Covid-19 the re-lockdown

[discovolante]

Probably watching the rugger with the lads.

So, there you go. UK re-lockdowned next month as well. Turns out SAGE and Starmer were right all along.

Leaking to the media hours before the PM bothered to turn up was a nice touch.

We are staying in semi lockdown at least until Boris deigns to let us know if he will give us any more money.

ETA also Señor von Laté reckons he was late because he was having a stress poo.

[veravista]

They were all like that - sh.t powerpoint

[Hunting Dog]

Lockdown from Thursday. Why not earlier?

Apparently so parliament can vote on it Wednesday! So I wonder what would happen if they rebel?

[Bird on a Fire]

Probably watching the rugger with the lads.

So, there you go. UK re-lockdowned next month as well. Turns out SAGE and Starmer were right all along.

Leaking to the media hours before the PM bothered to turn up was a nice touch.

We are staying in semi lockdown at least until Boris deigns to let us know if he will give us any more money.

ETA also Señor von Laté reckons he was late because he was having a stress poo.

An intriguing theory. Please thank S von L from me for the mental imagine of Boris grimacing while curling one out in the Downing Street khazi.

I reckon there was loads of disagreement behind the scenes over it and that Boris couldn't be bothered to make a decision. And the poo thing.

[Fishnut]

Probably watching the rugger with the lads.

So, there you go. UK re-lockdowned next month as well. Turns out SAGE and Starmer were right all along.

Leaking to the media hours before the PM bothered to turn up was a nice touch.

We are staying in semi lockdown at least until Boris deigns to let us know if he will give us any more money.

ETA also Señor von Laté reckons he was late because he was having a stress poo.

An intriguing theory. Please thank S von L from me for the mental imagine of Boris grimacing while curling one out in the Downing Street khazi.

I reckon there was loads of disagreement behind the scenes over it and that Boris couldn't be bothered to make a decision. And the poo thing.

That was an image I could have done without!

DAG thinks that getting the furlough scheme extended is the cause for the delay.

[discovolante]

Sorry everyone.

I feel like Johnson saying he 'isn't going to ask anyone to shield again' was good code for 'we are not going to provide extra help for anyone who needs to shield'.

[Fishnut]

Sorry everyone.

I feel like Johnson saying he 'isn't going to ask anyone to shield again' was good code for 'we are not going to provide extra help for anyone who needs to shield'.

You're not alone

[AMS]

DAG thinks that getting the furlough scheme extended is the cause for the delay.

More accurately, DAG quotes Dr Catherine Haddon (of Institute for Government), who thinks that...

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[Bird on a Fire]

These images just get worse and worse...

[tenchboy]

These images just get worse and worse...

What? Cos they han't bothered to photoshop a reflection of his arm into the mirror to match? Or because they think his dick is in his armpit?

[headshot]

No mention of help for the self-employed either.

[discovolante]

There's our mikeh in the Guardian again, big sleb that he is. OK the live news feed.

[plodder]

It takes time to make a presentation where technical detail is translated to a lay audience. I think the piss poor powerpoint suggests this decision was made very recently.

[Bird on a Fire]

These images just get worse and worse...

What? Cos they han't bothered to photoshop a reflection of his arm into the mirror to match? Or because they think his dick is in his armpit?

I assume it's a bit of warm-up nipple tweaking.

[jimbob]

Meanwhile whilst the CCHQ twitter account keeps this up - it's worth a listen from only ten days ago:

https://twitter.com/CCHQPress/status/13 ... 88866?s=20

CCHQ Press
@CCHQPress
·
Oct 21
.
@BorisJohnson
The Labour leader attacks local lockdowns when he wants to plunge the whole country into a full national lockdown

Something his own Shadow Health Secretary called "disastrous" #pmqs

The lack of judgement in this is on multiple levels, given that they were ignoring their scientific advice, and it was clear to anyone numerate that it was going to have to change.

[TimW]

Not clear to Grant Shapps though. Obviously this isn't the most important issue, but 9 days ago he opened a travel corridor to the Canaries. Vast numbers of bookings ensued.

Airlines in scramble to find planes for holidaymakers to Canary Islands
Industry caught short as government unexpectedly removes islands from quarantine list

But now

The government says: “Avoid all non-essential travel by private or public transport.”
"Overnight stays and holidays away from primary residences will not be allowed – including holidays in the UK and abroad."

According to easyJet’s Johan Lundgren, “Bookings went through the roof”. Many of those trips are for November, with many people desperate for a break.
Those trips are now off. To travel on holiday anywhere abroad before early December will break the lockdown rules, and therefore you cannot go.

[dyqik]

It takes time and skill to make a presentation where technical detail is translated to a lay audience. I think the piss poor powerpoint suggests this decision was made very recently.

Just adding an alternative reason for piss poor PowerPoint presentation...

[Bird on a Fire]

We're getting another lockdown-ish in Portugal too. Not quite everywhere, but all the big urban centres are covered. Up to 4000 new cases a day which is a bit scary. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54766184

[veravista]

It takes time and skill to make a presentation where technical detail is translated to a lay audience. I think the piss poor powerpoint suggests this decision was made very recently.

Just adding an alternative reason for piss poor PowerPoint presentation...

It wasn't that, it was all facts and figures, very technical so it was obviously just ripped out of the official briefings. The point was that they didn't actually bother to get the aspect ratio right, one slide had the performance/ICU bed availability of all the trusts, but all you could see on the left was 'ds NHS Trust' or 'dation Trust'. And most of the date axes on the bottom were hidden under the scrolling news bar. f.cking useless.

[shpalman]

there's an infograph here about how occupied the Italian intensive care units are in the various regions

The brighter colours refer to how big an increase there has been since last week.

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[discovolante]

Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'death by Powerpoint'. Ho ho ho.

[shpalman]

The Metropolitan police said it had broken up a rave in east London attended by 1,000 people; About 500 gathered for a rave at a warehouse in Yate near Bristol, where police said some of the crowd became violent when ordered to disperse; Another 300 attended a rave at a farm in Wigan, and police turned more away. Police said the tyres on seven of their vehicles had been slashed

[veravista]

And the same Italian information as per the UK government and the BBC

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[discovolante]

The Metropolitan police said it had broken up a rave in east London attended by 1,000 people; About 500 gathered for a rave at a warehouse in Yate near Bristol, where police said some of the crowd became violent when ordered to disperse; Another 300 attended a rave at a farm in Wigan, and police turned more away. Police said the tyres on seven of their vehicles had been slashed

Rave culture is back...