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Off Topic Coronavirus and NOTHING to do with football thread

Discussion in 'Watford' started by andytoprankin, Mar 21, 2020.

  1. oldfrenchhorn

    oldfrenchhorn Well-Known Member
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    There are many questions surrounding this government that need answers. Ferry companies without ships, warehouses without stocks of PPE, accountants given contracts that they don't know where to begin with, the list is endless. Raise the matter and you get told that these things can be looked at later. So why hasn't the Russian report been published yet? Get down the pub and forget about asking questions.
     
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  2. yorkshirehornet

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    There are loads... you would be surprised.... we have been parking in a housing estate five mins from watford high street... and walking from there.....
    Done the same at Anfield/Goodison Park Old Trafford , the Emirates , Turf moor etc etc....
     
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    I know ...shocking.........
     
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    I have friends who come in from north Bedfordshire and park in a drive in Hagden Lane about 50yards from the off license on the corner of Vicarage Road.
     
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    As I've always maintained about the tories, they look to see what the Americans do then try it on over here: The nepotism; the hunting; the removal of environmental protection; the privatisation of health services; the lobbying and the cash and favours that come with it; the reduction in food production standards; supply of arms and military equipment; the reduction in education standards with the increase in fees; the wholesale corruption; the now creeping interference and rejection of sound scientific principles that effect our everyday lives; the racial and sexual discrimination; the religious bigotry... it's f*****g endless.

    They disgust me.
     
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    From today's Sunday Times. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...aughing-and-britain-is-the-big-joke-hzh37nhch

    You know Britain is in a sorry state when those normally polite, gracious Germans are wallowing in schadenfreude at our expense. If a quick glance at German newspapers is anything to go by, we gullible Inselaffen (island apes) are under the spell of a flat-footed pied piper. Boris Johnson — or Grossmaul (big mouth), as they call our prime minister — has led us out of the EU, then into the highest coronavirus death toll in Europe and “reason has abandoned British politics”.

    Those were some of the kinder words written by Jens-Peter Marquardt for the north German news service NDR. Marquardt’s conclusion is shared by many around the world: Britain is the new sick man of Europe.

    Reading the global press recently has felt like watching one long episode of Derek Jameson’s Do They Mean Us?, a 1980s television show that laughed at news reports from far-flung places balking at the oddities of British life.

    Take Italy, holding on to second place in the European Covid-19 death stakes. Its media’s accounts of our ill-fated nation are horrifying enough to have Danny Boyle scrambling for the film rights, Brexit Britain: 128 Days Later.

    The daily paper Corriere della Sera has likened London to the set of an apocalyptic film, suggesting that Britain is a prisoner of bad decision-making and the British unwitting captives in a “nightmare from which we cannot wake”.

    Giorgio Gori, the mayor of Bergamo, in northern Italy, was so appalled by our Petri-dish of a country that he organised a flight to bring his two daughters studying in Britain to the safety of Italy’s hardest-hit city.

    Boyle may have been beaten to the punch. The director Michael Winterbottom plans to turn the trials of Johnson and his sidekick Dominic Cummings into a TV drama, a rumour that has apparently got the French excited. Le Figaro newspaper has speculated on whether the “turpitudes of Dominic Cummings” will be addressed in the programme.

    The Spanish are less amused. Used to sunburnt Britons fighting for their sunbeds, they have long known us for “balconing”: risking one’s life by jumping from a hotel balcony into the pool below. When photos of people thronging Bournemouth beach were published, the Spanish press announced a new British sport, “coronaviring”: risking one’s life by cramming on to the beach at the height of a pandemic.

    Magaluf, on Mallorca, has launched an urgent campaign to attract German tourists to the region instead of the Brits who usually overrun the resort.

    Even the Greeks have asked that we stay away, keeping us on their travel ban list until at least mid-July. That was not enough to hold the prime minister’s father, Stanley Johnson, at bay — but then what is? He surfaced atop a mountain in Pelion last week, having avoided the ban by travelling via Bulgaria. When the Greek daily paper Ethnos described Boris Johnson as “more dangerous than the coronavirus” they perhaps should have also mentioned his dad.

    Poles have been escaping sick Britain in their droves, with worried relatives begging them to return after seeing reports of an overwhelmed NHS bursting at the seams.

    “I used the National Health Service once and it was a terrible experience,” one ungrateful Pole told The New York Times, before hopping on a plane at London City airport. Some 12,000 Poles fled Britain in five days on repatriation flights laid on by the Polish government. They might have been forgiven for wanting to hotfoot it back to the safety of a country that has had fewer than 1,500 deaths.

    Just in case we could mistake this attention for something akin to a spurned partner spreading nasty rumours after a break-up, the whisperings about our recklessness have spread far beyond Europe.

    In South America, for example, Colombians are aghast at the “soft measures” taken by our government, watching in disbelief at how relaxed we all seem. Boris Johnson’s jovial attitude has been a source of much discussion on TV and radio, his handshakes with patients in the middle of a pandemic now a well-known example of what not to do. One Colombian journalist described how she couldn’t understand why people in the UK didn’t wear masks.

    Perhaps we shouldn’t have been surprised, then, by reports that surfaced in March of Chinese teenagers sent to study in the UK suddenly finding themselves in the land of bin-bag PPE, and their parents issuing frightened pleas on Twitter for them to come home. The pandemic may have started in China but reports of our attempt at a lockdown, which involved packed Tube trains and caravan convoys headed for Scotland, so worried one father he sent a private jet to London to fetch his daughter at the cost of a million yuan (nearly £115,000).

    Other sources of international disbelief include the two women who reintroduced the coronavirus to an entire nation after flying from London to New Zealand, and the posse of Britons trampling on rules on group sizes and social distancing for a Singaporean bar crawl during lockdown. They have been banned from working in the country.

    So there we are, seen through international eyes, a nation infected, irresponsible and insubordinate. Do they mean us? They surely do.
     
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    For some time I've been trying to capture the narrative of the last 4-5 months. This article is exactly the one I would have loved to have written. Thanks for drawing our attention to it - depressing though it is. Perhaps the whole debacle could be summed up in the word 'delusional'. Or perhaps it's worse !
     
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    A little panic setting in in Australia. The NSW government announce the closing of the border with Victoria due to a spike in numbers of infections there. An understandable reaction in my opinion - and, as the numbers there are minimal compared to those in England, one that makes the Tories' refusal to shut internal borders in the UK all the more puzzling.

    https://video-amt2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v...=5422592bbbcce39ccce228ed89d3568f&oe=5F291177
     
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    Sad indictment on BoJo
     
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    The NSW Government has been wanting to do this for over 100 years.
     
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    101 to be precise - ever since Victoria allowed the Spanish Flu to spread to NSW by allowing returning soldiers to bypass quarantine regulations and travel there by train.
     
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    very poor comment by BoJo about the care sector....
    For all his bluff and bluster he is poor with his language....
     
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    I see on the Beeb that three pubs that were open Saturday have now closed after customers have tested positive for the virus. How many more cases like this are there but as yet not come to light? If there is a new wave of outbreaks will it be seen as a worthwhile move to restart the economy?
     
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    Genuine anger, indeed fury from so many people at the centre of this. You cannot wash your hands of this Johnson, you were in charge supposedly.
     
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    Some ministerial dipstick said this morning:
    “I think what the Prime Minsietr was saying is that nobody knew what the rules were, so we were all finding it difficult.”
    No. He said they “didn’t follow” them, i.e. there were rules to follow, but they chose not to, not this backpedalling crap that we were all in the same boat, BoZo said they were negligent. The two supreme muppets who caught CV, he and Cummings, however presumably weren’t??
     
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    Lying, cheating, scum. And no, I don't think the word scum is too strong. Not in the slightest.
     
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    11th March Hancock stood in the Commons and said, "The scientific evidence DOES show that asymptomatic transmission occurs and that is one of the very significant challenges this virus presents."

    7th July while trying to defend Johnson, Hancock stood in the Commons and said, “How were we to know about asymptomatic transmission back in March?”

    How come the rest of Europe knew?
     
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