When will this shit end?

[squirrelarmy]

[Homer]

2 minutes ago, st dan said:

Obviously with a degree of hindsight, but the decision to allow household mixing over Christmas could go down as one of the most monumental government fuck ups of our time (although there are many to choose from!!)

Governmental fuck ups aren't really seen as an issue these days are they? If anything, people seem to love them!

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, st dan said:

Obviously with a degree of hindsight, but the decision to allow household mixing over Christmas could go down as one of the most monumental government fuck ups of our time (although there are many to choose from!!)

Exactly. We should never forget this. 

[st dan]

11 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

I know from a friend of mine who is a nurse there that our local hospital in Bath had over 200 staff off for COVID related reasons last week...

Wow that’s crazy numbers. And with the hospitals approaching capacity and less and less staff able to treat them, we are in for an awful mess across the country for the coming weeks/months. 

[incident]

5 minutes ago, st dan said:

Obviously with a degree of hindsight, but the decision to allow household mixing over Christmas could go down as one of the most monumental government fuck ups of our time (although there are many to choose from!!)

I don't see that hindsight is needed here.

Don't let them off lightly. They could and should have seen it coming, as many experts were warning loudly about it all along. Before anyone was saying the words "new variant" as well.

[efcfanwirral]

 

12 minutes ago, Ryan1984 said:

 

happy for you all! It'll be 4 years for me by the time I next get to the farm - and 2 in 8 years!!

[Copperface]

3 minutes ago, st dan said:

Wow that’s crazy numbers. And with the hospitals approaching capacity and less and less staff able to treat them, we are in for an awful mess across the country for the coming weeks/months. 

And still depending on these.......whole boxful ready to go!

 

[Guest]

Just now, Copperface said:

And still depending on these.......whole boxful ready to go!

 

We are innova our heads that’s for sure. 

[dingbat2]

9 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

I know from a friend of mine who is a nurse there that our local hospital in Bath had over 200 staff off for COVID related reasons last week...

I do think that frontline care workers and carers in care homes should be at the front of the vaccine queue, ahead of the care home residents themselves,  and the vulnerable and the elderly. If we dont have the care workers and front line NHS workers available to help/treat then the impact on the rest of the population, including the elderly and vulnerable will be significantly worse, as your comment indicates. The best thing a care home resident can have is knowing their carers dont have the virus, if the carers don't have it then its unlikely they will get it

[Homer]

Surprised to hear that Moeen Ali has tested positive for coronavirus as he hasn't had a bat for ages.

(If you're not a cricket fan, I can assure you that joke was absolutely hilarious.)

[JoeyT]

Just now, dingbat2 said:

I do think that frontline care workers and carers in care homes should be at the front of the vaccine queue, ahead of the care home residents themselves,  and the vulnerable and the elderly. If we dont have the care workers and front line NHS workers available to help/treat then the impact on the rest of the population, including the elderly and vulnerable will be significantly worse, as your comment indicates. The best thing a care home resident can have is knowing their carers dont have the virus, if the carers don't have it then its unlikely they will get it

Completely agree and teachers shouldn’t be far behind.

Crazy to not vaccinate them ASAP in mine and I’m sure most people’s opinions!

[dingbat2]

Just now, Homer said:

Surprised to hear that Moeen Ali has tested positive for coronavirus as he hasn't had a bat for ages.

(If you're not a cricket fan, I can assure you that joke was absolutely hilarious.)

its also the first thing he's caught in a while

[steviewevie]

1 minute ago, dingbat2 said:

I do think that frontline care workers and carers in care homes should be at the front of the vaccine queue, ahead of the care home residents themselves,  and the vulnerable and the elderly. If we dont have the care workers and front line NHS workers available to help/treat then the impact on the rest of the population, including the elderly and vulnerable will be significantly worse, as your comment indicates. The best thing a care home resident can have is knowing their carers dont have the virus, if the carers don't have it then its unlikely they will get it

yes, agreed 100%.

[stuartbert two hats]

2 hours ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

Ah so outdoor team sports were allowed in tier 4! Answers my earlier question then.

No press conference is a cowardly move.

I don't mind it.  Part of sending a signal this is serious shit.

[steviewevie]

 

[philipsteak]

33 minutes ago, Homer said:

I know Trump is a massive fan of some stupid positive thinking guru bullshit, where he believes that if he ignores a problem it doesn't exist - which doesn't really seem to be compatible with a pandemic.

 

Is there a chance Johnson is slightly inclined in the same way? He does always seem to be overly chirpy and in denial about the whole mass death situation.

I think he's just so used to things working out for him in the past with minimal effort on his part, that he just can't comprehend it when things don't. Hence, the denial

[steviewevie]

2 minutes ago, philipsteak said:

I think he's just so used to things working out for him in the past with minimal effort on his part, that he just can't comprehend it when things don't. Hence, the denial

yeah, probably learnt it at Eton.

[steviewevie]

 

[topmarksbri]

2 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

 

100k seems optimistic to me - we're at around 1k deaths a day at the moment which you'd think will likely last at least another 20 days or so and then it'll tail off. Morbid but if I had to guess I'd say 150k when all said and done. 

[Homer]

3 minutes ago, topmarksbri said:

100k seems optimistic to me - we're at around 1k deaths a day at the moment which you'd think will likely last at least another 20 days or so and then it'll tail off. Morbid but if I had to guess I'd say 150k when all said and done. 

Shit, are we at 1,000 a day now? I blissfully checked out of the news cycle for a lot of Xmas. It was lovely.

[Homer]

[topmarksbri]

2 minutes ago, Homer said:

Shit, are we at 1,000 a day now? I blissfully checked out of the news cycle for a lot of Xmas. It was lovely.

Well, maybe hyperbole - we hit high 900s on 30th/31st Dec. 

[steviewevie]

2 minutes ago, Homer said:

Shit, are we at 1,000 a day now? I blissfully checked out of the news cycle for a lot of Xmas. It was lovely.

we were nearly at 1000 for a few days, then dropped a bit over weekend...but numbers all a bit over the shop probably because of way recorded over holiday period. Whatever it actually is, things are obviously very, very bad.

[MEGABOWL]

1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

 

You can see where they went wrong there. Nothing good can ever come from listening to Gavin Williamson.

[MEGABOWL]

46 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

Scotland has more vulnerable people per capita than the rest of the UK I’m sure. All that buckfast and deep fried Mars bars catch up to you. 

I can’t find it now but I actually think that’s true. I also don’t think NHS capacity is particularly great either, which is why Sturgeon has jumped today.