Coronavirus

[horlock07]

State of the fucking Mail this morning.....

[smalltowngypsymassacre]

Interesting take. As someone with a reception age child, you can get to fuck if you think he's going back to school yet.

I have a year one and a year three. Me and the ex wife have already agreed the year one sprog is not going back on June 1st. My personal conviction is that schools should be shut until September, but I'm pretty sure the gvt are going to go through with this ridiculous plan of theirs, unfortunately

[pauld]

State of the fucking Mail this morning.....

Amazing how quickly some journos went from "I'm having to deal with my own children with home schooling, teachers should be paid £1m a year" to "I'm having to deal with my own children, teachers' health is an acceptable sacrifice to get the little shits out from under my feet while I stay safely working from home". No sector should be made to go back to work until every journalist merrily advocating end of lockdown for someone else is commuting to work in their office on a crowded Tube train.

[Peter Venkman]

State of the fucking Mail this morning.....

[Ardiles]

Just when you thought the Daily Mail couldn't sink any lower.  I despair.  Call them 'heroes' and their lives become honourable collateral, just like soldiers.  Expendable.

I'm sure it didn't used to be like this.  The country has changed.

[Flashheart]

The people that keep on buying it are just as much to blame.

[Ardiles]

Yep.

[STFC_Manc]

June might be too early but why are we have a summer holiday at all? If they scrapped that as kids have already been off then they could make up for some of the lost time going in from July or whenever safe.

[Peter Venkman]

Fuck, we are doomed, she was our last hope!

[Flashheart]

Our last hope.

[Peter Venkman]

Our last hope.

"Help me Obi Wan, you're our only hope".

[StfcRusty]

Just when you thought the Daily Mail couldn't sink any lower.  I despair.  Call them 'heroes' and their lives become honourable collateral, just like soldiers.  Expendable.

I'm sure it didn't used to be like this.  The country has changed.

In no particular order:

1. The Daily Mail London office is closed (columnist Peter Hitchens has tweeted that several times when people ask him why he’s working from home). Teachers should go back when the Mail offices are fully staffed.
2. The Daily Mail regularly lambast “greedy public sector workers” whenever pay rises are mentioned
3. A significant proportion of Daily Mail readers are why the lockdown is necessary (to protect the elderly, higher risk groups)
4. Calling people “Heroes” is a way of them feeling better when people get seriously ill or die
5. Pretending they care about the education of 6 years old is utterly disingenuous (I’d have more respect for them if they admitted they need institutional babysitters so parents can work as their owners are concerned their investments are tanking)

Thoughts LL, GosportRob, HoboDan?

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

The only surprise is that people are surprised by the handling of the crisis.

I’ve probably worked this out wrong, but the saving on pensions payout after the culling in the care/residential homes is around £50-60 billion per year.

[horlock07]

Just when you thought the Daily Mail couldn't sink any lower.  I despair.  Call them 'heroes' and their lives become honourable collateral, just like soldiers.  Expendable.

I'm sure it didn't used to be like this.

You have got a point there, the Mail used to openly support the Nazi's.

The people that keep on buying it are just as much to blame.

The Mail, like any any populist paper only prints what it knows its core readership wants to read.

I’ve probably worked this out wrong, but the saving on pensions payout after the culling in the care/residential homes is around £50-60 billion per year.

I hadn't thought of that.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

 Well, the State Pension is just over £9k per year. You can debate on the real numbers of pensioners who have died but, say, 40,000 = £36 billion