Off Topic Coronavirus

He said that the reason the Indian variant came into the country, was because Boris was slow to stop visitors from India coming in, because he was desperate for a deal from the Indian Govt as a result of Brexit

 

He was desperate for a jolly which he was obviously never going to go on but as ever waited until the last minute to call it off by which time the damage was done, IIRC.

 

Boris wants a deal with India, the economy coming out of Covid needs it. There's a balance to be struck between cutting ourselves off from the rest of the world ( the NZ approach) which could be highly damaging financially and putting economic reasons too far ahead of sensible preventative measures to keep variants out - although since we live in a global world and have a lot of families here from India, it's a near impossibility to keep it out anyway. That's where the vaccine comes in.

 

That's blaming Johnson, not Brexit.

 

Well yeah there’s an argument for not having a red list at all, albeit a **** one, but if you’re going to have one and not include a country of a billion people being ravaged by a new Covid variant then you might not really be choosing which countries are included purely on risk. He just didn’t want to upset another populist leader. Global Britain etc.

 

He specifically referred to Brexit at the top of his show.

 

I think he was trying to understand Johnson's baffling reluctance to impose a travel ban from India.

It's good that you're listening to O'Brien, though. Your eyes might be opened.

 

He's HM Official Opposition now, isn't he, after Labour dissolved into a puddle?

 

He will say anything (the muppet). When callers disagree with him he gets all childish and shouts them down. Dale is much better.
As for India and this variant... They said yesterday that it is infectious but not killing people like the previous variant, this was due to the jab protection. I also notice the usual voices (not on here) are politicising this variant. We really do have some t2ts in this country.

 

Difficult to discuss a variant that is more widespread than it had to be as a direct consequence of the Prime Minister’s inaction without it being a bit political.

 

Fact is, it was already here and in 60 other countries including some EU ones. This is where the closed border stuff falls flat. You have to accept that we are an open democracy that relies on imports and people coming here to work in vital jobs. Sadly no matter how hard you try, it's always going to be difficult. Still there will be a few idiots trying to blame the government.

 

... I missed this.

 

You can still minimise that risk. That’s the point of the ****ing red list.

 

As I said previously... I naively thought it was easy to close a border when in reality its actually quite difficult. However I am sure there are many experts out there who will say different.

 

It is quite difficult. That’s why you put massive countries with obscene Covid rates on a red list even if it risks upsetting their leader’s feelings.

 

stupid comments.

 

So unbelievably thick.

 

These will be the same muppets who update their Faceache and Instagram every ten minutes, do all their shopping on Amazon, have loyalty cards for Costa and Tesco - the government have the ability to know every move you make, just ask the tech companies!

 

Talk to me about it... I posted a picture of my day out yesterday on Facebook and today I have adverts from the place I went Hotels/restaurants. Big brother is watching me.

 

Should the vaccine be compulsory
Along with other vaccines such as mmr and the flu