Off Topic Coronavirus and NOTHING to do with football thread

He is a wonderful advert for the Conservative Party. Sitting at home, waving polythene Union Flags when Boris or ‘Jug Ears’ Sunak come on the box, hiding a wafty from his wife, turned on by Boris mop as much as he is, singing:

 

grow up.

 

Up in the northeast of France on the Swiss German border is where the largest outbreak of the virus is centred. Both of those two countries are helping to airlift patients in France to their hospitals where they still have capacity. Every little helps.

 

not at all , they have all our tax information, average of last three years , paid via utr number , 80% which is very fair , what is the issue ?

 

Hilarious. From the seal-lion clapping flag waver. Our own Alf Garnett. Do you take the St. George’s flag plastic bunting down if the Coronavirus gets very serious - or would that ruin the party?

 

You are clearly one of life's losers

 

That picture of you must’ve been like looking in a mirror. And if only you knew!

 

Loser

 

Boo-hoo. Keep crying, dear boy.

 

I'm afraid it is you that always comes across as the whinger, life has just passed you by.

 

Did I touch a nerve, Alf, old boy?

 

Like everything else, you failed again loser.

 

Clearly. 7 posts in 15 minutes.

“Shut up! You might learn somefing!”

 

The above is the easy bit.

Instantly finding the extra staff required would be nigh on impossible. There are also millions of self employed and casual workers without the above proven history.

 

Still announce it, though. Sounds like you’re doing something.

 

It gives me no pleasure whatsoever to watch the world reacting to the failure of Johnson. His inability to switch from the flippant to the serious is or should be quite alarming.
“Boris Johnson had gone out publicly and essentially asked Britons ... to accept death,” said the Greek newspaper Ethnos. It declared him “more dangerous than coronavirus”.
On Sunday, Singapore’s national development minister, Lawrence Wong, said the UK and Switzerland had “abandoned any measure to contain or restrain the virus”.
The New York Times accused Johnson of sowing confusion. “He has seemed like a leader acting under duress ... playing catch-up to a private sector that had already acted on its own.”
Last week Ireland, which shares a land border with the UK, struggled to understand Downing Street’s hesitation. “Boris Johnson is gambling with the health of his citizens,” said the Irish Times.

You can go on as there are examples from all over. It seemed that what did spur Johnson into some action when Macron threatened to close the border unless the government got real. Maybe Johnson now realises that they need us more than we need them never was true.

 

I'm not sure I would be pleased to be associated with the 'leading independent supplier of PPE equipment to the NHS' just at the moment. It seems that lack of PPE in the NHS is the most egregious disgraceful and inept feature of a egregious disgraceful inept and clueless government so far. A view shared elsewhere it would seem. Perhaps you might explain how the miracle of the pure market economy has failed this time.

 

We look at the figures of people being treated and dying, and they are so huge the mind doesn't really take it in. I have just received an email from a friend who lives in France telling us that her brother is in an ICU in England waiting for the test result to come through. His wife, children and grandchildren are all worried that he might just become another number to add to the growing total. It is when you grasp that every number is a person who means a lot to others, that you really do wish to see a NHS care system working well, and not failing because of politicians who fail to grasp that when it is finally over they will be held to account for their actions or lack of them.

 

Without an independent UK company dedicated to supplying the NHS I can assure you we would be in a much worse position. The company can only supply what is ordered. I very much doubt any country in the world, apart from China, had sufficient back up stock to manage this pandemic. As previously stated I expect a more cautionary approach form all governments in future. This dreadful experience has shown individual nations they must take responsibility themselves and not rely on others, a real lesson for EU members.