Coronavirus

[Flashheart]

Please don't feed the troll. It only empowers them.

[pauld]

This is what Helen Whateley, the Lack of Care Minister who didn't know how many doctors and nurses have died from Covid19 but continued to blame them for using PPE too much, did before she became a Tory MP:

https://www.hsj.co.uk/the-bedpan/mckinsey-report-unthinkable-solutions-set-scene-for-nhs-cuts/5015368.article

TLDR: she worked for the dept at McKinsey, the rapacious US management consultants, that proposed £20bn of cuts to the NHS, part of McKinsey's ongoing strategy to privatise the NHS. She's now a minister in the Dept of Health.

[Arriba]

Please don't feed the troll. It only empowers them.

I get that but sometimes it needs to be said.

[mystical_goat]

Whateley is a cretin, seen her in a few different media appearances and she is adept at avoiding questions and spouting party lines.

[bathford]

There have been demonstrations in Michigan by people demanding the reopening of the State. They are shown in groups, taking selfies and ignoring State Government advice.

Michigan has the fourth highest number of coronavirus infections and the third highest number of deaths. What a bunch of bellends. One demonstrator brought his assault rifle for company!

[Matchworn Shirts]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/us-gun-purchases-coronavirus-record

If a vaccine doesn't rid us of Coronavirus, this AK47 will for sure!

[Bob's Orange]

There have been demonstrations in Michigan by people demanding the reopening of the State. They are shown in groups, taking selfies and ignoring State Government advice.

Michigan has the fourth highest number of coronavirus infections and the third highest number of deaths. What a bunch of bellends. One demonstrator brought his assault rifle for company!

What is the Forrest Gump phrase? 'Stupid is as stupid does?' Apparently guns are seen as essential in the States!

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

Also, Georgia has revoked its ban on face masks - brought in originally to counter the KKK.

[4D]

Rednecks 

[RobertT]

I can imagine a few Dixie Flag inspired ones appearing in the Southern parts of the State.

[RobertT]

The WWE thing in Florida, whereby it is now deemed an essential service, has an interesting back story (nothing proven as yet).  The day after DeSantis (Gov) agreed to classifying it as Essential, Linda McMahon (wife of Vince and co-owner of WWE) dropped $18m on a Super PAC supporting the Repubs in Florida.  Then, a couple of days later they announced the first live event (with no audience) ensuring they didn't go into breach of contract with Fox who won the TV rights (part of the contract is a number of live performances being required, not just recorded content).  This meant avoiding having to pay back $100m's in fees they had received.  In between the agreement on the live show and announcement a few days were allowed to pass (so DeSantis only spoke about his Exec order about 4 or 5 days after making it, so it tied in with the actual event happening anyway).  Seems someone at WWE was diagnosed with Covid-19.

You can well imagine other sports pressing down this route once TV contracts start to get them by the short and curlies.

[pauld]

The WWE thing in Florida, whereby it is now deemed an essential service, has an interesting back story (nothing proven as yet).  The day after DeSantis (Gov) agreed to classifying it as Essential, Linda McMahon (wife of Vince and co-owner of WWE) dropped $18m on a Super PAC supporting the Repubs in Florida.  Then, a couple of days later they announced the first live event (with no audience) ensuring they didn't go into breach of contract with Fox who won the TV rights (part of the contract is a number of live performances being required, not just recorded content).  This meant avoiding having to pay back $100m's in fees they had received.  In between the agreement on the live show and announcement a few days were allowed to pass (so DeSantis only spoke about his Exec order about 4 or 5 days after making it, so it tied in with the actual event happening anyway).  Seems someone at WWE was diagnosed with Covid-19.

You can well imagine other sports pressing down this route once TV contracts start to get them by the short and curlies.

Allegedly much the same happened with the Cheltenham Festival here, govt pressured by big gambling companies to let it go ahead.

[Bogus Dave]

840 today, that will include the weekends backlog which was a bit later than anticipated. Can’t really draw anything conclusive, but seeing as it’s still down on last week, even with a backlog, again suggests numbers might have steadied, though  not yet started to decline

Lockdown expected to be extended for another three weeks later, to the surprise of no-one

[pauld]

840 today, that will include the weekends backlog which was a bit later than anticipated. Can’t really draw anything conclusive, but seeing as it’s still down on last week, even with a backlog, again suggests numbers might have steadied, though  not yet started to decline

Can't draw conclusions from day to day numbers, too many variables, too much lag, esp when we know that large amounts of deaths, never mind cases, are not being reported. WHO have described the situation in Europe generally as improving apart from continuing disappointing figures in UK, Russia, Belarus and Turkey. We are still with the outliers (and not the good ones) unfortunately

[china red]

This is what Helen Whateley, the Lack of Care Minister who didn't know how many doctors and nurses have died from Covid19 but continued to blame them for using PPE too much, did before she became a Tory MP:

https://www.hsj.co.uk/the-bedpan/mckinsey-report-unthinkable-solutions-set-scene-for-nhs-cuts/5015368.article

TLDR: she worked for the dept at McKinsey, the rapacious US management consultants, that proposed £20bn of cuts to the NHS, part of McKinsey's ongoing strategy to privatise the NHS. She's now a minister in the Dept of Health.

I have had the misfortune of dealing with McKinsey for the past five months, a more inept bunch of cretins are you likely to ever meet.