Doon frae Troon
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Basically like the sun, swallows and butterflies CV in North Britain is about two weeks behind what is happening in southern Britain.
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Basically like the sun, swallows and butterflies CV in North Britain is about two weeks behind what is happening in southern Britain.
MegaSteve
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I wonder if Boris keeps an eye on what's happening at the hospital that serves his constituency... If he did he'd be aware the covid wards are back to being full after a brief respite last week...
Doon frae Troon
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Eustace on Question Time giving a masterclass of how to say 'I don't know' a dozen times without actually using the words 'I don't know'. 
rudebhoy
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Only 65,000 people tested on Wednesday, has anyone in government given an explanation as to why we are consistently missing the 100k target?
at least DR the other day actually said the number rather than where prev they just kept saying they have reached the target again... which they hadn't
Foxholer
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Certainly not. Just pointing out his bigger responsibility (and the 'advantage' she has and has used) when announcing results of meetings. I actually trust her more, in general, than I trust BoJo. Though as far as this crisis goes, I trust them equally.
Continuing the 'irons' analogy...It depends! If the clubs are faulty (as in heads or grips come off, or specs aren't what was ordered - e.g. Regular ordered but Stiff supplied or length different to that ordered) then Supplier is at fault - as it is, indeed 'duff gear'. However, if specs ordered were wrong (e.g. Regular ordered and sopplied, but Stiff was what should have been ordered or non-standard length required but not specifid on order) then it's the Customer's fault - as it's the order that's 'duff'! Confirming requirement for/that PPE complies with UK Standard(s) is equivalent to comfirming appropriate flex (or length) of irons!
Foxholer
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I believe my earlier reply post covers everything that is relevant!
Old Skier
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The one question i would think a decent journalist would be asking during the briefings.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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...and if someone from the BBC asked it then he/she would get crticised - no?
Imurg
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It seems the first question asked, as it happens, by the BBC, was....
We don't want to preempt what Boris will say on Sunday but will we be mirroring Wales' decisions released today..?
That just beggars belief..
Did they think they were going to get an answer detailing what Boris is going to say on Sunday?
Really..?
They thought they were going to have everything leaked in front of millions on live TV?
If that's the standard of journalism, in every company because they all seem equally retarded, then I'm surprised anyone bothers to watch, read or listen to a word they say.
Pitiful.
We don't want to preempt what Boris will say on Sunday but will we be mirroring Wales' decisions released today..?
That just beggars belief..
Did they think they were going to get an answer detailing what Boris is going to say on Sunday?
Really..?
They thought they were going to have everything leaked in front of millions on live TV?
If that's the standard of journalism, in every company because they all seem equally retarded, then I'm surprised anyone bothers to watch, read or listen to a word they say.
Pitiful.
Old Skier
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...and if someone from the BBC asked it then he/she would get crticised - no?
Why?
I did ask you for your views but you ignored it.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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Yes - the government should be pressed by the media on mixed messaging, PPE, contact tracing and testing ever day and the media should not be criticised for doing so.
Doon frae Troon
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The Cummings inspired private briefing to a selected [Tory] group of jounalists seem to have backfired quite spectacularly.
The newspapers all went with a Brexit/VE/Bank Holiday inspired end of lockdown story, as expected.
Government now furiously backpeddling as the British public [outwith of the Westminster bubble] show a lot more sense than it's government.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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What the heck is this two week quarantine for everyone arriving in the uk by air from the end of this month? Never mind the ‘why now not much sooner - what’s changed?’ or ‘Why end May not now?’ - having information on this sort of clampdown coming through 3rd parties and not from the government directly is nonsense and causing quite a bit of confusion and concern. So many questions about it that cannot be answered as only a minister can answer them and it’s not come that route to us...
...and also now apparently grant shapps wants us to be walking and cycling to work...well...that’s fine unless many more pedestrians are going onto the road - now busy again with traffic - to safely pass other pedestrians. We were out midday yesterday - much earlier than usual - and the roads were so much busier and that made walking on the road or crossing it to avoid other pedestrians are lot less straight forward and riskier.
...and also now apparently grant shapps wants us to be walking and cycling to work...well...that’s fine unless many more pedestrians are going onto the road - now busy again with traffic - to safely pass other pedestrians. We were out midday yesterday - much earlier than usual - and the roads were so much busier and that made walking on the road or crossing it to avoid other pedestrians are lot less straight forward and riskier.
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Would you care to tell us how you know that this all arose as a result of a "Cummings inspired briefing"?
Hacker Khan
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You must be pretty naive if you think that papers get these stories by luck or in depth journalism.
Politicians have leaked to the press for years to test ideas out or for political gain and it still goes on. Whether Cummings is a puppet master orchestrating it all is up for debate. But the government leaks an idea, The Sun prints that beer gardens will be open next week and off we go.
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You might be surprised by how much I know about the workings of the Press and its relationship with Governments and others.
However, the post to which I referred was definitive in its claim so I would imagine that the poster is able to substantiate it.
Ethan
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Well, there is debate but it seems that opinion is moving towards the view that infection does generate antibodies in almost all the infected, and that those antibodies do provide immunity. The remaining question is how long those antibodies last. Vaccination seeks to do basically the same thing.
Some of the issues around 'immunity certificates' are political. The Govt is anxious about some people having a special card of invulnerability and that weakening adherence to social distancing for others.
Doon frae Troon
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Doon frae Troon
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I think you by-passed the word 'inspired'.
Unless you deny the briefing took place.......seems to be common knowledge from the journalists who were not invited....fancy that.
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