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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 29, 2020 11:39:16 GMT
Waves tend to refer to viruses that are seasonal, which this one doesn't seem to be; might be easier/harder to transmit depending on time of year, but not to an extent that makes it go away completely. Interesting that Sweden has got the virus down to practically nothing now; will be interesting to see whether their strategy was actually most effective in the medium/long term. Because they didn't really lock down, they're less likely to have to worry about the effects of unlocking. Sweden closed schools for summer and, lo and behold, case numbers plummeted a week or two later. There is a change in behaviour around that closure, with less mixing and lower mobility, but it’s been a very useful case study. Their geography, size of the country and population size really helps with 'running it hot'
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 29, 2020 11:12:41 GMT
When did the first "wave" end?? 113 UK deaths yesterday. Not sure it has for us yes
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 29, 2020 10:42:35 GMT
There are loads of rumours about what the press know but are too afraid to press. When Heather Mills was married to Sir Paul McCartney there were rumours that tabloids had stories about her previous exploits but wouldn't publish because they were scared of Macca's Lawyers. Once they split the tabloids printed. I am very ambivalent about this - should Heather Mills have her private life splashed over the newspapers? There’s no true public interest justification for it, is there? It’s only interesting as gossip because she married someone famous. On the other hand U.K. libel laws do need reform - partly because it shouldn’t take expensive lawyers like the ones Macca has to stop the press defaming you, and partly because they are far too easily abused by those who can afford expensive lawyers. But we are now very far from the point of this post - except perhaps to point out that the press feel free to print whatsoever they want about people who don’t have expensive lawyers and that does have considerable impact on people of colour who are caught up in news stories. I know he is a powerful man but surprised me somewhat with a programme with Heather Mills when they were married and she was trying to stop slaughter of seals for their fur. Macca called up Tony Blair from the Arctic and Blair returned his call in about five minutes. Power of being a Beatle
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 28, 2020 17:05:54 GMT
Not one of your initial parameters. All of them have done notable work in straight dramatic roles. My mistake. I thought you were interested in a conversation, rather than merely in having your perceptions confirmed. Ouch sf that’s a bit sharp! Especially as you two seem to be related? I suppose comedy is right at the sharpest end of performance, in that making people laugh is one of the most basic manipulations of an audiences emotions and it’s pretty much a pass/fail situation. So on that basis it’s not a far stretch that successful comedians have skills in other areas too. Having said that, I have never heard anything funny from the lips of Sandy Toksvig, Dawn French is a rubbish actress and Alan Davies couldn’t get arrested these days. And all those “alternative” socialist comedians who have totally sold out for the money... Ben Elton. I’m looking at you. Another in the Sandi Toksvig fan club. One of lifes great raconteurs
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 28, 2020 14:32:54 GMT
What comedians were you thinking of? Trying to think of US comedians I know. I do like the look of Jon Oliver on the show Last Week Tonight. I think he is very funny John Oliver is English - I find that part of his lack of charm.
Still no idea if you find Oliver funny or not
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 28, 2020 14:31:35 GMT
What comedians were you thinking of? Trying to think of US comedians I know. I do like the look of Jon Oliver on the show Last Week Tonight. I think he is very funny John Oliver is English
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 28, 2020 12:52:18 GMT
Bill Murray, Steve Martin, Bette Midler, Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Robin Williams, Melissa McCarthy, Steve Carell. That's a great list, but most of those started their careers decades ago. (As evidenced by the fact that I recognize their names!) And many of them were comic actors in movies rather than mixing straight and comic roles (other than some one-offs). But even those names don't appear in as much 'everyday' work as the UK comics that I recognize. It is also possible that I'm not aware of today's crop of US stand-ups and how varied their careers are. I was also wondering if it might be the type of comedy they do, which your list would sort of back up. Few of those (as far as I know) used anger and extreme profanity in their stage acts. I know Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg used the f* word a lot in their acts, but it was never weaponized against anyone. And while I know Tracy Morgan played a version of himself in '30 Rock', his nightclub act was such that there was almost no crossover in the audience. (When he played at a club in San Francisco, management really made people aware that he was NOT the Tracy Jordan character they saw on the show.) I think the same can be seen with dramatic actors in the UK, too. They can move between tv, movies and stage without prejudice, where in the US, tv seems to be a launching pad for actors (like George Clooney), and the stage is their 'prestige' move after a successful movie career. The US seems more hung-up on categories of acting careers, where in the UK it seems acting is acting and there's no change in status when moving between them. What comedians were you thinking of? Trying to think of US comedians I know. I do like the look of Jon Oliver on the show Last Week Tonight. I think he is very funny
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 28, 2020 8:12:29 GMT
BBC drama last night. Beautifully written by Jimmy McGovern and wonderful acting. Heartbreaking story
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 28, 2020 8:09:15 GMT
I thought it was amusing and sensible advice all in one If that's your judgement, no one is telling you you're wrong to stay at home. You've no right to cast aspersions on those of us who carefully and sensibly follow govt and scientific guidance. Is that casting aspersions? That's way to deep a word for Dawnstar's post
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 28, 2020 7:42:20 GMT
Giving a new meaning to "your money or your life"! I'll be staying at home. I'd rather cough up money than the contents of pneumonia-infected lungs. I know you know that you have a heightened sense of vulnerability due to your OCD; it's not fair to imply that the rest of us are being reckless by doing normal reasonable things that are now extremely low risk given the low level of transmission of this virus. I thought it was amusing and sensible advice all in one
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 27, 2020 11:18:55 GMT
A quick look at newspaper front pages reveals why the press as it currently exists, as a mouthpiece for its wealthy and privileged owners, needs to be destroyed. Firstly, ranting about holiday plans being affected by rises in cases across Europe when it was they who were reckless in agitating for for and glorifying foreign holidays during a global pandemic in the first place. Secondly, doubling down on their vendetta against the Sussexes with spin that would have done Malcolm Tucker proud. Mass media in the hands of a few privileged individuals is a recipe for disaster and our society has been weakened and twisted as a result of it for far too long. Bit socialist that mate
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 27, 2020 10:55:35 GMT
Very funny read. Here in Germany masks have been mandatory for months, staff in shops etc. reminded every person, who forgot (sometimes had somoene especially at the door during the first weeks) and if they forgot, you were definitely reminded by other customers. Now it is the norm and there's not much talking about it anymore. Very efficient
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 24, 2020 15:38:31 GMT
No I'm not touchy, what with the whole pandemic and social distancing. I agree, do you really think I went out, to get nothing and put myself at risk? It was a silly throw away comment on an internet chat forum
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 24, 2020 15:34:39 GMT
Thank you, I'll remember that. Only be cheeky with men You could perhaps try not being cheeky with anyone because you have no idea what is going on in other people's lives? Just a thought. Bit touchy today?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 24, 2020 14:55:03 GMT
I went to the shops today, no shopping needed, I was just wanting to be cheeky. Carried a spare mask. Was going to say 'oh your masks haven't arrived yet? have one of my spares'. But I can report I saw 100% take up of face coverings I'd never take a mask from a stranger, who knows where it's been? Yeah I wouldn't have accepted either, but I would have made my point. But people I came across were all really good
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 24, 2020 14:53:32 GMT
I'd never take a mask from a stranger, who knows where it's been? Or what they'd want for it?? I don't think men have got any idea what it's like for women running the gauntlet of men "just being cheeky" day after day... Thank you, I'll remember that. Only be cheeky with men
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 24, 2020 13:11:42 GMT
The majority of people will wear them, a few won't - including people who have legitimate reasons to not wear them. Majority uptake should be enough to keep what is now a low transmission rate under control. I don't see any benefit to obsessive mask monitoring when you're out and about. I went to the shops today, no shopping needed, I was just wanting to be cheeky. Carried a spare mask. Was going to say 'oh your masks haven't arrived yet? have one of my spares'. But I can report I saw 100% take up of face coverings
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 24, 2020 10:39:58 GMT
My mum said the guard in tesco this morning made no attempt to even advise people to wear a mask and let several walk right past him unmasked. Comparable to smoking? Try walking passed him chuffing on a lit pipe
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 24, 2020 7:43:22 GMT
Also remember Labour are not going to whole heartly oppose no deal due to the political risks of being seen to be too pro European and no chance of the government having to change course if it's what they decide Wish they would have been a little less pro European before the election
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 24, 2020 7:41:17 GMT
The Journalist Benjamin Butterworth has put on Instagram that no temperature checking happened while he flew with BA. I flew on BA yesterday from Barcelona to Heathrow. No temperature checks, we got fed mid flight (I was in cattle class). The contact locator form was a joke. The online form kept freezing, I could of put anything down and no one would of checked as we left the airport no one was checking if we had completed it or not. Hang on, I liked your Tesco retweet yesterday. You're posting on theatreboard whilst on holiday?? Can't get it out of my head you sitting in Gaudi's beautiful gothic cathedral you checking the latest musings on the chatboard
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 23, 2020 7:46:39 GMT
With something as virulent as this the answer is to take measures long before you think they are necessary. We’ve seen this already and savvy countries are clamping down hard on the slightest outbreak (we aren’t, we have sustained low level transmission). If you think it’s too soon to react, it’s the right time to react. As for vaccine, the question is at what point the viral risk outweighs the side effect risk. We are on the same song sheet for your first paragraph. With regards to vaccine, there are people who will not take a vaccine, which is fine, if they want to catch Covid and risk the complications that goes with it, then I have absolutely no problem with that. What people don’t have a right to do is transmit it to other people, who are going about their own law abiding way of life. Absolutely, they are there for national emergencies, if the supermarket and the police don’t enforce it, the armed forces can and should. No point in making laws, if they’re not going to be enforced. Answered it yourself. There for national emergencies not martial law. I've been highly critical of Trump and threats to deploy the army on to the streets. I don't think that is a very good idea for the government or the military
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 22, 2020 22:54:41 GMT
It is better to control the low infection rate now and keep it that way than let it blow up again, which it will and trying to control it, when; it is out of control, as it was 2 months ago. Get the armed forces in to hand out fines, if necessary and that includes public transport as well. And if Sainsbury’s aren’t going to help enforce the law, I won’t be shopping there. You sure about the army?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 22, 2020 11:15:00 GMT
I didn't wear a mask at the shop this week, but I will from Friday when it is mandatory. Can I ask why?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 21, 2020 12:54:27 GMT
Well... not as explosive in the sense that people were looking for direct evidence of Russian interference in the referendum process. I agree the fact they didn't look is worse - far worse - but the bare facts of the report give the right-wing press and people like Farage an easy way to spin it. They can claim - they are claiming - that the report shows no evidence of interference, and plenty of people are credulous enough to take that claim at face value. If the report showed clear evidence of Russian interference, there'd perhaps be less wiggle-room for people to spin it. Yeah my friend who works for an airline said Arron Banks cancelled his one way flight yesterday
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 21, 2020 8:07:50 GMT
Twitter is a conspiracy theorist hellscape. You really notice it when you start browsing timelines of the people who are smearing Dr Fuaci. Fauci invited to first pitch this Friday for Washington Nationals first baseball game of the season
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 20, 2020 20:34:13 GMT
That’s the line the far right ‘keep Britain free’ types are screaming about. The impact of lockdown on excess deaths would have seen numbers stable and rising but they did the opposite, excess deaths tracking acknowledged COVID deaths. As for the long term treatments that were delayed, they wouldn’t be showing up for a while now, even if they did have an effect. Unsurprising the gaslighting is going on now, just when they want to get people into the shops and workplaces. Why the excess? We already know, through the care home crisis, that lack of testing leading to undercounting was routine, our wider pathetic testing effort and its unreliability is therefore likely similar. Now why would Hancock want to deflect from that? Woah, sweeping generalisation there.
You are very much mistaken if you think all "Keep Britain Free" or End Lockdown advocates are far right!!!
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 20, 2020 17:15:15 GMT
I think we going to get a no deal.
And with China and it's allies off the picture the main trade deal is going to be the USA.
Was getting no deal from the day dodgy Dom Cummings won
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 20, 2020 15:01:27 GMT
If IDS is leading who is losing?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 18, 2020 16:33:40 GMT
It all comes down to excess deaths that Political posturing will not make go away. If the COVID deaths proportion reduces then we have an increase in the deaths from other routine treatable diseases that were impacted by the reduction in hospital and GP services. All the Government are doing is moving the deck chairs but the ONS excess deaths above 5yr average will not go away. There are already murmurings that the COVID strategy has increased treatable deaths and may be better for the Government if the numbers remain hidden in the COVID figures. Through if excess deaths go to monthly or quarterly announcing it might be a long time to notice. Regularly reporting negative excess deaths rates now. Really hard to work out isn't it?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 16, 2020 20:18:35 GMT
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