When will this shit end?

[stuartbert two hats]

1 hour ago, Sack truck said:

Germany are around 4 or 5 days behind us. We look like on same path as Italy , possibly more spread out geographically. USA looks a shitfest and they still haven’t locked down. 
 

Only at the end can this all be assessed as to who done “best” , who was most truthful and a plan for next time firmed up. I’m just keeping my head down and following the advice. 

I do wonder if it might be more useful to break USA down into individual states. They have a huge population and different policies per state with regards to lockdown. Despite their many failings, it's not surprising they have more cases than any country in Europe - those are all split up individually.

[DareToDibble]

8 minutes ago, Rumblestripe said:

People are not stupid, we know who is to blame. Johnson will pay at the ballot box for his lying, bumbling and incompetence.

Unfortunately I'm not sure this is the case. He was shown to have lied and bumbled his was through things many times before the last GE and he still won.

[Rumblestripe]

1 minute ago, DareToDibble said:

Unfortunately I'm not sure this is the case. He was shown to have lied and bumbled his was through things many times before the last GE and he still won.

Yes, but his lying, bumbling incompetence hadn't killed anyone at that time.

This is costing us loved ones. In the last few days I have heard of three local deaths, friends of friends sort of thing and still kind of distant. I have a horrible feeling that there are very few of us that will not be directly effected by this before it is over. I hope I'm wrong, I'd rather have a decade of Johnson than lose a single life.

If that does happen we will find a changed world. I pray that it changes to be fairer.

Peace and love everyone.

[priest17]

7 minutes ago, Rumblestripe said:

Yes, but his lying, bumbling incompetence hadn't killed anyone at that time.

This is costing us loved ones. In the last few days I have heard of three local deaths, friends of friends sort of thing and still kind of distant. I have a horrible feeling that there are very few of us that will not be directly effected by this before it is over. I hope I'm wrong, I'd rather have a decade of Johnson than lose a single life.

If that does happen we will find a changed world. I pray that it changes to be fairer.

Peace and love everyone.

His approval rating has gone up throughout hasn't it?

[Rumblestripe]

So did Churchill's throughout WW2, when the country went to the polls afterwards he was out on his arse.

[Suprefan]

26 minutes ago, Rumblestripe said:

I'm hoping not. In the past when the country has faced challenges like the two World Wars the British people have demanded a more equitable society. The NHS being just the most tangible benefit. People are not stupid, we know who is to blame. Johnson will pay at the ballot box for his lying, bumbling and incompetence.

no, people are really stupid, you let brexit happen. And he still didnt get voted out in december. Unless theres a death toll the size of the u.s Is going to have,  johnson wont get the boot. And yeah, over here that other guy is running things into the ground and he easily wont get out of this when elections happen come november.

 

22 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

I do wonder if it might be more useful to break USA down into individual states. They have a huge population and different policies per state with regards to lockdown. Despite their many failings, it's not surprising they have more cases than any country in Europe - those are all split up individually.

It is better to do that cause thats how we have it broken down and such. If you want to see projections and such per state and when peak will be reached, check this. Already going to see the numbers compound even more as we have double in cases in 5 days now to get to 200k. Plus states that are doing everything they can to let their base ( religious folk ) have their freedoms will make it worse. Florida and Texas issues a soft lockdown but are allowing church services to remain an “essential activity”. And they can have gatherings over the limits imposed if they choose. We all saw what happened in korea when a church was allowed to have services.

https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections?sfns=mo
 

 

Edited April 1, 2020 by Suprefan

[Ayrshire Chris]

The COP26 climate summit due to be held in Glasgow in November with loads of world leaders has been cancelled until the middle of next year. 

[efcfanwirral]

43 minutes ago, Rumblestripe said:

I'm hoping not. In the past when the country has faced challenges like the two World Wars the British people have demanded a more equitable society. The NHS being just the most tangible benefit. People are not stupid, we know who is to blame. Johnson will pay at the ballot box for his lying, bumbling and incompetence.

I'd be amazed. With social media and the resulting behavioural science nd manipulation available from it, the Tories are in power forever now. The free market is now the leader of this country and there's nothing we can do about it.

[a6l6e6x]

Getting quite tedious this whole lock down thing. Haven't seen anyone I know (excluding skype) in 2 weeks and a day with no end in sight!!

Hoping the gyms open sooner rather that later

[zahidf]

🤞

 

[steviewevie]

22 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

I'd be amazed. With social media and the resulting behavioural science nd manipulation available from it, the Tories are in power forever now. The free market is now the leader of this country and there's nothing we can do about it.

The state is most definitely leader of the country at the moment.

[steviewevie]

9 minutes ago, zahidf said:

🤞

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-bodysphere/fda-authorizes-use-of-new-two-minute-test-kit-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN21I1T7

[Ozanne]

1 hour ago, Rumblestripe said:

I'm hoping not. In the past when the country has faced challenges like the two World Wars the British people have demanded a more equitable society. The NHS being just the most tangible benefit. People are not stupid, we know who is to blame. Johnson will pay at the ballot box for his lying, bumbling and incompetence.

No he won’t. He got away with so much at the General Election, essentially lying to the public and also the monarchy. The public didn’t care that BJ was lying to them, they were far to upset that Labour wanted to offer free broadband to worry about the truth. So no, BJ and the Tories won’t pay for this they’ll find someone else to blame and the public will happily believe the lies.

[Ozanne]

43 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

The COP26 climate summit due to be held in Glasgow in November with loads of world leaders has been cancelled until the middle of next year. 

Do you reckon they’ll roll over my ticket for next year?

[Winslow Leach]

10 hours ago, Rumblestripe said:

I'm hoping not. In the past when the country has faced challenges like the two World Wars the British people have demanded a more equitable society. The NHS being just the most tangible benefit. People are not stupid, we know who is to blame. Johnson will pay at the ballot box for his lying, bumbling and incompetence.

The difference being those changes were underpinned by actual existing social movements, whereas socialising and moving are the two things that've pretty successfully killed off.

[Neil]

shit's just got much worse. 6music has turned into fuckin' radio one.  

[Quark]

7 minutes ago, Neil said:

shit's just got much worse. 6music has turned into fuckin' radio one.  

Miserable bastard

[Neil]

15 minutes ago, Quark said:

Miserable bastard

if I wanted to listen to shit music all day I'd be tuned into radio1 already. 

[Quark]

I'm sticking with my original answer

[Neil]

1 minute ago, Quark said:

I'm sticking with my original answer

I might be a miserable bastard, but radio1 plays shit music to the cheerful gits too.  

[Quark]

Undoubtedly! I'd have been waaaay happier if they'd gone with the Candi Staton version

Was good to hear Punjabi MC again though

[squirrelarmy]

11 hours ago, Ozanne said:

Do you reckon they’ll roll over my ticket for next year?

Keep positive mate you’ll get there!

[st dan]

All the largely populated counties still providing numbers of new cases in the hundreds each day (Brazil, Pakistan, Thailand for example) - are we expecting these to be in the thousands each day soon like USA, Italy, Spain, Germany, UK etc?
Are they just a number of weeks behind, or are they not hospitalising enough patients in the ‘poorer‘ countries to give real indicative figures?

[Madyaker]

Ireland update if anyone cares. 3447 total cases. New cases found yesterday 205, 17 deaths. The day before we found 295 new cases and the day before that 360ish so the overall trend of new cases is dropping which is good but 85 people have died so far in total. The government seem to have timed the school closures and lockdown well and as a result we seem to have flattened the curve at the moment. ICUs and hospitals in general are coping so far.
 

Listening to our PM yesterday it seems we are basically trying to copy the Chinese. The plan is to get case numbers down to a level at which the health system can cope and then through extensive contact tracing and testing track as many subsequent cases as possible to keep numbers low enough. We’re having real difficulties upping our testing capacity because there’s an international shortage of the necessary chemicals and reagents but so far things are going much smoother than I was expecting. Our lockdown isn’t even that bad. Nothing like Italy or Spain and we will hopefully see some relaxation of the restrictions in 2 to 3 weeks. 

[Quark]

7 minutes ago, Madyaker said:

Ireland update if anyone cares. 3447 total cases. New cases found yesterday 205, 17 deaths. The day before we found 295 new cases and the day before that 360ish so the overall trend of new cases is dropping which is good but 85 people have died so far in total. The government seem to have timed the school closures and lockdown well and as a result we seem to have flattened the curve at the moment. ICUs and hospitals in general are coping so far.

That sounds like (relatively) really good news pal. Deaths are obviously terrible, but it does sound like the rates are slowing. Fingers crossed.