense why you get psycho's in full military gear and automatic weapons threatening people - they honestly think they are in a war against their own Government. The paranoia ingrained in the culture there is incredible.
Purely wishful thinking but could it be possible that the outbreaks that we're dealing with now, are pretty close to the true uncontained 'peaks' of this disease?
We are both right leaning countries and are free to elect total morons - doesnt mean that we are in anyway the same outside of that. I really do think America is a very different place to the UK.
What are you on about?
That is potentially excellent news however what we really need to know is whether having antibody's means you are unable to get the virus again and if so for how long? Unfortunately we probably won't know that for many months yet.
I would say no because things were getting out of hand until we used drastic measures to contain it. Without any proof, I would suspect that the virus evolved from November to February, that the chinese imported version is maybe not as contagious as the European settled version. I also want to make the point that the vase majority of people with symptoms that match with Covid-19 do not have it, it also matches with flu symptoms which can also lead to respiratory difficulties.
As I understand it is the US constitution which allows people to carry guns? (sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong).
Sure, en masse testing coupled with well defined clinical endpoints and working with patients to regularly re-swab for COVID or to check for re-infection via their pathology/hospital records would be the way forward.
A lot of work and business is still happening. People commuting to and from Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a thing.
