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

Socially Distant Dancing with the Corona Taskforce?

Yeh happy they changed their minds and got the info out there

If they don't do it, Sky will.
/Partridge.

I see Rees-Mogg is back trying to stop shielding MPs from being able to vote. What an odious cunt he really is.

Even if I ever thought it was appropriate to refer to BAME people as coloured (I don't) I would find the U.S. spelling abhorrent :P

Anyway, if you're implying I'm saying they were all black or BAME, they weren't.

I still can't fathom the disparity between zero (government reported) deaths in Spain over the last two days compared to 324 in the UK.

What the fuck are people doing in the UK? Licking each other?

don't knock it till you've tried it

BBQs can get quite licky out here

He won it though

He's just going to end up doing damage to his own side - how many Tory MPs are over 70 I wonder?† How well is a by-election going to go when you've got a bungled pandemic on your hands and a competent opposition leader?

Not like the opposition have enough votes to stop any legislation anyway

† good chance we'll never be subjected to an aural assault from Bill Cash again

When do dentists take patients again?
Asking for me and my fucked teeth.

Spain was ahead of us, no?

There will be demographic differences too, maybe Spain has fewer BAME people than the UK, maybe they have fewer obese people.

Also, all governments report deaths differently.

I was told August unless ‘emergency’ (and list that constitutes this is now shorter than ever).

Apparently drills are the problem. It’s kinda ridiculous.

But Nandos has opened again?

Do I have Covid

I've been measuring o2 levels.
Varies between 99 and 95. Different reading each check. I'm sure variance is to do with other factors.

What's it been on re checks?

Spain was ahead of us, no?

Yes. Back in March I think we were widely considered a fortnight or so behind Spain.

But Nandos has opened again?

Clout -
Nando’s Employees : No
Dentist$ : Yes

A fortnight ago Spain had ~50 deaths per day.

Stop the licking!

Spain had a lockdown that makes what we had look a joke

Ours was/is a joke...
And late
Hence the world champ death rate

He's just going to end up doing damage to his own side - how many Tory MPs are over 70 I wonder?

I'm struggling to see why Rees-Mogg is fighting so hard over this one. I appreciate that he may well think a bit of parliamentary pantomime is more important than actually having a functioning representative democracy, but it seems an odd choice to be making a stand on. Unless they think the older members of the party are less likely to toe the party line when compared to more junior members who still have aspirations of climbing the oh-so-greasy Tory pole.

I guess in addition to the pantomime (which I think is a real concern of theirs), there is the risk of more accusations of "one rule for us..." as the Tories push for further re-opening up.

I've been measuring o2 levels.

Varies between 99 and 95. Different reading each check. I'm sure variance is to do with other factors.

What's it been on re checks?

96 at the moment.

I did some research on this.
Seems people have their own range. What would be worrying was if you normal range of, say 95-97 suddenly started dropping.

I'm struggling to see why Rees-Mogg is fighting so hard over this one.

A lot of comment on Twitter that it's to shield Johnson from Starmer at PMQ's, how effective that will be is a question I'd ask - I guess a Wall Of Noise will give Johnson some time to think, but he's so out of his depth that I don't think what he can gather in those few seconds is going to enable him to out-fox Starmer.