Originally Posted by: Roundtuit

Not stepping on any grass verges at the moment as the local council workers are otherwise engaged and the dog walking fraternity are not all as concientious as they could be despite the dog waste bins having been re-opened.

Meanwhile the potus lets the world know he is popping malaria medication (has the value of his share holding increased?)

Doesn’t bright orange attract insects like mosquitoes, so perhaps it is a valid precaution?

That’s why Orange PPE can be an issue with attracting bugs, but I believe slightly better than yellow.

:0)

Chris

Latest publicised trip is to a motor plant in Michigan - despite the plant insisting vistors wear masks the management have "defered to the White House" because Donald "hasn't even thought of it".

I've never met the man yet I dislike him! He has a blatant disregard for anything but money and himself!

The way he treats people trying to hold him to account, and the way he abuses his power is abhorrent - how he's survived this long without an assassination attempt is beyond me!!  Still the wonderful nation of the free voted for him so they made their bed!! 

He sounded like a petulant toddler when he told everyone to wear face masks but he wouldn't because "I don't want to!"

Yes Biker - he really is!!!! 

Ha ha - sarcastic in electing him!! That's a new one - I like it :)

The figures are not unlike our version of democracy, unfortunately.

It is not only Iraq & WMD Tony Blair has a lot to be accountable for.

Most of the electorate followed the line in Brewster's Millions "None of the above"

Edited by user 20 May 2020 20:01:47(UTC)  | Reason: None of the

I wonder how many of the American public are happy with the way he conducts his presidency - justifying and praising himself, coming out with rubbish and incorrect assertions, ignoring advice in his drive to support the stock market and his business interests, and sacrificing citizens in the process, watching news channels and sending out appalling insults on Twitter. Anyone else who had posted half the stuff he has would have been sued for libel long before now. He seems to be immune from legal action, or at least he thinks he is. He is now trying to fiddle the election process, and spreading debunked conspiracy theories. The murky world of American politics gets murkier by the day. That he apparently has so many supporters is astounding; something has clearly gone badly wrong over there.

One journalist predicted recently that BoJo will be out of office by Christmas; there is a problem there, in that who would be capable of taking over? The calibre of his cabinet ministers doesn't inspire confidence.

Yet another move has been sneaked in under cover of the pandemic - we now will be judged as consenting to our organs being donated when we die unless we expressly opt out, what I call the 'Reader's Digest Syndrome' - we'll do this unless you tell us not to. Whilst I agree that more organ donors are needed, something feels very wrong about this way of doing it.

I see that the government seems to be backtracking on their refusal to waive treatment fees for foreign nationals who come here to work for the NHS. This struck me as a particulary mean and ungrateful move - they come here, put their lives on the line for us, then get charged for care when they get sick. Whilst there have to be limits on entitlement, this struck me as despicable.

Well, as could be predicted, the hottest day of the year yesterday brought the hordes out to the beaches and parks. An observer could be forgiven for assuming there was no public crisis. Can't these people forego the pleasure of trips to the seaside for a few months? Whilst the majority of the people are exercising self-control and consideration, there is a significant proportion of the public who are selfish and lack self-discipline. The longer such behaviour goes on, the longer the pandemic does, and the more people will die. Experts are predicting, nay even assuming, that we will have a second wave of the virus. I can see their point.

Went for my daily walk the other day. Went through York town centre and it was very quiet: no hen or stag parties about and then turned to leave the town centre and met some locals standing under the gateway blocking my exit drinking and being very loud. Some non-voluntary organs donors there I think?

Edited by user 21 May 2020 14:31:23(UTC)  | Reason: spelings

...that this is what you all forget...the NHS staff have to abide by thier professional standards not one of a politicians whim...hence the stress and pressure put on as we ensure the patients and families of patients have thier rights protected...becuase that what we do...

This weeks RAPEX contains 12 reports on PPE, sadly medical style masks and protective coveralls have joined the ranks of ineffective void fillers.

Does anyone actually know anything about this track and trace app. Has there been any mention of how close you need to be to someone else for it to register. Bluetooth will work over quite a distance.

We were discussing how this could potentially take out a complete workplace for us in one go, even though people are two-meter distancing.

Chris

Re the app, will it really work. Imagine I go to work from a London suburb. I have to use public transport, so will be close to a number of people on the train. From the station in London I catch the unberground which it crowded. I change to a separate line, so another group of people. I repeat this in reverse going home. That evening, feeling unwell I test positive to COVID-19. Presumably the trackers (and remember initially this will be manual) will have to contact all those I was close to during the day.  They will all no have to isolate for 7 days!

Am I missing something?

I was amused to hear from the Border Force man at the press briefings on Friday that they have stopped large shipments of drugs and fake PPE coming into Britain.  

So beware.   

The government has handled the whole affair with Dominic Cummings badly, no change there then. If there had been an acknowledgement of how it looked from the word go, had the guy himself acted initially with less arrogance, had the PM and his cronies not jumped in to defend him when it was clear they knew little about it, then perhaps it wouldn't have assumed such importance. Of course, the press has had a field day, he was a sitting duck for their sensationalising.

When you see the pictures of crowded beaches, gridlock in the Peak District, and compare it with Wales yesterday, what DC did seems almost trivial.  His actions were somewhat ill-judged, but he did have the bravery to hold a meeting to explain himself, and answer questions from the braying mob of journalists. Sections of our society seem to have the breaking strain of a KitKat when it comes to behaving responsibly. Judging from the scenes at resorts and tourist destinations yesterday, I would say a second wave of COVID is inevitable in England.

A bit hypocritical of Trump to have berated Obama for playing golf during the Ebola crisis, then spend the day at the weekend playing golf at his resort in Virginia, but then two-faced behaviour comes naturally to him.

Edited by user 26 May 2020 11:45:58(UTC)  | Reason: Typo

I don't think the good people of Barnard Castle will be reassured by this. Perhaps he's taking his lead from Trump, although in the latter's case I don't think eyesight is the problem.

Could Nick Freeman please explain the loophole in driver licencing that says if you are unsure of your health or your ability to drive the best and only validation is to personally get behind the wheel?

It just gets better, doesn't it? Michael Gove jumped in to say he had done something similar to test his eyesight, but mumbled that he wasn't an expert on driving. Clearly. Does the DVLA know about these rolling eyesight tests? I think my BS detector is twitching.

We may actually see POTUS break his links with Social Media.

Despite his many inexcusable and down right dangerous posts regarding virus treatments his latest rambling on postal voting has been tagged with a fact check warning.

Edited by user 27 May 2020 10:43:48(UTC)  | Reason: Social Media brand came up expletive deleted

Not if you were wearing the new PPE cut-out face mask that has appeared on the front of one of the red tops this morning.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-52815336