Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Anyone got a Times subscription to do a copy pasta of this?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/three-weeks-of-dither-and-delay-on-coronavirus-that-cost-thousands-of-british-lives-05sjvwv7g

https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1264141088010493954

The journalists door stepping Cummings don’t question hard enough. “It’s not a good look?” one asks.

So much in the comments there too.

We're fucked.

So, tomorrow they going to drop he did it a third time??
https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1264319085539667974

This guy must loving racking up nectar points

Just had to pull a used PPE glove out of my dogs throat to stop it choking on it. the location...directly at the exit of the open air police garage in the largest police station in Brighton. (and unfortunately <50m from my mums house and on the corner of the only semi quiet road in the area to take the dog to do a shite while observing proper social distancing).

For a while I've been assuming the large amounts of used tissue, gloves and masks around there wasdown to the local population of selfish cunts dropping it but given the wind that comes in off the sea and our location half way up a hill facing seaward and tonight's incident I've realised that the epicentre of this waste is always right where the police are washing their cars.

am fucking livid that I've been forced to come into physical contact with something that is likely from a high risk, high exposure contact situation such as those handled by the police.

typically to take the dog out to go to the bathroom the exhaustive list of things I touch between leaving the house and coming back in are:

I. the door handle inside flat front door to pull it open to exit
II. the building automatic exit door open button (which i press with my shoe)
IIIa. my dogs lead (which touches nothing outside the flat)
IIIb. the dog poo bag dispenser on my dogs lead
IIIc. the dog poo bag
IV. my key fob for the contactless automatic entry door to building (doesnt need to touch the sensor to work)

on a normal trip the poo bag is the only thing that comes into contact with any outside surfaces and it's inside out over my hand literally formaing a protective barrier and it's tied using the non-contacted side. the bins dont require touching to dispose of it either.

I flagged down a police car as it was leaving and asked them to "tell their colleages" to dispose of their ppe more safely, the looked at me blankly and asked if i saw them drop it directly and then drove off.. might as well be shouting into the void.

so yeah marking this date to see if I get sick now.

Agreed, so must content there, hard to know where to begin

Other tweets also suggest it was more widely known he defo was up there a while back. Is this a dead cat being chucked about?

https://twitter.com/katemaddock1/status/1259946486344843264?s=19

The fact they have been sitting on it so long, I'm hoping they have more to come

Nice if that's the case.

https://twitter.com/Coldwar_Steve/status/1264329821808660480?s=19

I don’t think this is enough to topple classic Dom. He was shrewd to play the child care card.

It's not that shrewd when the government repeatedly said that this was not a valid reason to break the lockdown.

The fact that he appears to have travelled up to Durham at least twice, if not three times, during lockdown constitutes repeated breaking of the law. He's toast, and the longer Johnson delays the inevitable, the further they undermine the rules that are essential to prevent further spread of the virus and, potentially, thousands of more unnecessary deaths.

For all this talk of what a genius he is, the utter shambles that this government makes of everything it does would suggest he isn't the political genius he thinks he is.

He's of average intelligence at best.

What a mess for Bojo the clown, the longer this is left to fester the more it will hurt him and the cabinet. Surely they should have sacked him quickly and brutally.

The child care excuse is a good one. Even if it’s against the rules people can relate to it. I don’t think he’s going anywhere.

I think exactly the opposite. Because everyone else with kids has been sticking to the rules and managing on their own. As an excuse it highlights that there is one rule for us and one for them.

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Steve Baker first Tory MP to come out on the record calling for Cummings to go, turns out one of them has a spine

The public are baying for the blood of the premier's trusted adviser, especially in the North, but he has the ear of the leader.

The Government's coffers are being raided. A horrible disease is ravaging the country, killing thousands.

I'm really enjoying this latest Hilary Mantel novel.

His story is that his wife was suffering with covid-19 like symptoms so they travelled 260 miles to his parents house. Everyone knows that if you have symptoms you should not leave the house. Why is he and his family different? Because of child care?

It's utter bullshit. He clearly broke the law, is alleged to have done so on at least two occasions and put others at risk, including his parents. For that alone he should go. That the government are now undermining their own authority to save his job makes it even more scandalous. He has to go.

Steve Baker first Tory MP to come out on the record calling for Cummings to go, turns out one of them has a spine

This I think is the first sign of the various factions jockeying to have their own advisor replace Cummings as de-facto PM. Who will the ERG want as leader?

Shapps getting slaughtered on Sky News.

didn't boris visit his parents while he was contagious

sack him too

Punches landed

https://twitter.com/RidgeOnSunday/status/1264468604008964098?s=09