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Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Ciaran, Apr 20, 2020.

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    no it's true
    they are creepy
     
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    I don’t get the issue with camping?
     
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    A group of Girl Guides once stole a pair of pete’s Y fronts to use as a fly sheet. He had a hard job explaining how those girls ended up inside his pants; I think the experience put him off camping for life.
     
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  8. DUNCAN DONUTS

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    Diversity = Are strength
     
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    The opening lines tells anybody with half a brain that it would have been the same for any government in charge. It's a 50/50 report that says the scientists are to blame too.

    The UK's failure to do more to stop Covid spreading early in the pandemic was one of the worst ever public health failures, a report by MPs says.

    The government approach - backed by its scientists

    The report said this was based on dealing with a flu pandemic, and was done on the advice of its scientific advisers on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).

    Although to some degree other parts of Europe were guilty of this too, the MPs said.

    But the report by the cross-party group said there had been successes too - in particular the vaccination programme.

    It described the whole approach - from the research and development through to the rollout of the jabs - as "one of the most effective initiatives in UK history".

    "The veil of ignorance through which the UK viewed the initial weeks of the pandemic was partly self-inflicted," said the report.

    The advice from scientists changed on 16 March 2020, but it was only a week later that a lockdown was announced.

    "It was a deliberate policy - proposed by official scientific advisers and adopted by the governments of all of the nations of the UK.

    "It is now clear that this was the wrong policy, and that it led to a higher initial death toll than would have resulted from a more emphatic early policy. In a pandemic spreading rapidly and exponentially, every week counted."

    The MPs also highlighted how ministers in England rejected scientific advice to have a two-week "circuit-breaker" in the autumn.

    They said it was impossible to know whether that would have prevented the second lockdown in November, although they pointed out it had not in Wales.

    The UK was one of the first countries in the world to develop a test for Covid in January 2020, but despite this failed to translate that into an effective test-and-trace system during the first year of the pandemic.

    Testing in the community stopped in March 2020 and for weeks during the first peak only those admitted to hospital were tested.

    It was not until May that the NHS Test and Trace system was launched in England, but the report described its start as "slow, uncertain and often chaotic".

    But it did praise the target set by Health Secretary Matt Hancock to get to 100,000 tests a day by the end of April, saying it played an important part in galvanising the system.

    The greatest praise though was reserved for the vaccination programme and the way the government supported the development of a number of vaccines, including the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.

    It said the whole programme was one of the most effective initiatives in history, and will ultimately help save millions of lives here and across the world.

    The development of treatments, such as dexamethasone, for Covid through the UK Recovery Trial was another area where the UK's response was genuinely world-leading, the report said.

    And the NHS and government were also credited with the way hospital intensive care capacity was increased to ensure the majority who needed hospital treatment received it.



    Covid: UK start to pandemic worst public health failure ever, MPs say - BBC News
     
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    Norway Denmark Sweden and Holland have abandoned ALL covid measures of distancing, testing passports etc they are not playing along anymore .

    Boris will have passports and another lockdown this winter for certain.

    The fact you applaud the what this government did to us is proof positive the behavioural psychologists have done a real job on you.
     
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    Do we still have distancing measures in England? I'm not aware of that and haven't seen it anywhere?

    EU citizens who have been fully vaccinated can obtain an EU Digital COVID Certificate (DCC) and use it to enter the Netherlands. If you do not have a DCC and/or are a resident of a country outside the EU and the Schengen area, you can in most cases enter the Netherlands using paper proof of vaccination.

    Travelling to the Netherlands from a very high risk area: proof of vaccination not enough
    If you are travelling to the Netherlands from a very high-risk area, proof of vaccination is not enough. In that case, you must also show a negative COVID-19 test result.
     
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    Is that the same certainty of the other claims you had which were wrong?
     
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    It will happen one day. It's all part of the plan. You are submitting to the dark forces etc etc.
     
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    I'm sure it will all come out in the wash.
     
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    Indeed, anyone would have struggled, any government would have had some failures to explain. Fortunately for him, Bozo gets a soft ride from the media in this country. Can you even imagine the chorus of outrage if Corbyn had of made some of the ****ups Boris has?

    Anyway, I wonder how Dido Harding will spend the huge sums of public money she has made off the back of the abject failure of test and trace?
     
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    Like what ?

    Boris said 2 weeks to flatten the curve .

    There will be another lockdown this winter starting end October start November.

    Covid passports will be forced through by 2022.
     
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    In Lithuania citizens aren't allowed to go to any shops work or use health care unless they have a Covid pass.

    Australia is under Martial law with their no jab no job policy, the UK are pushing fir mandatory jabs on ALL healthcare workers.
     
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    you said we'd never come out of lockdown
     
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    No I didn't I said the Government will loosen the rope around our necks for the summer where seasonal flu is not around and when flu season hits in the winter we will get locked down again .

    Eventually we will switch to climate change lockdowns.

    The Carbon neutral rhetoric will be ramped up as we approach 2030 .
     
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