Scrap that they’ve put an actual bucket of **** on the stage where I thought Sunak might have given an update on this instead.
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Scrap that they’ve put an actual bucket of **** on the stage where I thought Sunak might have given an update on this instead.
We shouldn't and cant really measure against other countries, so here is another graph doing just that!
Before you nag Bobmid ...69,000 tests yesterday still going down.
Apparently it is our fault . They have the capacity, but no one is going to have the tests.
Maybe, because -
With the drive in centres the NHS and care workers are all too tired to drive to the test centres to get a test at the end of a shift
Many of the rest of us have been told not to drive out (my nearest test centre is 25 miles away) and I have to book first
so many of the tests are now retests for various reeasons (estimated as at least 10-25%).
I am sure that 200,000 homes will get a home test kit on May 30th
Why is no one asking about our excess deaths versus other countries which avoids the daily cop out about how we shouldn’t compare countries when they pretend we count all deaths?
Was he put on a ventilator? No. He had it bad, but plenty, thanks to his gross incompetence, have had it worst of all.
His (and the rest of these shysters, masquerading as a govt) dithering, have cost thousands of unnecessary deaths.
It’s politics mate. Every single decision made is political. Regardless of Party.
I am in a feisty mood, because I have just emerged from six straight hours of conference calls.
I’m not especially trusting I just don’t think it’s ‘human nature’ to be a ****. It’s not firms who make these decisions. It’s individuals who work for firms who collude with other individuals to somehow convince themselves that knowingly ripping off the rest of society is not a decision that they have made but one that the ‘firm’ has made. So they can go home have dinner and get a good nights sleep. They are the same as tax avoiders/evaders* and benefits cheats. Saying it’s ‘human nature’ implies that this behaviour is hardwired into us all. I still don’t believe it is. I also don’t believe that courage, self sacrifice and generosity are ‘human nature’, they are active decisions that people make. The most I’ll give to human nature is the odd blend of us being both essentially communal creatures who are simultaneously self interested and individualistic. Which creates tension, both between and within individuals.
None of which has anything to do with the pandemic, so just ignore me.
* sorry Ubes I can never remember which is the truly naughty one.
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Here's the Sumption interview, starting at about 07.10...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000hwg7
Have to say, I am very much in agreement with him.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000hwg7
Have to say, I am very much in agreement with him.
I don’t like Frankie as a stand up/performer all that much, but his commentary and personal television essays are top notch.
No, can’t do it. I’ll just hear ‘....the balance of our human stock is threatened’. Not saying he is wrong on this issue at all. Why don’t you just summarise it and pretend it’s your own words? I’ll believe you.
Agree. I think he’s a bit of a bullying **** who can’t take it when someone has a go back....but sometimes he does talk sense.
No, can’t do it. I’ll just hear ‘....the balance of our human stock is threatened’. Not saying he is wrong on this issue at all. Why don’t you just summarise it and pretend it’s your own words? I’ll believe you.
He's really summarising the stuff I've posted on here about the lockdown. He does put it rather better, though.
When we are allowed to and when the boozers are open who’s up for a meet up at a suitable Shepherds Bush hostelry? Regardless of whether the Rs are playing.
I have a sudden urge to be in a pub.
I have a sudden urge to be in a pub.
I’ll reserve a booth when the under-35s are let out first.
I've seen him live and he's a horrible ****, but I do like his political observations and, as Staines say, sometimes he does talk a bit of sense.
Seeing as you spend most of your time in virtual conversation with us crypto pensioners you might not be allowed in, as ‘attitudinally aged’.