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Well, it has nothing to do with Bulldog Spirit to acknowledge that some of the world's leading virologists are based here. Anyway, the key difference it seems is that our scientists are also referencing the behavioural science, saying that as we are up to 14 weeks away from the peak - imposing...

But they are not. What they are saying is that large gatherings, closing schools etc. will have a negligible effect on the rate of spread (I defer to their knowledge which will be based on modelling that I cannot possibly have an informed view on). The best weapon we have is early...

As I saw somebody say yesterday, people only appear to like experts if they confirm what they think they already know. The reasoning for the government's position was laid out quite clearly. It is not a do nothing policy at all. It's about timing and flattening the peak.

Exactly, but in a calm and measured way, with a clear staged approach. Just listening Chris Whitty, are people really doubting his credentials?

The state of some of these replies. Why do people try to politicise everything. He's just sat through a Cobra meeting. He is acting on advice. The Scottish First Minister is in total agreement. We have few cases per 1 million population than almost any other major developed nation...

Is there a less authoritarian country than the UK though? We don't like being told what to do much. Even in a country like Spain where I lived for a number of years, the respect for authority is on a different level. You wouldn't dare verbally abuse a police officer for example, because...

People are so far removed from the entire process. Their nice clean chicken breast is all nicely packaged on the supermarket shelf and they don't begin to think how it got there. Chickens for £3.00, how the fuck? You incubate an egg, hatch it, rear that chicken, power the barns, pay the...

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Funny you should say that, I've attached a photo I took on my last visit there, plus another of a meat stall. This was in Hangzhou. Shanghai btw, what a place that is. If you ever go back, try the Spot Bar.

Which is perfectly legitimate. There are 5 million people in the UK who are self-employed. A lot will be living on the edge already - it's the nature of being self-employed, so it is perfectly reasonable for their financial well-being to be taken into account when deciding policy.

Yeah, indeed. Pigs are an interesting example. I once spoke to somebody who worked in a slaughter house and he said as time went on he found it very difficult to slaughter pigs because they were very aware of what was happening. Pigs are super-intelligent. We recoil at the idea of eating dog...

Yeah spot on. Much of their culture is so alien to us, but you're right about the history and what drives it. The thing I find most jarring when I go there is the extreme contrasts you see all around you (in terms of rich and poor). I also refused to boil my food alive btw, just for the record!

Up to 100,000 people visit Meadowhall shopping centre (all indoors) daily. Will that be closed? I suspect not, whereas 7000 people sitting outside at St Andrews is too much of a risk. Doesn't seem to be much consistency.

When it comes to animal welfare, we're a long way ahead of the Chinese. There are some questionable practices here, absolutely, although I think KFC have recently moved to notably improve their minimum welfare standards. I've been to China a number of times. I have walked through these...

I'm not convinced by the case for cancelling these events. A lot of the experts I've seen say the risk is very low. The virus is not airborne, so just don't touch people. Perhaps they could close the food kiosks. I'm not saying I'm right, don't know enough, but just my take.

I did say 'almost' :happy:. Enough? Who knows. iirc it's around £100 billion more than was pledged in the Labour manifesto. Politically at least, it's very significant.

Many left-wing commentators and prominent trade-unionists are calling it quasi-Keynesian, it is being said across the spectrum. The £30 billion is in relation to the Coronavirus response only. The infrastructure investment is £600 billion by 2025.

I recall the inaugural speech. My recollection was that it was very light on policy detail and was largely aspirational and a rabble-rousing call to arms, which was probably right for the occasion tbf. The main focus was to repeat his Get Brexit Done mantra ad nauseum, which, he kind of did...

Keep coming across twitter threads where a surprising number of people are advocating for the season to be annulled, some of them respected individuals, although others clearly have a vested interest in that happening. I can't believe this would actually happen, but seeing so many calling for...

I think I'll do that. Meanwhile you can continue to post your political insights using words like 'moron' and 'prick', clinging to the notion that anyone who votes differently to you is gullible and stupid, and one day somebody might actually mistake them for balanced arguments. You never know.