Off Topic Coronavirus

[bobmid]

You can't always share stuff. If the soldier recognises which mountains to pass on the left or right etc, hard to describe it. Boris will have compiled a wealth of knowledge (including speaking to world leaders, medical experts etc) that no other single person has. I don't envy Dominic Raab.

Gove point was half-written. Then I decided he wasn't important enough to comment on!

He could always use a pencil and paper to tell the others if necessary. That way they all have the knowledge. Would be very selfish of him otherwise, knowing his life needed saving above all others. Unfortunately it's a piss poor analogy

 

[sb_73]

Evidence from Iceland and the cruise ship that got locked down in Japan that up to 50% of people testing positive for the virus show no symptoms. Backed up by Trumps enemy, Dr Anthony Fauci.

 

[Uber_Hoop]

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[Sooperhoop]

Big organisations like the EU, WHO, UN etc are notoriously slow to act on the ground in times of crisis. This isn't a political point...just a fact based on recent prior experience. It is a little like turning a supertanker

We had the same problem with Richard Dunne...

 

[Goldhawk-Road]

He could always use a pencil and paper to tell the others if necessary. That way they all have the knowledge.

Right, I'm going to add something to the analogy! He's not a soldier, but someone the soldiers are smuggling out of the enemy country (with his cooperation) and they need him to provide iris and finger-print tests to get through check points. So they have to protect him for their own good

 

[BobbyD]

Agree the split in the UK bit, Bobby. But not the idea that the country is run by the cabinet. PM has massive power compared to the bods around the Cabinet table. Look at Thatcher or Blair. The buck stops with them in a crisis. All experts report to them and their aid (eg Alistair Campbell)

i agree that the final decisions the PM will make and ultimately will wield that power and that the buck stops with them.

Advice, whats the best move etc is certainly not because of the PMs knowledge and to suggest that someone cannot take the place of a PM to make those decisions and that the country is going to be dooooooooomed without him isn't somethink believe is correct.

Anyway, the reality is, he's the PM and part of the elite so he will be getting the best care compared to us plebs

 

[Stroller]

Right, I'm going to add something to the analogy! He's not a soldier, but someone the soldiers are smuggling out of the enemy country (with his cooperation) and they need him to provide iris and finger-print tests to get through check points. So they have to protect him for their own good

Huh?

I really don't think that Johnson's absence will have a negative impact on the government's effectiveness.

 

[bobmid]

Right, I'm going to add something to the analogy! He's not a soldier, but someone the soldiers are smuggling out of the enemy country (with his cooperation) and they need him to provide iris and finger-print tests to get through check points. So they have to protect him for their own good

Think you've read too many tom Clancy books goldy

 

[bobmid]

Right, I'm going to add something to the analogy! He's not a soldier, but someone the soldiers are smuggling out of the enemy country (with his cooperation) and they need him to provide iris and finger-print tests to get through check points. So they have to protect him for their own good

Ffs hilarious

 

[bobmid]

Huh?

I really don't think that Johnson's absence will have a negative impact on the government's effectiveness.

They may need his finger print and iris scan though!

 

[Goldhawk-Road]

i agree that the final decisions the PM will make and ultimately will wield that power and that the buck stops with them.

Advice, whats the best move etc is certainly not because of the PMs knowledge and to suggest that someone cannot take the place of a PM to make those decisions and that the country is going to be dooooooooomed without him isn't somethink believe is correct.

Anyway, the reality is, he's the PM and part of the elite so he will be getting the best care compared to us plebs

Raab has the intellectual capacity to take over as leader, but changing leader in the middle of a crisis is highly undesirable. Imagine if Churchill had been assassinated in 1941.

 

[Uber_Hoop]

They may need his finger print and iris scan though!

In the video nasties I watch they tend to hack off the fingers and gouge an eyeball out rather than cart the whole human about. I don’t think this information helps though.

 

[sb_73]

You can't always share stuff. If the soldier recognises which mountains to pass on the left or right etc, hard to describe it. Boris will have compiled a wealth of knowledge (including speaking to world leaders, medical experts etc) that no other single person has. I don't envy Dominic Raab.

Gove point was half-written. Then I decided he wasn't important enough to comment on!

Well even if he recovers he is probably at this moment unconscious and if other cases are anything to go by he’ll be in ITU for ten days. So all that precious knowledge is not available and his colleagues have to step up to the plate.

SB I miss you on the politics thread because you are always so wrong. Please come back.

No thanks, why would I inflict that tedium on myself, Wokemeister?

 

[Goldhawk-Road]

Huh?

I really don't think that Johnson's absence will have a negative impact on the government's effectiveness.

We'll have to disagree on that one. He dominates his hand-picked cabinet

 

[Goldhawk-Road]

They may need his finger print and iris scan though!

Now you're being too literal, Bob

 

[Goldhawk-Road]

Well even if he recovers he is probably at this moment unconscious and if other cases are anything to go by he’ll be in ITU for ten days. So all that precious knowledge is not available and his colleagues have to step up to the plate.

Yes, they will. I hope they all accept Raab's authority. Hancock and Sunak are already at loggerheads on the way forward

 

[sb_73]

Yes, they will. I hope they all accept Raab's authority. Hancock and Sunak are already at loggerheads on the way forward

Well I think discussion of the relative merits of different politicians is one for the politics thread. I really do not have any views on them worth sharing, though I do like the nicknames from the Times.

I suspect you missed the sarcasm in Strollers post.

 

[bobmid]

Now you're being too literal, Bob

Lol like i say, piss poor analogy

 

[Stroller]

Well I think discussion of the relative merits of different politicians is one for the politics thread. I really do t have any views on them worth sharing, though I do like the nicknames from the Times.

I suspect you missed the sarcasm in Strollers post.

That happens a lot.

 

[bobmid]

I see the slippery twat Gove has gone into self isolation. He will no doubt come out to an even more luxurious position.