When will this shit end?

[xxialac]

Just now, zahidf said:

 

 

 

New baby announcement for Carrie Symonds and Johnson strategically conceived to distract from all the shittery.

[Chapple12345]

5 minutes ago, FestivalJamie said:

On a positive though, testing is way way up this past week. Although the average positivity is now about 7.5 % which is not good.

I wonder if testing has become higher because of people with the usual winter flu/cold symptoms getting tested 

[zahidf]

4 minutes ago, Chapple12345 said:

I wonder if testing has become higher because of people with the usual winter flu/cold symptoms getting tested 

Probably. Also, more awareness and availability of tests

[Copperface]

I want Hancock to do the next presser in pidgin.

 

This is my new favourite BBC page:

"Covid-19 501.V2: New variant of coronavirus dey for South Africa.

Di UK no be di only kontri wit new variant of coronavirus.

Scientists for South Africa don announce say dem and di World Health Organization (WHO) dey chook eye into new mutation of di wey dey cause Covid-19 to dey increase for many parts of di kontri.

Dem know am as 501.V2, and na di genomics team for di Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (Krisp) identify am."

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-55415013

[zero000]

1 minute ago, zahidf said:

Probably. Also, more awareness and availability of tests

Plus people getting tests before seeing their family.

[JoeyT]

BANES somehow managing to stay out of Tier 3.

Love to see it.

[Losing my hair]

Devi Sridhar - consistently one of the saner voices out there

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/23/covid-mutating-eliminate-virus-eradicate-variants

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[Copperface]

6 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

BANES somehow managing to stay out of Tier 3.

Love to see it.

Only need to look at one of the local MPs to possibly guess how.

Edited December 23, 2020 by Copperface

[Crazyfool01]

I despair :( 

[xxialac]

3 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

 

 

Here's a thought, Tories. 

How about you take a leaf out of George Costanza and do the opposite of your instinct with everything you do?

"If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite, would have to be right."

[Chapple12345]

16 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Probably. Also, more awareness and availability of tests

Also potentially people getting tests before travelling, I know it’s less likely now because of regulations being tightened but some may be doing it as a precaution 

[xxialac]

11 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

I despair 😞

Daily Express headline tomorrow

People: Enemies of the People

[steviewevie]

23 minutes ago, Losing my hair said:

Devi Sridhar - consistently one of the saner voices out there

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/23/covid-mutating-eliminate-virus-eradicate-variants

how we going to eliminate this globally? 

[zahidf]

 

[Losing my hair]

1 minute ago, steviewevie said:

how we going to eliminate this globally? 

I don't know but we could start at home and work from there. 

[st dan]

2 minutes ago, zahidf said:

 

[xxialac]

2 minutes ago, zahidf said:

 

People are about as equipped with the knowledge to answer that question as they are to, er, judge it would be in the best interests of the UK to leave the EU...

[Losing my hair]

4 minutes ago, zahidf said:

 

I'm surprised it's not Churchill.

[steviewevie]

8 minutes ago, zahidf said:

 

it's actually kind of interesting question...needs someone who is willing to be authoritarian, to fully follow scientific advice, to be willing to take risks and act early, to learn from past mistakes, and to stop with any british exceptionalism and look at what is happening elsewhere. I don't know who in that list is best equipped, but I expect any of them would have done a better job than Bojo.

[Crazyfool01]

3000 pages then ?

[Copperface]

5 hours ago, eFestivals said:

down to just masks and social distancing as the maximum. 

(within 'social distancing' I'm including a possible ban still on crowds for bands).

We'll hit that by 1st June at latest (providing Oxford vaccine is approved by NY).

We'll go from tiered restrictions to almost nothing long before vaccine rollout gets to the 65-70% mark.

Hancock: We will be back to normal before 2022

The last question comes from Arj Singh from HuffPost. He asks if, given the highly-transmissible new variant, the government is guilty of overpromising by suggesting the UK can return to normality by Easter.

Hancock replies that he is "highly confident we will get things back to normal before 2022" adding that the speed of the vaccine roll-out is accelerating.

 

[steviewevie]

15 minutes ago, zahidf said:

 

I know he's a centrist narcissist sociopath satanist war monger but I would actually pick Blair out of that lot.

[ShakeyCrash]

1 hour ago, crazyfool1 said:

how high we gonna get ?!!  before the tier 4 starts to kick in ? 

Y'all should look to Wales as an outlier here.  For the first time since we lifted the firebreak our numbers have gone down today (very slightly overall and still rising in parts).  The 7 day average is from 5 days previous (so ignores most delays) so are accurate of how things were on 18th December if that makes sense.

With us pubs closed at 6 pm on December 4th, schools were finished on December 15th, and we went into lockdown again on December 20th. 

I would not be surprised if the main difference here is a combination of new variant being more present in the little ones which, if true, is so cruel as it's like Sophie's choice.  Do you save the most vulnerable at the expense of sacrificing the future of our children (my son was just beginning to start to read when this shit hit as admit to having a vested interest), or vice verse.  Despite the certain, simple answers many give, these are decisions where there is no right answer, just a bunch of shitty ones. 

See graph because we like graphs.

On the downside, as this year couldn't just give us something for nothing, a bit of torrential flooding is now in order 🙂.

 

 

Edited December 23, 2020 by ShakeyCrash

[xxialac]

5 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

I know he's a centrist narcissist sociopath satanist war monger but I would actually pick Blair out of that lot.

Even May might have done a decent job, come to think about it (though she would have been torn apart by her backbenchers for the lockdowns). She's an administrator with an eye for detail, so would have finally had a moment to shine.

But yeah, anyone but Johnson is really the only thing I feel you can say with confidence.