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This is hilarious and scary at the same time

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Responding to the government’s coronavirus contact tracing strategy, Ian Hudspeth, chairman of the Local Government Association’s community wellbeing board, said: ..This extra demand on existing services would need to be met by additional resources and funding, if councils are to help test, trace a...

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RogerOThornhill wrote:Hmm...
Well, that is an interesting list and no mistake.

Look at his face! Just look at his face!

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Apparently Trump and Fox are now backing away from their claim that hydroxychloroquine can cure COVID-19, after previously touting it as a miracle: https://www.theroot.com/trump-and-fox-news-now-acting-like-they-weren-t-out-her-1843001772 Which led me to this classic article from the past: https://t...

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Motorboating enthusiast Richard Branson is playing a particularly idiosyncratic game of Monopoly. He would like to mortgage his private Caribbean island. In return, you, the taxpayer, have to buy him Mayfair and Park Lane, all the greens, all the yellows, all the reds, and stick a hotel on every on...

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If Richard Branson's companies paid tax, and didn't go round suing the NHS, ~~I might have some symp~~, actually no, sod it, I'd still have absolutely no sympathy for him or his BS.

https://twitter.com/SomeTimesImFun2/sta ... 8989981700

Boo fecking hoo.

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Oh no that is terrible news. My condolences to those who knew him in the real world. He was one of the good ones on here and will be sorely missed.

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With apologies if these have been linked to aleady, Afua Hirsch and Paul Mason's 'Covid Report' are very good - 40 minute (ish) videos of a range of very well informed people discussing things. They are here Whereas this, well, this is the opposite: https://twitter.com/TPMLiveWire/status/1250408758...

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Thanks Roger, she's very good and never fails to pique my interest.

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An update - CitizenJA is OK

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To be fair, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro is a goddamn idiot, so he was grossly outmatched from the time he agreed to sit down with 60 Minutes, but he did it anyway—and got his ass handed to him by the host, the staff and the interns... “I don’t know what you mean. It’s like if an intelli...

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The only way we are going to get back to some semblance of normality is by knowing who has, and has had, the virus. Which means mass testing.

Anything else is far too risky.

We should be looking to South Korea for guidance, but instead we seem to be bumbling along in our own unique way.

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:This is quite remarkable
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I've just got round to reading this.
Sickening.

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I've just sent a message to her. I'll let you know .

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For Sky and PF, thanks for the tunes the other night. Here's one you might like:

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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Her almost total absence recently really is pretty odd isn't it?

There might be a reason:

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Maybe. I'm not really sure.

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Get back to work, and try not to die https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52219930

They should follow the lead of their boss and just not turn up to anything, ever.

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Morfternoon all.

https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2020/0 ... -anti.html

WTF is wrong with some people?

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I don't know why the coronavirus has made me seek out one-man bands.

But there is no denying it.

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This is great once he gets going.

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This made me laugh - and he has many more

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They like throwing their weight around, rather like some police forces. This is a much better idea. :) https://twitter.com/RosamundUrwin/status/1246550501967216641" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; This is also a much better idea: https://twitter.com/sandford_police/status/12...

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Indeed, but he does present some very unique insights at times. Judging by the Daily Record's hit piece on him shortly after, he has ruffled a fair few feathers with this piece.

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Has anyone been following the Alex Salmond trial?

I was staggered to read this by Craig Murray https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives ... jaccuse-2/

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Have we had this?

Goats retake Llandudno: https://twitter.com/AndrewStuart/status ... 3288169473

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Just got back from a trip to the outside world myself. It was nice to feel the sun on my face again. A five mile round trip walk to the chemist to pick up a prescription. I had to wait an hour in a 2m separated queue to get in, but that is such a minor inconvenience these days it hardly registered. ...

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NHS Workers: You are really important to us, but we can't afford to protect you. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/27/advice-on-protective-gear-for-nhs-staff-was-rejected-owing-to-cost Yes, the argument is a bit more nuanced than this, but maybe now the argument to protect them is a little ...

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You've got to hope he pulls through otherwise it's PM Raab.

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Hmm... @Simon_Nixon 2h2 hours ago More So it seems Johnson launched his appeal for British-built ventilators three days before an EU ventilator buying scheme closed and two days after Brussels publicly said Britain was free to join. Hard to square with No. 10 claims of “communication problems” http...

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The NHS workers that is, not my street.

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Yep - it was very well done in my street. Now give them a pay rise.

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Morfternoon all. I'm not sure which of these hits hardest, but apparently Trump has issued cease-and-desist letters over them: https://mobile.twitter.com/prioritiesUSA/status/1242193904553865216 https://twitter.com/Politidope/status/1241077097080197121 Full article https://theweek.com/speedreads/904...

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Absolutely true. Though it shouldn't be forgotten that Spanish Flu got its name because that country's monarch nearly died from it. It's my understanding that the Spanish Flu got it's name because the other nations were suppressing news of its effects due to the war, whereas Spain was a neutral cou...

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Ah, the next one is Peter Davison, isn't it?

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As someone on that thread commented, he's mid-regeneration in that pic

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DWP: You are in the queue to register an account. There are 111,321 users ahead of you https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1242567304459816976 That moment when the rest of the country discovers what it’s been like for years for chronically sick and disabled people dependent on DWP for their sur...

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Ashley Young with excellent advice from his experiences in Italy:

https://twitter.com/youngy18/status/1242531398826811393

Says it much more clearly than I can. Well played lad.

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Going back to "herd immunity" strategy discussion, there was an interesting "ask me anything" on Reddit yesterday with a critical care doctor working in a UK high consequence infectious diseases centre: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fnl0n6/im_a_critical_care_docto...

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I found this to be equally interesting and disturbing: https://twitter.com/atatimelikethis/status/1241091002871545863 Many know UKGov for 2 months had a "Herd Immunity" [HI] plan for #Covid_19. now changed. This plan was bad science, and NOT due to modelling. The result, even with the chan...

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CitizenJA, thanks you for your kind words yesterday.

I'm fine and self-isolating (day 6). I hope all is OK with you and yours.

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If you have a choice, that is.

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It's time to choose where you want to be quarantined, and who with.

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https://twitter.com/TheBMA/status/1240252591445086209

Government is [not] ‘prioritising testing for #COVID19 for NHS staff’

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So, anyway, just found this, as if I needed any further evidence:

https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2020/0 ... nwell.html

Stay away from everyone if practical, and please stay safe my friends.

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I work in local government. There is a long list of public sector workers who need assurance and protection.
Nothing said so far.

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Unfortunately this is now becoming totally obvious (although, as you know, it was already, if anyone cared to look) e.g. How many people have grabbed that same hand rail on the bus. No gloves? Oh great. I've self-quarantined and won't be going out for a while. Unfortunately there are plenty of peopl...

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Thanks Sky. Too many idiots around handing out useless advice. Right now, stay in your homes, if you have to go out, have a set of outside clothes, and inside clothes. Wash hands whilst changing over between. Keep separate. If you can't disinfect items brought into your homes, leave them for at leas...

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"Supermarket exec tells me Matt Hancock has “totally made up what he said about working with supermarkets. We haven’t heard anything from govt directly.” Adds - teams are having to work “round the clock” to keep shelves stocked. Tinned goods,pasta sales “through the roof”" https://twitter....

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Texas: tainted victory due to voter suppression:

https://www.salon.com/2020/03/03/voter- ... ino-areas/

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Thanks to everyone who went out campaigning. Your beliefs in the we rather than the me are no less valid due to this result

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Oh and this just cropped up:

https://twitter.com/SocialistBloke/stat ... 9013898241

BBC Reporter. “If Boris wins the majority HE *SO* DESERVES”

Nothing to see here, move along.

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