Is it incendiary? Is anything going to change as a result of a few people being told yet again that Cummings is scum?
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LARRY BRILLIANT ..., the epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox
...did we get good advice from the president of the United States for the first 12 weeks? No. All we got were lies. Saying it’s fake, by saying this is a Democratic hoax. There are still people today who believe that, to their detriment. Speaking as a public health person, this is the most irresponsible act of an elected official that I've ever witnessed in my lifetime.Comment
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The emergency train timetables go live tomorrow. Schnapps was a fucking disaster;-
On a conference call to senion reps of the passenger operators, he instructed a Sunday timetable to be put in place. The dropped jaw response was what the fuck was he talking about? Sunday timetables are built around leisure travel and engineering works. Most services dont start up until 0900ish. The only part of passenger demand still there last week was early/ late services and in the peaks, mainly because this was the key worker requirement. Also, engineering work was cancelled? Also, the Sunday timetable us inefficient for train crew requirement, as it has shorter shifts, so was the opposite of a resource level timetable which he was boasting about?
secondly, Schapps dictated that the passenger operators give over paths to container trains to move goods. This time the freight operators pointed out that the arse had fallen out of the container markets, as stuff arriving into them would either have left China and the far east six weeks ago, or Europe in the last couple of days?
On both of these points, Schapps came across as dumb struck and obviously had no plan B. How can the supposed leader of UK transport be so openly clueless about what is going on. And who on earth is briefing him, that misses absolutely fundamental points?
If this is the lead for transport, it really does worry about how shambolic the medical advice is being interpreted and public dictates being issued.Comment
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I think so this time because the images of overflowing hospitals and grieving relatives are going to destroy the Tories if they do not remove him and possibly even Johnson. There's also an obvious replacement in Sunak. It's not unprecedented: Thatcher had to go in 1990 when enough Tory MPs realized they'd lose their seats if they didn't dump her.Originally posted by TonTon View Post
I also think Johnson's support is fairly soft. It's not like Trump in the US where 35% will vote for him even if his actions kill their grandparents.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 22-03-2020, 10:52.Comment
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Dream on mate. Johnson has a healthy majority and recently won a general election four months ago.Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View Post
this does not have parallels with Thatcher.
Plus Sunak is asian, Britain isn't that desperate... Yet.Comment
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Dunno. some Asians whose parents came from Kenya and Uganda seem to have attained some tokenist status in the Tory party: culturally white despite not having that skin colour. I don't know enough to put a figure on it but it's certainly possible that they'd elect one in desperate times given that the whites in the party are so inept.
They could also lose a shitload of council seats.Comment
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Really struggling not to fall out with a friend of mine who is having a meltdown about the prospect of having to look after her own daughter. Her partner works two days a week in a key worker role (legal support for Covid-19 vaccine researchers), fair enough, but she wants to carry on with her own work during that time (animation). The headteacher at her daughter's school shouted down the phone at her that animation is not essential work and now she's really upset. Frankly, I agree with the headteacher. The only leeway I can give her is that she's also currently pregnant, so maybe her hormones are up shit creek.Comment
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Friend of friend's little boy and husband both have Covid-19. Little boy, age 18 months has been in intensive care. He's recovering, but that's shaken me up a bit. I know that no under-10s have died, I didn't realise some needed intensive care treatment for that state of affairs to stay the same.Comment
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They cancelled all the local elections very quickly indeed. Well, well before any mention of social distancing.Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostComment
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That's why they banned cycling in lockdown places. I doubt, if you keep away from people, cycling is a virus spreader but accidents will mobilise scarce ressources...Originally posted by Sporting View PostComment
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Animation is not essential work.
I think everyone needs a bit of leeway right now, or at least a bit of gentleness, or something.
Except Johnson and his ilk, obvs.Comment
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This is going to sound horrendously callous but from that account your friend should have thought hard about how difficult she seems to find the prospect of spending any time with her existing child, before deciding to have another. Or, you know, hire a nanny or something.Originally posted by Balderdasha View PostComment
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Number of Irish cases requiring ICU has risen from 12 to 29, which would be more worrying than the more general case trend.Comment
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Two-week extension in Spain lockdown.Comment
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I have a feeling that we will be seeing more of those.
There seems to be a consensus that announcing restrictions at two week intervals allows for the necessary flexibility while minimising popular discontent.Comment
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I wonder what that's based on.Comment
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Dunno but here the extension was widely expected and I think being accepted with resignation/frustration but acceptance that it's the only current option.Comment
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"Johnson's" tweet today re: Mother's Day seems to me an example of a clear bit of government messaging. It's undermined by the fat that it's the opposite of what he said himself on live TV on Friday, but, you know...
https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1241706514940919808?s=20
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I've seen at least one of the wife's golf-group members actually post on the governor's facebook about how bad it is that people are playing golf. I guess it's a similar dynamic - there are those who think being outside but separated is the right thing to do - for physical and mental health, and those who think that staying at home except for essential purposes means basically being a shut-in.Originally posted by Moonlight shadow View PostComment
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In part, the idea that two weeks can be seen as a "holiday" of sorts, whereas a longer period seems more serious and less easily acceptedOriginally posted by TonTon View PostComment
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