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

Alok Sharma seems to have been spreading it about the HoP.

I mean, who could have predicted something like this could happen?

Farcical

This is absolute jokes... I think.

'Mr Sharma was one of a handful of ministers to attend Tuesday's cabinet meeting in Downing Street in person.'

From here

So presumably if he tests positive the entire Cabinet would have to self-isolate for 14 days? Maybe he's Rees-Mogg's stalking horse (or Trojan horse) and it's a palace coup!

they are mind-bendingly incompetent

I think they would have to, even though loads of them have already had it, since doctors are not 100% that previous victime will be immune.

It's fine. Boris has had another kid. Kids = dowhatthefuckyoulike now right?

They'll probably all go and sniff the bluebells in a castle together. And drive home blind.

So presumably if he tests positive the entire Cabinet would have to self-isolate for 14 days?

I thought the requirement was for anyone you have been within 2m for more than 15 minutes has to isolate? Which should be nobody as I'm sure the people running cabinet meetings have setup the room appropriately.

News Night had an interesting comparison on the death figures from yesterday, UK - 359, all of the other EU countries - 315.

Obviously they included all the BS government caveats about not being able to compare numbers etc, etc yawn.

First PMQs with MPs back and already Johnson is playing to the crowd with chest thumping bollocks about “40000 hard working track and tracers” rather than acknowledging any actual issues

all of the other EU countries

No way we can compare as we're not part of the EU.

/s

PMQs with MPs back didn't look like a whole lot more in the chamber of them than PMQs without MPs back?

The Potato has now started talking about easing social distancing measures, so I suppose they'll be pushing them to go back in soon.

They also won a massive majority, so I'm guessing people don't really notice.

I thought the track and tracers were just watching Netflix all day.

This line pisses me off. I'd rather there were too many tracers, and some sat around, than not enough. If there are 25k people doing anything some of them will grumble to the media.

There are other reasons are tracers are probably shit, for example inexperienced, but some doing nothing is irrelevant.

This line pisses me off. I'd rather there were too many tracers, and some sat around, than not enough

I think it's more indicative that the system doesn't work properly and the govt just wants to say how many people they've got employed for it rather than how many they're actually processing. The amount of covid related infections and deaths we have in this country means they shouldn't be short on work.

Also: This farce meant over 70s / MPs that had to shield could not vote.

Those are allowed e-voting now, but yet another fuckup.

News Night had an interesting comparison on the death figures from yesterday, UK - 359, all of the other EU countries - 315.

I misunderstood this comment - just to be clear, UK daily deaths are higher than the rest of the EU combined. Nuts.

allowed e-voting

I may have missed developments, but thought it was Proxy voting not e-voing allowed no?

This line pisses me off. I'd rather there were too many tracers, and some sat around, than not enough. If there are 25k people doing anything some of them will grumble to the media.

There are other reasons are tracers are probably shit, for example inexperienced, but some doing nothing is irrelevant.

They were employed purely to hit a target, so many of them are literally just bums on seats. I'm sure they are/will be needed and I'm sure eventually they will be useful, but they have had little to zero training and I'm sure a significant number actually won't be very good at it.
Yet another example of the government setting an arbitrary number and 'hitting' it, but not actually doing anything of substance.

Problem with the "but with our population density we didn't have a chance!" response is that 1) outside of London, our population density isn't that high

According to Wikipedia, the population density of London is 5,177 inhabitants per square kilometre.

The population density of Milan is 7,315 inhabitants per square kilometre.

I thought the same thing.

I've lost track - is the current state of parliament voting going to mean that there are going to be 100m long queues of MPs out of the building? That's going to look absolutely laughable, this kind of thing just need to stop.

Fraught with anomalies.
Have a look at LB Hillingdon & Bromley,
hundeeds of acres of woodlands & green spaces,
a legacy of the addition of peripheral suburbs
t0 try to dilute or neutralise the Labour-voting heart of the City.