But it is all ok as the PL can continue.
Given the large number of folk I saw today seemingly not understanding that they breath through their nose I am beginning to feel somewhat that we may be doomed…
Is it me or is Bumblefuck being forced into this?..mind you as this one is going through parliament I guess there is more opportunity to sidestep responsilibity the blame…oh and incase we may actually act with any sort of urgency, I know, lets delay doing anything for yet another 5 days….
Birch anyone found not wearing a mask correctly then upon further offences superglue their orifices closed.
Lockdown again. Fucking useless twunts and in that include both those Fuck knuckles who don’t wear masks but also the government as a whole for putting profit before people in so many instances.
When’s Elon off to Mars? Sign me the fuck up.
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I think the official secrets act still has either capital punishment or the Tower of London as options…
Yup, we can officially aspire to being as well run as Straya.
That outcome is 95% down to actions on the behalf of the State Governments who were almost all heavily criticized by the (incredibly inept) Federal Government. The Strayan Federal system is not perfect but when the borders needed closing the States did this and IIRC did so long before the Federal Govt really got going.
Personally, I have (a little) more faith in the devolved UK administrations than the PM and his ilk. At least the Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland had the sense to try to zip things up a while back.
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Still this makes more sense than listening to the current PM, Mr de Pfeffel Johnson, as he seems to ignore the NHS and Covid.
The holy goal?
Still some politiicians can not distinguish between a fuck and a fuck up.
Some excel in both as there are countless examples.
Just popped out for some shopping.
Queue at Tesco.
Not huge, about 30 people
Priorities have changed, there was plenty of toilet roll but cakes and chocolate were decimated!
He did admit it needed to go through parliament first… I suspect that was the reason for yesterday’s delay as they realised they couldn’t just decide to start it today
The figures and advice was clear weeks ago. The sudden urgency is a joke.
If we were locked down when SAGE recommended, we would have been out already.
If you start to become a Bumblefuck apologist expect to be banned.
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I absolutely, 100% guarantee we wouldn’t be or if we were, the R rate would be back on the move and we’d still lock down again sometime thereafter. We’re seeing this across Western Europe; societies here are not conditioned to operate with the ongoing discpline (and surrender of personal liberties) that the successful test and trace countries have at their disposal. Nor are we conditioned to closed borders. People keep berating the ‘selfishness’ of society but we’ve operated as a (comparatively) free, unconstrained populace for decades. You don’t unlearn that in a year.
I’ve no issue with pointing out that the government is shit because they are but their ineptitude is not having any bearing on what’s going on in the rest of Europe. We have to stop pretending that any lockdown does anything other than buy fragments of time at ever greater cost.
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The painful truth, all of it.
Not in the case of Australia and New Zealand though. Their culture/lifestyle is Western. Their lockdowns, coupled with proper TT&I have resulted in decent outcomes in terms of mortality at relatively minimal economic cost. The issue here, and in Spain, is that there has been no trade off of low excess mortality for relatively massive economic cost (lost output and ££ spaffed). We’re going to see another surge of deaths between now and Christmas at eye-watering cost. Any delays to intervention almost inevitably mean deaths and costs.
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They have the benefit of much reduced international travel in/through though compared to Europe and sealed borders in a way that would (indeed has) meet resistance here. In the specific case of Melbourne/Victoria which seems to have borne the brunt of Australia’s caseload, it remains to see how minimal their economic cost turns out to be too.
I said their costs were relatively minimal which is a different thing. The real successes for low economic cost and low excess mortality are the likes of Vietnam and Thailand.
Which loops back to;
We’re not one thing or the other. We don’t have the isolation and reduced population density of Australasia (or even most of the USA) and neither are we ethnically homogenous, relatively disciplined cultures you’re making comparisons to there.
Let me put it another way. The Germans are the most efficient, law abiding people I’ve spent meaningful time around. They spent loads on test and trace and used it as well as they reasonably could. There’s far less in the way of antimask bullshit too. Their system is still buckling.