The General Covid19 Thread

alistair

Hardly a second wave

Jules72

alistair think he may need to update this chart after yesterday’s numbers - the scientist chart actually starting to look accurate 😱

bosstrabs

Rogtallbloke seems like the uncle everyone has who’s an absolute whopper.

Brexit-loving and “calls it as he sees it”. Except this one can use Excel.

alistair

bosstrabs It is taken from the UK government website. How would you interpret the actual data? Second wave, extend and strengthen the lockdown?

bosstrabs

alistair I’m aware of that. I was still calling Rogtallbloke a basic prick.

alistair

bosstrabs It was Andrew Neil I was retweeting. No local lockdowns where I live thankfully. I am surprised by how docile much of the affected population is especially up North.

bosstrabs

alistair Andrew Neil was retweeting Rogtallbloke.

I don’t see what the solution is at this stage.

I think it’s very telling, though, a damning indictment of this government actually, that other liberal democracies with similar or higher population densities like Germany and Japan have dealt with the whole fucking thing a LOT more effectively than we have.

Mad_Cyril

Neils tweet feels a little peurile if im honest

Wally

Any journo who takes a graph showing a basic exponential curve and then says ‘look, this didn’t happen’ is a fucking cretin.

alistair

The “exponential growth” curve that Whitty and Valance drew up in their choreographed press conference to strongly suggest that if the virus continues to grow as it is, there will be a doubling of infections….Pure project fear

Mad_Cyril

alistair
You’re missing, again, that they strongly pointed out in that presser that the graph was an example of what could happen if it doubled every x days, not a prediction.

Perhaps they needed to talk more s l o w l y for it to sink in?

alistair

Mad_Cyril It was designed to instil more fear and panic among the gullible. I have complete confidence in the establishment. Bring on Liverpool, Hartlepool and Middlesborough next. Hands, face and space and remember to obey the rules.

C_J

Mad_Cyril I agree with you here. People demand information, and then they put their own stupid spin on it cos they’re thick as shit.

Another point I would like to make is that Whitty and Valance are both incentivised to err on the side of protecting public health. If no one died from Corona but the economy was destroyed with mass unemployment, no one would point the finger at them for that outcome and they’d have done their job. There should be more economics on show to counterbalance this.

bosstrabs

Not a particular fan of Lammy but he hits the nail on the head in the opening few minutes of this…

Amps

bosstrabs Any other take on it means you are slurping on Boris’ engorged teet.

Amps

Smallman1 I thought that was all down to the soggy biscuit game?

iamdusted

alistair Nick Warren gets the most work out any past GU DJ I know. Fair fucking play to him I say.

Also, Covid is everywhere over here. Nearly 1000 people yesterday. If it comes for the potatoes, we are all in trouble.

Mad_Cyril

iamdusted If it comes for the potatoes, we are all in trouble.

Not the potatoes!!!

alistair

People normally critical of the Tories, but 100% behind every government lockdown measure and the ludicrous Whitty-Vallance 50,000 cases graph..

bosstrabs

alistair Alistair, are you just an Andrew Neil RSS feed?

Mad_Cyril

Im gradually warming to the idea that hes either;

a). That computer what’s output was published in the gruniad recently.

b) A room full of chimps with keyboards

alistair

If or when you lose your job because of COVID or one of your family or friends is struggling to get essential NHS healthcare services (like my Dad) don’t go bitching. You were just essential collateral damage. Muppet

bosstrabs

alistair Is that aimed at me?

We have an incompetent shitty government. The Japanese, who were much closer to the outbreak and had much more inbound travel from China have managed to contain the spread and have a functioning economy. The two don’t appear to be mutually exclusive however much the right-wing here present it as a binary choice. People in this country should be asking more questions.

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