Seedy Ron
Frederic Kanoute
Unlike data to go for a burton on Dido's watch.
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Coronavirus
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SteveAWOL
Colin Calderwood
My local Odeon had a Luxe refurb last winter and was due to have its grand opening just when lockdown started.
Place was packed to COVID capacity during the opening week of Tenet but otherwise barely 5% full for any other film I’ve watched since it reopened; which is a pity as the new recliners are more comfortable than the one I have at home and the new LASER projectors are top notch.
SteveAWOL
Colin Calderwood
Tenet hasn’t come close to breaking even despite being only blockbuster in cinemas which has frightened studios into delaying every other major global release until 2021... hopefully there will still be some multiplexes left to show them in.
awesome dawson
Mitchell Thomas
Maybe Boris will move the pub’s last orders bell, forward an hour to cope with the exponential growth in new cases. Joke of a PM.
Mikey10
John Lacy
I can’t think of another country‘s government that:
- Locked down too late, having ignored growing warnings about the seriousness of the likely impact of the virus
- Has failed since the start to do sufficient testing at its borders, which have remained open throughout the pandemic
- Sent positive cases back into care homes
- Asked health staff to treat Covid patients in PPE that had to re-used
- Purchased large amounts of PPE which wasn’t fit for purpose
- Has failed to meet every deadline on the introduction of a sufficient test and trace system
- Spent hundreds of millions on a contact tracing app that didn’t work
- Failed to discipline at least two prominent employees who failed to follow public health advice, thus seriously damaging public health messaging
- Continually confused the public with its advice
Apart from that (and those are just the headlines), I couldn’t agree more.
Diamond Lights
Didier Zokora
I can’t think of another country‘s government that:
- Locked down too late, having ignored growing warnings about the seriousness of the likely impact of the virus
- Has failed since the start to do sufficient testing at its borders, which have remained open throughout the pandemic
- Sent positive cases back into care homes
- Asked health staff to treat Covid patients in PPE that had to re-used
- Purchased large amounts of PPE which wasn’t fit for purpose
- Has failed to meet every deadline on the introduction of a sufficient test and trace system
- Spent hundreds of millions on a contact tracing app that didn’t work
- Failed to discipline at least two prominent employees who failed to follow public health advice, thus seriously damaging public health messaging
- Continually confused the public with its advice
Apart from that (and those are just the headlines), I couldn’t agree more.
Said 1000 times, long as they deliver Brexit, many in this country happy to be shat on.
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
I can’t think of another country‘s government that:
- Locked down too late, having ignored growing warnings about the seriousness of the likely impact of the virus
- Has failed since the start to do sufficient testing at its borders, which have remained open throughout the pandemic
- Sent positive cases back into care homes
- Asked health staff to treat Covid patients in PPE that had to re-used
- Purchased large amounts of PPE which wasn’t fit for purpose
- Has failed to meet every deadline on the introduction of a sufficient test and trace system
- Spent hundreds of millions on a contact tracing app that didn’t work
- Failed to discipline at least two prominent employees who failed to follow public health advice, thus seriously damaging public health messaging
- Continually confused the public with its advice
Apart from that (and those are just the headlines), I couldn’t agree more.
The government are a shower of brick. But it's much of muchness for me. Did not vote for them and wont vote for them. Their performance us poor. But I dont think we are in that much of a worse position than say Spain.
No country really seems to know how to get out of this. Think the only way is to stop international travel. Then it can be contained.
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
Thing is much like the north and the Midlands I wont vote for them. Did not vote for them last time either. I am convinced that some lent the Tories their vote on a one time basis.
Diamond Lights
Didier Zokora
Trump on Coronavirus: "I learnt it by really going to school. This is the real school, this isn’t the let’s-read-the-book school".
That's right, now reading books is the enemy. fudge me. What a clam.
That's right, now reading books is the enemy. fudge me. What a clam.
Glenda's Legs
Les Ferdinand
Well he hasn't learnt a great deal if he's happy to put his security staff at risk by leaving hospital to go for a spin around the block just for a photo-op.
MKSpur
Christian Ziege
You know after yesterday and I began to think how good our squad is looking, Sonny and Kane scoring for fun and how the top teams are looking vulnerable this will of course be the season that gets wiped, with Bale not extending his loan after his 30 goals in 20 games attracts a million pound a week wage offer from City. sexy
Legohamster
Cecil Poynton
Lols.
course they don’t know how to get out of it, because it’s not been down before because it’s an idiotic idea to put a country into a lockdown and expect to get out of it.
glorygloryeze
Ian Walker
No coronavirus lockdown for top Tory constituencies
Leaked emails reveal that wealthier seats and new blue strongholds are being spared the harshest restrictions
Wealthy areas, including the chancellor Rishi Sunak’s parliamentary seat, are avoiding lockdown despite having higher Covid-19 rates than poorer areas that are subject to restrictions, according to leaked emails between health officials.
The government is under growing pressure to explain why it has placed large parts of the north and Midlands under local lockdowns while overlooking areas with similar infection rates. Asked why the northwest is “treated differently” from areas such as his own seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip in west London, Boris Johnson said on Friday: “I appreciate ... people want to see an iron consistency applied across the whole country.”
Matt Hanrooster, the health secretary, decides which areas to place in lockdown during weekly “gold” meetings with advisers. Yesterday, 50 councils were subject to measures such as bans on household mixing. However, there is no official Covid-19 infection rate that triggers a local lockdown.
On Thursday, Professor Dominic Harrison, the director of public health for Blackburn with Darwen, the largest borough in the wider Lancashire area, wrote to Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) officials, saying the measures were “avoidably increasing economic inequality”. He said: “There is now a different level of central control applied across local authorities, with some of the more economically challenged boroughs being placed into more restrictive control measures at an earlier point in their ... case rate trajectory.
“This has the effect of exacerbating the economic inequality impacts of the virus in those areas. We urgently need consistency in the national strategy if the control system itself is not to add to inequality, giving an economic ‘double whammy’ to more challenged areas.”
His comments come amid a row between ministers and mayors over lockdown policy. Andy Preston, the Middlesbrough mayor, last week said he did “not accept” the latest measures and said local leaders could effectively “preserve jobs and wellbeing”. He has since U-turned.
Blackburn with Darwen is one of Britain’s poorest boroughs. Its Covid rate peaked at 212 weekly cases per 100,000 people. When officials first imposed lockdowns in the area in August, they intervened in wards where the weekly rate exceeded 60 new cases per 100,000. A similar benchmark has been used elsewhere.
However, Harrison produced figures last week to suggest that wealthier areas with similar or higher rates were avoiding lockdown. Richmondshire in North Yorkshire, which includes Sunak’s constituency and is one of the least deprived areas in Britain, has 73 new cases for every 100,000 people. Newark and Sherwood, represented by Robert Jenrick, the housing secretary, and Mark Spencer, the chief whip, stands at 84. Both areas have avoided lockdown.
In contrast, Wolverhampton, another poorer area, has 56 cases per 100,000 yet remains in lockdown. Chorley, at 72, Lancaster, at 66, and Oadby and Wigston, at 63, are also subject to lockdowns.
Several “red wall” seats that voted Tory at the last election have avoided lockdown, including Barrow-in-Furness (112) , Darlington (110) and Wakefield (73). Of all areas where infections exceed 70 but lockdown has been avoided, the majority are represented by Tory MPs.
Steve Reed, shadow housing secretary, said: “People living in the north and Midlands will be asking why they’re having to face restrictions when other parts of the country that have seen infections rise are not.” The DHSC said the incidence rate was only one criterion considered in deciding on lockdowns.
NO LOCKDOWN
West Lancashire 137 cases per 100,000
Barrow-in-Furness 112
Darlington 110
Craven 109
Newark and Sherwood 84
IN LOCKDOWN
Chorley 73 cases per 100,000
Wyre 71
Lancaster 66
Oadby and Wigston 63
Wolverhampton 56
Leaked emails reveal that wealthier seats and new blue strongholds are being spared the harshest restrictions
Wealthy areas, including the chancellor Rishi Sunak’s parliamentary seat, are avoiding lockdown despite having higher Covid-19 rates than poorer areas that are subject to restrictions, according to leaked emails between health officials.
The government is under growing pressure to explain why it has placed large parts of the north and Midlands under local lockdowns while overlooking areas with similar infection rates. Asked why the northwest is “treated differently” from areas such as his own seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip in west London, Boris Johnson said on Friday: “I appreciate ... people want to see an iron consistency applied across the whole country.”
Matt Hanrooster, the health secretary, decides which areas to place in lockdown during weekly “gold” meetings with advisers. Yesterday, 50 councils were subject to measures such as bans on household mixing. However, there is no official Covid-19 infection rate that triggers a local lockdown.
On Thursday, Professor Dominic Harrison, the director of public health for Blackburn with Darwen, the largest borough in the wider Lancashire area, wrote to Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) officials, saying the measures were “avoidably increasing economic inequality”. He said: “There is now a different level of central control applied across local authorities, with some of the more economically challenged boroughs being placed into more restrictive control measures at an earlier point in their ... case rate trajectory.
“This has the effect of exacerbating the economic inequality impacts of the virus in those areas. We urgently need consistency in the national strategy if the control system itself is not to add to inequality, giving an economic ‘double whammy’ to more challenged areas.”
His comments come amid a row between ministers and mayors over lockdown policy. Andy Preston, the Middlesbrough mayor, last week said he did “not accept” the latest measures and said local leaders could effectively “preserve jobs and wellbeing”. He has since U-turned.
Blackburn with Darwen is one of Britain’s poorest boroughs. Its Covid rate peaked at 212 weekly cases per 100,000 people. When officials first imposed lockdowns in the area in August, they intervened in wards where the weekly rate exceeded 60 new cases per 100,000. A similar benchmark has been used elsewhere.
However, Harrison produced figures last week to suggest that wealthier areas with similar or higher rates were avoiding lockdown. Richmondshire in North Yorkshire, which includes Sunak’s constituency and is one of the least deprived areas in Britain, has 73 new cases for every 100,000 people. Newark and Sherwood, represented by Robert Jenrick, the housing secretary, and Mark Spencer, the chief whip, stands at 84. Both areas have avoided lockdown.
In contrast, Wolverhampton, another poorer area, has 56 cases per 100,000 yet remains in lockdown. Chorley, at 72, Lancaster, at 66, and Oadby and Wigston, at 63, are also subject to lockdowns.
Several “red wall” seats that voted Tory at the last election have avoided lockdown, including Barrow-in-Furness (112) , Darlington (110) and Wakefield (73). Of all areas where infections exceed 70 but lockdown has been avoided, the majority are represented by Tory MPs.
Steve Reed, shadow housing secretary, said: “People living in the north and Midlands will be asking why they’re having to face restrictions when other parts of the country that have seen infections rise are not.” The DHSC said the incidence rate was only one criterion considered in deciding on lockdowns.
NO LOCKDOWN
West Lancashire 137 cases per 100,000
Barrow-in-Furness 112
Darlington 110
Craven 109
Newark and Sherwood 84
IN LOCKDOWN
Chorley 73 cases per 100,000
Wyre 71
Lancaster 66
Oadby and Wigston 63
Wolverhampton 56
glorygloryeze
Ian Walker
I think the above details, along with the fact that the Royal Albert Hall has been able to hold an event with 3,000 odd people when their capacity is about 5,000 whilst football hasn't been allowed, shows that lockdowns are nothing to do with "infection control" in reality....
Legohamster
Cecil Poynton
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
I actually agree with you and think people are playing the man not the ball.
For the record I would not stop international flights but that does seem how it is spread after a country has control on the original outbreak.
I had it so maybe I'm to relaxed about it all but I honestly think it would be best to let it go through the population. Tories would have been crucified if they had done that though.
Legohamster
Cecil Poynton
They brick the bed and panicked.
The real issue is they are still not looking at the data in regards to age of deaths and if lockdowns work but worst of all we are using a test that doesn’t work.
glasgowspur
Nayim
There is something very odd going on with the data/reporting of it.
At present the UK death is 7 to 10% above average. Sounds bad, covid is to blame.
Take into account hospitals and doctors effectively being closed for six months, alcohol consumption at home growing, mental health issues rocketing amongst other things and maybe the picture isn't as simple as is being made out.
Grays_1890
Colin Calderwood
6 more months of this back and forth and we will see dreadful rises in drink drugs and mental health issues