Coronavirus: Please use this thread for all COVID19 talk!

“Be alert,” the PM blurts,

“Wash the dirt out ot your hands,” the Health Secretary asserts,

“Return to work, don’t return to work,” as the Commons remains inert

“Just rely on us to get the job done” Johnson squirts.

 

So you can effectively drive round the whole of England , stop at lots of diffrent locations potentially catching/spreading the virus as you go , but along as you're back home on the same day it's all gravy. But you cant visit both you're parents at the same time that live 2 mins round the corner.

 

And I had Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

 

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18...yers-mass-gathering-spotted-across-hampshire/


FFS.

 

Shouldn't they have done this at the start of lockdown , not at the end?

 

What is the problem with this? Isn't this what the Premier League are proposing? You can't have one law for one and another for the rest.

 

Lol more like Top Gear

 

That's my birthday so sounds like plan

 

He should have been arrested already for child cruelty after what he named his child.

 

There might not be a better example of 'quit when you're ahead' than Elon Musk. He could have retired from public life as a legendary entrepreneur and futurist, but nope: he just can't stop tweeting crazy ****.

 

Probably be POTUS soon

 

Just seen a tweet from the Foreign Office trumpeting that they’ve put on flights and repatriated 30,000 people from around the world. “UK citizens stranded abroad”. If you go behind the figures, over 15,000 of those have been from India, so I’m guessing they weren’t tourists. The government pledged £75 million for these flights, yet the ones from here (South Africa) were around £800 per person one way and I’ve heard that from Peru they wanted over £1,000.
I’ve just stood in the garden here and watched both a BA 777 (flight number BA54 - a passenger call sign) and Virgin Atlantic 787 (flight number VS602 - also a passenger flight call sign) fly overhead and I’m tracking them to London.
I’m just wondering what the **** these flights are carrying and why they are unable (or unwilling) to take some of the 1,000+ UK citizens currently stranded here back to Heathrow. The SA government has said it is happy to allow repatriation flights, so just WTAF is going on here? Are they full of SA fruit for waitrose, etc and brought down English stuff to be sold in shops here?
I’ve tweeted the British High Commissioner here, plus BA and Virgin, but I don’t expect any response. The last thing I heard was that there are ‘unlikely to be any further repatriation flights from SA in the near future’, yet these flights ARE happening and no one is saying anything about them.
Is it my cynical mind which is saying that freight is more important than people?
In the past, wouldn’t the RAF have been draughted in to assist? Guess we’re such a tinpot state now that this government can’t afford it. There are people here (thank god I’m not one of them) who are getting to the end of their money or racking up huge debts trying to survive with no end in sight.
How the **** did we allow this? I’m beyond angry

 

A pal of mine flies for Virgin - he's been doing a mixture of freight and emergency repatriation flights since this started with the emphasis on the freight side. Scheduled passenger flights still not happening though, so it might be a case that the passenger call signs might not accurately reflect the nature of the flight

 

Luckily he was born in SA so doesn't qualify. I see enough of the strange ****er on the news when he's just a car salesman, let alone if he had political ambitions.

 

Big rumours that Gov furlough scheme is going to be reduced to 60%.

If that happens, I would start to think that people not being able to afford rent and food becomes more of a risk than the virus itself. Very tough situation

 

Instead of sailing us down the river , why dont they just line us all up and shoot us now , save time and suffering.

 

Yesterday was the funeral of one of our elderly family members and although it was always going to be a sad time, it was also a remarkable time and one that was incredibly touching. She died from a heart condition made worse by the Covid-19 infection she caught in hospital, and at the end she just couldn’t fight it off any longer. She was a truly lovely woman and someone that will leave a huge hole in the family.

Funerals are always difficult and personally I really struggle with them and can never keep dry eyes. There were a small number of family members present and the usual hymns and for once, the vicar seemed well briefed on who she was and what her life had meant to those around her. There were the usual awkward silent moments when you could feel the pain and anguish in the air but it was soon over.

It was only when the vicar addressed everyone towards the end of the service and said “And as much as she meant to her family, she also touched many of those in the hospital who did so much to save her, and were with her to the end. She died peacefully and was surrounded by an abundance of love.” “Some of those who were with her are here today in spirit, and some in person.”

Everyone turned around and there were 6 people at the back but there were maybe 20 pictures of the doctors and nurses in scrubs and pictures of a whole group of them with her while she was still alive. The place just dissolved into floods of tears and then it was really hard because people just wanted to do the normal human thing and hug each other, but couldn’t. I guess that is where coronavirus has taken us to, a place where things often look normal but are anything but normal.

The one thing we will all take from this is how complete strangers can be so kind, loving and thoughtful. Doctors and nurses are such an incredible force for good and really are some of the best of us.

 

That brought a lump to my throat. She sounds as if she was a remarkable woman. My condolences to you and your family.