Got a box of masks being sent over from a Scottish guy I know in Hong Kong, ten a penny over there as you'd expect. He was sending a load of cases over for family and friends so asked if I wanted one, don't really have any info beyond that so hoping it's the bog-standard masks he's sending and not the full-on Bane efforts

(05-01-2020, 01:00 PM)Floyd Wrote: I just use one of these, guarantees that I get to the front of the queue and no one wants to come anywhere near me

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07336SNWZ/r...REbDDAM91G

Win win.

75p

(05-01-2020, 01:10 PM)Shteve Wrote: Britain and America were always going to be the worst because we're run by and populated with absolute mongos.

Pozzy for unarguable facts.

(05-01-2020, 01:11 PM)Morph Wrote: They think it's a success because they're using this 500 thousand number that was given from the herd immunity modelling.

I think the target for our current modelling was meant to be 20 thousand and we're already way past that.

They don't think it's a success, though. They know it's been a disaster. This is just straight up gaslighting.

(05-01-2020, 01:10 PM)Shteve Wrote: Britain and America were always going to be the worst because we're run by and populated with absolute mongos.

Stone cold facts there 

(05-01-2020, 01:14 PM)Little Bit Of The Boycey Wrote: Pozzy for unarguable facts.



They don't think it's a success, though. They know it's been a disaster. This is just straight up gaslighting.

Yeah sorry, meant it as if they were manipulating the situation to make it seem like a success based on numbers that were only going to happen if they went ahead with their herd immunity.

That's why Cummings and his data expert pal will have been at the SAGE meetings, so they can have an influence on how to spin the data to the public. They're more interested in controlling the narrative than saving lives.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020...elling-ppe



It won't be illegal but fuck me.

is that not Groot?

(05-01-2020, 12:35 PM)Grumblebum Wrote: Mmm Danone.

https://twitter.com/nigel_farage/status/...05795?s=21

Absolute state of this cunt.

Alan drives past in his Lexus - you're a mentalist!

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104...habitants/

This is the stat they'll try to push over the coming days/weeks - and try to hide the death rate in meaningless stats and take the attention away from their failings as a government.

(05-01-2020, 03:23 PM)Felix Wrote: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104...habitants/

This is the stat they'll try to push over the coming days/weeks - and try to hide the death rate in meaningless stats and take the attention away from their failings as a government.

We're 6th worst in the world on deaths per million BEFORE taking into account care home and community deaths - how is that a stat to push as evidence of their success?

https://twitter.com/NicolaSturgeon/statu...59648?s=20

Matt Hancock saying they've passed 100k tests a day... by counting tests that have been sent out and the results haven't come back, along with many other imaginative ways of getting to this number.

The gaslighting, the lying, deliberately misleading the population so they can make themselves feel better. It's so insidious. The press and the politicians refusing the hold them to account is so depressing

122,000 odd tests today, smashing the target

It's another lie. They're including test kits they've posted and test kits that have “agreed to have been” posted. Changed the rules on what constitutes a test being carried out in the last couple of days which has allowed more than 50k tests to be artificially added to today's stat.

First journalist I see mention that on twitter gets “bore off”, “shut up twat”, “just can't bring yourself to be positive” etc. We are America.

(05-01-2020, 03:26 PM)Little Bit Of The Boycey Wrote: We're 6th worst in the world on deaths per million BEFORE taking into account care home and community deaths - how is that a stat to push as evidence of their success?

They'll imply there are countries in a "worse" state. It's all relative. Dumb down the actually horror of the figures to make it out to be "not quite as bad as it looks"

(05-01-2020, 04:14 PM)Frank Uchewood Wrote: Matt Hancock saying they've passed 100k tests a day... by counting tests that have been sent out and the results haven't come back, along with many other imaginative ways of getting to this number.

The gaslighting, the lying, deliberately misleading the population so they can make themselves feel better. It's so insidious. The press and the politicians refusing the hold them to account is so depressing

(05-01-2020, 04:15 PM)Little Bit Of The Boycey Wrote: 122,000 odd tests today, smashing the target

It's another lie. They're including test kits they've posted and test kits that have “agreed to have been” posted. Changed the rules on what constitutes a test being carried out in the last couple of days which has allowed more than 50k tests to be artificially added to today's stat.

First journalist I see mention that on twitter gets “bore off”, “shut up twat”, “just can't bring yourself to be positive” etc. We are America.

Fuck this country man.

I'm just so disheartened right now. Teach kids to be politically active and not just sit back and let injustice happen, but I have this awful sense of powerlessness about everything just now. It really does feel like a slide into totalitarianism. Trump backing an armed extremist militia storming a governor's office as well. Fuck

It's game over for England, unfortunately. The gammons have won. Just have to hope that Scotland can extracate itself at some point.

On a lighter note, has anyone been to ASDA at Chesser in the evening lately? Is it a total horrorshow?

Guys nothing has actually changed in the way we record this data the gvt shill medical officer guy said so why would you doubt him??????

Any word on the likelihood of schools returning at all before the summer holidays in Scotland? 

They just announced that this academic school year is over in NY, kids off until at least 31st August.