rocket_scientist

That's really worrying. Fuck sake.

It's more than disingenuous to say that the UK is "in line with other countries" in the daily briefings when they put up the global death chart. The facts are that there are five countries who are clear leaders in the worst stat of all and tomorrow, the UK will join the other four in suffering more than 10,000 dead. This assumes that the counting is being done properly and whilst it's alarming to hear that those dying in the community have yet to be included, Covid-19 hasn't always been the primary cause of death in UK hospitals including here in Scotland. A report this week predicted that we would have the worst fatalities in Europe and if this does turn out to be true, it's not necessarily surprising at all if we end up getting the silver medal behind the runaway leaders the USA, who will trip 20,000 today. We must have the worst governments on the planet, which this pandemic is proving in the most tragic possible way.

I don't know if it's legal but fucked if I care. The four of us took the dogs to the beach. We walked there, it's a beach that 99.9% of Aberdeenshire people don't know exists but we did see one family there, which we didn't get within 40 or 50 metres of, let alone 2. We passed no people on the walk to or from, only a couple of cars. Sunbathing in the garden now. If any pig in uniform had confronted me then, or decides to confront me now, they can fuck right off. The restrictions are there for a reason. We haven't been nor are we putting that reason in jeopardy. I know we are luckier than most to not be living in a city at a time like this but that's just the way it goes. I think the one hour max rule is ridiculous and as long as folk are not gathering in groups and are keeping at least 2m apart in the parks etc., that's all that is required.

Facts are useful. He didn't know yesterday how many NHS had died. He did know this morning. In shirt sleeve order three weeks ago, Hancock lifted the lightest box ever into the back of a van. This was right after he said we had plenty of PPE, it was a logistical issue getting it distributed and he had got the military in to do it. Fast forward and we still have doctors, nurses and care workers (not to mention the other essential workers at high risk) without adequate protection. He meant to say 25,000 tests per day, tripped over himself and mistakenly committed to 100,000 per day by the end of April. That's not going to happen and was therefore a deliberate lie or (in my opinion) more likely to be a bungling incompetent at work. He denied that the UK hadn't had a herd immunity strategy, firstly on Marr and again since. The broadcasts by his boss the PM and by Sir Patrick show clearly that he was lying. For incompetence and dishonesty, the man needs throwing under a bus, poetically being driven by a recovered patient. That the BBC would be doing the throwing, I severely doubt.

This is beautiful. Never been into religion but always had faith in humanity to produce beautiful things and always knew the cloistered choirs were capable of doing so. Finding this, plus reaching out to a friend last night and hearing his great optimism for the post-virus world, I'm starting to feel a sense of great change coming, for the better. Love and peace.

If you add up the total UK deaths for the first quarter of the year from respiratory diseases, the figure so far for 2020 (150,057) is less than those for 2015 (160,471) 2017 (153,759) and 2018 (164,625). What's really going on here?

Ha. I just noticed that the hotel we stayed in in NYC last year are one of three hotels being offered to health care workers. Fucking brilliant. It wasn't an exceptional hotel but it was staffed with really great people. Will support this chain for ever now.

I understand the dilemma LA but it's not a reasonable excuse. Biden creeps me out but like the UK, it's the complete lack of credible politicians that is the systematic cultural issue. If Cuomo hadn't ruled himself out, he could've walked into office. People will vote for a humble, intelligent human being. They can come out of nowhere overnight. The system is the problem but returning cunts like Blow Job Johnson and The Donald, these are stains on decency and a savage reflection on us all.

We all understand why the intellectuals were despised and vilified by the masses over the centuries. They were uncomfortable mirrors, prominent reminders of the limitations and the mental incapacity of the less-enlightened. In this pandemic age, where the intellectually semi-competent and the average intelligences can see the utter stupidity of the governments in both the UK and US, I wonder what "faith" the masses cling on to? Would it be an admission of defeat to come out against the administration that they voted in? Or is it too painful to wake up to the truth that "our leaders" aren't fit to lead? Either way, the weak and stupid majority are giving licence to the weak and stupid governments to keep on keeping on, fucking up everything, failing to test, denying the front line the protection they need and most of all, lying to us each and every single day.

His shows have been unreal. I think the fact he's been getting daily exposure without getting in golf during the weeks is the killer. He can't hide. His madness, ego and narcissism is there for all to see. The fact he has an approval rating above zero is rather disturbing however.

Shocking picture still progressing. I don't care that new daily deaths are "only" one eighth (rather than a fifth or a quarter) of the previous day's total, it's a significantly increasing total every day and almost ONE THOUSAND PER DAY right now, and that's just in hospitals. We were all divided by Leave v. Remain. England has always been divided by Labour v. Tory. The biggest division right now is those who think the government are doing a good job "in the circumstances" and those of us who see the utter and evil incompetence of this administration.

I'm not better placed than those experts in the excellent video you put up yesterday but as my daughter has been saying from day one, as they were saying in the Covid Report you put up, it's not possible to know whether infected but recovered people are immune. The Spanish flu came in three waves apparently 100 years ago. Andrew Cuomo is speaking great sense right now. Again. We have had zero sense from the UK under this Niall Fergusting and Sir Fud Unvaliant led coalition of "scientists".

https://www.thearticle.com/media-questions-at-no10-briefings-are-woeful-here-are-20-they-should-ask As Frankie Boyle said "If you've ever wondered what it would take for the British media to really take this government to task, well it's not nearly a thousand deaths a day".

Mods, I hope ye tested this cunt before you allowed him back? Don't get complacent. 80% or so are asymptomatic and much as we appreciate how vigilant you've been in protecting us - and your strategies have been adopted and implemented by the NZ government - it's important not to let up now.

Encouraging suggestion of exponential-slowing showing.

Brilliant. So refreshing to hear experts putting forward intelligent points of view and a savage indictment of our government, who's daily briefings (by a whole host of various smarmy arseholes) never once convince us. Interesting how the modellers are ruling the roost (rather than experts in the field) and how centralised (rather than devolved, local and regional) power is the main reason for the fuck ups. Plus the lies of course, covering up their own ineptitude.

These fucking idiots in charge are absurd. The twice they've spoken of "green shoots" have been on Mondays, following the weekend figures which I've proved are exactly that, weekend figures. Following two days of record deaths, the exponential curve is not showing any signs of slowing and whilst we know from other countries that we will start to approach a plateau at some point, probably later this month, their rhetoric bears no relation to the actual data.

I read that article immediately before my last post. It doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know but it was at least a good timeline on actual events/decisions. The bigger issue is what's the plan, the agenda and the real reasons for crashing the economy beyond repair?

They're telling us that the social distancing measures ARE having an effect. This statement needs examining. Assuming we are talking about having an effect on the transmission of the virus, I don't think it's disputable that reducing social interactions is going to reduce the possibility of spread and would obviously reduce the incidence of new infections. So as the statement is merely stating the obvious, the question is why this needs to be said? Herd immunity went out the window because of public hysteria and the government's U-turn was explained by a change in "the science". Do they know enough about this virus yet? Have they been studying it properly? Do they have good enough data samples to rely on? They certainly don't appear to have conducted sufficient tests. They certainly haven't bothered (or are unable) to test the overwhelming majority of the heath care front line. Either they don't know what they're doing or they are following a script and if the latter, a democracy would demand that we know what the script is. Openness and transparency they said. Sinister and/or depressing times.

As suspected, there certainly was. 854 deaths classified today as "with" Covid-19. The propaganda machine is back on track.

Let me tell you a story. Inspired (or more properly, reminded) by the interview on CNN just now which once again repeats that the states (and the federal government) are all outbidding each other for the same products and the suppliers are making a killing. In the late 80's, I worked for a multinational, a US company which was one of the biggest companies in the world. Still is but a lot less bigger than they were back then, for the precise reasons I got the fuck out. They at least spent money on training and had a fabulous company supplying inspirational management training, probably at huge cost. One of the training courses was all about the art of negotiation. The exercise was that the break out group were divided into three. We were all African tribes (or some shit) and one group owned a water buffalo. We other two groups were briefed separately and our group needed to buy the water buffalo because we wanted its heart for some major religious shit but the other group needed the animal for its blood, a staple for its witch doctors and the principle ingredient in its medicine for the community. So they let us loose to "negotiate". Predictably (in hindsight), the two of us were outbidding each other like fuck and the water buffalo owners were rubbing their hands. It was a shit fest. The wonderful lesson we all learned was the need to communicate with your enemies, not just your friends. If we had collaborated, we would've got the buffalo for the lowest price that the owners would've been tempted to sell it for, before cutting out the heart for us and giving all the blood to them. Simple stuff but a message sold so well, I remember it to this day. In America, the supposed king of sales, marketing and negotiation, they've forgotten the basic rules. Or they're not that thick and that a further dynamic is at play there. A president who is a bullshit opportunist is fucking the dynamic. He's a total cunt.

Israel outpacing Palestine by a factor of 57 to 1 currently. God indeed moves is mysterious ways. It's a variety.

Nice speech Rico but as the people in charge have no interest in changing the system, they won't even print money to save lives. It's death to many more than the virus coming. That's reality.

He was positively boasting about shaking hands in a Covid hospital and talking about "taking it on the chin" when advocating the herd immunity strategy (which Hardon Handcock denied was a thing). This was all in the last month. For underestimating the virus, he's being punished heavily. Operation Last Gasp, uttered by him 14 days ago may be his last joke and the sickest of them all. The picaninnies will be posting their condolences in the letter boxes.

The cost of this lockdown is undoubtedly causing billions to be lost, £2,400,000,000 per day in the UK alone according to a study today. If we are not making things or providing services that can be sold, that's a heck of an income reduction for everyone, including the exchequer who are already borrowing/printing money to stay afloat. The economic effects of this are expected (by many qualified people who know this shit) to be the worst in all of our lifetimes.