Coventry to the rescue!!!

[Keebleman]

405,000 volunteers is an impressive figure.  "It's the same number as the population of Coventry!" somehow makes it seem less so.  What an odd comparison!

[Keebleman]

Not that I'm having a go at Coventry.  It's just that the comparison does nothing to help you appreciate better the scale of the effort.

[idunnosomename]

COVENTRY SMELLS OF PISS

[Pseudopath]

Be funny if all of the volunteers had coronavirus.

THIS IS THE ONE THING WE DIDN'T WANT TO HAPPEN.

[massive bereavement]

I'm imagining an army of Pete Waterman and Steve Ogrizovic lookalikes coming to the country's rescue.

[idunnosomename]

In other oddly specific number news: Derbyshire farmer punched 15 times

https://www.farminguk.com/news/amp/coronavirus-farmer-punched-15-times-after-telling-walker-to-go-home_55282.html

That as many times as there are members of UB40!!!

[massive bereavement]

In other oddly specific number news: Derbyshire farmer punched 15 times

https://www.farminguk.com/news/amp/coronavirus-farmer-punched-15-times-after-telling-walker-to-go-home_55282.html

That as many times as there are members of UB40!!!

It must have resembled that scene in "Bottom" where Richie and Eddie are beating up the gas man.

[shiftwork2]

Quite bit of affection for Coventry, and it's partly because of the kicking it gets from the senseless and unthinking.  Having said that massively glad I don't live there any more.  Terrible toilet.

[purlieu]

I thought the thread was going to be about this, slightly less positive, Coventry-related COVID news:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-52025918