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BFYPHe raises it because of the reasons I gave above.Much of his support is based, not on a rational critique of what he says. If it was, he wouldn't get a job running a chuck wagon.What he does is to rely on people who don't think too deeply, and he plants soundbites in their heads.Take back controlGet Brexit done.Jobs, jobs, jobs.This one is the same.Not my fault.Care homes' fault.This isn't a mistake. It is precisely how he operates. You must realise that he had absolutely zero regard for what the truth is in any given situation. He simply says whatever he needs to say to make the impression he wants to make. And he relies on his supporters being too thick, or detached, or partisan to care.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on July 07, 2020, 03:06:35 pmQuote from: Ldr on July 07, 2020, 02:08:36 pmDear worldPeople are humanMistakes get madeHindsight wins all argumentsShit happens Deal with it and enjoy your livesThe "La-La I'm not listening" approach to political engagement.No-one must ever be held to account for anything. You bite every time mate 😉
Quote from: Ldr on July 07, 2020, 02:08:36 pmDear worldPeople are humanMistakes get madeHindsight wins all argumentsShit happens Deal with it and enjoy your livesThe "La-La I'm not listening" approach to political engagement.No-one must ever be held to account for anything.
Dear worldPeople are humanMistakes get madeHindsight wins all argumentsShit happens Deal with it and enjoy your lives
I was impressed with Sunak's initial response to this crisis, but as an employer, I'm fuming angry with today's display.He has flipped from serious, radical approaches to securing the economy to the headline-grabbing fluff.The £1000 per furloughed worker taken back on is a drop in the ocean and will make bugger all difference to companies deciding whether to re-employ the 9,000,000 workers currently furloughed. It is a policy designed to give the appearance of doing something while not actually doing anything.And that bloody money off eating out...Jesus wept!This Harvard economics professor sums it up. (Pigouvian taxes being taxes that you apply to prevent activity that is harmful to society.)https://twitter.com/jasonfurman/status/1280877687683395585We needed some vision today on how to start digging ourselves out of an economic mess worse that the end of WWII and worse than the Great Depression. Instead we got £10 Nandos vouchers. Which I guarantee will be splashed all over the Mail and Express and Sun tomorrow. Which was the purpose of the announcement.
I don’t know why people are surprised by the potential closure of businesses or the losing of job positions.It has been obvious for quite a few weeks that this was going to happen.The average high street has been going downhill for years, unless you want to visit a charity shop of course.I heard a man on the news this morning speaking about continuing with airport expansion, saying it is just a matter of time before the aviation industry “gets back to normal”.I think cloud cuckoo land is more relevant to that suggestion than getting planes into the clouds on a regular basis.
I often wonder how many people who complain about the demise of town centres use out of town or online shopping. The shoppers left the town centres before the shops did. We get the town centres we deserve.
This would be horrifying if we weren't running out of space to be horrified at how appallingly we have mismanaged this crisis. https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/how-government-blindfolded-frontline-public-18566511.amp?__twitter_impression=trueWe have a well established, well functioning system of managing and suppressing local outbreaks of diseases. I remember when I caught salmonella, the GP going into detailed questions on where I'd been and what I'd eaten, who I'd seen. He noted it all and told me it had to be logged because it was a Notifiable Illness and there might need to be further steps by the local public health body if an outbreak occurred.So why the f**k haven't we been using this system to monitor and control CV-19 outbreaks? It appears that local.public health bodies are still not being told the names and addresses of people who have tested positive, because...computer says "Confidential".And yet The testing is being conducted by private labs. Private labs that DO know the names and addresses of those who have tested positive. But the local.officials whose very role is to handle this confidential data to protect the public are not allowed to have it.
Oh, look who's back.1) Spout bullshit about the epidemic before it gets going. 2) Vanish for 4 months while 70,000 people die.3) Return once it's coming under control, spouting bullshit like nothing has happened.I do wonder sometimes if Darwin got it badly wrong.
CV19 infection does not produce lasting immunity.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/12/immunity-to-covid-19-could-be-lost-in-months-uk-study-suggestsIt looks like this knocks the idea of herd immunity on the head once and for all. It's also bad news for those hoping to see a silver bullet of a cure all vaccine.
Quote from: River Don on July 12, 2020, 06:25:18 pmCV19 infection does not produce lasting immunity.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/12/immunity-to-covid-19-could-be-lost-in-months-uk-study-suggestsIt looks like this knocks the idea of herd immunity on the head once and for all. It's also bad news for those hoping to see a silver bullet of a cure all vaccine.So the best idea would be to isolate till it's killed off?