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Several pollsters are asking regular questions on how the public think the government is handling the pandemic. YouGov and Opinium have published the most data on this and I have chosen the former for my chart.
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Good morning BTW
Following close behind Cummings we have had the quarantine policy fiasco, ongoing problems in care homes, a whole batch of tests having to be repeated, confusion over the latest rule changes, and now a second wave of infections is likely to break out in parliament itself. We have now overtaken Spain on death rate and are only behind Belgium among nations of any size. Meanwhile the contact App clearly doesn’t work and even islanders are waiting for the promised significantly revised version.
- If you succeed in containing the virus, then you get blamed for over-hyping its deadliness
- If there are bodies piled high then you get blamed for not doing enough
Like Y2K, even if you succeed, it is perceived as failure.
Classic code for “the man’s a liar”.
Astonishingly, Carlaw has not spoken to his boss BoZo in months. They have only exchanged two text messages since The Clown was released from hospital.
Carlaw sounds like a drowning man, unable to affect either his opponents nor his (supposed) allies.
The Milton Keynes appointee is a real kick in the groin.
Just face it. The PM is a lazy, ill prepared fuckwit.
One wonders whether trashing the airline industry with quarantine is really nessecary at this point in time, when we are the hotspot. Quarantine from Brazil, Mexico and USA maybe, but why wreck short-haul?
Priti clearly is pursuing an independent authoritarian lockdown policy, on top of her immigration one. Conspicuously she was the only one not backing Cummings.
I have no time for the poison dwarf, but she seems to be the only one with a sense of purpose.
In regard to the black lives matters march yesterday in the UK, I wonder why people just shrug when almost on a daily basis a black teenager stabs to death another black teenager just becuase of the street that he lives in. Why is there not a march about this, don't these black lives matter?
https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky/status/1267856088449323010
https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky/status/1267856089661542400
Sensible discussion, including on here, is very difficult to come by
But I do think the Office for National Statistics are the gold standard. Their weekly death statistics publication is top notch.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/16/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-across-countries
BLM is about combating systemic racism.
we have a new shitpost meme. brilliant.
Is it because it's happening within communities that wider society doesn't care about? Are those communities disproportionately non white?
We call that systemic..... I'll let you fill in the blank.
In fact, the media went out of the way to tell us that Asian men weren't more likely to be rapists, ignoring the fact that most of the victims were white girls.
Which sadly is a far greater issue for Black males than any other group (including white working class males)
You're right, wider society doesn't care, but the white middle class liberals in Islington care alright - where do you think they buy their drugs? Yep, from the black kids on bikes without a care of the consequences.
I've filled in the blank for you, hope it helped.
The govt knows it is in the sh*t and that probably explains a large part of Boris's increasing tetchiness...
1. You are reliant on accurate knowledge of virus prevalence in other countries. This is difficult because of problems with testing, and the incubation period and asymptotic spread. If there was a second wave in France would we know about it in time to prevent it spreading here in large numbers?
2. If you impose quarantine only on the subset of countries with higher infection rates than the UK, and that list is short, it looks bad.
Both of those reasons point to imposing blanket restrictions that you lift selectively and carefully.
And I absolutely do not support her
And for the second time, who is "we" please?
I don't think, although I've never read any studies on the subject, there's a culture of male abandonment of families, or family responsibilities, in West Africa. AFAIK, or have ever heard, it's the same as the rest of the world.
And I appreciate you're desperate to call me a racist so just get it over and done with.
That way you can lift restrictions on travel from France, say, confident that they will share your continuing restrictions on travel from the US, Brazil, Mexico, etc.
In my experience of being a white liberal middle class person living in an area with a high BME population, serious deprivation and regular stabbing incidents involving young people, I can tell you there is a lot more concern, activism and support from within the local community here than from the white population as a whole, who seem happy to fall back on ridiculous stereotypes and victim blaming. Perhaps it's different north of the river, but the picture you are painting strikes me as more like an absurd fantasy from a provincial Daily Mail reader than an informed and serious contribution to the debate. We live in the same streets as victims of violence, our kids go to the same schools, do you honestly think we don't care? Grow up.
Do you not know what systemic means?
Frankly, that's something which government and 'society' as a whole can't help with directly, and which people have to work on themselves and within that community.
Me: Systemic racism exists
You: but what about this effect of systemic racism
Me: Yes, that is definetely an effect of Sytemic Racism, good example
You: You don't like that I'm mentioning this clear and obvious effect of systemic racism
It's a weird conversation.
Similarly we have no problem with James Bond having a Scots, English, Irish or indeed Australian accent, having brown or blue eyes, chest hair or no chest hair, but if a black actor is ever cast in the role we all know how the usual suspects will react.
The source said: "Eddie is MIA [missing in action]. He is technically about but people have been told not to email Ed Lister — there is no point if you want a response. He is not going anywhere but he is not doing very much." The claim was categorically denied by Number 10.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/03/michael-goves-cabinet-office-overseenew-covid-19-alert-system/
You aren't very good at this.
Mr. xP, you just beat me to it.
You're deluded mate, you're the problem. And keep telling yourself I read the Daily Mail.
And equally competent