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wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,956
clint van damme said:
Interesting about the masks.
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Not surprised though Clint or the travel or length of quarantine or self isolation.
There's an anomaly of a week between the North and South on the Island of Ireland and an open border.
 
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cc84cov

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,957
Roads seem slightly busier today
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,958
Warwickhunt said:
Ministers are thick as short planks as far as i am concerned! They love to spout about whats being done but forget the small detail about who is doing the work to make it happen! Advisors advise and the Civil Service has to make it happen and Ministers stand there spouting off as if they know what the F^%$ they are talking about! too many single points of failure there for my liking
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Yep. MP's/councillors are glorified company reps with an over-inflated opinion of their self-worth. Nowhere else would you get someone as head of finance with no financial background or have massive staff turnover on a single night and just be able to continue. They're mouthpieces.
 

clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,959
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Trump is bad but Bolosnaro is different league. He's basically said "Hold my beer......and my Jagerbomb and my packet of crisps"
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Orban has just turned Hungary into a dictatorship and Duterte threw someone out of a helicopter.
In the race to be the most brazen, Not one fuck given,populist arseholes Trump needs to up his game and Johnson may as well pack it in.
 
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David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,960
wingy said:
Edit meant for this post

25k?
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They haven't hit the original 10k target
 

SkyBlueDom26

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,961
Cigarette maker BAT claims coronavirus vaccine breakthrough

British American Tobacco working on plant-based coronavirus vaccine

Could be ready by June??
 

cc84cov

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,962
SkyBlueDom26 said:
Cigarette maker BAT claims coronavirus vaccine breakthrough

British American Tobacco working on plant-based coronavirus vaccine

Could be ready by June??
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Needs testing mate long term testing before I commit to any vaccine anyway and my kids I would guess a lot of people would be saying this also
 

Ring Of Steel

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,963
SkyBlueDom26 said:
Are they optimistic about it?
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That I don't know, he was really really happy just to do his bit. He said that Gilead do not have FDA approval but they can use it in cases where there is no hope of survival. He's just an engineer and got the work as he can do this type of thing fast. Me being the big kid I am took a photo of his workshop/ garage so that when this all ends I can say "thats where work took place on the Coronavirus vaccine"
 
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clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,964
SkyBlueDom26 said:
Cigarette maker BAT claims coronavirus vaccine breakthrough

British American Tobacco working on plant-based coronavirus vaccine

Could be ready by June??
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Tobacco company working on vaccine.
I smell a rat. Or should that be a bat?
 
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skybluesam66

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,965
Based on tobacco plants

a secret plan to get us all back to 20 a day
 
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Ring Of Steel

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,966
clint van damme said:
Orban has just turned Hungary into a dictatorship and Duterte threw someone out of a helicopter.
In the race to be the most brazen, Not one fuck given,populist arseholes Trump needs to up his game and Johnson may as well pack it in.
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Boris is doing what he always does in times of crisis
 

David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,967
clint van damme said:
Tobacco company working on vaccine.
I smell a rat. Or should that be a bat?
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Turns out they do have a medical research wing. Maybe its just in case there really is a God wand they need to try and even the score
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,968
clint van damme said:
I think figures of corona deaths from the States will provide a strong counter argument.
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Probably, but there will be those who'll spin as not the fault of the healthcare system but of the individual for not being covered.
 

tisza

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,969
skybluetony176 said:
I was talking to someone I know who works in the farming industry and he recons farmers are pouring milk down the drains at the moment. The issue apparently is multiple. Not only is there now a drop in demand as lots of people stocked up on UHT apparently there’s no capacity in the processing chain due to staff shortages through self isolating and foreign workers going home. The latter especially is also an issue I saw on the news last week for crop growers and they’re appealing for British workers to step in. We may have food shortages again yet and not necessarily through panic buying alone.
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Also a peak production time for dairy farmers as block calving before turning out on the grass
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,970
SkyBlueDom26 said:
Cigarette maker BAT claims coronavirus vaccine breakthrough

British American Tobacco working on plant-based coronavirus vaccine

Could be ready by June??
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The irony of a company that's spent decades filling lungs with shite could save the world from a respiratory illness.

Or maybe it's something they've been working on anyway to try and beat the damaging effects of smoking?
 
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David O'Day

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  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,971
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
The irony of a company that's spent decades filling lungs with shite could save the world from a respiratory illness.

Or maybe it's something they've been working on anyway to try and beat the damaging effects of smoking?
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I think from reading that they have found a potential antigen and have modified tobacco plants to grow with the antigen I them and they can then harvest the plants and extract the pathogen. It's a safer and faster way they say.
 

Ring Of Steel

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,972
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
The irony of a company that's spent decades filling lungs with shite could save the world from a respiratory illness.

Or maybe it's something they've been working on anyway to try and beat the damaging effects of smoking?
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sounds good, I could stick it in the vape
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,973
David O'Day said:
I think from reading that they have found a potential antigen and have modified tobacco plants to grow with the antigen I them and they can then harvest the plants and extract the pathogen. It's a safer and faster way they say.
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Doctors prescribing 20 B&H doesn't sound right, to be taken 3 times a day and 10 times at night if you go out on the piss
 
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wingy

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  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,974
Won't happen but the other irony would be that the coin of filthy smokers had contributed .
 

David O'Day

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  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,975
fernandopartridge said:
Doctors prescribing 20 B&H doesn't sound right, to be taken 3 times a day and 10 times at night if you go out on the piss
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Serious cases require a second trip to the garage for another 20 deck
 
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Skybluefaz

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,976
cc84cov said:
Needs testing mate long term testing before I commit to any vaccine anyway and my kids I would guess a lot of people would be saying this also
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Tbf I'll try anything once, I've probably taken worse
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,977
wingy said:
Won't happen but the other irony would be that the coin of filthy smokers had contributed .
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Aren't BAT supposedly heavy backers on the Taxpayers Alliance, Vote Leave, Tories and Trump campaigns?
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,978
wingy said:
Won't happen but the other irony would be that the coin of filthy smokers had contributed .
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Flying Fokker

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,979
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
The irony of a company that's spent decades filling lungs with shite could save the world from a respiratory illness.

Or maybe it's something they've been working on anyway to try and beat the damaging effects of smoking?
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Look folks am I being completely naive in thinking this is an April fool joke that everyone else is in on.
 
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shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,980
fernandopartridge said:
Aren't BAT supposedly heavy backers on the Taxpayers Alliance, Vote Leave, Tories and Trump campaigns?
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I know Ken Clarke is in their pocket. I thought they had more class than to buy up the looney wing of the Tories as well.
 

SkyBlueDom26

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,981
Any news on Italy cases? Lets Hope they are dropping @Sick Boy
 

David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,982
Flying Fokker said:
Look folks am I being completely naive in thinking this is an April fool joke that everyone else is in on.
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Forgot that was the date, it's in various papers and would be a very sick april fools joke
 
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David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,983
fernandopartridge said:
Aren't BAT supposedly heavy backers on the Taxpayers Alliance, Vote Leave, Tories and Trump campaigns?
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Well it is a given they are not on the side of good
 
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Walsgrave

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,984
2,000 NHS staff have now been tested from a workforce of 1.34 million. I suppose it's better than nothing...
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,985
Grendel said:
They say that every week don’t they?
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No.
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,986
SkyBlueDom26 said:
Any news on Italy cases? Lets Hope they are dropping @Sick Boy
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They are on just after 18:00, will post them up.
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,987
SkyBlueDom26 said:
Cigarette maker BAT claims coronavirus vaccine breakthrough

British American Tobacco working on plant-based coronavirus vaccine

Could be ready by June??
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GET THE BONG LADS!
 
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steve cooper

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,988
There is a really interesting video on the Sky News website, Ignore the link text, you have to scroll down a bit to find the video.
Mostly what is already out there but at the end there is a chart showing total deaths from all causes by week, as an average for the last 5 years. If this information is getting updated weekly it will be a great help. For examply last week's total is more or less bang on average for the last 5 years. This will give a good idea how many deaths are being attributed to COVID 19 in people who are already serioulsy ill and would die anyway.
If this has already been posted please don't bother giving me abuse, this thread is growing faster than I can read it.
Coronavirus: Wine sales rise 'dramatically' as UK locked down
 

Ring Of Steel

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  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,989
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #10,990
Wimbledon is off too.

I think we can safely say pretty much everything is off for the next 6 months.
 
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