Coronavirus

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Three essential qualities for every politician hoping to have a long career.

 

Both of us were warning from the start about the dangers which would follow from the overwhelming of the hospitals resources some of which will only show up in a few years when the deferred treatments lead to much worse outcomes for the patients. I have to say i always assumed that the virus would be rampant inside hospitals and like you have been doing my best to ensure i don't need treatment for any reason .
<Offers up silent prayer that wifes physio isn't a carrier >

 

Depends where you live mate probably. London has an excellent public transport network, but it’s already expensive. The easier you make it for people to get about on trains and buses, the less they use their cars.

The roads are full as well though, mostly with Uber drivers as far as I can see. And Uber are dirt cheap because their drivers earn well below minimum wage.

 

**** all to do with me.

 

I wonder when the government are going to break the bad news to us of extending the lockdown!

I'm not a gambling person, but suprised one of you lot ain't running a betting thread on the date lockdown will be lifted.

 

A Saturday night and just too late to make the Sunday papers, probably.

The Junior Minister for Tourism will be chosen to give us the news. He’ll wear a bland M&S suit.

 

Dunno, but I wish someone would let me know so I can get a few shorts placed beforehand.

Crispin Odey ahoy!

 

When do I wake up in the shower , and realise it was all a dream ?

 

End of May I reckon

 

More or less what the consultant said to me!

 

It's very different to London here mate. Trains and buses are ****.

 

Same here. That **** Beeching dug up all the regional train lines. The National spending on public transport infrastructure is obscenely skewed in favour of London and the SE and always has been.

 

Exactly!

The dark powers that control our banking system (and, therefore, our Government) must be mightily pissed off that Society hasn’t crumbled, and that we’re all managing to sort ourselves out.

Apart from a couple of tramps getting tazered, the mandarins have had no excuse to send in the military, or further impinge on our liberties.

Expect the propaganda mouthpieces to up the ante with murmurs of bodies piling up in makeshift morgues.

There is no where near enough panic to justify the Government’s next phase in whatever it is that their paymasters have planned for us.

 

The dark powers that control the banking system, what are you a fooking idiot?

 

What?!!

I was agreeing with your post ffs!

You and me are singing off the same hymn sheet. Trust me.

 

It's skewed in favour of London for sure and there is probably statistical evidence to say SE as well (I dont know I just cant be bothered to dig). But as someone who lives in rural SE and often spends time in the North, public transport is just as ****e down here as anywhere else in England. London is the overwhelming exception, SE just seems to get bundled in with it in conversation.

Southampton for example binned a very well developed tram system in the mid 50s and dug it all up on the basis that buses and trains could do the job. Fast forward to the 2010's and the village I live in on the outskirts of the city (roughly 10 miles out) with a population circa 6000 people stopped having a bus service on Sunday full stop and the hourly weekday bus services ended at 7pm, this was the only form of public transport available as Beeching had our village station too.

(Counter - Sunday buses have been restored and things have slightly improved since, but its still pretty dire).

 

There seems to be a bit of consensus around that from different sources, but who knows? I can't remember where I heard it from now.

 

Yeah, obviously. Most things outside London are a bit **** in my experience.

 

Consultant said to me at least 6-8 weeks before hospitals will start reconsidering.