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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2020 10:42:51 GMT
Sorry to hear your news.
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Post by neige on Mar 27, 2020 11:04:02 GMT
Real sorry to hear that, John!
Meanwhile, a work colleague who was in the risk group big time (heavy asthma, allergies galore) and was diagnosed positive a couple of weeks ago, now reports that she's almost fully recovered.
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Post by hippopotamus on Mar 27, 2020 11:06:39 GMT
I'm going to log off again after this, but a friend of mine just died of the virus. Like a lot of people, he wasn't feeling too bad, suddently got worse, and went on a ventilator and passed today. I hope, for all our sakes, that this is the only person we all know who succumbs to this thing. I met John in high school, I forget what class, but we both made each other laugh even though our interests weren't the same. We kept in touch after high school and we'd occasionally check in with each other. John Tai was a very nice man. I'm so sorry Sloop. I hope you and everyone is taking care of themselves. It's very hard to add grief on top of all the other emotions we're all feeling.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2020 11:23:55 GMT
Boris Johnson has tested positive for it. Do we even have a deputy PM? I don't think we do.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Mar 27, 2020 11:26:57 GMT
My condolences, Sloop.
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Post by Playground LEVINE on Mar 27, 2020 11:46:46 GMT
Boris Johnson has tested positive for it. Do we even have a deputy PM? I don't think we do. Raab.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2020 13:31:28 GMT
Boris Johnson has tested positive for it. Do we even have a deputy PM? I don't think we do.
I'm not surprised the way he was bragging about shaking hands with patients.
(I wish him a full recovery, obvs).
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Post by Playground LEVINE on Mar 27, 2020 19:09:46 GMT
I don't derive any pleasure from their conditions and I hope they recover soon but it did annoy me the way that both BJ and Hancock had to get a condescending little message into their announcements - 'I am at home WHICH IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO', or 'I am self-isolating WHICH OF COURSE EVERYBODY SHOULD DO ANYWAY'
I think having these very public cases is in fact going to be educational, if anything good is to come out of all this. This is reality and not a list of statistics. And it's interesting that amid all the panic about hundreds of deaths and the warnings about how deadly this virus is, all of these middle-aged or elderly men have 'mild symptoms'.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2020 19:52:30 GMT
Boris' hypocrisy concerning the NHS is staggering. And as someone who watched her husband slowly die [*four years ago, head and neck cancer not coronavirus] because he stopped being able to breath, I hope the nasty little turd who came up with the title "operation last gasp" dies just like that. Fuck him. He won't though, he'll have the best care and come out of it being even more insufferable.
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Post by DarknessFish on Mar 27, 2020 20:28:33 GMT
I don't derive any pleasure from their conditions and I hope they recover soon but it did annoy me the way that both BJ and Hancock had to get a condescending little message into their announcements - 'I am at home WHICH IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO', or 'I am self-isolating WHICH OF COURSE EVERYBODY SHOULD DO ANYWAY' I'm absolutely sick of everything on TV, every single live broadcast has one of these messages, or the presenters sat 400 feet away shouting across an empty aircraft hanger to each other. Every news item hand-over has the presenters telling each other they're looking forward to enjoying the sunshine in their gardens and absolutely not going anywhere, or a supposed live skype conversation with their mum which is just a video they took earlier because otherwise they'd have a befuddled pensioner shouting "which button is it again, can you hear me, Gerald?" while they film their fridge. Treating us like toddlers with learning difficulties. They could at least just look miserable, and when they hand over to the weather forecast, the twat just glowers into the camera and mutters "fucking typical, glorious sunshine, and if I so much as walk down to the park there'll be a hundred do-gooder snidey cunts waiting to film me and shop me". Absolute wall to wall condescension right now.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2020 21:50:06 GMT
I did genuinely shout at a weather forecast this week Anyway I managed to get a good delivery deal from a local greengrocers since no supermarket had slots. I might turn vegan.
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Post by Playground LEVINE on Mar 29, 2020 12:15:06 GMT
Couple of comments on Twitter saying that because the economic impact of COVID-19 will be so great, that the gov might renege on Brexit.
I doubt it, but it's an interesting thought. The next year or two will be spent dealing with the fallout of all this shit so I imagine certain aspects of Brexit will have to be renegotiated at the very least.
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Post by Playground LEVINE on Mar 29, 2020 23:36:15 GMT
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Post by Playground LEVINE on Mar 29, 2020 23:45:36 GMT
“You’re going to have massive depression, meaning mental depression,” the president says. “You’re going to have depresison in the economy, also. You’re going to have large numbers of suicides. Take a look of what happens in a really horrible recession or worse. So you’re going to have tremendous suicides, but you know what you’re going to have more than anything else? Drug addiction. You will see drugs being used like nobody’s ever used them before and people are going to be dying all over the place from drug addiction. Because you would have had a wonderful job at a restaurant or even owned a restaurant ... and in one day they have nothing. They’ve gotten wiped out. One day. From our enemy, this invisible, horrible scourge.”
He adds: “Hopefully, we’re not going to have that.”
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2020 0:39:38 GMT
Renege on Brexit completely? No chance.
The striking thing about social media at the moment, at least my circles, is the people who were posting pro-Brexit, anti-Labour stuff three months ago are now on the verge of class war -- saying how the most essential workers in society are also the most underpaid and underappreciated and "surely they are now more important than these high paid ponces that are tucked up in silk sheets" to quote directly.
That's just a great indication of how broken political representation has become.
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