As a Police officer in a large town of over one hundred and fifty thousand people in the UK, I have started work on the morning where there were 4 officers. Me, a pregnant lady who was desk bound, and two new starters, who weren't allowed to drive. We couldn't have locked down a single street in the worse areas, especially with the softly softly approach we have been instructed to take.
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Yes at first the follow up thing seemed refreshing from Raab.
Now it just makes him look weak and having to answer the same question again.
That sounds like the opening scene of a zombie movie.
It means something to people that matter to people.
Don’t get jaded. NHS staff are buoyed by it.
Remove the politics. Make a noise. Be a good person. That’s it.
The queen can Fcuk off though.
Someone from the U.S. knows if the 22 million people that lost their employment are still covered in case they get COVID-19? or the white house/states have nothing planned on that?
Half the cnuts clapping are Tory voters, meaning they have supported the decimation of the NHS over a prolonged period. It’s tokenism at its finest. Just pay the poor feckers more, give them basic PPE and fund the surgeries and hospitals they work in. No one does this nonsense quite like the Brits. Are the Germans doing the same thing every Thursday, or are they gearing up to get back to normal because they had sensible policy in the first place?
What happens to airlines? Holiday companies? Surely many will go bust, mainly the latter.
Masks will be obligatory until 2021 at least?
Makes sense to me. If they’re deemed important now what would change that stance between now and a vaccine being rolled out?
Clapping, praying, painting your ringpiece into a rainbow are just token gestures to help the practitioners feel better about themselves.
It's tiresome.
It’s not either/or you daftie.
I don’t applaud the people that are applauding. I applaud the people that are doing.
Objecting to that because some people that are clapping have different politics to you... hints at something broken in you.
#Prayfor... fecks me off no end as well. Literally what will praying achieve in a time of strife like, for instance, a mass shooting? People flood social media with this sort of nonsense but don’t actually do anything meaningful to support.
I don’t object to them clapping, they are free to do as they wish. Just as I am free to call it token bollocks. It’s not a massive data sample, but I have three mates who work in the NHS in different capacities and they think it’s all well and good but are more concerned with the dire state of the conditions they are working in. It’s like the nonsense pin badges created for care workers. Just give the poor buggers the proper kit instead.
You have 3 friends that think it’s good. Go outside. Clap. Not all tokens are negative.
If you want to do something more, fcuking do it and stop complaining.
I’m a useless piece of shit for the most part but I’ve done more direct social good in the last month than I have in my entire life.
I voted labour. I wouldn’t have cared if Boris had passed. Hancock is a twat. Patel is evil. If I saw Raab walking down a flight of stairs I’d want to kick him. The queen can disappear.
You arguing to be a slightly worse person. Why?
The thing is that the man identified himself as a journalist. He was filming an indecent that he saw when walking through the park.
The idea that the police are allowed to stop a journalist from filming what they are doing is scary.
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I'm forcing myself to believe that this clapping is going to be exchangeable in the future for real financial backing for the NHS, both in terms of treatments and workers pay, including the backing of strikes and resistance to political vandalism and sell offs.
So clap, clap away to your heart's content but know that when it comes to cashing that in, the cheques had better be legit.
So clap, clap away to your heart's content but know that when it comes to cashing that in, the cheques had better be legit.
Clapping don't procure any PPE.
feck yo' claps.
feck yo' claps.
If the curb reaches R0 in a country which is very likely after successful lock down, and there are no imported cases what with the summer ahead and most viruses being seasonal I thought that might not be necessary.
Slovenia will be lifting some restrictions starting next week. Technical stores and services open on Monday, while the next batch, which includes hairdressers, cosmetic salons, non-essential stores (excluding ones located in shopping centres), and outside non-contact sport centres, open up on May 4th. No word on restaurants, bars or public transport yet.
So that's something.
So that's something.
It seems to be linked to to cases in retirement homes and some hospitals that weren't previously reported for whatever reason. So I don't think that's a "true" number of the last 24 hours. Not necessarily linked to a big increase in testing either, just reporting.
Actually he said he expects two years so 2022.
I dont know if this has been posted about the wuhan virology lab where the virus might have originated from, but this covering up / non transparency from China is very shady. Even Macron is out to say something fishy is going on
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/
You’re expected to file for (very expensive) continued coverage under your old plan via COBRA, or use the special enrollment period to apply for coverage via the healthcare exchange or Medicaid. Failing that: a negotiated long term payment plan or bankruptcy.
As far as plans from the government to change that, eh...I don’t know how that would work.
I don't know but I read that the reason for the surge was more data coming from nursing and retirement homes. For testing numbers you can go to this link on wikipedia and scroll down a bit, every countrys testing numbers are there :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing
Acc. to the info there UK has done 327,608 tests by 16th april. In Norway we have tested 133,707 as of 15th. Pretty low numbers for testing in the UK if this is correct.
I always look at the little battles, few weeks ago all we had to look for was Italy not rising as badly as usual but now we are starting to see exit plans around us and not to mention Sweden's bold move not as of yet backfiring (touch wood).
I'm very confident some restrictions will be lifted in three weeks here (if nothing else because they have to be or the economy collapses) and If the rumoured traffic light plan is legit we will be able to visit freinds and family again which I can't wait to do.
Unless clapping can bring a health service back to life a la Tinkerbell, promising not to vote Tory again would be a far more useful thing to do for the NHS.
But of course that won't happen. So frontline healthcare staff will have to make do with applause until this crisis is over, at which point they'll go back to being as underappreciated as they normally are.
But of course that won't happen. So frontline healthcare staff will have to make do with applause until this crisis is over, at which point they'll go back to being as underappreciated as they normally are.
Agreed.
Friends of mine in Australia seem quite optimistic and also happy with their Government
I’m not religious myself and think the idea of prayer is a waste of time but don’t you think people use it as a coping mechanism? It might seem like bollocks to you but if someone wants to prayer what exactly is the issue?
There is a whole host of regulars posting the same thing on this thread. Why don’t you just open a new thread called ‘I hate tories’.
Bollocks. Junior Doctors would rather PPE and a payrise rather than a measly clap by some narcissistic Tory wanker.
If you had to open a new thread for every permutation of evil Tory feckery then this forum would be swamped. A Tory is a cnut, you don't need a seperate thread for tautology.
They haven't totally fecked things up like they have for everything they did before this e.g. bush fire response. But they have also been useless (Ruby Princess fiasco) and lucky - no mass infection from overseas prior to restrictions. The PM is still flailing around confusing people by trying to adjust everything he says and some of what he does to keep the even further right of his party happy/quiet.Friends of mine in Australia seem quite optimistic and also happy with their Government
But we are doing well in terms of infections/deaths and the economic measures have helped.
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Bolsanovo (can't be arsed checking the spelling so I also like to call him Shit Face) has fired his health minister for saying they need to enact social distancing. This piece of shit is going to be responsible for untold deaths. I didn't think you could find a scummier person than Trump during all of this but there you go.
I saw that news. Although Ljubljana probably has a supermarket for every 20 people, so much easier to socially distance. Still blows my mind every time I go there how many there are for such a small city.
I live in a very remote town and I have an Asda, two Tesco's, a further Tesco express, two Iceland's and LIDL all within walking distance.
It was handy during the peak panic buying period, between all seven stores I just about managed to get everything I needed bar bog roll.
Well this was unexpected but cheers.
People have slightly lost their minds a bit and seemingly can't wait to call the police on the rest of us.
Woah.
I'm watching Sky News at the US is unveiling plans re-opening of society. Not putting anything too specific date wise for obvious reasons, just letting the citizens what the plan is.
I'm absolutely staggered. I know it shouldn't be but I live in the UK and have been told ad nauseam by our most esteemed health secretary (and others to be fair to old Hancock) that the mere mention of an exit strategy isn't okay. In fact today Matt looked was getting quite chippy at those journalists daring to ask about such a strategy.
I'm watching Sky News at the US is unveiling plans re-opening of society. Not putting anything too specific date wise for obvious reasons, just letting the citizens what the plan is.
I'm absolutely staggered. I know it shouldn't be but I live in the UK and have been told ad nauseam by our most esteemed health secretary (and others to be fair to old Hancock) that the mere mention of an exit strategy isn't okay. In fact today Matt looked was getting quite chippy at those journalists daring to ask about such a strategy.
This is what my friend wrote:
In as much as I thought full lockdown was the only way, I have now realised how lucky we are to live in a country where the government is actually on top of things and it’s working.
Shutting down international travel and quarantining incoming passengers, school from home, social distancing and WFH, and businesses like takeaways and (critically) Bunnings remaining open has been effective. Yes, it’s trying to be home based but we still get to buy our creature comforts. We can’t hang with our friends and families but we get to do driveway drinks with our neighbours. We’ve had to cancel things like our wedding but can still go outside to exercise and in our areas to swim in the ocean.
As it stands we’ve avoided the health system crisis that other countries have faced. In addition the government support of small business and individuals is not something I’ve ever seen in my life.
Today I am feeling encouraged. There is talk of relaxing some restrictions in coming weeks too, and kids going back to school.
More like a white paper with no citations, no disclosed methodology, not peer-reviewed. It was an aerodynamic simulation rather than a virology study.
Is that reinfection or relapse? That's crucially important!