Off Topic Coronavirus and NOTHING to do with football thread

Brazen liars ... like schoolboys in class....

 

Brazil's president Bolsanaro has tested positive - talk about karma.

 

Lets' hope he gets whatt he deserves...... takes one for all his poor countrymen....

 

I suspect that, like de piffle, he'll survive and he won't learn anything by it.

 

Here's that ERG dwarf Mark Francois threatening the UK's top general -

"...Cummings is gonna come down and sort you out in his own way and you won't like it."

To me, this is inadvertent confirmation that Johnson no longer holds the position of PM - he has passed the reins over to Cummings.

Democracy? What democracy?

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1280524127619735556/pu/vid/480x270/SF6y0dyahObxRtDi.mp4?tag=10

 

John Lewis in Watford closing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-53348519

Debenhams also gone and the Intu going bust.

Might be a few changes in the High Street again.

 

Fairly soon there will only be one reason to go to Watford itself, to watch us

 

If they did away with all those awful new buildings and restored all the old pubs, it would be worth a visit.

 

I haven't been to Watford since GOD KNOWS WHEN. Honestly, I think the last time must have been before 2005.

That is a while back.

(I've been living out of the UK for some time and when I have come back my old man is in Linconshire and Mum in Manchester!)

 

An interesting little graphic on global deaths and their causes.

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/2944635/?fbclid=IwAR2eiF9kukpKn

 

Powerful visual statement... . but nothing on cancer?

 

There is also nothing on road deaths ! Every year 1.35 million people die in traffic related incidents so, over the time period measured in the graph automated transport may well be the highest.

 

Both good points - but I suspect that the message whoever created this wanted to get across would have been rather 'diluted' had either of those been included, especially cancer which accounts for around 10 million annually.
Re: road deaths, it was on the tip of my tongue to say that the data source was the Global Burden of Disease study, so road deaths wouldn't apply - but then I noticed that it included terrorism, conflict and homicides. Stains on society, but hardly diseases...

 

Marcus Rashford

"I’m shocked. According to Freedom of information responses 2,500 children in the UK have been admitted to hospital with malnutrition in the first 6 months of the year. This is 2,500 too many!!"

For sure some of this is due to families not getting enough money from the government to feed their children during the coronavirus crisis. Just how much does it cost to treat 2,500 children in hospital? Although there is no up to date data, it is estimated that each day costs £400 without treatment per person. As a cost saving exercise it might have made sense to have paid out more to the poorest families with children.

 

According to various reports tonight, the R value that the government doesn't want to talk about any more has now reached 1.3 in London. Looking at a graph it does show the start of a second wave there, Maybe it will help them talking about careers no longer being wanted after all that they have done, and spending vast sums of money turning Kent into a giant lorry park with five sites earmarked, but Gove refuses to say where. It is always good to change the subject.

 

I find this quite funny.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-53389977

 

The US has the highest level of diabetes in the developed world. Perhaps this says something about lifestyles.
Having said that underdeveloped island nations have much higher levels of diabetes.

 

it is incredible that finally we are going to have to wear masks..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-53398685

Even if Gove is saying something different...... all beyond me....
People are crying out for clear direction

I remember posting on the benefits of masks in March, I think...


Why is it that this Goverment cannot make an upstream decision???

 

News has come out today about the financial implications for the UK, so it is not just the health problems caused by Johnson refusing to act sooner. As seen by the extract from the report on the disappointing figures, failure to get a grip is costing the UK dearly.

"Harsh decisions were made by French president Emmanuel Macron and Italy’s prime minister Giuseppe Conte that dictated how people should behave and what businesses needed to do to avoid being fined.

While it was decried in some quarters for impinging on civil rights, the bulk of the French and Italian people have appreciated the strict rule making and the lessening of risk to their health this has brought. But France and Italy also suffered badly from the disease and yet have bounced back strongly in the last couple of months, even outstripping Germany.

It is clear from May’s figures that the UK government has delayed the recovery by its dithering and delay."