Coronavirus

[PaddockLad 17262]

Revenge is a dish best served cold...

 

 

 

[NJS 4386]

It's not even the week - it was saying the lockdown was starting on Monday and allowing pubs to have the Friday night - even that icing on the cake stupidity probably killed thousands. 

[Alex 35083]

Can’t get my head around why you have to wear a mask on a virtually empty metro but you can go to the supermarket or, from Monday I think, any number of non-essential shops and not wear one. I think it’s correct but too late regarding public transport but don’t understand the argument it’s ‘safe’ in a retail environment. Also I believe Johnson is doing the briefing today so expect another stupid fucking contradictory announcement that’s meant to boost morale or whatever 

[Meenzer 15527]

13 minutes ago, Alex said:

Can’t get my head around why you have to wear a mask on a virtually empty metro but you can go to the supermarket or, from Monday I think, any number of non-essential shops and not wear one.

 

Pick your favourite contradiction. The importance of exercising in the fresh air has been reiterated throughout this, but it's also fine to have mile-long queues of cars with their engines idling while they wait for their Big Mac and fries. I like that one.

[Alex 35083]

It’s about as easy to understand as someone being prepared to wait in a mile long queue for McDonald’s 

[Ayatollah Hermione 13869]

Johnson is definitely blotto, here 

[Renton 21626]

Don't go to the pub, keep the pubs open springs to mind.

 

And just there, Johnson stresses outdoor transmission much less risky, next sentence talks about indoor "support bubbles" where people can mix indoors without social distancing. Ffs. 

[Renton 21626]

2 minutes ago, Ayatollah Hermione said:

Johnson is definitely blotto, here 

I'm listening on the radio and aye, he sounds it. 

[Alex 35083]

It’s ok to make comparisons with Europe regarding schools but not with the number of deaths 

Edited June 10, 2020 by Alex

[Monkeys Fist 42449]

“Support Bubble” will be the new phrase we’ll all be pig-fucking-sick of hearing within two days. 

[Alex 35083]

You’d think many people were doing stuff like this anyway, with sensible precautions. By announcing it, it gives the green light for others to go way beyond that, in view of how little respect people now have for the government and their measures 

Edited June 10, 2020 by Alex

[Tom 14011]

2 hours ago, Ayatollah Hermione said:

Johnson is definitely blotto, here 

About £2 a pint in the House of Commons so I’m not surprised. 

(At the tax payers expense obviously)

[Meenzer 15527]

You've just reminded me that one of my more tangential celebrity encounters is having had a G&T in one of the House of Lords bars while Betty Boothroyd was sat at the next table over. Sadly I was still a massive pisshead at the time so I don't remember a great deal about it beyond that. (Much like most of the Lords really.) Defiinitely the cheapest round in London anyway.  

[ewerk 30611]

I’m not sure it gets much more metropolitan elite than that.  

[Meenzer 15527]

I hushed up the fact that I live in Lewisham or they wouldn't have let me near the place.

[trooper 940]

Shops can open on Monday providing social distancing is observed. The Metrocentre will be heaving, mams dads & kids having a nice day out. 

[Alex 35083]

Well it might be heaving but they won’t be having a nice day out

[PaddockLad 17262]

Lots of suggestions today that social distancing will be reduced to 1m in shops, which basically ends it. Will this mean full stadiums in mid August? 🤔

[PaddockLad 17262]

 

[Renton 21626]

I'm covid antibody negative. Rats cocks, probably the only time in my life I was somehow hoping I'd contracted an infectious disease. 

[Dr Gloom 21924]

let's have a nice day out at the metro centre

said nobody, ever. 

[Meenzer 15527]

2 hours ago, PaddockLad said:

Lots of suggestions today that social distancing will be reduced to 1m in shops, which basically ends it. Will this mean full stadiums in mid August? 🤔

 

It would be pretty illogical for that to happen just days after they conceded defeat on schools not reopening fully until September in part because the two-metre rule is incompatible with classroom sizes.

 

So it'll probably happen.

[Tom 14011]

18 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

let's have a nice day out at the metro centre

said nobody, ever. 

It’s like a maze of shit shops & dickheads with trousers that don’t fit. 

[Meenzer 15527]

Ah, but it was glamorous once.

 

 

[Renton 21626]

32 years ago. Jesus.

 

I fucking hate the place and don't get why anyone north of the Tyne would go there. Newcastle is far better.