Coronavirus

Duke of Windsor, possibly.

 

That sounds very plausible; they had it all mapped out for next week, but punters kept dying inconveniently, and that ****ed that up.

 

#summary the Tories have somehow done worse than doing nothing at all

 

Not sure what people were expecting from a eccentric bunch of toffs...... The picnic is a sandwich short I'm afraid.

I'm feel sorry for the future generations who will have to pay for our pathetic time on our planet

 

I agree. It was clearly evident last Wednesday that Boris was going to make a big statement on Sunday. This wasn't through me reading any tabloids, it was Boris own words in Parliament, the very words Starmer was rightly questioning.

This gave a confusing message before the bank holiday weekend, I don't really care for those who say not so, I know what I saw.

Since then, there has been some serious back peddling, the problem Boris has now got, he made the announcement loud and clear, so is big mouth has now left him with no room to manouvre and to damage limitate.

I know people suggest the Brits are thick, but the Met Police also made it very clear they were confused to.

Basically in short it's a massive fook up. But hey, plenty of empty beds at the Nightingale to fill up, so that makes it alright

 

****ing unbelievable... shambolic, contradictory, confused and verging on incomprehensible... worra bunch of pillocks

 

This Daily Mail mouthpiece putting this out there.......

Parliamentary democracy anyone?

 

No ones mentioned this much, but I've really disliked the football league like death counting we have been using since the offset of this pandemic. Counting nations per death, putting them on a list, it just plays into the mentality you know people have. If Italy is top of the list in Europe, you know for a fact Brits, Spanish and French people will say "well, I'm going out, thank God its not as bad here as it is there!"

People saw the initial numbers out of Italy, took them for face value, panicked and cried about it and now tbh most people don't even care anymore. Now, it's happening with America, Trump has become a daily entertainment for most people and they say "well, thank God its not as bad here as it is in America!" Rinse and repeat.

I am disappointed in how the government handled this, I am mostly disappointed in how easily they caved into public pressures on many occasions. They're doing it right now, again, people want to go outside so the Government is saying "well, ok, but be careful!" The initial line was follow the science, that they would do what the science said, but the science said not to close schools... Scotland and Wales then immediately closed schools, it felt like a political decision then and it feels like a political decision right now. It hasn't helped, it was never going to help, governments did it for points and now those same countries are saying it probably just made things worse.

If you're going to shut everything, you need the equal metal to then follow this up with massive police restrictions. We didn't do that, because it would be unpopular... incidentally neither did France, Italy nor Spain. Here, Norwegians didn't stay inside because we don't have sunny days, it's because if I went out they'd identify me by my personal number, realise I was registered as sick and fine me 800-1,000 quid... There was even arrests.

This is a rambling mess, but I am just very disappointed in every single element of my country. I don't think a single thing has worked at all.

 

Very one sided obvs but damning

TIME LINE

December 31st China alerts WHO to new virus.

January 23rd Study reveals a third of China’s patients require
intensive care.

January 24th Boris Johnson misses first Cobra meeting.

January 29th Boris Johnson misses second Cobra meeting.

January 30th The World Health Organisation declares coronavirus a public health emergency of international concern.

January 31st Chris Whitty announces first cases of coronavirus in the UK. The NHS declares first ever ‘Level 4 critical incident’. Meanwhile, the government declines to join European scheme to source PPE.

February 5th Boris Johnson misses third Cobra meeting.

February 12th Boris Johnson misses fourth Cobra meeting. Exeter University published study warning Coronavirus could infect 45 million people in the UK if left unchallenged.

February 13th Boris Johnson misses conference call with European leaders.

February 14th Boris Johnson goes away on holiday. Aides are told keeps Johnson’s briefing notes short or he will not read them.

February 18th Johnson misses fifth cobra meeting.

February 26th Boris Johnson announces ‘Herd Immunity’ strategy, announcing some people will lose loved ones. Government document is leaked, predicting half a million Brits could die in ‘worse case scenario’

February 29th Boris Johnson retreats to his country manor. NHS warns of ‘PPE shortage nightmare’ Stockpiles have dwindled or expired after years of austerity cuts.

March 2nd Boris Johnson attends his first Cobra meeting, declining another opportunity to join European PPE scheme. Government’s own scientists say over half a million Brit’s could die if virus left unrestrained. Johnson tells country “We are very, very well prepared.”

March 3rd Scientists urge Government to advise public not to shake hands. Boris Johnson brags about shaking hands of Coronavirus patients.

March 4th Government stops providing daily updates on virus following a 70% spike in UK cases. They will later U-turn on this amid accusations they are withholding vital information.

March 5th Boris Johnson tells public to ‘wash their hands and business as usual’

March 7th Boris Johnson joins 82,000 people at Six Nations match.

March 9th After Ireland cancels St Patrick’s day parades, the government says there’s “No Rationale” for cancelling sporting events.

March 10th - 13th Cheltenham takes place, more than a quarter of a million people attend.

March 11th 3,000 Atletico Madrid fans fly to Liverpool.

March 12th Boris Johnson states banning events such as Cheltenham will have little effect. The Imperial College study finds the government’s plan is projected to kill half a million people.

March 13th The FA suspends the Premier League, citing an absence of Government guidance. Britain is invited to join European scheme for joint purchase of ventilators, and refuses. Boris Johnson lifts restrictions of those arriving from Coronavirus hot spots.

March 14th Government is still allowing mass gatherings, as Stereophonics play to 5,000 people in Cardiff.

March 16th Boris Johnson asks Britons not to go to pubs, but allows them to stay open. During a conference call, Johnson jokes that push to build new ventilators should be called ‘Operation Last Gasp’

March 19th Hospital patients with Coronavirus are returned to care homes in a bid to free up hospital space. What follows is a boom of virus cases in care homes.

March 20th The Government states that PPE shortage crisis is “Completely resolved” Less than two weeks later, the British Medical Association reports an acute shortage in PPE.

March 23rd UK goes into lockdown.

March 26th Boris Johnson is accused of putting ‘Brexit over Breathing’ by not joining EU ventilator scheme. The government then state they had not joined the scheme because they had ‘missed the email’

April 1st The Evening Standard publishes that just 0.17% of NHS staff have been tested for the virus.

April 3rd The UK death toll overtakes China.

April 5th 17.5 million Antibody tests, ordered by the government and described by Boris Johnson as a ‘game changer’ are found to be a failure.

April 7th Boris Johnson is moved to intensive care with Coronavirus.

April 16th Flights bring 15,000 people a day into the UK - without virus testing.

April 17th Health Secretary Matt Hancock says “I would love to be able to wave a magic wand and have PPE fall from the sky.” The UK has now missed four opportunities to join the EU’s PPE scheme.

April 21st The Government fails to reach its target of face masks for the NHS, as it is revealed manufactures offers of help were met with silence. Instead millions of pieces of PPE are being shipped from the UK to Europe.

April 23rd - 24th Government announces testing kits for 10 million key workers. Orders run out within minutes as only 5,000 are made available.

April 25th UK death toll from Coronavirus overtakes that of The Blitz.

April 30th Boris Johnson announces the UK has succeeded in avoiding a tragedy that had engulfed other parts of the world - At this point, The UK has the 3rd highest death toll in the world.

May 1st The Government announces it has reached its target of 100,000 tests - They haven’t conducted the tests, but posted the testing kits.

May 5th The UK death toll becomes the highest in Europe.

May 6th Boris Johnson announces the UK could start to lift lockdown restrictions by next week.

 

Fwiw I think it was a mistake to see how we were doing against the likes of France, Italy or Spain in itself. Rightly or wrongly I've always felt there was a group of countries who were responding very poorly and a group of countries who were responding very well to the crisis (and a group of bullshitters who I never really paid any attention to). I still believe that by highlighting the group who were doing well it would keep in our minds how much of a handle they had on the situation and how far behind we were.

Thinking back to the start of the outbreak here, the government proposed the 4 stages of the response. The first phase "containment" was in name only because the message to the public was just to be careful and report it early if you think you got it whilst at the same time keeping places open. Containment should've meant immediate lockdown. That to me is containment, but that only happened as we moved to "Delay" phase. Maybe they were following the science, I don't know tbh. But we've been playing catch up ever since sadly.

 

I've tried to figure out the point of Boris' new strategy and have only found two changes

1. don't "protect the NHS" any more
2. don't pay for furlough any more

Is that it?

 

Will get a bit messy if they aren’t at least pretending to be on the same page.

 

Had to be pre-recorded. Boris doesn't work weekends.

 

Because the UK has also failed at testing its numbers are also the biggest lie in the world

 

I think the horse has already bolted on that one.

 

True. Might as well join the Hokey Cokey the neighbours are doing.

 

@BobbyD missed the last day and a half can you please do a detailed summary.


Thanks in advance

 

Wtf....... You think its bad in Britain ....... .... Guess you're excited about a micro implant...... Go full cyborg first as last brother you won't look back

 

Police here can literally demand your number and your name and denying it is a crime. Yes, my reaction was the same as you when they randomly breathlised me on sunday afternoon.

Cops here rude af too. Everyone hates them