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Same to you and your family.

 

Yeah, but you've missed the point, mate. These are all well healed bastards who'll get private health care. The rules don't apply to them, just the proles. Well some of the proles they are hoping will die off in all probability. Save on Universal Credit and helping the homeless.

Seriously, there is a "this doesn't include me" attitude among some people, usually rich spoiled gits*. I was at an airport in France a few years back when that ash cloud thing grounded every plane. A fat hoorah henry was screaming at the poor girl on the FlyBe desk that she didn't seem to understand (as he was screaming in Home Counties English it was hardly surprising) that he simply had to be in London that evening. Same mentality, I guess

*who then become role models for moronic wannabes who are packing our pubs and swapping viruses.

 

100%. You too.

 

Yay the bum is back.

And Kylie

Sorry. Good to know you are still about, and probably grounded in the UK. S
Take care.

 

Jesus. Bergamo isn't a big place, either. If Wikipedia's population estimate is correct, 1.6% of the population has died in the past month. 1 out of every 378 residents of the city died yesterday. It's unfathomable.

 

Sounds as if the Italian health system has just been overwhelmed. I must admit to normally being of a somewhat anarchic disposition, but this is serious. I really fear that this could turn really ugly in days. We have gone from ten deaths to 140 in one week. If you scale that up the next three weeks figures would be 1960, 27,000 and 378,000.

Now I'm not suggesting that the fourteen multiplier will persist. But if it is six that's 840, 5040 and 32,400. Imagine St.Mary's full to capacity, all dead. We now need a total lockdown like France and Spain with pubs and restaurants forced to shut and some form of food rationing brought in.

 

I hope a lot more people watch that sky news report and understand what it is we are facing. Those people don't all look like frail 80 year olds.

On newsnight last night, a man that owns an established British ventilator company said there had been no orders for new stock by the government.

 

People need to demand that the government lock things down, and now. The UK will have Bergamos. It's just a matter of how many at this point. 600 dead a day in Southampton for three weeks. 500 a day in Bournemouth for the same span. 800/day in Brighton. I know this sounds like **** spouted by a crazy guy with a crazier beard on a street corner wearing a placard that says "THE END IS NIGH". It's not. It's your ****ing April if your government doesn't act immediately.

 

Yeah let's take to the streets! Oh hang on...

 

Heh, yeah, that sort of mass action isn't really possible. But bomb your MPs on social media. Blow up their constituency offices with calls. Plaster images of military caravans leaving Bergamo filled with corpses everywhere important people might see them. Make them understand what they invite with every day they dither.

 

Went to my sisters yesterday and saw her throwing away some food. (I’m in Aussie remember) I asked why she was throwing it away. Oh she said it was stuff I bought in February and it’s passed it’s sell by date. But you haven’t touched it says i. Oh I’ve got some more in there that’s ok. I stocked up early!!! I blew my top and needless to say I have upset her. So I’m not the best of brothers at the moment.

 

I've put my food in expiry date order, so nothing is wasted. And I am also no slave to expiry dates...a ready meal in the fridge does not become lethal a minute after midnight on the expiry day....despite what some think.

 

I usually only throw food away when it either smells off or starts new life of its own. Even then it goes in the compost bin and carries on in a new form.

 

You too older bro

 

Got nothing to add to the conversation except to say I hope you're all taking good care of yourselves and your tribe.

Love all you Sainty types, and I long for the return to days of complaining about right backs and iffy substitutions.

 

Maybe we should have a thread:

If Ralph was PM he would....

 

Popped to my local farmfoods today as we had no frozen peas........every freezer empty apart from some frozen fruit puddings...........the world has indeed gone mad.

 

… probably play the Chancellor of the Exchequer as Minister of Health
… appoint Jack Stephens as the Minister for Defence
… use VAR as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
… re-appoint Les Reed as Secretary of State for International Trade
… re-sign Steven Davis as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
… appoint Alan Pardew as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

 

You also Fats.

 

And to you