Coronavirus

[ewerk 30370]

15 minutes ago, Christmas Tree said:

To focus minds on what we should do now.

 

Nationalise care homes, build nightingale care homes, transfer all care staff to NHS status. Etc

You can’t help but repeat their shitty Brexit sound bites, can you?

[ewerk 30370]

1 minute ago, Christmas Tree said:

Because the new normal is going to need everyone, politicians, business, unions working together to create it. IMO

And this is how dictatorships begin.

[Christmas Tree 4711]

1 minute ago, ewerk said:

You can’t help but repeat their shitty Brexit sound bites, can you?

:lol: I think it’s been around a bit longer than that.

[Alex 34913]

We’re all in this together 

[Dr Gloom 21847]

43 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

Well we're fucked aren't we? We missed the chance to get the prevalence down to a level where we could contain or even eradicate this. This despite having several weeks advance knowledge over Italy and being an island. So now we can either have this half hearted lock down permanently until a technological solution is found, or just let it run riot and kill hundreds of thousands. Not all of whom will be old or sick. 

 

Every decision we have made has been wrong or too late. I fully expect this to continue and for this country to be a basket case come next election. 

And for the morons who inhabit it to continue to vote for these muppets 

Edited May 10, 2020 by Dr Gloom

[Monkeys Fist 42129]

Let’s just get the job done. 

[Dr Gloom 21847]

42 minutes ago, ewerk said:

Why would we need to contemplate that?

They were being guided by strange science in the first few weeks with the herd immunity nonsense 

[Tdansmith 3242]

[Dr Gloom 21847]

So is this the week we can finally say CT has given up this lurking lark and has reassumed his position as the board’s chief contrarian?

We are the monkey on his back. The drug he can’t kick. That last slice of duck pizza he can’t resist even when his 32” belt is buckling and he knows he’s had enough. 

[ewerk 30370]

39 minutes ago, Christmas Tree said:

To focus minds on what we should do now.

 

Nationalise care homes, build nightingale care homes, transfer all care staff to NHS status. Etc

I think you just need to believe in Britain a bit more.

[Monkeys Fist 42129]

@Christmas Tree  Every “solution” you’ve vomited out here is a political one btw, I’d like to hear what your definition of a “moral solution” is, and how it differs from the political ones? 

[Renton 21393]

8 minutes ago, Tdansmith said:

 

 

[Renton 21393]

47 minutes ago, Christmas Tree said:

To focus minds on what we should do now.

 

Nationalise care homes, build nightingale care homes, transfer all care staff to NHS status. Etc

 

I like your thinking CT, socialism through nationalisation, we could maybe  call this National Socialism?  Put the elderly in large prefabricated care warehouses, for their own protection. We will need to focus our minds on this problem, but at the same time we need to keep it fun, like a camping trip for Grandma. Perhaps call these new structures concentration camps? 

[Rayvin 5186]

How have we come to CT now advocating for mass nationalisation?

 

Why is it that socialism and "radical left wing" views are now the answer?

 

It's as if there's a magic money tree after all. 

[Alex 34913]

21 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:

Let’s just get the job done. 

Ignorance is strength 

[Rayvin 5186]

I think I would put it this way anyway, in answer to that point about nationalisation - either the Tories have been lying for a decade about the money available and how "it would be nice to make things better but we can't afford it" and CT has been very aware of this, or he's going to have to accept that we have no alternative but to throw the elderly to the wolves because there's just no money to do anything about it.

 

Same as the homeless before them, young people from disadvantaged backgrounds before them, domestic violence victims, mental health sufferers, the disabled, and anyone who happened to have a bad run of luck. They've been dying for a fucking decade, so why is now the time when we have money to be able to make a stand?

Edited May 10, 2020 by Rayvin

[Alex 34913]

I think what CT is trying to say is that us lot are missing the mood of the country. We don’t want blame, we don’t want argument as if this were a General Election, we want a contribution to the national effort to get us out of this crisis. We want hope optimism and faith in our country. We need less negativity.

[Rayvin 5186]

Yeah my goodwill for this country and government is long fucking spent tbh. You don't fuck over half the country with transparent lies and political game playing and then get to turn around and expect solidarity with the regime responsible.

 

Appreciate that others may be more forgiving than me, but I firmly believe forgiveness requires acceptance of fault - and that has been the farthest thing from forthcoming.

[Monkeys Fist 42129]

5 minutes ago, Alex said:

I think what CT is trying to say is that us lot are missing the mood of the country. We don’t want blame, we don’t want argument as if this were a General Election, we want a contribution to the national effort to get us out of this crisis. We want hope optimism and faith in our country. We need less negativity.

And bunting. 
Don’t forget the bunting. 

[Alex 34913]

3 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

Yeah my goodwill for this country and government is long fucking spent tbh. You don't fuck over half the country with transparent lies and political game playing and then get to turn around and expect solidarity with the regime responsible.

 

Appreciate that others may be more forgiving than me, but I firmly believe forgiveness requires acceptance of fault - and that has been the farthest thing from forthcoming.

There wasn’t a fucking hint of compromise when it came to Brexit. Now we’re all supposed to shut the fuck up and not ‘politicise’ this because of inconvenient truths like governmental incompetence leading to one of the worst death rates in the world even though we had more warning than many countries. This government and the stupid drones who continue to support it can fuck off and die

Edited May 10, 2020 by Alex

[Monkeys Fist 42129]

Hopefully. 

[Howmanheyman 32826]

1 hour ago, ewerk said:

I think they are largely still being guided by the science but it’s their communications, implementation and messaging that have been fucking awful.

They are being guided by the science, it's just that half of the cunts can't read a map and the other half don't want to listen to the guide.

 

As for poor old CT, all he ever wanted to do was talk about his beloved Tory party and cuddly Mike but people kept bringing politics and two relegations up, I mean, isn't that what a forum's for?

 

 

Edited May 10, 2020 by Howmanheyman

[Renton 21393]

The stupid twats with their Eton educations and Oxbridge PPE degrees didn't fucking understand what exponential meant. It's that simple. Cost us thousands of lives and probably trillions of pounds. 

[Anorthernsoul 1221]

The only way to fight Covid.

 

 

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/vizjourno/status/1259189791150800899

[Alex 34913]

There was a piece on the bbc a while back where there was an armed militia in America who were ‘prepared’ for a breakdown in society in the wake of covid-19 where they would be the ones who had restore order and save everyone from marauding looters etc. You could tell the fuckwits were actually hoping it was going to happen and were excited at the prospect. Apart from it making no sense in relation to the actual situation unfolding it’s the sort of fantasy that you might expect from a 7 year old playing soldiers rather than something a load of grown men were pinning their hopes on. Now it turns out everyone just stayed at home and they didn’t get the chance to shoot loads of  people they’ve taken to protesting in support of ‘freedom’. If they were black they’d all be shot dead