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WH2020: The courts put of a halt on US Postal Service changes that could have impacted on the outcome – politicalbetting.com
This could have a big impact on WH2020. Federal judge issues temporary injunction against USPS operational changes amid concerns about mail slowdowns – The Washington Post https://t.co/t9Nl6sKLqZ
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https://twitter.com/FT/status/1306692499327590402
Leading scientists advising the UK government have proposed a two-week national lockdown in October to try to tackle the rising number of coronavirus cases.
Experts on the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) and the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-m) have suggested a national lockdown that could coincide with the October school half-term.
The government is keen to avoid the reclosure of schools, having shut them during the national lockdown in March and only fully reopening them this autumn.
That helps to explain why the government’s scientific advisers have looked at how a two-week national lockdown might coincide with the October half- term as part of efforts to bring Covid-19 under control.
“As schools will be closed for one week at half-term, adding an extra week to that will have limited impact on education,” said one scientist who is a member of Sage, confirming the body had considered the case for a national lockdown in October.
Another scientist who is a member of Spi-m said the body had also looked at a national lockdown that could take place next month.
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1306699242241749001
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/09/17/anchorless-boris-allowing-britain-drift-towards-another-lockdown/
https://youtu.be/NynUwxOct_8
Remind me why we built the Nightingales again?
Totally, irredeemably fucking useless.
Lockdown 3: Total Economic Collapse
Lockdown 4: Trap and Eat your Neighbour's Cat to Survive
Lockdown 5: Trap and Eat your Neighbour to Survive
Lockdown 6: Beyond Thunderdome
And that is all they got from him, as was on a train with dodgy wifi.
The differing local lockdown rules, exception for grouse shooting, starting getting 1,000 people back to sporting events at the same time as reducing social numbers to six, probable reintroduction of under 12s into the six as a u-turn at some point. The palpable shock that kids pick up bugs when they head back to school and worried parents might want a test.
It's all headless and directionless, and I say that as someone broadly in favour of restrictions...
Trump is a politician of Nixon like ruthlessness, whether what he is doing is illegal however is for the courts to decide
Dido gone by end of the weekend?
Boris wants to be an unremittingly cheerful, positive Prime Minister of whom people would say "it was wonderful to be alive when Boris Johnson ran Britain" - they may not think that now.
As such, being relentlessly positive, promising a return to the good times, being the spokesman for the return to normality, "Mr Good News" is what he wants and does well (it's not frankly very difficult). He spent the early summer promising hope, a return to shops, a return to pubs, a return to restaurants, a return to the office, a return to schools, a return to normality, a return to the life we all had back in the good times when we gave him a 80-seat majority.
Those days...
The problem was too many people believed or wanted to believe the virus was gone and we could go back to the life we had without risk. We could restore the night time economy, we could have fun again, we could forget the virus and have back the life we once had.
It wasn't so simple but Boris couldn't be honest - instead, he did what he always does and tells the audience in front of him exactly what he thinks they want to hear.
Struggling once again to see why MPs aren't demanding an urgent debate on the strategy of our response.
If the NHS does not step forward in a pandemic then what the hell is it for?
In Italy they do it in under half an hour
If there's a second nationwide lockdown next month, as per the report that @TSE quoted, then there'll likely be a third one at Christmas and a fourth in February, along with massive attendant economic devastation (number three should be enough to kill off much of physical retail and most of the pubs and restaurants.) The country will then want rid of Johnson, and so will the Tory Party. The only question then is whether he uses the ill health excuse to go of his own accord, or has to be pushed.
Although I expect there will be mass disobedience of the lockdown rules at xmas. People will not leave granny alone over the festive season and their neighbours on the phone to plod can go fuck themselves.
1) the first was NEVER likely to work (unless you could get lots of judges all drunk & keep them that way); and
2) the folks most sensitive to Trumpsky screwing up USPS are
a) seniors; and
b) rural residents
Which is why RNC and most sane (or less insane) GOPers are a best dubious.
Maybe revisit after November.
Might move the bulk bog paper purchasing forward to tomorrow.
My recollection of lockdown in East London was that it started to fall apart after two weeks - at Easter. The capriciously good weather was too much - people wanted to be out, to enjoy themselves, to be "free".
There's a deep-rooted desire for the certainties of what we had and a reluctance to face the challenges of a different and uncertain future. People will always be conservative - to run back to what they knew and understood.
Nah, you're probably right. Pray God our continual record of replacing one useless Prime Minister with an even worse one finally ends after Johnson.
The paper for those who don't do politics.
https://twitter.com/traceyrees2/status/1306686583882555411?s=21
Plus Thatcher and Cameron, arguably Blair were certainly better than the PMs they replaced
Like picking up the ball on halfway slalomming past 4 and curling it into your own net.
Will a second lockdown pull down the economic house of cards?
The unwinding of restrictions, and in particular the failure to deal with Brits heading off holiday to CV19 hotpots followed almost immediately by school reopenings, pretty much guaranteed a new wave of cases.
Track and trace, due to testing deficiencies, is now also essentially dead.
So, we are going to almost certainly follow the Swedish example now.
This will, I'm afraid, result in very little changing. I can make this forecast because I've just come from Arizona, where pretty much all restrictions were removed about three months ago. And they went from closed by statute to open to closed by behaviour. It's gone from a de jure to a de facto lockdown.
People will still choose to avoid public transport. People will work from home. Shops will insist on mask wearing (because, it turns out more people shop with you if you insist on masks).
It will be good for bars and restaurants. However, if people don't feel safe, they don't go out. Whether in Sweden or Arizona or Vegas (all of whom have removed most of their restrictions), restaurant dining numbers are still dramatically down year-over-year. Indeed, the OpenTable numbers show most US states doing far, far worse than Germany (numbers actually up year over year) or the UK (flat).
So,
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/17/covid-in-europe-who-warns-of-alarming-spread-across-continent?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Right now I'd settle for an even halfway competent social democrat (regardless of whether or not said person was dull as ditchwater) over a negligent, directionless nitwit every day of the week.
Saving the lives of the old and the infirm, vs saving the economy.
The government has chosen the former, at enormous cost, because the latter is too unpalatable to contemplate.
The trouble is the young and the healthy have chosen to carry on with life. And short of welding them into their homes, a second lockdown is likely to be as effective as a Barnard Castle eye test.
Yes.
Dead.
At 8 pm.
Worse at 9:30.
Instead, as I thought, we've dealt with it exactly the way we usually do. By making light of it.
It will snowball
The current crop of lockdowns is far more relaxed than the first proper lockdown. I think we are moving to a Swedish style herd immunity programme, which is what Cummings proposed in the first instance.
Like most of the few things the Government has managed to get right, or at least half-right, the work of Sunak. But he can't repeat his £300bn down the back of the sofa trick twice. If draconian lockdowns are attempted again it will finish the country off.
Entry to Singapore
Short term visitors from anywhere in the world are not able to enter Singapore.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/singapore/entry-requirements
Entry and transit
At present you are only permitted to enter Thailand if they meet one of the following criteria:
If you are on a diplomatic or consular mission......
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/thailand/entry-requirements
Other than that....Yay!
What is happening up north to cause so much case growth? How about in London; hows it looking there?
Many pubs at least made an effort to distance.
Some eateries made the opposite decision to pack them in.
Has HM's Govt take steps to meet this new threat? OR are gonna rely on Trumpsky's Space Farce??
I don't see Starmer as having the ability to take dozens of decisions on the fly, like Blair. I think he'll be more like Brown or Ed Miliband, endlessly delaying. So I can't see him being that great.
But, of course, I could be wrong. And it's five years at least before we'll know.