Covid-19 Virus

Green light in other ways too.

From red...



... to green

 

Because people are still mingling but to a lesser degree. The supermarket is probably the prime location and I suspect that some people are going more often than they should. In my house only my wife goes and she goes about once every 9 days or so.
Other shops like the Range being open hasn't helped, it's a ***** shop anyway.
Yesterday I walked with my family along the canal for a bit and along the towpath people were sat on benches, it's known that the virus can survive on hard surfaces so I can't understand why people don't avoid them.
Thankfully most seem to be heeding the advice such that the R0 is generally below 0.
Finally of the figures given it's unclear how many of the new infections are among people who can't distance such as NHS staff, carers, prisoners etc.

 

What does it mean if the R number is below zero? Perhaps those infected are curing people they haven’t even met. It’s a miracle! Praise the Lord!

 

Have you looked out the window and the reports on parks, beaches and Westminster Bridge? The lockdown is limited to those with a little bit of intelligence.

 

Supermarket fruit and veg doesn't last a week

 

Don’t forget also that they went on the big drive to get to 100,000 tests, so while cases were falling testing was going in the other direction, test more = find more. So relatively speaking cases have been declining but we’ve been finding more of them. It just means a month or so back and certainly around the point we went into lockdown the number of cases was significantly higher.

 

I’d also add to the above I think it’s also an indication of it having been around for longer and a lot more prevalent than we believed at the point we went into lockdown. With the amount of asymptomatic cases this would’ve meant it would’ve carried on spreading within households well after we went into lockdown and and then correspondingly so when these same people went out into the supermarkets etc.

 

We have the best R number. Really great number. So great. Minus 2. That’s a great number folks. Two with a minus. The Democrats and we have some people looking at this, top people, scientists. Forty five. A four with a five. That’s their number. Big number, so bigly. Biden has a 65 on his own. So sad.

 

Next week's slogan from these useless sh11ts.

 

It must be dreadful for the Toryboys on here to be forced to indulge in ever more convoluted contortions to defend these winkers.

 

Yes.

 

GET THE DISEASE

KILL THE ELDERLY

THEY'D DIE SOON ANYWAY

 

What a coincidence, that’s what Dominic Cummings said too.

 

How do they get their shopping then? Close their eyes and wish for it?

 

Other than someone getting bored with red & yellow, is the message any different?!?

 

...and just in case anyone is confused as to what the 'Stay Alert' part means, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has kindly explained to Andrew Marr.

'Stay Alert’ means ‘Stay Alert by staying at home ...as much as possible.’

 

Wait and see what’s said tonight, but on the face of it ‘stay home’ is now a qualified instruction. Replacing red with green is also a cue to the reader’s subconscious.

 

The graphic I posted was on the PM's personal twitter feed earlier. That says to me he has already spoken. Pedantic I know but it's another example of awful communication.

Drip fed 'instructions' which need clarification - I mean, 'Limit contact with other people' means what exactly?? - should never happen.

Clear concise messages are needed when you're speaking to millions of people on such a difficult and evolving subject.

If they really want to save lives then they need(ed) to be blunt with strict measures.
But in my opinion they're trying to be nice by coming across as a lenient uncle instead of a strict parent because whatever the outcome, when this resolves itself they don't want the voters who are easily swayed to remember them as being harsh.

Brexit showed the populace swallows lies and votes against imaginary threats - well this is a very real threat and this lot are ******* clueless in finding solutions.

But then I'm a biased leftie with an axe to grind and not someone who believes happiness and well being are as important as wealth and business.

That's not all aimed at you UEA, it's a general rant. But **** me why do they keep tossing out information the way they do? They remind me of how I used to view criminals as a kid. If they put as much time & effort in doing things in an open & honest way they might be as, if not more, successful than trying to stop being found out for doing things secretly (or illegally in the criminals case!)

We've a PM who has never solved ANYTHING while being in positions of power and now he has to actually lead he has shown himself to be incapable of forming any kind of plan with the people he chooses to have around him. He got to power by telling lies, being xenophobic, racist, sexist and christ knows what else. Never, absolutely NEVER has he showed himself to be a leader or trustworthy.

This Government are a ******* pile of steaming **** evacuated from the bowels of the devil himself.

 

"This Government are a ******* pile of steaming **** evacuated from the bowels of the devil himself."

I think the absurd post for May competition is wrapped up already.

 

I'd like to thank so many people who helped me on my to win this award...

 

It was a pretty good bit of aggressive prose to be fair

 

Stay Alert Dog has a message.

Yes I do! Be like me and Stay Alert.

 

It is and clearly the Nudge Team consider the average Briton has a subconscious something akin to an empty skip.

 

I'm in the bottom half for intelligence on this forum and have no inside political knowledge, or inside knowledge on anything actually, but even to me this seems preposterous!

If he's pre-recorded parts, what is he going to do - splice them between live sections? I hope the person on continuity is on their game.
To not have up to the minute facts, figures and information seems plain odd if not stupid.

And I thought this was someone who was a great orator, a persuader and cajoler to the unsure and uninformed.
A strength of his was the ability to stand there and transfix people, to somehow make things better by being 'Boris' - just not on the first attempt or if the little red light is showing on the camera.

Or none of it will be live and recording an address to the nation in one take was just too much effort for him.

 

You need to have a look at VoR's contributions to the 'How to end the season' thread.

 

He didn't even tell the Cabinet first because they are there to do Cummings' bidding. They aren't there to think or protest. Even Javid refused to go along with it and he was virtually guaranteed to be next PM.

The press refuse to take them to task on anything and even a slightly difficult question makes a minister fall apart as they seemingly have no clue what Johnson and Cummings are doing.

But this what they voted for. Both the Tories and the electorate.

 

‘Stay alert’ sounds like advice better suited to men introducing Boris to their wives or adult daughters.

 

Stay alert is pathetic. It is not a terrorist. What are we to stay alert to? Someone sneezing or coughing? Control the Virus, Protect Lives is fine

 

The failure to consult with the Devolved Govt’s of the Nations is frankly shocking.