So, coronavirus...

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Sunday - schools are safe to send your children to

Monday - scrap that, it's over

That useless fudge wit and his last second u turning. This is their biggest yet giving some folks <24hrs to sort out childcare arrangements which many won't have that option.
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Boris' media appearances over the past couple of days have been a fucking disgrace. This government is an absolute shambles and it's literally killing people.
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frodder wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:48 pm Sunday - schools are safe to send your children to

Monday - scrap that, it's over

That useless fudge wit and his last second u turning. This is their biggest yet giving some folks <24hrs to sort out childcare arrangements which many won't have that option.
This wasn't last second. This was 24 hours after the last second.
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JM2K6 wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:48 pm Boris' media appearances over the past couple of days have been a fucking disgrace. This government is an absolute shambles and it's literally killing people.
Remember when he was so awesome on that bus?
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Sandstorm wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:52 pm
JM2K6 wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:48 pm Boris' media appearances over the past couple of days have been a fucking disgrace. This government is an absolute shambles and it's literally killing people.
Remember when he was so awesome on that bus?
Doesn't matter though the Tories aren't losing poll leads.
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I like neeps wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:56 pm
Sandstorm wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:52 pm
JM2K6 wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:48 pm Boris' media appearances over the past couple of days have been a fucking disgrace. This government is an absolute shambles and it's literally killing people.
Remember when he was so awesome on that bus?
Doesn't matter though the Tories aren't losing poll leads.
Polls are pointless. The Tories are still in power for another 3.5 years.
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I like neeps wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:56 pm
Sandstorm wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:52 pm
JM2K6 wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:48 pm Boris' media appearances over the past couple of days have been a fucking disgrace. This government is an absolute shambles and it's literally killing people.
Remember when he was so awesome on that bus?
Doesn't matter though the Tories aren't losing poll leads.
Tories 4 points behind just before Christmas. Johnson's personal ratings way down
Read an article over the weekend that reckons neither party would gain overall control if there were an election now
Bearing in mind Tory's have an 80 seat majority and Labour are still tainted by Corbyn's leadership that should focus some minds at Conservative HQ
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I think the Tories will chuck Boris.

For me, as a Tory inclined voter who has given the benefit of the doubt at various points, the key crime here is the dithering. I get the thought process in March. I get Eat out to Help out etc. The vaccine programme is good. But time and again Boris dithers and doesn't want to make a decision, trails it in the press, vacillates and then takes the decision too late. Make a decision and move fast on it has to be the key lesson of the crisis.

What's staggering about it is the indecision in the big role from a man who thinks he's a latter day Churchill. He wasn't exactly trailing to the press that he might sink the French fleet.
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SaintK wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:05 pm
I like neeps wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:56 pm
Sandstorm wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:52 pm

Remember when he was so awesome on that bus?
Doesn't matter though the Tories aren't losing poll leads.
Tories 4 points behind just before Christmas. Johnson's personal ratings way down
Read an article over the weekend that reckons neither party would gain overall control if there were an election now
Bearing in mind Tory's have an 80 seat majority and Labour are still tainted by Corbyn's leadership that should focus some minds at Conservative HQ
Which would mean a Labour govt doing a deal with the SNP supporting their budget and queens speech in return for a referendum.
And are there two g’s in Bugger Off?
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Paddington Bear wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:12 pm I think the Tories will chuck Boris.

For me, as a Tory inclined voter who has given the benefit of the doubt at various points, the key crime here is the dithering. I get the thought process in March. I get Eat out to Help out etc. The vaccine programme is good. But time and again Boris dithers and doesn't want to make a decision, trails it in the press, vacillates and then takes the decision too late. Make a decision and move fast on it has to be the key lesson of the crisis.

What's staggering about it is the indecision in the big role from a man who thinks he's a latter day Churchill. He wasn't exactly trailing to the press that he might sink the French fleet.
I'm not a tory voter, but I too supported the early decisions. However since then, it's seemingly moved further and further away from the suggested advice. Throw in the sheer corruption of the spending for PPE, paying sweet companies, pest control, currency brokers etc, who all seem to have connections to the tory party, but none to PPE, and I wouldn't dream of voting for them now.
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Slick wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 10:39 am
Lemoentjie wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 10:04 am I've got the 'rona. Just feel a bit warm, nothing too bad. Kids are completely unaffected.
Ahh, the Russian version.

Hope all goes well.
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Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Unread post by bimboman » 04 Jan 2021 19:16

Sefton wrote: ↑04 Jan 2021 18:52
Just under 59,000 today with the weekend lag.

With many being double counted and 500,000 tests.

Ah fuck, his ban is up soon... :bimbo:
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I find him as aggravating as anyone but for fucks sake people when he's not here can you stop posting about him?
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Boris be toasted.
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Will we start book on how many minutes late the 8 PM conference starts ?

I'm going to go with 8 minutes.
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I see that Police Scotland have done what the Met wimped out on and have charged Margret Ferrier, MP, over her 800 mile round trip to London during lockdown
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fishfoodie wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 7:27 pm Will we start book on how many minutes late the 8 PM conference starts ?

I'm going to go with 8 minutes.
I'll take 8.23
And are there two g’s in Bugger Off?
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8.10.

Boris likes his EastEnders..
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Fucker was on time. Carrie must have shoved him down the stairs.
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My God, he actually managed to start on time

And then gets immediately into his stride with a lie about how it's not the Governments fault; it's the mutant virus
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He looks fucking haggard
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At least he's not pretending it's going to be a few weeks. February holiday before the schools reopen.
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The sign language guy is taking the piss Shirley?
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So, 10-12 weeks lockdown it is then, followed by a gradual lifting.
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Vaccine by mid Feb eh? I’m not booking a holiday for March in the expectation.
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GogLais wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:14 pm Vaccine by mid Feb eh? I’m not booking a holiday for March in the expectation.
Was he a little slippy in his language on that; or was it my imagination ?

He said something like all the affected groups would have received the vaccine; nothing on them being fully vaccinated, i.e. getting both jabs, with potentially a 12 week gap before the people who got their first jab in mid-Feb, having to wait 3 months more, plus a couple of weeks before they have full coverage
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Oh I hope so
With every jab that goes into our arms we’re tilting the odds away from Covid and in favour of the British people,” Johnson says. He says the end is in sight, and we know “exactly how we will get there.”
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fishfoodie wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:19 pm
GogLais wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:14 pm Vaccine by mid Feb eh? I’m not booking a holiday for March in the expectation.
Was he a little slippy in his language on that; or was it my imagination ?

He said something like all the affected groups would have received the vaccine; nothing on them being fully vaccinated, i.e. getting both jabs, with potentially a 12 week gap before the people who got their first jab in mid-Feb, having to wait 3 months more, plus a couple of weeks before they have full coverage
No, but that should be the point where we should start to see the effects in the data.
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Fuck you 2021
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fishfoodie wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:19 pm
GogLais wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:14 pm Vaccine by mid Feb eh? I’m not booking a holiday for March in the expectation.
Was he a little slippy in his language on that; or was it my imagination ?

He said something like all the affected groups would have received the vaccine; nothing on them being fully vaccinated, i.e. getting both jabs, with potentially a 12 week gap before the people who got their first jab in mid-Feb, having to wait 3 months more, plus a couple of weeks before they have full coverage
The mid Feb target is clearly based on one jab.

Vaccination is now the most important UK national effort since ww2. We will see.
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Elite sport can go ahead.
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sturginho wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:05 pm He looks fucking haggard
I thought the same when I saw him on A Marr yesterday. He looks even worse tonite
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Biffer wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:02 pm Fucker was on time. Carrie must have shoved him down the stairs.
Looked like he was pushed down the stairs
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Achahoish wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:32 pm
sturginho wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:05 pm He looks fucking haggard
I thought the same when I saw him on A Marr yesterday. He looks even worse tonite
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Vaccine by mid Feb eh? I’m not booking a holiday for March in the expectation.
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So no school at all.

Can only go out to exercise once a day.

Yet ...

Communal worship and life event​s-​You can leave home to attend or visit a place of worship for communal worship
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Ymx wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 9:01 pm So no school at all.

Can only go out to exercise once a day.

Yet ...

Communal worship and life event​s-​You can leave home to attend or visit a place of worship for communal worship
Do circuits around the church during the mass

Do chinups, or dips during confession.

Sorry, the font isn't big enough to do laps :grin:
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sturginho wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:05 pm He looks fucking haggard
What was with the double flags in the background?
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