Non AMP
Sky Blues Talk
  • Home
  • Forums
  • General Discussion
  • Off Topic Chat
This is a mobile optimized page that loads fast, if you want to load the real page, click this text.

Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (23 Viewers)

  • Thread starter BackRoomRummermill
  • Start date Feb 23, 2020
Forums New posts
Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 826
  • 827
  • 828
  • 829
  • 830
  • …
  • 1666
Next
First Prev 828 of 1666 Next Last

SkyBlueDom26

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 25, 2020
  • #28,946
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Why would the WHO want people to live in fear?
Click to expand...
Constantly bringing up second waves and saying about how countries are lifting too early, didn’t they cover it up in the first place
 
B

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 25, 2020
  • #28,947
SkyBlueDom26 said:
Constantly bringing up second waves and saying about how countries are lifting too early, didn’t they cover it up in the first place
Click to expand...

No I mean why would they want to? What point would there be?
 
Reactions: Deleted member 5849

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 25, 2020
  • #28,948
SkyBlueDom26 said:
Constantly bringing up second waves and saying about how countries are lifting too early, didn’t they cover it up in the first place
Click to expand...
With their own set of figures instead of using the ONS figures, with manipulation of test data to make it sound like they’re testing more people than they actually are, not putting themselves up in front of certain political commentators because they’ll ask the difficult questions, telling bare face lies in parliament. Things like that to cover things up? Is that what you mean?
 
Reactions: PVA, Sky_Blue_Dreamer and hill83

David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 25, 2020
  • #28,949
SkyBlueDom26 said:
Oh dear, the who trying to make people live in fear for the foreseeable future, no thanks most people actually want to start living again and going out and doing things
Click to expand...

He's just reporting the news you fucking plum.
 

larry_david

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 25, 2020
  • #28,950
This afternoon I witnessed 10 guys playing footy with tops of. Footy tennis, one of the teams won to huge roars, chest pumps, hugs, even a pile on. They then stood up, went over the the opposition and did the fist pump we now see instead of a handshake. Hilarious. Oh how I howled. Oh wait no, it's fucking shambolic
 
D

Deleted member 5849

Guest
  • Jun 25, 2020
  • #28,951
SkyBlueDom26 said:
Oh dear, the who trying to make people live in fear for the foreseeable future, no thanks most people actually want to start living again and going out and doing things
Click to expand...
The schtick is getting a bit tiresome now
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Jun 25, 2020
  • #28,952
larry_david said:
This afternoon I witnessed 10 guys playing footy with tops of. Footy tennis, one of the teams won to huge roars, chest pumps, hugs, even a pile on. They then stood up, went over the the opposition and did the fist pump we now see instead of a handshake. Hilarious. Oh how I howled. Oh wait no, it's fucking shambolic
Click to expand...
There's much worse going on then that
 

larry_david

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 25, 2020
  • #28,953
Nick said:
There's much worse going on then that
Click to expand...
Oh aye but it just made me laugh. Bare chest sweaty hugging but respectfully fist pumping after. Thick twats prob seen footballers do it on tele and dunno why
 

Ian1779

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 25, 2020
  • #28,954
Grendel said:
Do you think we should water cannon them - you seem to believe in state control
Click to expand...
Easy tiger - I’d probably just close the beach before you start going all Rambo.
 
B

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 25, 2020
  • #28,955
larry_david said:
Oh aye but it just made me laugh. Bare chest sweaty hugging but respectfully fist pumping after. Thick twats prob seen footballers do it on tele and dunno why
Click to expand...

Guarantee their team name was Chicken Tikka Mo Salah
 

pipkin73

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,956
To be honest with you, out here we were also doing fist pumps etc (now back to handshakes). In the bars etc we feel safe as it's been so long since any cases here (in PR we never had any to start with, but we are classed as Mogan that had about 3 cases).
To be honest i only wear a mask as law (only if you can't keep 1.5m distance), as if i don't and the police see me it's up to a 100€ fine. In Puerto Rico i've not seen any police. They know by the infection figures we obeyed the rules.
One of the local police jumped of the main bridge a few days ago, such a waste of a life. Apparently after all the Covid stuff his head was fu***d and he could not deal with it anymore. That was with us having almost zero cases (but very strict rules we had to obey), so please think about the police before you do crowd congestion (i'm ok jack type thing), they are people and only doing their jobs when they try to move you on.
 

LastGarrison

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,957
larry_david said:
This afternoon I witnessed 10 guys playing footy with tops of. Footy tennis, one of the teams won to huge roars, chest pumps, hugs, even a pile on. They then stood up, went over the the opposition and did the fist pump we now see instead of a handshake. Hilarious. Oh how I howled. Oh wait no, it's fucking shambolic
Click to expand...
What I’m trying to get my head around is that everyone has been saying that we were going to get hit with second waves after VE Day, people going to the beaches, BLM protests, lockdown raves, football celebrations etc. but they seem not to have caused any spikes at all.

The common denominator? They’ve all taken place outside! It does seem that the virus spreading when outdoors is negligible.
 
Reactions: Saddlebrains and clint van damme

David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,958
LastGarrison said:
What I’m trying to get my head around is that everyone has been saying that we were going to get hit with second waves after VE Day, people going to the beaches, BLM protests, lockdown raves, football celebrations etc. but they seem not to have caused any spikes at all.

The common denominator? They’ve all taken place outside! It does seem that the virus spreading when outdoors is negligible.
Click to expand...

Always has been unless you are massively packed in like they were at the Racing. Things like the BLM protests and Football Celebrations also saw people wearing masks that mitigates the danger.
 

clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,959
SkyBlueDom26 said:
Constantly bringing up second waves and saying about how countries are lifting too early, didn’t they cover it up in the first place
Click to expand...

you ae aware that about 10 countries are experiencing second waves?

Revealed: countries facing coronavirus rise as lockdown relaxed

it may be that this is something we have to live with with permanent measures in place , masks, social distancing etc.
 
Reactions: SkyBlueDom26

David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,960
With regards to the almost a million quid they spend on painting a plane. The flag is upside down.
 

David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,961
Major incident declared as people flock to England's south coast

The great British Common Sense.
 
Reactions: stupot07

David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,962
Even the most argent government boot licker can surely agree it's not good when the government is threatening to close beaches as people can't be trusted to enjoy them safely.
 
Reactions: Sky Blue Pete

stupot07

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,963
The lockdown ended when Boris let Cumming flout the rules with impunity.

Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk
 
Reactions: Terry Gibson's perm, Brylowes, Sky Blue Pete and 2 others

Nick

Administrator
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,964
 
Reactions: stupot07 and Brighton Sky Blue

Flying Fokker

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,965
LastGarrison said:
What I’m trying to get my head around is that everyone has been saying that we were going to get hit with second waves after VE Day, people going to the beaches, BLM protests, lockdown raves, football celebrations etc. but they seem not to have caused any spikes at all.

The common denominator? They’ve all taken place outside! It does seem that the virus spreading when outdoors is negligible.
Click to expand...
Wait and see. Autumn will be interesting. Cooler and ought and colds.
 
Reactions: Deleted member 5849

Flying Fokker

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,966
wingy said:
Considering the message/evidence that U45's are pretty much bulletproof he can probably get away with it

Difficult for the other categories.
Click to expand...
But they will take it to others.
 
Last edited: Jun 26, 2020

MusicDating

Euro 2016 Prediction League Champion!!
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,967
Nick said:
Click to expand...
Is that Alan Brazil bottom right?

Harold Shipman gets everywhere. He was watching some Aussie footie last week.
 

LastGarrison

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,968
David O'Day said:
Always has been unless you are massively packed in like they were at the Racing. Things like the BLM protests and Football Celebrations also saw people wearing masks that mitigates the danger.
Click to expand...
Not sure I subscribe to this.

Not sure if you went to the celebrations in town but I did and I would hazard a guess at that less than 5% of people were wearing masks and there was not only a mass concentration of people in and around the Lady Godiva statue there was also plenty of handshaking, hugging and chanting and singing yet no significant spike happened.

The same as the BLM protests and the "Save our Statues" numptys, although some were wearing masks the majority from the footage I have seen weren't and certainly at the bigger protests, in London for example, social distancing definitely was not happening and they were massively packed in!

Also, if it is so negligible why are so many people getting upset about going to the beach or playing 5-aside? Surely if it is negligible then you could open up outdoor sports pitches, have outdoor cinemas, gigs and even open up outdoor sports grounds on reduced capacities?

The majority of my mates working on building sites and I don't know a single one of them, or their families, who have had it. I have a handful of mates who work in offices and I know at least one of them who has had it.

If the evidence is pointing to indoor transmissions and having to be in the presence of someone for 15 minutes then a lot of these activities are relatively harmless.
 
Reactions: CCFCSteve

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,969
SkyBlueDom26 said:
Constantly bringing up second waves and saying about how countries are lifting too early, didn’t they cover it up in the first place
Click to expand...

Because they're a HEALTH organisation. It's their job to consider the health implications of these actions. Not the economic ones. Only reason they'd be looking at the economics side is affect on mental health from lack of income etc.

And I don't think it's fair to say they covered it up. Their response wasn't perfect and questions need to be asked about their response to China as one of the main contributors (although questions also need to be asked about China's openness that could've prevented such a large outbreak). They probably prevent loads of outbreaks of this magnitude by nipping them in the bud before we even hear of them. If the public heard of half of the things that could potentially spread without orgs like WHO keeping a watchful eye half of them would be too afraid to step out of the door.

Plus these warnings do have increasing credence. Places are starting to see rises in cases again after lifting restrictions. The US opened up at the peak and it looks like being an absolute horror show there - they're going to have a very very long battle with it because Trump will never take it seriously as money is more important than lives.
 

SkyBlueDom26

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,970
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Because they're a HEALTH organisation. It's their job to consider the health implications of these actions. Not the economic ones. Only reason they'd be looking at the economics side is affect on mental health from lack of income etc.

And I don't think it's fair to say they covered it up. Their response wasn't perfect and questions need to be asked about their response to China as one of the main contributors (although questions also need to be asked about China's openness that could've prevented such a large outbreak). They probably prevent loads of outbreaks of this magnitude by nipping them in the bud before we even hear of them. If the public heard of half of the things that could potentially spread without orgs like WHO keeping a watchful eye half of them would be too afraid to step out of the door.

Plus these warnings do have increasing credence. Places are starting to see rises in cases again after lifting restrictions. The US opened up at the peak and it looks like being an absolute horror show there - they're going to have a very very long battle with it because Trump will never take it seriously as money is more important than lives.
Click to expand...
USA is crazy, they didn’t even get on top of it and they opened up everywhere looks like there gonna be the new Brazil
 
P

PVA

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,971
I'm sure Johnson is enjoying seeing the packed beaches...

"Johnson told business leaders: “The real hero of Jaws is the mayor, a wonderful politician. A gigantic fish is eating all your constituents and he decides to keep the beach open.

“OK, in that instance, he was wrong but in principle we need more politicians like the mayor.”

He followed the comments up in an article, saying: “There was one laudable thing about him, and that was his refusal to give way to hysteria.

“I loved his rationality. Of course, it turned out that he was wrong. But it remains that he was heroically right in principle.”"


Bizarre Boris Johnson comments resurface – and they could explain a lot
 
Reactions: Brylowes and Sky Blue Pete

Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,972
PVA said:
I'm sure Johnson is enjoying seeing the packed beaches...

"Johnson told business leaders: “The real hero of Jaws is the mayor, a wonderful politician. A gigantic fish is eating all your constituents and he decides to keep the beach open.

“OK, in that instance, he was wrong but in principle we need more politicians like the mayor.”

He followed the comments up in an article, saying: “There was one laudable thing about him, and that was his refusal to give way to hysteria.

“I loved his rationality. Of course, it turned out that he was wrong. But it remains that he was heroically right in principle.”"


Bizarre Boris Johnson comments resurface – and they could explain a lot
Click to expand...
That’s brilliant
 

chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,973
SkyBlueDom26 said:
USA is crazy, they didn’t even get on top of it and they opened up everywhere
Click to expand...
Are you being ironic?
 
Reactions: Brylowes and Sky Blue Pete

David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,974
chiefdave said:
Are you being ironic?
Click to expand...
He thinks irony is something a bit like iron
 

Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,975
The track and trace folly is awful. It could very well be that not one person on the beach is Covid positive and therefore people as on here will say look there was no spike so we can do what we like. Which of course without a track and trace system will make an outbreak pretty much a certainty going forward. And if people aren’t traced these won’t be limited waves but national ones. This is a statistical certainty that I hope all can see what the issue is
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,976
Sky Blue Pete said:
The track and trace folly is awful. It could very well be that not one person on the beach is Covid positive and therefore people as on here will say look there was no spike so we can do what we like. Which of course without a track and trace system will make an outbreak pretty much a certainty going forward. And if people aren’t traced these won’t be limited waves but national ones. This is a statistical certainty that I hope all can see what the issue is
Click to expand...

To be honest, if there isn't a single case within all those thousands of people it can't be that infectious. There was thousands of them, if it was that rife you would think at least a handful would have it without knowing.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,977
LastGarrison said:
Not sure I subscribe to this.

Not sure if you went to the celebrations in town but I did and I would hazard a guess at that less than 5% of people were wearing masks and there was not only a mass concentration of people in and around the Lady Godiva statue there was also plenty of handshaking, hugging and chanting and singing yet no significant spike happened.

The same as the BLM protests and the "Save our Statues" numptys, although some were wearing masks the majority from the footage I have seen weren't and certainly at the bigger protests, in London for example, social distancing definitely was not happening and they were massively packed in!

Also, if it is so negligible why are so many people getting upset about going to the beach or playing 5-aside? Surely if it is negligible then you could open up outdoor sports pitches, have outdoor cinemas, gigs and even open up outdoor sports grounds on reduced capacities?

The majority of my mates working on building sites and I don't know a single one of them, or their families, who have had it. I have a handful of mates who work in offices and I know at least one of them who has had it.

If the evidence is pointing to indoor transmissions and having to be in the presence of someone for 15 minutes then a lot of these activities are relatively harmless.
Click to expand...

That's the thing isn't it.

If people are outside and not getting it, bring everything outside. Don't let hundreds of people cram into an IKEA or Primark but keep outdoor activities banned.
 

chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,978
Sky Blue Pete said:
The track and trace folly is awful.
Click to expand...
These pictures show you exactly why our track and trace system is useless. If you test positive you're supposed to get a call and then tell them everyone you've been in contact with. Do all the people on that beach have the contact details of everyone they were close to so they can pass them on to track and trace if needed?

If only you could have some sort of app on your phone that would do it automatically. Why has nobody thought of that?
 

Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,979
Nick said:
To be honest, if there isn't a single case within all those thousands of people it can't be that infectious. There was thousands of them, if it was that rife you would think at least a handful would have it without knowing.
Click to expand...
Not statistically no. Obviously the probability increases where you are and the higher number of people in the location.
 

Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • #28,980
chiefdave said:
These pictures show you exactly why our track and trace system is useless. If you test positive you're supposed to get a call and then tell them everyone you've been in contact with. Do all the people on that beach have the contact details of everyone they were close to so they can pass them on to track and trace if needed?

If only you could have some sort of app on your phone that would do it automatically. Why has nobody thought of that?
Click to expand...
I agree with that too
 
Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 826
  • 827
  • 828
  • 829
  • 830
  • …
  • 1666
Next
First Prev 828 of 1666 Next Last
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 19 (members: 0, guests: 19)
Share:
Facebook Twitter Reddit Pinterest Tumblr WhatsApp Email
  • Home
  • Forums
  • General Discussion
  • Off Topic Chat
  • Default Style
  • Contact us
  • Terms and rules
  • Privacy policy
  • Help
  • Home
Community platform by XenForo® © 2010-2021 XenForo Ltd.
Menu
Log in

Register

  • Home
  • Forums
    • New posts
    • Search forums
  • What's new
    • New posts
    • Latest activity
  • Members
    • Current visitors
  • Donate to the Season Ticket Fund
X

Privacy & Transparency

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

  • Personalized ads and content
  • Content measurement and audience insights

Do you accept cookies and these technologies?

X

Privacy & Transparency

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

  • Personalized ads and content
  • Content measurement and audience insights

Do you accept cookies and these technologies?