Coronavirus

Watched him being questioned by the Select Committee today. He looked like he's aged about 10 years in 6 months. I don't doubt he's feeling the pressure. Meanwhile I bet Cummings is as indifferent as the textbook sociopath he is.

 

Boris knows how Putin treats his agents that disappoint him

 

He has no clue what is going on, and likes it that way

 

How does this man still fool large parts of the public

 

North East tighter lockdown from Friday...But as with all of this, no idea what that means.

 

Less temptation/opportunity for you to go out during October.

 

I ain't been on a sesh this year.

 

apparently all adverts including billboards from this campaign are being removes as quick;y as possible

i wonder why

 

North East on lockdown from midnight tonight.

 

#thatwentwell

 

Rumour has it that if you get contacted by test and trace that you will be told that should self isolate for 14 but not get a test unless you develop symptoms.
How many people can afford to take 2 weeks off on statutory sick pay?
How many firms can afford to keep paying 2 weeks sick pay to staff.

People are going to ignore test and trace or cheat it by giving fake info.

 

I think this goes beyond test and trace, the recent shout by government and city businesses to get back to work, was a wrong and a greedy message, once again dictated by corporate need.

My kid was poorly last week, however, was still able to work, because there was no getting up early and travelling to the City on packed commuter trains - it's been proven since March, that working from home works effectively, and results in higher productivity and less days off sick. But, but... the empty city offices

The new normal became about your massive corporations crying over their empty buildings, and not being able to have a daily eye on their minions. They should be told to fook off, this is the new normal, we don't need these offices or this pollution anymore. The local economy's will thrive by moving out of the City....then I woke from the dream, it will never happen, because money is more important than people.

 

Think that's going to be the pattern over the winter across the country. The R rate is up and we're beginning to see an increase in Hospitalisations. If (as is likely) the UK follows similar patterns to places like Spain and France, then we're going to see the infections spread out from mainly young people out into the older community again and the death rate will follow. I think the Death rate in France has doubled in the last couple of weeks.

 

Amen to this.

**** knows why you vote Tory bruv ?

 

I don't think your find a political party that would support moving corporate businesses out of the City, whether you are Cameron, Major, Blair, whoever you are, they all do well out of politics.

 

True that mate. Maybe the Greens who have got a credible green new deal proposal. But they ain't getting voted in.

I honestly think this govt have badly misjudged the landscape in this new normal. Folk simply do not want to return to crowded offices and public transport. It's been shown that a vast proportion of people can work quite successfully from home, yet the Govt bang on about 'getting back to work'.

I personally think that we're going to see a second wave (or something similar) over the winter, and it's going to put a nail in the coffin of this tired old mantra that govt keep rolling out. The world of work has changed forever and they'd do far better to support people in new ways of working rather than trying to scare them back into the offices.

 

Except the likes of Nick Ferrari have spent the past 3 months on their breakfast radio shows crying about the make-believe John, Bob, Pete and Jane who live in a shared flat in Clapham spending all day in their bedrooms on Zoom and the effect it'll have on their mental health. He bangs on about this every morning as if this demographic reflects the vast majority of the population.

Then he reckons that if people working from home becomes a success then all the jobs will end up in Bangladesh.

And yet none of this can be labelled project fear. The guy's clearly got some vested interest in this. The city real estate owners must be his bezzy mates or something.

 

A lot of corporate jobs have already gone to Bangladesh, way before the virus broke out, and the public don't even know about it! The reason being, the jobs that are sent there are generally non customer contact, all the back office work. It's been ripping the arse out of us for ages, because they do it for a pittance. It will be seen as building a Bangladesh economy, I've no problem with that bit, but when in reality it means more profit for the corporate greed, while dispensing with jobs back in the UK, because the citizens here, could never live on the same wage. Wasn't one of the biggest heists ever commited in somewhere like Bangladesh.

There is no denial on my part, that there has been a major risk to mental health during lock-downs, but to use this as some sort of leverage not to work from home is obscene. It needs managing yes, and managing properly, but you will never see it operate safely, while the greedy or misguided attach false narratives to it. The truth be told, they don't want change, the same as they are not interested in saving the environment, it's profit before anything else. Yes, we have to have profit to improve, but it goes way beyond that, it's pure greed and nothing else at the expense of our planet.