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Now, here's some political leadership: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coron...e20200327-1602
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It's delusional to think the measure was "stolen." Why do you read the Huffington Post? |
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I would like to see this implemented not just for tenants, but also for people who are defaulting on loans because of the lockdowns. |
Most banks are offering deferred payments now let's keep this forum's autistic obsessions out of this section.
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The Guardian's piece on the Lancet article includes the government's response.
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The government here in the UK is starting to set some expectations for the upcoming months. IMO even though the messages aren't great news, it's better to set reasonable expectations than, for example, suggesting that everything will be back to normal by Easter.
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Daily Mail blaming Bernier for infecting Boris and the rest of the cabinet.
It's the fault of the EU |
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Just a month ago Priti Patel said anyone earning less than £25k is an “unskilled worker” & can’t enter the UK
NHS starting salaries: Nurse £24.2k Paramedic £24.2k Midwife £24.2k Radiographer £24.2k Care assistant £17.6k |
Oh what a wonderful time to be a political extremist!
The only damning indictment I can think of would be if it was shown politicians ignored or acted against the medical and scientific advice from their experts, a la Trump and various south american leaders. All I've seen so far in the UK is everyone trying their best to deal with a crap situation, imperfectly. We've got a long way to go guys and there will be a lot more sub-optimal decisions being made in the coming weeks. |
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Politicians in charge are responsible for this kind of murderous, criminal negligence. I do know that voters of those politicians tend to be a little lenient about it. I consider that attitude pathetic and suicidally moronic. |
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Personally I don't have any faith in any government's claim to "follow scientific advice". I still remember the Blair government's response to scientific advice they didn't agree with (from Professor David Nutt) - sack the adviser and get one whose advice they DID agree with.
So, yes, I'm sure they can find someone to advise them in the way they wish to be advised. Big deal. |
The British government has followed at least some scientific advice. What changed Dominic Cummings from his stance of "if some pensioners die, then too bad" when they were pursuing the "herd immunity" idea was getting a report saying that that would kill a quarter of a million people.
But they didn't heed the advice to prepare for the crisis, which is why we now need to scrabble to get hold on things like PPE, test, and ventilators. Or the advice to clamp down on it quickly and hard. Or, indeed, the advice that epidemiologists have been giving since the beginning - that the best way to control the virus and prevent mass infection is to test everybody suspected of having it, do contact tracing and test all those people, do more contact tracing and test all of those people. That's the way to wipe thing thing out quickly - find out who has it and prevent them from passing it on to anybody else. That's what worked in South Korea. They're still not following the advice that the best thing that can be done is to test as many people as possible. But they have finally put a lockdown in place, a week or two after they were advised to, and amidst much dithering which encouraged people not to take it seriously. And it is true that that is some scientific advice they've been given by experts. |
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But at least Johnson isn't bragging about the ratings for his virus update briefings. I guess that's... Something? |
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We are being directly asked by Michael Gove to follow the advice of experts. Michael Gove, a man who famously told the nation "we've had enough of experts"
Is it any wonder people aren't following their advice, they've spent a decade proving they are untrustworthy. |
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Donny: Mike Pence BoJo: Michael Gove Donny: Jared Kushner BoJo.... Nigel Farage! Give it two weeks and Katie Hopkins will be in charge. |
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Nothing surprises me any more :( |
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I really hope that this doesn't backfire horribly. |
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Putting my cards on the table, my politics are on the whole left of centre, but I'm not going to exploit a national crisis to score points, pick on every little thing that (in hindsight) could have been done better or whine about individual politicians because I disagree with their policies outside the pandemic response. Christ, we've got a nominally right-wing conservative government paying people 80% of their salary to stay at home. Being an armchair critic is so easy. If you're that incensed get off your ass and help. |
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I think the idea is to have someone who is even more incompetent step in so they look better in comparison! |
Dominic Cummings self-isolates after showing coronavirus symptoms
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We need a real government, not one where the PM and the Health Minister don't follow their own advice and end up working on their laptop from a cupboard. They leave Gove,, the goldfish on speed to lie to the press. God save us all!
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https://twitter.com/JasonGroves1/sta...54527602282496 (Daily Hail's political editor). Edit: Whoops, hadn't refreshed to see the thread had rolled over to page 13 with the above news. |
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PDF of article https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=h...r/download?p=1 |
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edited to add..... Does this also mean it's jumped another species barrier ? |
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ETA: actually, I may have misinterpreted who you're saying was proven to be untrustworthy. In which case no correction necessary. |
When bad news becomes good news:
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Nigel Farage Tweeted
I hear that the UK Government are buying ventilators from China, yes China. Can this be true? |
Followed by lots of indignation from his 'followers' on Twitter about how we should refuse to use foreign ventilators and insist on British ones if we are taken in to hospital.
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Glenn Beck: 'I'd rather die' from coronavirus 'than kill the country' from economic shutdown
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Yesterday both Michael Gove & Matt Hancock proclaimed that the UK had reached 10,000 coronavirus tests a day.
Today Health Minister Helen Whately confessed that the actual number was only 7000 This is Helen Whately who today was thanking frontline healthcare workers (including nurses) for everything they are doing right now. This is the same Helen Whately who voted against giving NHS nurses a pay rise and cheered in the House of Commons along with the other Tory MPs when the pay rise was turned down. |
Thinks are looking better here in Norway. The number of daily confirmed cases is shrinking steadily from the peak 6 days ago. It fits what we know about how the peak will come about two weeks after a complete shutdown. There have been 26 deaths so far, but with 104 people still in intensive care that's expected to rise. Average age of those who have died is 85 with a span from 62 to 95.
I'm very satisfied with how the government has handled it so far. Our national health system was not overwhelmed. :) |
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