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Off Topic Coronavirus - 606 tales from the Inquiry

Discussion in 'Charlton' started by lardiman, Feb 25, 2020.

  1. lardiman

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    An overview of Coronavirus deaths in 6 worst affected European countries (28th May)

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    The UK is the only country where recorded deaths per 24 hours is still in the region of 150-300 on average.
    In many other countries the daily fatality rate is now down to single figures.

    In terms of deaths per head of population, I think Belgium is still worst off (their population is only about 12% of the UK population)
    but by all other measurements the UK is the worst affected country in Europe.
     
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    Cumming's Law takes immediate effect;

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    All you have to give people (especially fed up, frustrated people) is half an excuse to break the rules.
    DC gave them a lot more than half an excuse.

    The Prime Minister's weakness in not immediately sacking Cummings - which would have drawn a line under the episode and sent the clearest possible message for the common good - will cost lives.
     
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    Come on round Dominic, it's party time! :1980_boogie_down::emoticon-0159-music:emoticon-0169-dance

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-52859984

    All you innocent residents of the area, get ready for a local lockdown in a couple of weeks. :emoticon-0101-sadsm
    And no driving to County Durham either - unless your instincts demand it.
     
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    Mind blowing ignorance.
     
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    I put on twitter my three most loathed people in the UK

    1) Gary Lineker (I can't see anybody knocking him off this spot)
    2) Dominic Cummings
    3) Steve Coogan(sh1t comic, sh1t person)
     
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    Good choices.

    Lineker is an utter twat. Supremely self-interested and completely convinced he comes across as a humble 'likeable' guy.

    Cummings enjoyed his persona of not caring what people think of him and not suffering fools gladly - until he was made the fool by his own selfishness and arrogance. His efforts to appear humble and caring in the No.10 rose garden rang as false as hell, just adding insult to injury.

    Must admit I've never actually loathed Steve Coogan, but I do find him tiresome and unfunny.
    His Alan Partridge character has caused me to chuckle a few times. But to me his style of humour is the same joke being told over and over again, for years on end. His characters are mildly amusing for a few minutes the first time you see them - and a decade later they haven't said anything new.

    Like Little Britain.
    First time I ever heard an episode (on Radio 4 donkeys years ago before it ever got onto the telly) I laughed nearly all the way through.
    (This would have been in the car on my way home from work, when I still lived in SE7. Talksport and 5 Live were in their infancy and I used to listen to a lot of Radio 4).
    I actually recall looking forward to the second episode. Then when I heard it, they repeated all the gags from episode 1 just in slightly different ways. No new material at all. And they've been doing that ever since.

    For me it is possible to have a 'one trick' character who still remains moderately entertaining for a long time. The Pub Landlord is one example. He works for me because although he is a classic caricature, he has got a little bit of blustery charm about him (a bit of Nigel Farage or early Boris) which I kind of like despite myself.

    Some of Harry Enfield's characters used to work for me in the same way.
    Thin on originality, but with just a little bit of cheeky (almost Benny Hill-like) charm.

    Coogan just comes across as charmless and cynical. Much like Cummings and Lineker.
     
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    Sad to see people are losing their lives because of an unregulated rush back to the coast, even if many of the victims are being killed and hurt through their own thoughlessness. And sad to hear about all the old problems associated with dumb tourism returning;
    • Tombstoning. For pity's sake, it isn't called that for nothing.
    • People getting into trouble swimming or boating in coastal waters.
    • Litter being left on beaches and in beauty spots. Utterly needless and unforgivable.
    People jumping off cliffs almost deserve what happens to them. But the folks who have to rescue them and the medical staff who have to put their broken bodies back together don't deserve their time being taken up needlessly, or the risk to themselves.

    The same applies to thoughtless swimmers and would-be mariners.
    The Sea is not a lido or a pond or a boating lake.

    And during this pandemic, people's dirty rubbish has more potential to hurt or even kill than the used needles some junkies leave lying around.
    For people to leave their possibly infected litter just anywhere, that other people then need to risk their health and their families' lives to pick up, is the stupidest kind of moronic behaviour. How much time does it take to just put your trash in a carrier bag and take it home with you?

    F**king beyond belief <doh>
     
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    For the past 4-6 weeks there have been a LOT of police cars on a 999 call running through Bromley.

    Waiting for my bus to Bromley South at 4.35<yikes> today another one did an impression of Lewis Hamilton. Wtf is going on in households nowadays?
     
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    The wheels are coming off the lockdown.
    Only to be expected I suppose. People have lost their sense of unity. Been taken for fools again by the Elite, and are simply fed up.

    Police are facing a near impossible situation. A huge number of people headed off on holiday this weekend. Driveways were empty, beaches were rammed.
    Are the trains getting more crowded?
    Be careful out there mate. I am so grateful I don't have to use public transport.
     
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    One advantage of all this is that Scotland are talking about closing the boarder with England <ok>
     
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    Not before time.
     
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    The trains and tubes are still very good.

    Having said that, the 16.10 to Dover is only 4 carriages so unnecessary overcrowding.
     
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    Knowing Dover that’s plenty , who wants to go there other than the Germans in 1939
     
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    For those still wishing to comply with the lockdown meeting rules, the BBC News website has summarized them thus;
    (these are for the general population, not those regarded as more vulnerable / shielding )

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    This information is accurate as of 1st June, for the forseeable future (until we are told there have been new changes).

    I'm very pleased that I can now visit my old mum in Charlton without breaking the lockdown rules :emoticon-0157-sun:
    I'll still maintain the 2m distance and not go into her house, but I can do some gardening for her now (access via a path around the outside of the house) and chat from the front garden to the front doorstep.

    I very much hope that a second wave does not lead to local lockdowns,
    which might prevent me from visiting her again.
    Should that happen I will probably obey, despite the Cummings affair.
    Not out of respect for the Government, which has lost my trust. But to try to keep my family safe.
     
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    Hopefully that will be a nice tonic for you both.
     
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    This story amuses me...

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52876395

    Our Parliament, which prides itself on silly traditions dating back to the 18th or even 17th Centuries, is now all in a pickle because it has no way for MP's to vote and maintain social distancing.
    Trooping out to go through one narrow little door or another narrow little door is a method of voting used nowhere else in the grown-up world.
    Because every other Parliament of every other modern country in the world has sensible ways of voting. Like pressing a button.

    When the UK Parliament stops dressing up in tights, frock coats and wigs every few months, and stops writing new laws on goat skin, I might begin to take it seriously.
     
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    Ouch!
    An unintended consequence of a very questionable decision...

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-52911605

    It would appear that struggling with rules & regulations runs in the Cummings family.
    I wouldn't be surprised though if no action is taken in the end.
    After all if the PM's chief advisor can't pull a few strings, who can?
     
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    Infection rates in Iran have risen back to the point when they were at their highest 2 months ago...

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    Basically, from the beginning to the end of April, the infection rate fell from 3,000 per day to less than 1,000 per day.

    But that trend has completely reversed during May.
    Infection rates are now right back up above 3,000 per day.

    The mortality rates may not be as high again yet, possibly because their Medical facilities are more prepared this time around.
    But this infection rate data should serve as a grave warning to other countries who believe they have come out of the first wave, as Iran believed it had.
    All the hard work and sacrifice there to get infection rates down seems now to have been in vain.
     
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    A Cabinet minister was taken ill while in the Commons yesterday and is now self-isolating;

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52910303

    If it is confirmed that Mr Sharma has Coronavirus, a large number of MP's will have to self-isolate as well, going by the new test, track & trace rules. Before falling ill he spent all day in Parliament, mixing and queuing to vote with many colleagues.
    The fact that MP's cannot vote safely in our Parliament in the year 2020 (not 1720) is an utter disgrace.
     
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