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Seems crazy to me they are saying they wouldn't want to give different guidance to difference age groups as it would be unfair

Here in sweden it was mentioned (tho they dident act upon) that it would be unfair that some with more education and well paid jobs could work from home while those in the service sector etc could not. I dont think they really ever considered not advising ppl with "nice" jobs not to work from home but they thought about it enough to mention it in public.

Seems crazy (im in service sector btw).

Poor Matt Hancock.
The Data Guys came up with the wheeze to use the Tory Membership list to boost the number of Tests above 100k for last Friday.
Anyone with some foresight would have remembered the Tory Party is no longer a mass membership organisation. The daily number of tests currently looks unlikely to routinely exceed 100k per day. Didn't someone also suggest the daily testing figure would reach 250k?

It is inherently unfair of course, but I'm not sure what would be gained by people who can work from home not doing so. I mean my productivity currently is low, sure, but if I didn't even try to get work done I'd go crazy, and I'm not sure potentially not being able to pay rent and food would help anyone either.

Seems crazy to me they are saying they wouldn't want to give different guidance to difference age groups as it would be unfair

Well, here's a point of view:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/26/dont-let-older-peoples-liberty-be-stolen-during-this-crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/29/we-over-70s-will-fight-for-our-lockdown-liberty

Arguably, what counts is how vulnerable people are. Many older people are not, many younger people are.

the state of this worthless, sinister toryscum prick.

"yes thousands of people died unnecessarily due to my incompetence, but you really should be nicer to me about it"

first up against the wall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIhgwQMHQPQ

WA utter C

which was simultaneously written by incompetent people and will kill your battery and fail to actually work

Unless Apple and Google somehow grant the app special privileges on their platforms to do stuff with Bluetooth and background activity that other apps can't, we already know the limits of what's technically possible.

It's not really about competence, other than persuing this particular path at all.

there's a definite whiff of "know your place, uppity brown woman" about his fucking tone.

christ's tits he's a loathsome 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag.

Military-style discipline will be needed from every individual to get the country safely back to work, the Defence Secretary said today as ministers started preparing to modify the two-metre social distancing rule.

We're screwed then.

That wasn’t up for debate was it?

I confess to not having noticed the presence of any brown-ness.

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https://twitter.com/Paul__Christian/status/1257754926765219845

No surprise: this data on the tory lack of investment in the nhs, since Thatcher.

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but clapping!

I know.
Especially the tories clapping when they voted not to give a pay rise to nurses, are those clapping for the nhs.
And they'll get away with this, as they usually do

the testing figures as shown on the graph at todays press conference
anyone notice how it spiked at approx. 100k on the day the tories said they would do 100k tests, but all subsequent days have been ( well ) under 100k, that does fall over a weekend so that might have an effect .... but still

The Thursday figures included 50,000 "testing kits" that they posted to anyone they could scrounge up an address for, many of which were missing parts of the kit. It was pure bullshit.

(the BBC merrily ran "testing target reached" headlines, because of the unique way it's funded)

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

But they are able to use those kits multiple times in the figures

When they are sent out
When a replacement with all necessary parts is sent out
When the testing is done
When the test is returned
When the test is analysed
When the results are known.

Six tests for the price of one

They need 60% of people, 80% of people with smart phones, to download Cummings’s spy app.

It’s not going to happen is it?

If it makes you happy you can look into the government's future. The Australian government are being forced into admitting the iphone app doesn't work all that well at all. To top it off after saying (correctly) that the police can't access the data in the app, they have also admitted that because it's stored on Amazon AWS, US law enforcement CAN access the data as long as it isn't sent to the US.

What's the bets that Australian LEO are already emailing their US counterparts for info on their citizens?