Chinese Virus May Have Infected Hundreds

Angry wrote:

VillageGreen wrote:

Graiser wrote:

Just wish there would be retribution sought by the rest of the world against China, stop buying Chinese crap, start manufacturing more products at home and stuff em.
Of course it won’t happen because we are basically greedy capitalist bastards.

The Trump administration are still blaming China for this and it may be they who lead global efforts to get some kind of a payback  from China ?

China know that they have made a right mess of this. In just over three months we have over a million infected and thousands of deaths globally, and worse is to come

china are covering it up still, the world should be demanding a receipt for this.

It's been pretty obvious that they haven't exactly been 100% truthful.

We should never have allowed anyone back from there once the story broke and to not quarantine anyone coming back is simply cutting people's throats.

Good luck with getting anything from the Chinese. They'll tell Trump and us to fack off and train up another three million soldiers.

Elias wrote:

Angry wrote:

VillageGreen wrote:

Graiser wrote:

Just wish there would be retribution sought by the rest of the world against China, stop buying Chinese crap, start manufacturing more products at home and stuff em.
Of course it won’t happen because we are basically greedy capitalist bastards.

The Trump administration are still blaming China for this and it may be they who lead global efforts to get some kind of a payback  from China ?

China know that they have made a right mess of this. In just over three months we have over a million infected and thousands of deaths globally, and worse is to come

china are covering it up still, the world should be demanding a receipt for this.

It's been pretty obvious that they haven't exactly been 100% truthful.

We should never have allowed anyone back from there once the story broke and to not quarantine anyone coming back is simply cutting people's throats.

agreed especially as none of them who were brought back lived in the uk anymore and were settled citizens of china so should have quarantined there.

It does make me laugh at how the common consensus is that taxes will be raised for all post corona to cover furlough costs and yet even the cost of furloghing would be a drop in the ocean in comparison to the cost of funding illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that had no benefit to UK whatsoever apart from the advancement of the state of Isreal.
Maybe the banks should be made to cover the cost of furloughing, after all we the british public bailed the banks out in 2008.
We all know who runs the banks

Punchdrunk wrote:

It does make me laugh at how the common consensus is that taxes will be raised for all post corona to cover furlough costs  

Common consensus would be right then Rishi Sunak has already said NI will have to be increased in the near future

I actually think the Government are being incredibly generous in the overall financial support though some people will fall through the net

What amazed me was that what I had considered must be the enormous cost of furloughing so many people for up to three months is said to be around 10 billion pounds.
Puts into perspective the fact we are due to pay the EU 40 billion pounds as a divirce settlement

Lord Melbury wrote:

What amazed me was that what I had considered must be the enormous cost of furloughing so many people for up to three months is said to be around 10 billion pounds.
Puts into perspective the fact we are due to pay the EU 40 billion pounds as a divirce settlement

You sure its only £10 Billion ?? Sunak has "pledged" (not paid out) over 3 tranches now I think its £612 Billion in total to be made available.(Budget onwards)
If we get away with only a £10 billion hit we'll have done well

Earwegoagain wrote:

Good luck with getting anything from the Chinese. They'll tell Trump and us to fack off and train up another three million soldiers.

I read yesterday that a Chinese billionaire has sent over some medical supplies to the NHS. 50 ventilators, gowns and masks to name three.

If the story is bona fide, then fair shout.

Talking to a friend- and others - outside the local co-op earlier and they were saying the strain of the lockdown is starting to get to them.

We are nearly at the two week stage and on a wider national scale, others must starting to feel the strain too. God knows what the mood will be like in the weeks and months to come.

I am ok with it so far but, as time goes on that could change.

Watched a programme on Channel Four last night - after the news - looking at what next in the covid-19 crisis and there was a scientist who said that if people think the virus will slow down in the warmer months, they should think again. He went on to say that  the virus is spreading in warmer climes right now. That is worrying.

"The strain of the lockdown" lol, hardly full lockdown when exercise, shopping etc is still permitted. The human race has never had so many forms of in-home entertainment to feast upon, some people seriously need to get a grip, if this continues to get worse and a full lockdown is enforced the limp wristed among us will be teetering on the brink, Amazon, Ebay etc are still open for business [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Lord Melbury wrote:

What amazed me was that what I had considered must be the enormous cost of furloughing so many people for up to three months is said to be around 10 billion pounds.
Puts into perspective the fact we are due to pay the EU 40 billion pounds as a divirce settlement

Is not a divorce settlement, It’s commitments we have already made. Things like Nigel Farage pension

it’s not payable in one lump sum. If anything good Comes out of all this hopefully it’ll be the end of .’blue passport’ drivel like this

Whatever the purpose or name of the payment Hugh, it’s a huge amount of money, particularly if furloughing so many UK residents for so long
( I’m sure a period of up to 3 months was mentioned on the radio) will cost only a quarter of this sum.
I wasn’t trying to open up old rifts or anything. Just made me think about the money as such big amounts are often difficult to quantify.

And one hundred billion for HS2 and never mind Crossrail, and other transport infrastructure projects in London and North that none of us will ever use.

Les Miserable wrote:

"The strain of the lockdown"  lol, hardly full lockdown when exercise, shopping etc is still permitted. The human race has never had so many forms of in-home entertainment to feast upon, some people seriously need to get a grip, if this continues to get worse and a full lockdown is enforced the limp wristed among us will be teetering on the brink, Amazon, Ebay etc are still open for business [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Innit Les.

There’s next to fuckall ‘locked down’ as far as people’s liberties are concerned as far as I can see. People can pretty much literally go anywhere and dress it up as either part of their daily exercise or they’re going to the shop. And we’ve had glorious sunshine for the last fortnight.

It winds me up.

My fat Cnut of a neighbour, who prior to lockdown wouldn’t walk 100yds if their life depended on it, has never spent so much time outside. Coming back after adding to the numbers at our local shop every feckin day with her cake and chocolate tucked under her feckin bingo-winged arm.

Yep. It fuckin winds me up.

Czarcasm wrote:

Les Miserable wrote:

"The strain of the lockdown"  lol, hardly full lockdown when exercise, shopping etc is still permitted. The human race has never had so many forms of in-home entertainment to feast upon, some people seriously need to get a grip, if this continues to get worse and a full lockdown is enforced the limp wristed among us will be teetering on the brink, Amazon, Ebay etc are still open for business [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Innit Les.

There’s next to fuckall ‘locked down’ as far as people’s liberties are concerned as far as I can see. People can pretty much literally go anywhere and dress it up as either part of their daily exercise or they’re going to the shop. And we’ve had glorious sunshine for the last fortnight.

It winds me up.

My fat Cnut of a neighbour, who prior to lockdown wouldn’t walk 100yds if their life depended on it, has never spent so much time outside. Coming back after adding to the numbers at our local shop every feckin day with her cake and chocolate tucked under her feckin bingo-winged arm.

Yep. It fuckin winds me up.

VillageGreen wrote:

Earwegoagain wrote:

Good luck with getting anything from the Chinese. They'll tell Trump and us to fack off and train up another three million soldiers.

I read yesterday that a Chinese billionaire has sent over some medical supplies to the NHS. 50 ventilators, gowns and masks to name three.

If the story is bona fide, then fair shout.

Talking to a friend- and others - outside the local co-op earlier and they were saying the strain of the lockdown is starting to get to them.

We are nearly at the two week stage and on a wider national scale, others must starting to feel the strain too. God knows what the mood will be like in the weeks and months to come.

I am ok with it so far but, as time goes on that could change.

Watched a programme on Channel Four last - after the news - looking at what next in the covid-19 crisis and there was a scientist said that if people think the virus will slow down in the warmer months, they should think again. He went on to say that  the virus is spreading in warmer climes right now. That is worrying.

If this was happening 30 years ago then God knows what it would be like!

No internet, no online shopping and worst of all no ATD!

This would be my kids if they had been around then They're no far off it now.

Czarcasm wrote:

Les Miserable wrote:

"The strain of the lockdown"  lol, hardly full lockdown when exercise, shopping etc is still permitted. The human race has never had so many forms of in-home entertainment to feast upon, some people seriously need to get a grip, if this continues to get worse and a full lockdown is enforced the limp wristed among us will be teetering on the brink, Amazon, Ebay etc are still open for business [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Innit Les.

There’s next to fuckall ‘locked down’ as far as people’s liberties are concerned as far as I can see. People can pretty much literally go anywhere and dress it up as either part of their daily exercise or they’re going to the shop. And we’ve had glorious sunshine for the last fortnight.

It winds me up.

My fat Cnut of a neighbour, who prior to lockdown wouldn’t walk 100yds if their life depended on it, has never spent so much time outside. Coming back after adding to the numbers at our local shop every feckin day with her cake and chocolate tucked under her feckin bingo-winged arm.

Yep. It fuckin winds me up.

walked passed my cyclist than on the tour de france this morning in plympton.. looking at the hoe webcam no one is staying into and it will be because of a few selfish gits they will bring in total lockdown soon.

Angry wrote:

walked passed my cyclist than on the tour de france this morning in plympton.. looking at the hoe webcam no one is staying into and it will be because of a few selfish gits they will bring in total lockdown soon.

No I dont think they/we will
Too much care in the community goes on for the elderly disabled and infirm. My mother would simply just die no question without assistance if left too long

Hugh Watt wrote:

Lord Melbury wrote:

What amazed me was that what I had considered must be the enormous cost of furloughing so many people for up to three months is said to be around 10 billion pounds.
Puts into perspective the fact we are due to pay the EU 40 billion pounds as a divirce settlement

Is not a divorce settlement, It’s commitments we have already made. Things like Nigel Farage pension

it’s not payable in one lump sum. If anything good Comes out of all this hopefully it’ll be the end of .’blue passport’ drivel like this

"So far the EU has been unable to agree on a plan to share out coronavirus-incurred debt in the form of special bonds - dubbed coronabonds - despite pleas from Spain, Italy, France and others."

Glad were out of it. I expect the EU will tell Spain, Italy and France to go fukc themselves the same as they did with Greece when the population was literally starving. Not a very caring institution IMO.

Les Miserable wrote:

"The strain of the lockdown"  lol, hardly full lockdown when exercise, shopping etc is still permitted. The human race has never had so many forms of in-home entertainment to feast upon, some people seriously need to get a grip, if this continues to get worse and a full lockdown is enforced the limp wristed among us will be teetering on the brink, Amazon, Ebay etc are still open for business [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

I hope the government and their experts do not bring in more stringent measures down the line. I read yesterday that they are looking at how to exit the semi lockdown when that is feasible.

Like I stated in my original post, I am ok with the situation as it is, I pop up to the co-op every 2/3 days and do the odd plod around the block now and again.

harvetheslayer wrote:

Angry wrote:

walked passed my cyclist than on the tour de france this morning in plympton.. looking at the hoe webcam no one is staying into and it will be because of a few selfish gits they will bring in total lockdown soon.

No I dont think they/we will
Too much care in the community goes on for the elderly disabled and infirm. My mother would simply just die no question without assistance if left too long

well thats taken an 180 view on what i said as i would have thought it was a given people would accept all essential workers would be allowed out.

Boris in hospital..........

Elias wrote:

Boris in hospital..........

hope he pulls through.

I hope all the people he slobbered over after boasting of shaking hands with virus victims in hospital do too.

I said to my missus last week I wondered if he was seriously ill because we haven't seen him video linking the nation telling us all not to worry about his minor symptoms ect.
I also saw that a tiger had tested positive to coved in Bronx Zoo. Isolated case or more worryingly that the virus can be spread species to species? No cats round here seem to be on lockdown.