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Knut Anders Fosters Voles
March 29, 2020, 10:17pm
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FRENCH FROG VIRUS - Susanna Reid, 44, commands attention with sideboob, sizzling in a gown made of cheddar. Whilst displaying her curves and décolletage, Reid (44), breaks down under the strain of certain impending death from French Frog Virus. Co-star Piers Morgan worries that Reid (44) is a lost cause. “She will die, she will die. And the Bulgarian builders have stolen all of our Dambusters De-icer. Temperatures could PLUMMET in the Hindu Kush overnight to MINUS 23. We will die, we will die”.
Reid (44) was unavailable for comment but poured her curves into a circle of Camembert to repel the French infidels from our beaches.





Sorry, I got a bit carried away there...







Brave Susanna Reid (44), is actually 49! Who knew!!

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It could be six months before football starts so that's October.

Bloody virus


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Quoted from Civvy at last

More valid than the experts that BJ is listening to no doubt.  

You all quote the experts that suit you. But ignore those that don’t.
For anyone to be an expert in a new virus can only be acceptable by morons. Or those with a political agenda


But they're not giving conflicting advice are they? They're talking about different things. The experts that Johnson listened to were discussing plans to limit the spread of coronavirus to the vulnerable  given what little was known about it at the time. It wasn't all of the experts either and was based on one model done at Imperial College which has since been criticised. The article in question discusses the fact that when tested in 2016 the NHS was found to be under resourced to be able to cope with a pandemic such as Covid-19. A strategy was put in place for what to do in the scenario a pandemic arises. The expert here has said that the plan of action for any pandemic has not been properly implemented and this is mainly down to a lack of resources. Nothing to do with attempting herd immunity or whatever else it was. And there's absolutely no chance that any expert would have said don't bother getting PPE for staff.

The government quite clearly didn't act in time to start to stock PPE for NHS staff when the warning signs were coming from China. This places front line staff at risk of infection themselves and at risk of unwittingly spreading it to vulnerable patients who are in hospital for other reasons. Find me an expert that says the UK has handled the sourcing of protective equipment for staff well, I'll wait. But you won't and you'll just start harping on about political agendas as though you don't have one of your own. Typical hypocritical swerving of the agenda from someone who avoids the discussion because they don't actually have an argument.


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Naturally, political opinion will force people to think one way or the other but even the most staunch Tory is a fool if they think Boris/the leading party are or have done a good job.

I know several ‘fans’ of Boris but they’re flabbergasted at the wishy washy approach.

From the bullshit PR of shaking hands with patients with Coronavirus to the bumbling press conferences offering few answers.

Years of chronic underfunding and ignoring of research and evidence have led to front line NHS workers being underprepared, under staffed and at risk of the virus themselves, not to mention the likelihood that they’ll be unable to fully complete their work.

Doesn’t matter what side of the political fence you sit, it’s a fact. Yes, it may be ironic that people stood outside their houses clapping our great health service probably voted for the party who have pushed it to breaking point but again, it’s a simple fact that they’ve ignored research and chronically underfunded it.


'the poor and the needy are selfish and greedy'...well done Mozza
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The article gives the opinion of someone who worked for seven years in devising the strategy for a pandemic outbreak. It's only that bloke's opinion but he's probably got a more valid opinion on these things than the vast majority of the population given that he's an expert.


You mean like the "expert" who advised against the MMR vaccine because of a link to autism? The British population are now being affected by the advice of that disgraced and medically struck off "expert".


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In Russia, the churches are open because viruses apparently don't like holy places. One of the congregants in an interview, a Russian GP no less, said so. Just goes to show that idiocy is very widespread around the world.


I saw that and the Russian doctor said "you can't catch Coronavirus in a church because it is a holy place"! FFS and that is the words of a doctor.


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Should we be blaming anybody at the moment. None of us know enough to really form an opinion. We blame Boris because we dont have enough testing kits etc. He has only been in power for a few short months so should he be taking the blame. Would we have had enough of these items under May or Cameron or Brown or Lionel Blair. Instead of us doing a Piers Morgan and picking fault with everybody we should be dishing a bit of praise about. Forget politics for the time being.
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You mean like the "expert" who advised against the MMR vaccine because of a link to autism? The British population are now being affected by the advice of that disgraced and medically struck off "expert".


Andrew Wakefield wasn't an expert. He was a doctor who developed a theory despite a lack of evidence and then fiddled his research to try and indicate he was onto something. Reports indicate that this may have been because he thought it was a good money earner.

An example of an obviously clever bloke (he was surgeon, I think?) with loose moral standards. He was never an expert in immunology/vaccines/autism.

The initial approach of our government went against the global consensus amongst experts as to how a pandemic should be dealt with. They've now done a 180 degree turnaround to follow what almost everybody else is doing. If they initially made the wrong choice, there will be thousands of additional deaths.

The only countries responding differently at present are Sweden and Japan. It will be interesting to see if their approach relying on personal responsibility can work out. I tend to doubt it because, however sensible the majority are there are inevitably a lot of arseholes around.
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You're telling me -. they are everywhere  
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Should we be blaming anybody at the moment. None of us know enough to really form an opinion. We blame Boris because we dont have enough testing kits etc. He has only been in power for a few short months so should he be taking the blame. Would we have had enough of these items under May or Cameron or Brown or Lionel Blair. Instead of us doing a Piers Morgan and picking fault with everybody we should be dishing a bit of praise about. Forget politics for the time being.


Best post on the subject.



“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty."
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