news & politics:discussion

[Ozanne]

 

[charlierc]

I don't know about the monkeypox thing if I should not at all worried or extremely worried. It really doesn't help that we've still got the barely processed mental after-effects of 2 years in lockdown that another disease spreading quick really does make one's eyes twitch.

[Reckoner]

Boris Johnson, you’re next 

[efcfanwirral]

3 hours ago, BobWillis2 said:

https://www.nti.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NTI_Paper_BIO-TTX_Final.pdf
 

Nothing to see here, just a coincidence…again 🤔

I saw this yesterday. It HAS to be fake right? 

[BobWillis2]

17 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

I saw this yesterday. It HAS to be fake right? 

I hope so because I’m not going through all of that shit again so soon. 

[Ozanne]

42 minutes ago, charlierc said:

I don't know about the monkeypox thing if I should not at all worried or extremely worried. It really doesn't help that we've still got the barely processed mental after-effects of 2 years in lockdown that another disease spreading quick really does make one's eyes twitch.

I don’t think you should be worried, from what I read monkeypox isn’t serious and the majority should recover. 

[BobWillis2]

4 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

 the majority should recover. 

Sounds like Covid 

[philipsteak]

2 hours ago, Reckoner said:

When will this shit end? 

Someone should start a thread. 

Just needs a title... 

[steviewevie]

44 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

I don’t think you should be worried, from what I read monkeypox isn’t serious and the majority should recover. 

It's spread through touching, not respiratory, right? So just don't touch anyone and you should be fine.

[Ozanne]

Please. 

[charlierc]

2 hours ago, Ozanne said:

I don’t think you should be worried, from what I read monkeypox isn’t serious and the majority should recover. 

It's kinda strange really. I'm aware the symptoms report of it manifesting in a different way and a no doubt uncomfortable one with all the blistering, but that the condition itself is harder to contract and is not likely to be as similarly massive a problem as covid, or indeed smallpox was pre-vaccine. But I guess two years on from taking too long to recognise covid in its first iteration was as big a problem as it was, it's not hard to read it and be just a little uneasy.

I guess all we can do is wait & see for the next week or so. Probably have more of an idea after that.

[squirrelarmy]

Monkeypox isn’t a new disease. The treatment for smallpox works on it as well. 
 

It’s also not as transmittable as airborne viruses and the number of cases is quite small so contacts should be easily traceable. 
 

Mass hysteria sells newspapers and generates online clicks. Don’t think there’s any need to panic about this one. 

[steviewevie]

Thread about Wakefield by... basically Tories are fucked and starmer is great (well, kind of ok)..

 

[steviewevie]

29 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

Monkeypox isn’t a new disease. The treatment for smallpox works on it as well. 
 

It’s also not as transmittable as airborne viruses and the number of cases is quite small so contacts should be easily traceable. 
 

Mass hysteria sells newspapers and generates online clicks. Don’t think there’s any need to panic about this one. 

Talking of newspapers,you see Cummings the other day with the idea that papers, and subsequently the govt,are pushing the get back to the office thing so much is because they need commuters buying their papers again.

Edited May 21, 2022 by steviewevie

[steviewevie]

Bondi beach polling station

[steviewevie]

[zahidf]

From a year ago

To today

 

[squirrelarmy]

Was anyone else expecting this headline today?

 

Time for another game of Tory whodunnit

[zahidf]

Just now, squirrelarmy said:

Was anyone else expecting this headline today?

 

Time for another game of Tory whodunnit

Gove?

[charlierc]

17 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

Was anyone else expecting this headline today?

 

Time for another game of Tory whodunnit

When I saw #nipplegate trending on Twitter, which is what this has been pre-emptively dubbed, I thought it was about some accidental TV flashing like Janet Jackson famously had.

This is a really unpleasant sounding allegation.

[Kurosagi]

1 hour ago, zahidf said:

Gove?

Hope so and good riddance to him.

I'm not sure if it's just his baseline these days, but he was looking/sounding seriously unhinged on the telly last week.

Has this been leaked by the Save Johnson Bully Boys?

[steviewevie]

2 minutes ago, Kurosagi said:

Hope so and good riddance to him.

I'm not sure if it's just his baseline these days, but he was looking/sounding seriously unhinged on the telly last week.

Has this been leaked by the Save Johnson Bully Boys?

I don't know...he is obviously a bit messed up, but at same time one of the more moderate voices in the cabinet.

[Kurosagi]

5 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

I don't know...he is obviously a bit messed up, but at same time one of the more moderate voices in the cabinet.

His voice was far from moderate last week when he squeezed in about four ropey regional accents in a couple of minutes!

[steviewevie]

15 minutes ago, Kurosagi said:

His voice was far from moderate last week when he squeezed in about four ropey regional accents in a couple of minutes!

yeah that was a bit weird

[squirrelarmy]

Maybe Gove was the victim and his performance in that interview is him showing the after effects of his sherry being spiked. 🤔