Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (10 Viewers)

shmmeee said:

It’s been the issue throughout. Reminds me of a shit supply teacher who values being liked over keeping discipline. And I should know about them!

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As a small aside, I used to teach in universities. I always got great ratings off the students at the end of year because they liked me. The lecturer who actually got them doing work, and punished them for not doing work, got rubbish ones.

I often wondered what the point of getting the students to rate the tutors was!

Ring Of Steel said:

There are already plenty of Disney conspiracies out there

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Like, which dwarf got Snow White pregnant and what Pinocchio really got up to with that nose?

Otis said:

Like, which dwarf got Snow White pregnant and what Pinocchio really got up to with that nose?

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Reminds me of the joke about Snow White sitting on Pinocchios face shouting “lie you bastard!”

Otis said:

Like, which dwarf got Snow White pregnant and what Pinocchio really got up to with that nose?

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Or how did the wizard of oz know about David O'Day in the song "if I only had a brain" in the late thirties?

The problem with this is, I think the so called scientific experts got it wrong. Politicians cannot be expected to be experts on everything and have to rely on experts on these kind of things. Patrick Vallance (herd immunity proposer) has been in post as Chief Scientific Adviser to the government for 2 years and was not appointed by Boris

This is in America, but this crisis really is bringing out the worst in some people:

PVA said:

Wetherspoons are refusing to pay their staff any money until they get it from the government, and Tim Martin is saying that his staff should work in supermarkets in the meantime to earn money.

He is an utter c**t.

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Wow, he can take pride of place alongside Mike Ashley. Never thought he'd have a rival

PVA said:

This is in America, but this crisis really is bringing out the worst in some people:

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The US government is just giving a one off means tested payment of $1200. Meanwhile they have also created a $500 billion 'slush fund' for corporations to help themselves to.

Saddlebrains said:

Id recommend Disney plus for this lockdown. Just downloaded it and its got everything you can ever imagine. Every disney film ever, every marvel film ever, every Pixar and every single simpsons episode.

In this time of uncertainty i feel its good to watch a film from your childhood to bring back memories of happier times and perk us up, even if its for an hour or so. Working for me!

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Not got Debbie does Dallas which I specially remember from
My childhood

Meanwhile, in Florida.

You can’t fly in to the US from anywhere in the world...but you can fly in to Florida from New York (where the attack rate of the virus is 5 times worse than anywhere else in the country) ?

PVA said:

This is in America, but this crisis really is bringing out the worst in some people:

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They go on the shit list.

We should keep a running tab of these, so when it all blows over karma can be given.

usskyblue said:

Meanwhile, in Florida.

You can’t fly in to the US from anywhere in the world...but you can fly in to Florida from New York (where the attack rate of the virus is 5 times worse than anywhere else in the country) ?

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This may be of interest- state by state projections and breakdown

This model predicts the last day each state can act before the point of no return

Brighton Sky Blue said:

This may be of interest- state by state projections and breakdown

This model predicts the last day each state can act before the point of no return

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Fucking hell some of them models are optimistic with May being virtually no hospitalised cases

I love spoons, just a place to go and have a cheap pint with mates but can never understand why nobody has copied the business model. Literally no frills pints and nothing else. I wish there was an alternative that wasn't run by stig of the twat.

SkyBlueDom26 said:

Fucking hell some of them models are optimistic with May being virtually no hospitalised cases

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In states with few cases if they went into 'Wuhan style lockdown'. Check out NY

Also I tend to find people that vote Labour and say "we need to win back the northern working class" are also the ones to turn their noses up at places like spoons. Fucking class snobs.

Still fuck em now though hey.

Liquid Gold said:

Also I tend to find people that vote Labour and say "we need to win back the northern working class" are also the ones to turn their noses up at places like spoons. Fucking class snobs.

Still fuck em now though hey.

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I was in Spoons last week. A guy proudly shouted 'I didn't vote for Boris I voted for beer! Hahaha'

steve cooper said:

The problem with this is, I think the so called scientific experts got it wrong. Politicians cannot be expected to be experts on everything and have to rely on experts on these kind of things. Patrick Vallance (herd immunity proposer) has been in post as Chief Scientific Adviser to the government for 2 years and was not appointed by Boris

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Convenient. By that logic no politician should ever be held accountable as they always have expert advice.

steve cooper said:

so called scientific experts

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Lol

Liquid Gold said:

I love spoons, just a place to go and have a cheap pint with mates but can never understand why nobody has copied the business model. Literally no frills pints and nothing else. I wish there was an alternative that wasn't run by stig of the twat.

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There was the gimmicky £1 a beer pub chain opened a few years back.

Not sure if it's still going or not.

Pound Pubs are pumping up trade insists businessman behind new discount chain

On a side note anyone seen the pictures of tubes and London transport?

Fucking cretins. Can see the army on the streets there soon

Saddlebrains said:

On a side note anyone seen the pictures of tubes and London transport?

Fucking cretins. Can see the army on the streets there soon

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As someone pointed out on Twitter, one line has something like 15 hospitals, several delivery businesses, several supermarkets, etc and is down to one train every 10/15 minutes so it’s perfectly possible all of them actually need to be there.

There’s definitely a lot of employers who have suddenly decided they’re “essential” as well.

Saddlebrains said:

On a side note anyone seen the pictures of tubes and London transport?

Fucking cretins. Can see the army on the streets there soon

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Mate most them are being made to go to work as they are either self employed and can't live on ssp or their bosses are making them.

Sky Blue Pete said:

No astute says full lockdown will be 2-3 days not 28 days

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It will be in about 2 to 3 days if it continues to mirror what France has done. At the moment there isn't a lot to stop us from travelling about. We have been told not to and nothing else. They have no clue where we have been or why as things are.

It was a few days after the French were told to stay at home that it was made law. You had to print off a sheet to fill out where you were going. If the police/army don't believe you then you get fined. They have upped the fine twice since.

riyadhskyblue said:

Oh David.. you really should be holed up at home with internet privileges denied. We know you are a fool but I do worry for you nevertheless.
You really are a nasty piece of shit and i urge you to use this period of isolation to reflect on where it went wrong? Maybe I should ask Astute?

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You would have to ask as I can't see a word that idiot says

Saddlebrains said:

On a side note anyone seen the pictures of tubes and London transport?

Fucking cretins. Can see the army on the streets there soon

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People who can't afford to stay at home are cretins? People that make it so they can't afford to stay at home are the cretins mate, oh and you. c**t.

Astute said:

It will be in about 2 to 3 days if it continues to mirror what France has done. At the moment there isn't a lot to stop us from travelling about. We have been told not to and nothing else. They have no clue where we have been or why as things are.

It was a few days after the French were told to stay at home that it was made law. You had to print off a sheet to fill out where you were going. If the police/army don't believe you then you get fined. They have upped the fine twice since.

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Serious question: what if you don’t have a printer?

Brighton Sky Blue said:

This may be of interest- state by state projections and breakdown

This model predicts the last day each state can act before the point of no return

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Can’t open it

shmmeee said:

Serious question: what if you don’t have a printer?

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You can also hand write them.

What a lot of people are doing is getting a copy and filling them out in pencil. It is what the wife is doing. Her neighbour gave her a few copies when they first brought them out. You have to put the date and tick the box on what you are doing. So then they can work out where you live to where you say you are going/have been. You get a fine if they don't believe you.

David O'Day said:

Mate most them are being made to go to work as they are either self employed and can't live on ssp or their bosses are making them.

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And there are now less trains!

shmmeee said:

Convenient. By that logic no politician should ever be held accountable as they always have expert advice.

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There's definitely questions that need to be answered when this is all over. Hopefully it won't just be a shrug of the shoulders and 'nothing we could do'.

Seen this floating around on twitter today:
https://chpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/CHPI-report-GettingBehindCurve-Dec-2013.pdf
It's a report from the Centre for Health and Public Interest assessing how the changes to the NHS made as part of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act impact its ability to respond to a pandemic. Doesn't make good reading for the government.

Don't think 'we couldn't have predicted this' or anything like that is going to be enough.

China got it right, no cases for several days you can all go out now it’s all over er 78 new cases yesterday

tisza said:

i've been thinking this. Lot of people here don't have home computers/laptops/printers as they are UK prices on a Hungarian income.

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What do you have in place to show why you are out?

BackRoomRummermill said:

And that Dyson twat moving production to India

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He always was a twat when he first moved all production to Singapore