Government coronavirus response thread

[BlodwynPig]

Blodwyn Pig has said the important annual report required by the board of directors is "not a priority" and he was not sure it would be ready this year.

The report, which in previous years has shaped the progress of the Company from a small community business to a multi-billion pound FTSE100 corporation, was expected weeks ago.

Asked whether they would be firing BlodwynPig, the Director's of the company shrugged and said "the employees don't seem fussed".

[Fambo Number Mive]

ITV News has been informed that a BAME-led community organisation has launched legal action against the Government for what they believe is 'their failings to take action over the disproportionate toll of Covid-19 on BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) communities in this country.

The Ubele Initiative, a social enterprise which supports BAME communities which coined the #WeNeedAnswers campaign, has sent an urgent pre-action protocol 23-page letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson after they say he did not acknowledge or respond to two previous pleas for action voicing concerns over BAME deaths.

Their first letter sent on 9th May, which was signed by more than 650 people, including leading British Black and Asian figures such as Doreen Lawrence, Malorie Blackman and London Mayor Sadiq Khan, had called for an independent inquiry. It welcomed the Government commissioned a review led by Public Health England in April but said 'that it was doubtful that the review's current scope can provide the critical answers needed'.

In this latest move this week, the group are demanding an explanation of what steps the government has taken to assess the impact on ethnic minority communities of lockdown-easing measures and an immediate independent inquiry to find out why ethnic groups face an increased Covid-19 risk. They are unhappy at the apparent inaction to safeguard the many who "have laid down their lives for this country" during the coronavirus pandemic...

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-06-20/legal-bid-launched-against-the-government-over-alleged-inaction-to-safeguard-bame-healthcare-workers/

[Fambo Number Mive]

Johnson claiming at PMQs that "no country currently has a functioning track and trace app" which is rubbish.

https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-track-and-trace-app-boris-johnson/

The fact we don't know how much difference all these apps are making doesn't mean they aren't functional.

[olliebean]

It was quite surreal, he challenged Starmer to name a country that did, which Starmer immediately did (Germany), and then Johnson, exactly as if Starmer had failed to name one, straight away repeated his claim that there was no country that had one, despite the fact it had literally just been debunked.

[Johnny Yesno]

It was quite surreal, he challenged Starmer to name a country that did, which Starmer immediately did (Germany), and then Johnson, exactly as if Starmer had failed to name one, straight away repeated his claim that there was no country that had one, despite the fact it had literally just been debunked.

Forensic is a tool blunted by decay.

[Pink Gregory]

It doesn't matter if he pays no notice to Starmer.  PMQs doesn't matter, they are an unaccountable government.

He can be as forensic as he's claimed to be, showing up this fucking viper's nest won't be done by pointing out their own rehearsed lies to their faces.  In fact I doubt anything useful can be done in the commons in the current state of things. 

[Fambo Number Mive]

Somewhat scary:

The government is not certain that the coronavirus R rate is below 1 in England, meaning the disease may not be under control even as lockdown restrictions are being lifted, HuffPost UK can reveal.

According to a classified daily document released by Public Health England to health professionals across the UK, there is "uncertainty" around the figure published by the government, which has been used to justify the lowering of the UK's "alert level"...

The report also includes other data that have not been made public – most notably that the daily estimate of the number of daily new infections last Thursday stood at 7,000.

This is in contrast to the figure of actual positive tests reported for the same day, which was 1,346...

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/uk-coronavirus-r-rate_uk_5ef1f629c5b645f5d4871f61/

[BlodwynPig]

RIGHT - GO BACK TO LOCKDOWN. fucking cretins. "not sure" - should we be cautious? or just plough ahead? "no more lockdown, people are fed up"... people will be dead down, more like

[Braintree]

I'm closing Leicester...for an hour

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-53229371?at_campaign=64&at_custom3=%40BBCBreaking&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_medium=custom7&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom4=FE3C6434-BA44-11EA-9E2A-A4584D484DA4

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

They should have kept doing the briefings. Even if they were 95% a crock of shit people did watch them and could have helped with a situation like this (one that was probably not unforeseeable).

Hopefully local news can step into the breach.

[BlodwynPig]

They should have kept doing the briefings. Even if they were 95% a crock of shit people did watch them and could have helped with a situation like this (one that was probably not unforeseeable).

Hopefully local news can step into the breach.

Are you nodding sagely as you type these?

[shiftwork2]

I have it on good authority that we should blame the Melton Mowbray pork pie.

[Satchmo Distel]

How do you isolate a city (Leicester in this case but other cities will follow) from the rest of the country without closing down the roads and train stations?

[George Oscar Bluth II]

How the fuck has there not been a team in government working on how a local lockdown would work since we went into national lockdown. It was pretty obvious that we might need to lock down certain areas after national lockdown eased.

[Bazooka]

Gerrard Butler in Leicester has Fallen.

[ersatz99]

The mayor of Leciester's presser clarified it was just the north east of the city where the spike was and then he tip-toed around the demographics mostly reponsible for the figures. The less helpful MP for north west Leicester then claimed on Sky afterwards with all certainty that it was the fault of the garment sweatshops which continued to work through the lockdown to satisfy online orders. Seems like some unsavoury finger pointing.

[olliebean]

What the hell is Hancock on about here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coronavirus-leicester-lockdown-news-children-high-infection-rate-schools-a9593581.html

They're closing the schools in Leicester, because of an unusually high incidence of the virus in children there. But then in the very next breath he says that across the country, including in Leicester, it's safe for your child to go to school. It doesn't make any sense.

[Bently Sheds]

https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1279311067785633793?s=19

Interesting investigation into government contracts for PPE.
Apparently a tiny company with no PPE production or procurement history is bunged an enormous sum without the contract advertised or put to tender. Strangely enough the CEO was a consultant for Liz Truss.

[BlodwynPig]

https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1279311067785633793?s=19

Interesting investigation into government contracts for PPE.
Apparently a tiny company with no PPE production or procurement history is bunged an enormous sum without the contract advertised or put to tender. Strangely enough the CEO was a consultant for Liz Truss.

Truss is the bumbling Manuel of Government.

[olliebean]

https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1279311067785633793?s=19

Interesting investigation into government contracts for PPE.
Apparently a tiny company with no PPE production or procurement history is bunged an enormous sum without the contract advertised or put to tender. Strangely enough the CEO was a consultant for Liz Truss.

Par for the course for the Tories.

[Fambo Number Mive]

Sunak keen to get everyone back into the restaurants with his vouchers. Only Monday to Wednesday though. Not sure I would want to go into a restaurant at the moment. I felt sorry for the staff.

[Zetetic]

"Eat Out to Help Out"

[finnquark]

Building a global, resilient Britain, one Nando's at a time.

[momatt]

"Eat Out to Help Out"

By the way, rhyming 'out' with 'out'... (makes chef kissing sound)

[kalowski]

"Eat Out to Help Out"

Will make an offer to my wife tonight.

[Cuellar]

Do you think they just repurposed a previously brainstormed slogan, 'Eat In to Help Out', for the beginning of the pandemic that they ended up not using

[BlodwynPig]

Consume to Resume

Eat a Plate, Don't Defecate

[Sebastian Cobb]

I wonder if this can be fiddled to get a takeaway.

Nice one for looking at dominoes 2 for Tuesday and having the smarts to extend it. We'll done Rishi you're a genius.

It's going to be great watching the government piss money on shit like this while howling about Marxists. No food vouchers for the cunts cut off during covid of course.

[BlodwynPig]

what's he done - I refuse to look at the news when it concerns "saintly" Tory acts.

[kalowski]

I hate shit like this. An "offer" with so many provisos it's not an offer at all. And that's before we see who the "participating restaurants" are.

Meals eaten at any participating businesses, from Mondays to Wednesdays in August, will be 50% off up to a maximum discount of £10 per head for everyone, including children

"Yes! £10 off each to go to Nandos on Tuesday!!"