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Sky'sGoneOut wrote:I don't know about anyone else but I had a fairly extensive wander earlier and the amount of people out and about seemed a little less than it had been earlier in the week, so this idea that the Mail/Sun/Telegraph headlines would encourage people to break the lockdown rules seems to have been utter bunkum. I wonder if that has anything to do with the poll last week about trusted sources on Coronavirus where the Sun and Mail came bottom?

It seems Brits are happy to accept jingoistic bullshit from the right wing press but not health advice.

So, to be clear, when you went for a walk earlier there weren't lots of people sat in their driveways with bunting and cake? And definitely no children being towed in a trailer playing the drums? That was just us then? I'll be honest with you, it was pretty freaky and made me question my sanity a little.

I had a supermarket delivery last night and the driver said 'I'm a bit worried that I'm going to break up the street party down the road' and I said they all knew full well they shouldn't be having a street party and he agreed.

I've heard quite a few people round here saying 'well it isn't really round here is it?' which we obviously don't know although it's probably not a bad generalisation at the moment. But as soon as things lighten up, thouands of people from round here work in the West Midlands connurbation (including me, and my tutor room literally overlooks New Cross Hospital in Wolvo) and will be back to going there and back every day, and there will soon be plenty of it round here.

The coronavirus has affected all our lives, but six weeks since schools shut across the UK there is evidence that teenagers in particular are struggling. A study of 60,000 people in lockdown by University College London found that the youngest in the sample, 18- to 24-year-olds, had the lowest levels of life satisfaction, while the highest was recorded in the over-60s.

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Wow the Mail really dusted off the old contact book for this one - Smithers, Seldon, Campaign for "Real" Education..

Rosena Allin-Khan: 'If Matt Hancock found my tone difficult, that's on him'

The Labour MP and A&E doctor on her run-in with the health secretary and her shifts on the hospital frontline (Observer)

RogerOThornhill wrote:MoS pulling out all the stops for their "Open our schools dammit!" story

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Wow the Mail really dusted off the old contact book for this one - Smithers, Seldon, Campaign for "Real" Education..

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Cabinet are RAGING. On paper they’re meant to meet later to discuss 50 page doc and virus fight. But PM has already recorded his message, sent doc to the printers and seemingly made all the decisions with the so called quad... what’s the point of even dialling in, some asking.

Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has said she has “no idea” what the UK government’s new “stay alert” slogan mean.

Speaking on the BBC’s Politics Scotland on Sunday, Ms Freeman said the Scottish Government was not consulted on the change.

She said: “That is not a change that we would agree with. I think the First Minister was really clear last week that the ‘stay at home’ message was the right message and if I’m perfectly frank, I have no idea what ‘stay alert’ actually means.” (Guardian, Live)

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster has said the region will not adopt the new government slogan, instead sticking with the “stay home, save lives” message. (Guardian, Live)

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:

Willow904 wrote:So, to be clear, when you went for a walk earlier there weren't lots of people sat in their driveways with bunting and cake? And definitely no children being towed in a trailer playing the drums? That was just us then? I'll be honest with you, it was pretty freaky and made me question my sanity a little.

I can confirm I saw absolutely none of that. No bunting, no cake, no drum playing kids in a trailer. Nothing.

Of course I live in a multicultural Labour constituency which voted 77% to remain in the EU so I recognise my stroll may have been through an atypical enviroment but when I did see a Union Jack flying in someone's garden I asked myself why it was there and remembered it was VE day. And that was the only flag I saw in nearly 5 miles.

So yeah that shit with the kids on drums in the trailer was just you.

PorFavor wrote:Sophie Ridge (Sky) suggests that "stay alert" is so vague as to be meaningless. Robert Jenrick says that he "hopes not".

PaulfromYorkshire wrote: Interestingly West Yorkshire is still one of the less badly affected regions. Maybe we are somehow better at being recluses?

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Interestingly West Yorkshire is still one of the less badly affected regions. Maybe we are somehow better at being recluses?

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Also, our PM has long been noted for his "intolerance of illness" - and default assumption anybody who claimed such was actually slacking.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Also, our PM has long been noted for his "intolerance of illness" - and default assumption anybody who claimed such was actually slacking.

Maybe this was a factor in his getting so sick himself? Perish the thought.

One source with close knowledge of the police’s efforts enforcing coronavirus rules, asked how easy the new rules would be to enforce, said: “Not a chance in hell.” (Guardian Live)

PorFavor wrote:Is the Biosecurity Centre, referred to by Boris Johnson, a state run body or has it been farmed out?

“The biggest political crime in American history, by far!” the president wrote amid a stream of tweets of memes and rightwing talking heads claiming an anti-Trump conspiracy. One tweet by Trump simply read: “OBAMAGATE!”

Stephen Phipson, chief executive of Make UK, the manufacturers’ trade group, said it cautiously welcomed the prime minister calling for factory staff to return to work. “However, it is critical that there is clear advice on how to do that, and an understanding that firms will be helped to comply as we navigate uncharted waters, and not punished for inadvertent errors.”

gilsey wrote:The more I think about it, the worse it gets. Staggering incompetence is almost an understatement.

adam wrote:[Well, no. There must be an understanding that firms will be responsible for telling the government that it is not safe for their places of employment to reopen until they - the firms -are satisfied that it is safe to do so, in terms of guidelines that the government are going to have to issue and that the public and representatives of sections of the public, such as unions, are happy with. And that firms will be held responsible if they fail to do so.