Coronavirus

[PaddockLad 17285]

We are, I think, living in what our Chinese cousins would call "interesting times"

 

 

 

[Isegrim 9799]

Intelesting tbh

[RobinRobin 11289]

Lacist!

[Alex 35097]

Captain Tom’s got it now  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-55881508

[NJS 4389]

Don't want to be harsh but someone in his family wants shooting for not keeping him safe. 

[Meenzer 15552]

 

[Alex 35097]

7 minutes ago, NJS said:

Don't want to be harsh but someone in his family wants shooting for not keeping him safe. 

Reading that maybe he picked it up in hospital? 

[NJS 4389]

26 minutes ago, Alex said:

Reading that maybe he picked it up in hospital? 

Ah, okay - I read the statement from his daughter saying he'd been treated at home for pneumonia. 

[Alex 35097]

6 hours ago, NJS said:

Ah, okay - I read the statement from his daughter saying he'd been treated at home for pneumonia. 

In that case you’re probably right 

[RobinRobin 11289]

Presumably he must have been right at the front for vaccine, which is a worry.

[Renton 21638]

5 hours ago, RobinRobin said:

Presumably he must have been right at the front for vaccine, which is a worry.

 

He didn't get it, I think because of his pneumonia (although I'm not sure that is a good reason), which suggests he caught covid secondary to this. 

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

23 hours ago, Alex said:

Captain Tom’s got it now  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-55881508

 

Sure he'll be able to walk it off

[ewerk 30642]

Starmer should be all over this at PMQs.

[Monkeys Fist 42460]

Fucking hell- it’s what viruses do. 
 

My medical background consists of trying not to fall asleep on first aid courses and I know that viruses will mutate and variants happen. 
 

How the fuck do these imbeciles sleep at night after stealing a living? 

[The Fish 10862]

A pathological sense of self entitlement? An almost sociopathic disregard for other people?

Edited February 3, 2021 by The Fish

[Rayvin 5223]

I mean, she knew it was possible but gambled that it wouldn't happen before the vaccine came along. Now she's saying whatever seems vaguely plausible to avoid accountability for that decision.

 

I guess you could call that incompetence, but I feel like cynical calculating and weighing human life against expenditure and effort would more exhaustively sum it up. As far as her bosses (and their objectives) are concerned, she's very competent, I'm sure.

 

 

Edited February 3, 2021 by Rayvin

[Ayatollah Hermione 13884]

Presented without comment.

[Rayvin 5223]

As scary as that decision making process is, was he right?

[Monkeys Fist 42460]

Please use spoilers as I haven’t seen Contagion yet. 

[PaddockLad 17285]

28 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:

Please use spoilers as I haven’t seen Contagion yet. 

We watched it towards the end of the first lockdown....it’s uncannily accurate... I think Hancock deserves a bit of credit for taking the gamble tbh, regardless of how he came to the decision..

[Gemmill 44952]

Aye same. He's a little cunt, but at this stage we seem to have at least got this (arguably most important) but right. 

[ewerk 30642]

TBF buying the vaccines was the easy bit. All he had to do was spunk money at anyone who said they were developing one. It's been the rollout that has been impressive but that seems to have been left largely to the NHS afaia.

[Toonpack 9449]

3 minutes ago, ewerk said:

TBF buying the vaccines was the easy bit. All he had to do was spunk money at anyone who said they were developing one. It's been the rollout that has been impressive but that seems to have been left largely to the NHS afaia.

This - and if only track and trace had been similarly handled eh ?

Bastards called it NHS track and trace which it wasn't 

Of course vaccination programme isn't called what it is i.e NHS vaccination

 

Edited February 3, 2021 by Toonpack

[PaddockLad 17285]

4 minutes ago, ewerk said:

TBF buying the vaccines was the easy bit. All he had to do was spunk money at anyone who said they were developing one. It's been the rollout that has been impressive but that seems to have been left largely to the NHS afaia.

 

I'm only a  bit complementary about him in hindsight. We only knew he'd done a half decent job when the EU threw a wobbler last week. Before then I thought he was a contemptible spunk trumpet. I now merely think he's a spunk trumpet

 

 

[PaddockLad 17285]

4 minutes ago, Toonpack said:

This - and if only track and trace had been similarly handled eh ?

 

It was contracted out to the private sector...