Freightdog wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:05 pm

Yerg wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 10:39 pm Did have a chuckle reading about dilberts in the UK burning down 5G Telephone masts due to an online "rumour" that they were somehow linked to Coronavirus

Worthy of a chuckle. However, a tenuous link is that there is significant investment by China in the UK 5G network. If they’d have done this in protest, they might have been seen as patriotic rather than latent Darwin awards recipients.

The link is tenuous indeed. I'm leaning more towards your second suggestion!!

Freightdog wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:05 pm

Yerg wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 10:39 pm Did have a chuckle reading about dilberts in the UK burning down 5G Telephone masts due to an online "rumour" that they were somehow linked to Coronavirus

Worthy of a chuckle. However, a tenuous link is that there is significant investment by China in the UK 5G network. If they’d have done this in protest, they might have been seen as patriotic rather than latent Darwin awards recipients.

The media is portraying it as part of online rumour that 5G is causing or having an effect on Covid-19. The Downing Street briefing poured scorn on that yesterday. However, they never mention the fact that 5G = Huawei = China and the damage might be motivated by anti Chinese sentiment. One lives on hope that people start telling their masters that they aren't going to let this slide.

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 9:44 pm 31m ago 15:06
Five London bus workers who tested positive for Covid-19 have now died, the Unite union said.

The Unite regional secretary, Peter Kavanagh, said:

Each of these deaths is a terrible tragedy and the thoughts of everyone at Unite go to the families of the bus workers who have died of coronavirus.

Unite will assist the families of our members in every possible way during this terrible time.

Unite has been working continuously with Transport for London (TfL) and the operators to ensure the safety of drivers and others in the industry who are performing a heroic job in getting NHS and care workers to their places of work.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/ ... st-updates

"Five London bus workers who tested positive for Covid-19 have now died, the Unite union said"

The total number of NHS workers who have died from Covid-19 is 8. Very low compared to bus drivers. There's something odd going on here.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/0 ... s-victims/

Doc67 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 1:30 pm

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 9:44 pm 31m ago 15:06
Five London bus workers who tested positive for Covid-19 have now died, the Unite union said.

The Unite regional secretary, Peter Kavanagh, said:

Each of these deaths is a terrible tragedy and the thoughts of everyone at Unite go to the families of the bus workers who have died of coronavirus.

Unite will assist the families of our members in every possible way during this terrible time.

Unite has been working continuously with Transport for London (TfL) and the operators to ensure the safety of drivers and others in the industry who are performing a heroic job in getting NHS and care workers to their places of work.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/ ... st-updates

"Five London bus workers who tested positive for Covid-19 have now died, the Unite union said"

The total number of NHS workers who have died from Covid-19 is 8. Very low compared to bus drivers. There's something odd going on here.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/0 ... s-victims/

Nothing odd I think. Bus drivers are the first to be exposed, so the first to get sick and the first to die.
Healthcare workers have some protection and only get exposed wen the infected people get so sick they look for help.
IMHO bus drivers are just ahead on the same track of infection-illness-look for help-cured/death.

The cracks are beginning to show. The end of April is the most to government will get for their lockdown, if that.

The main event of the month, brought to you by Boris Johnson Promotions:

Stay at Home - Protect the NHS - Save Lives

V

Back to Work - Protect the Economy - Save Your Country

Problem is that the government, though the NHS and PHE have had plenty of time to get all the PPE equipment for the frontline staff and ventilators for patients and completely have failed to protect the NHS. So we have to do it ourselves do we?

As for saving lives, that ship has sailed. The airports are still wide open and the virus is still being imported so the government has failed there too. But they send the police the parks for people having a picnic.

All the government has achieved so far is in destroying nearly all economic activity for 2 weeks and looks set to carry on and plunging the country into ruinous debt with a collapsing tax base. Europe has, more or less, done the same. We are looking at the mother of all sovereign debt crisis coming down the line and a good blast of inflation with high interest rates to follow.

It's not too late to change course but politicians are notoriously slow to admit a mistake and make changes. I fear the damage will be done by the time the people take matters into their own hands.
Nobody voted for economic suicide.

"UK’s Covid-19 lockdown could crumble as frustration grows, police warn"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... olice-warn

God'sGift wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 2:42 pm Politicians in the UK have fallen into the trap of ' we must be seen to be doing something' ......mass bannings have been championed by the left as usual, because people of that mindset are far more emotionallly driven than normal.

They should apply their test kit slogun of, "a bad test is worse than no test". Bad action is worse than no action.