Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Eds]

It’s always the same.
When we are out of lockdown “Prime Minister why haven’t you put us in lockdown and close the schools and pubs?”
When we go into lockdown “Prime Minister why isn’t the lockdown harder?”
After a few weeks of lockdown “Prime Minister why aren’t we opening the schools and pubs, why do we have to stay in lockdown?”
When we come out of lockdown ”Prime Minister why haven’t you kept the lockdown longer?”

Its so predictable and like being in the nine circles of hell

Pretty much summed up the past 12 months or so of press questions. At least the ones about PPE have fallen by the wayside and don’t forget the ones about we need notice before you close us down. Right you have five days notice is usually followed by either that’s not enough notice or it’s too much.

 

[paulchapo]

It’s always the same.
When we are out of lockdown “Prime Minister why haven’t you put us in lockdown and close the schools and pubs?”
When we go into lockdown “Prime Minister why isn’t the lockdown harder?”
After a few weeks of lockdown “Prime Minister why aren’t we opening the schools and pubs, why do we have to stay in lockdown?”
When we come out of lockdown ”Prime Minister why haven’t you kept the lockdown longer?”

Its so predictable and like being in the nine circles of hell

It's groundhog Day. The press have been shocking throughout all this with very few exceptions. They have helped to demoralise the public, thank God we didn't have this whole shower around in WW2.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

It's groundhog Day. The press have been shocking throughout all this with very few exceptions. They have helped to demoralise the public, thank God we didn't have this whole shower around in WW2.

Just wait until you see the governments role.

 

[Len Rum]

Even though I think the government have handled it all badly from the start, I’m not sure Boris would have the time to be ringing round the families of the 100,000 who have sadly died!!

How many has he rung?

 

[paulchapo]

Just wait until you see the governments role.

By whole shower I meant the government as well.

 

[shemnel]

so far today we've had;
Taking passports away from someone who hasnt, to our knowledge, broken any law
chiding all youth as being useless
press are scum (multiple times)
some strange ideas about locking people up
putting down (killing) entire families
plenty of stuff about Germans and the EU

it's all gone a bit authoritarian/jingoistic on here lately - i think perhaps stress is getting to some

 

[frothy]

Where’s JVT ? He’s not been on for ages

He trys to put a bit of a positive spin on things, we can't be having that

 

[Manc in London]

There's nowhere in the world I'd rather be living right now than the UK

New Zealand? Australia? Warm in Oz at the minute. Beer on the beach after work etc.. :)

 

[MillionMilesAway]

The main problem is that there was nothing to have a briefing about. It was clearly called solely because the figures hit 100k, and it's therefore inevitable that there would be questions based on that.

Johnson tried his sub-Churchill speech pattern and then waffled inanely in anything he tried to answer. Someone give the man some full stops to end sentences!

 

[cleavers]

It's groundhog Day. The press have been shocking throughout all this with very few exceptions. They have helped to demoralise the public, thank God we didn't have this whole shower around in WW2.

Worse still, their attitude has actually encouraged people to bend the rules wherever possible.