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Swerved the London lockdown question

Maybe if she just asked the question instead of padding it: "Tubes are full. Busses are full. London's not listening!" Tube usage is down 50%. Bus usage is down 40%.

I also work in the health charity/research industry. Will be interesting what the update is 24hrs from now.

grassy fields with potential to be turned into big holes in the ground

I heard somewhere that Shoreditch used to be just such a pit. Filled with plague victims inside London's walls. Apparently if you start digging deep enough anywhere around the Arnold Circus area you'll find heaps of bones.

we're locked in doors

Very thankful for my garden

Thought the 'do nothing' mortality figures were potentially north of half a million? Which would be more than the UK total civil and military deaths during the Second World War, in about a third of the time; mass disruption seems inevitable whatever government does.

I'm driving the district , never seen it this quiet in 22 years, not even 7/7

No intention of delaying brexit transition period.

Clowns.

The tube has been empty in the mornings. There were 3-4 other people on the platform at Old Street today at 08:45. I have never known it to be so quiet. From what I hear busses are reduced but still near normal levels?

Thought the 'do nothing' mortality figures were potentially north of half a million?

510k according to the latest Imperial study.

FFS. Morons.

They will.

LB of Camden usually includes regent's park as their mass burial site for if the shit really hits the fan. Or at least they did ten years ago.

Legislation being introduced for a complete ban on eviction proceedings for three months.

Actually seems like a good idea.

Before any sensitive souls give me another rap on the knuckles for doom mongering, I'm simply trying to explain the level of detail to which the UK prepares for situations like this, and far worse than this.

I know; they'll have to.

But his words were clear (for Boris) and strong - no intention of changing the law.

Why not start softening that language now when there's so many sensible reasons to do so??

^^ there are a few wild dogs and lions in that area ... just saying

I was thinking divorces first but same theme

They definitely will delay. I expect the Project Fear people are exactly the same as the It's Just The Flu people. Wait 'til reality slaps them around the face and the deaths start piling up and Brexit will be all but forgotten - then you announce the extension

Link for a repeat of press conference?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4N8kz90Yx0

This is like Brexit all over again. Uniformed plebs talking over experts of all flavours, actual shortages v.s predicted ones, and avoiding one half of the country like the plague because they're filthy cunts, and Johnson shitting the bed then expecting everyone else to roll around in it.

Now the same people who were calling the EU a dictatorship are refusing to comply with any kind of social distancing measures because they'll "die on their feet instead of living on their knees."

The joke being that you can't even leave this nest of worstcunts with your shiny new blue passport because of travel restrictions. lel

Top comment, did lol

Cycling updates or thoughts?

If they do do a London lockdown will we be able to cycle (threatening no one) from one point of isolation to another? Or will they have us all swept up on the basis of avoiding the potential for civil unrest?

My personal reason for wondering: I work alone in a studio to which I cycle. I can’t do any of my supplementary work for income at the moment so am in a very rare position of actually being able to do studio work and want to maximise this opportunity. As far as I can tell this is harming absolutely nobody but I’m shitting it in case the powers that be decide I’m up to no good.

The British people want Chinese results without any of the Chinese hardship.