Coronavirus

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2020 10:26

The UK has just added Iceland to the restricted travel list (meaning you have to isolate for 14 days if you travel from Iceland to the UK).

Iceland have had 2512 cases of Corona Virus since the outbreak started. The UK is currently recording over 6000 new cases each day!

Slovakia has been added as well, they have had 8000 total cases (they have added Denmark and Curaco too)

Curaçao have had 315 cases total!

I know I'm asking too much of this current government to make sense, by how can they justify this?

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

It's no good just looking at the total cases. Cases per million of population or something is probably what it works on. In which case they're above us slightly. But on the other hand they have tested a higher proportion of their population.

NervousPete · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2020 13:25

Thought I was ahead of the curve in planning a trip to visit my parents in Cheltenham early next week and see my neffers and niece besides, as I figured we'd be going into lockdown in Cardiff in a fortnight's time and that I'd better have a birthday party for my mum the week before the rules would probably come into effect.

Turns out I'm not that smart, and lockdown will descend from Sunday at six PM for those of us in the 'diff. Am mildly depressed.

Jem · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2020 13:40

Oh no Pete, that sucks

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2020 13:56

can you get off today and go for the weekend?

NervousPete · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2020 14:27

I would only I finally managed to book my fave tapas place Saturday night with a few friends for a super-belated (6 months!) 40th birthday meal, and I've got a magazine article to finish tomorrow for the photography journal before it literally goes to print on Sunday. (Print's not dead!)

I suppose I could hop on the train Sunday before the lockdown triggers and come back Wednesday, but is that really allowed or would I be Barnard Castling?

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2020 15:11

Malc wrote:

The UK has just added Iceland to the restricted travel list (meaning you have to isolate for 14 days if you travel from Iceland to the UK).

Iceland have had 2512 cases of Corona Virus since the outbreak started. The UK is currently recording over 6000 new cases each day!

Slovakia has been added as well, they have had 8000 total cases (they have added Denmark and Curaco too)

Curaçao have had 315 cases total!

I know I'm asking too much of this current government to make sense, by how can they justify this?

I am glad I shop at Aldi

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2020 15:12

According to the BBC the rules state:

Quote:

nobody is able to enter or leave the eight counties and one town without a "reasonable excuse".

It then lists those reasonable excuses as:

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These include travelling to school, to give or to work if you are unable to work from home.

You can travel to buy food and medical supplies, seek medical assistance or go to the vets, and move home.

If you are buying essential items and there is no reasonable alternative to using shops within these counties, you can do so.

and

Quote:

Other reasons include:

Obtaining supplies for the essential upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household, or the household of a vulnerable person
Elite athletic training and competitions
To provide or receive emergency assistance
To meet a legal obligation, and to access or receive public services
To avoid injury or illness or escape a risk of harm

So, unfortunately I think it might not be allowed

NervousPete · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2020 15:36

Yeah, that was my reading of it too. Even though I'd be able to get back in I wouldn't treasure the scowls of the transport police offering my lame reasoning. Really thought I'd have another week to manage this in.

Might be interesting to take my camera out tomorrow night to document Cardiff City centre the night before lock down. Though since the valleys are already locked down and the true Hogarthian abandon of St. Mary's Street is reserved to match days when the valley boys are in town, I don't think I'll be seeing too much spectacle.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2020 15:45

One one hand: The Tories lost any say in who does what post Cummings and the "limited and specific" law breaking they intend to do, so go. The fine is £50 I think, so not exactly a huge deterrent. Nobody'll check.

On the other: you'll possibly not be doing the right thing and sink to their level.

NervousPete · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2020 15:49

Uh-huh. Yeah, if everybody tries to pull the same thing then where are we, eh? And I despise the Tories now sufficiently enough to feel nauseous at being put on the same level as them. My plan for my days off will instead be to just watch lots of Northern Exposure with a comfy blanket and a beer.

Ahh, Northern Exposure. You are my happy space right now.

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2020 16:06

NervousPete wrote:

Uh-huh. Yeah, if everybody tries to pull the same thing then where are we, eh? And I despise the Tories now sufficiently enough to feel nauseous at being put on the same level as them. My plan for my days off will instead be to just watch lots of Northern Exposure with a comfy blanket and a beer.

Ahh, Northern Exposure. You are my happy space right now.

Something to cheer you up slightly then:

(taken from my tv intros round for the Zoom Tuesday night quiz)

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Sep 26, 2020 8:28

Oh.

Oh deary dear

https://twitter.com/NHSCOVID19app/statu ... 2057202689

Hi Damian,

If your test took place in a Public Health England lab or NHS hospital, or as part of national surveillance testing conducted by the Office for National Statistics, test results cannot currently be linked with the app whether theyâ€™re positive or negative.

Thanks.
— NHS COVID-19 app (@NHSCOVID19app) September 25, 2020

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Yeah, I had the same thing. I was contacted by letter and asked to do a test by NHS researchers, but I can’t enter the results on the app.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

We got asked to an ONS study to do with coronavirus and they bribed us with a £25 Amazon voucher. Hardly any questions either, just how many hours did you work/work from home last month and a couple of other bits.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Malc wrote:

NervousPete wrote:

Uh-huh. Yeah, if everybody tries to pull the same thing then where are we, eh? And I despise the Tories now sufficiently enough to feel nauseous at being put on the same level as them. My plan for my days off will instead be to just watch lots of Northern Exposure with a comfy blanket and a beer.

Ahh, Northern Exposure. You are my happy space right now.

Something to cheer you up slightly then:

(taken from my tv intros round for the Zoom Tuesday night quiz)

I'd add the early series of Due South, for perfect viewing pleasure.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Is it true that you can’t ‘check out’ of a venue once you’ve ‘checked in’? So, if you pop into a coffee shop at 7am in the way to work, you stay checked in to that coffee shop until you check in somewhere else. So you could be there briefly, and have left before Covid Carol walks in, but as you don’t check out you are still ‘present’?

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

Perhaps the track and trace people or the app asks what time you left? Dunno.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Yeah, but if a track and trace person phones you up a few days later and asks what time you left somewhere, whoever is going to remember? Why does it always have to be such a shambles?

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Don't you use a little notebook to record this data and then transfer it to your database at the end of each day?

What's the matter with you people?

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2020 19:36

Can you generate your own QR codes for the app.

So I could have one for home and check in after I have been out?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

No, you have to apply for one and I think they're for businesses only

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2020 22:16

Cras wrote:

No, you have to apply for one and I think they're for businesses only

Ah fair enough.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Check this out for some thought process

https://twitter.com/DeAnna4Congress/sta ... 5925209089

I find it very interesting how the show â€œMasked Singerâ€ hit America in January 2019, a little bit over a year before they started forcing us all into masks.

Itâ€™s almost like they were beginning to condition the public that masks were â€œnormalâ€ and â€œcoolâ€.

The media is demonic.
— DeAnna Lorraine ðŸ‡ºðŸ‡¸ (@DeAnna4Congress) September 25, 2020

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

She's one of these QAnon fuckwits. It's terrifying that people like this are getting into power.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

markg wrote:

She's one of these QAnon fuckwits. It's terrifying that people like this are getting into power.

She's not getting into power, she was only a candidate in a Congress race and she lost, but she's milking that for all she's worth. Her tweets get posted on Reddit fairly often because she's so utterly and completely mental but she's not in a position of authority of any kind.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

But The Masked Singer came from Korea, and all the masks are made in China, which is like nearly Korea. Coincidence!?

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

Bamba wrote:

markg wrote:

She's one of these QAnon fuckwits. It's terrifying that people like this are getting into power.

She's not getting into power, she was only a candidate in a Congress race and she lost, but she's milking that for all she's worth. Her tweets get posted on Reddit fairly often because she's so utterly and completely mental but she's not in a position of authority of any kind.

"people like this" e.g. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/12/poli ... index.html

Malc · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2020 18:45

Scottish MP With Coronavirus Got Train To London And Back
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ ... 5a64197b44

So, does that mean, everyone (including other MPs) she came into contact with for more than 15 minutes, needs to self isolate now?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

Trump's got Covid!

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5155

DavPaz wrote:

Trump's got Covid!

Fake gnus.....

This could make the run up to the election even more unpredictable.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

Hope it kills him, that would be perfect.

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2020 7:09

Just as well he hasn't recently spent 90 minutes ranting near another septuagenarian.

Oh.

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2020 7:19

Hang on, has he done any mass rallies lately?

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

markg wrote:

Hope it kills him, that would be perfect.

That's not something I'd normally wish on anyone, but I must admit it was the first thought that popped into my head when I heard he'd got it.

And if he survives, he'll be unbearably smug.

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2020 7:24

He can be as smug as he likes, so long as he ends up in jail.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

Of course he'll survive. He's the most healthy president ever. Bigly strong.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

Yeah, he should probably get some bleach injections just to be on the safe side, though.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

markg wrote:

Hope it kills him, that would be perfect.

https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/ ... 9121041415

Please God don't kill Trump with the coronavirus a month before the election. It would be the the most significant generator of conspiracy theories since the JFK assassination. Consensus reality is already fading by the day and we really don't need this shit. https://t.co/ko09zNLVHp
— Travis View (@travis_view) October 2, 2020

devilman · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2020 9:11

Kern wrote:

He can be as smug as he likes, so long as he ends up in jail.

Yeah, I at least want him to live long enough to see all his loans come back to ruin him.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

markg wrote:

Hope it kills him, that would be perfect.

https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/ ... 9121041415

Please God don't kill Trump with the coronavirus a month before the election. It would be the the most significant generator of conspiracy theories since the JFK assassination. Consensus reality is already fading by the day and we really don't need this shit. https://t.co/ko09zNLVHp
— Travis View (@travis_view) October 2, 2020

On a similar topic, has anyone been following the QAnon nonsense? This article in the Atlantic is fascinating, alarming and dispiriting in equal doses.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Findus Fop wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

markg wrote:

Hope it kills him, that would be perfect.

https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/ ... 9121041415

Please God don't kill Trump with the coronavirus a month before the election. It would be the the most significant generator of conspiracy theories since the JFK assassination. Consensus reality is already fading by the day and we really don't need this shit. https://t.co/ko09zNLVHp
— Travis View (@travis_view) October 2, 2020

On a similar topic, has anyone been following the QAnon nonsense? This article in the Atlantic is fascinating, alarming and dispiriting in equal doses.

Aye, it's all over Reddit (disparagement of it I mean, most people over there aren't supporting it or anything). Mostly though I'm chiming in here because I saw a WWG1WGA sticker on a lamp post in fucking Glasgow the other day. It's bad enough this horseshit is rampaging all over the US but we've got enough problems over here without importing their fucking conspiracies as well. I look forward to hearing that my local takeaway place is keeping kids in it's basement. :roll:

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2020 12:18

The deep fried state.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2020 12:21

Findus Fop wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

markg wrote:

Hope it kills him, that would be perfect.

https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/ ... 9121041415

Please God don't kill Trump with the coronavirus a month before the election. It would be the the most significant generator of conspiracy theories since the JFK assassination. Consensus reality is already fading by the day and we really don't need this shit. https://t.co/ko09zNLVHp
— Travis View (@travis_view) October 2, 2020

On a similar topic, has anyone been following the QAnon nonsense? This article in the Atlantic is fascinating, alarming and dispiriting in equal doses.

wow, just wow.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Bamba wrote:

I saw a WWG1WGA sticker on a lamp post in fucking Glasgow the other day. It's bad enough this horseshit is rampaging all over the US but we've got enough problems over here without importing their fucking conspiracies as well. I look forward to hearing that my local takeaway place is keeping kids in it's basement. :roll:

A friend of mine who lives in Liverpool photographs QAnon stickers and posters from all over the city, and there are *loads*. I don’t know if Liverpool is in any way typical of cities over here or a prime example, but... I’ve also seen lots of people on FB re-sharing stuff tagged with the saveourchildren hashtag a d similar others that were used as anchors for the whole QAnon movement.

In Liverpool also there seems to be, alongside the QAnon stuff, a lot to do with the so-called ‘Scouse Banksy’ Sine Missione, who has seemingly upped his ‘work’ recently and is plastering Liverpool with thousands of anti mask, anti-vax, 5G conspiracy theory mailshots of nonsense in a very public way, so the two things could be connected or playing off each other?

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

The #saveourchildren stuff is the most pernicious thing they've come up with yet because to anyone who doesn't know anything about their nonsense it seems like a totally valid cause. Like who doesn't want to save children, right? Except that QAnon fuckwits want to save children from having their adrenochrome harvested in order to prolong the life of celebrities and also being trafficked by furniture shops. Because they're utterly, utterly insane.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

Bamba wrote:

Except that QAnon fuckwits want to save children from having their adrenochrome harvested in order to prolong the life of celebrities

The Bioshock sequel that never got made.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:03

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

markg wrote:

Hope it kills him, that would be perfect.

https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/ ... 9121041415

Please God don't kill Trump with the coronavirus a month before the election. It would be the the most significant generator of conspiracy theories since the JFK assassination. Consensus reality is already fading by the day and we really don't need this shit. https://t.co/ko09zNLVHp
— Travis View (@travis_view) October 2, 2020

Not that american politics is any of my business, at the same time if he survives there will be quite a significant proportion of their populace screaming "praybs jangus! he is risen from his deathbed!". The best that can be hoped for is that he enters a quantum superposition.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:21

He's in hospital now. It will certainly be interesting to see how this plays out.

myp · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:59

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

He's in hospital now. It will certainly be interesting to see how this plays out.

Getting treatment ordinary people have no access to (and even less if he kills ACA like he wants to)

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