Brexit, for once some facts.

flecc

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I just don't believe our government estimate of 0.7 for R0.
The BBC is spreading government propaganda of R0 all day on BBC News24.
If that were true, the number of new confirmed cases would drop 30% for each cycle.
We've been having 4.5k - 6k new confirmed cases every day for 3 weeks now.
That's R0 = 1.
They are preparing the ground for easing lockdown to reduce the economic impact.
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oyster

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I just don't believe our government estimate of 0.7 for R0.
The BBC is spreading government propaganda of R0 all day on BBC News24.
If that were true, the number of new confirmed cases would drop 30% for each cycle.
We've been having 4.5k - 6k new confirmed cases every day for 3 weeks now.
That's R0 = 1.
What we really don't see is how many people have actually got covid-19. Nor can we.

Was today a "say anything you like, just don't mention the war, oops, number of tests" day?
 

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In these difficult times when you may lose some self-esteem, you may feel that you are worthless and of no use, well just remember someone is paid to fit indicators to BMWs.
And even useless gadgets called speedometers!
 

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Future quaint model for UK Post-Bexit economic boom


I hear Rees Mogg is heading down for the grand opening

 

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It's like that every day down here on the south coast virus or no virus, any excuse for a knees-up. If it's your 5yo's birthday the whole street joins in. The daughter of a friend of mine had a birthday do last week and someone came across from Hastings just to be there ! I believe that involved several trains a bus and a taxi.
 
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Barry Shittpeas

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They are preparing the ground for easing lockdown to reduce the economic impact.
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I think you are correct. The government’s new friends, the BBC, are softening people up ready for the main event. The last 6 weeks have been the warmup act, this thing is really going to take off when Johnson releases the brakes with a BS speech on VE Day.
 
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oyster

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A good article from Morgan in the DM

PIERS MORGAN: Boris can boast but the death toll tells the real story


https://mol.im/a/8275365
He said a lot of the things that need to be said, I agree.

And the comments I could see show that he really has hit the button. They all hate him for what he wrote.

His hand-shaking crap was so obviously based on Princess Di and HIV - she did it and everyone loved her. But covid-19 is so incredibly different he simply showed his ignorance.

Added:

Just re-checked, the comments I could see are rather more mixed than earlier.
 
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I think you are correct. The government’s new friends, the BBC, are softening people up ready for the main event. The last 6 weeks have been the warmup act, this thing is really going to take off when Johnson releases the brakes with a BS speech on VE Day.
nhs to commission digger refurb and shipping it to the uk to dig all the mass graves for the dead as we just can not cope anymore.


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oyster

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Make of this what you will. Did Wuhan Institute order a special batch of bleach and UV lights?

Fact check: Is the virus manmade?
Trump said he can’t say why, but he’s confident that the coronavirus originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
But the office of the director of national intelligence has said the intelligence community does not believe coronavirus was manmade. In a statement, the Office of the DNI said: “The Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified.”
“The IC will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.”
 

Barry Shittpeas

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He said a lot of the things that need to be said, I agree.

And the comments I could see show that he really has hit the button. They all hate him for what he wrote.

His hand-shaking crap was so obviously based on Princess Di and HIV - she did it and everyone loved her. But covid-19 is so incredibly different he simply showed his ignorance.

Added:

Just re-checked, the comments I could see are rather more mixed than earlier.
‘The reader comments are something to behold. The idiots refuse to accept the evidence of their own eyes and ears and turn on Morgan. They are going to be the ones getting Coronavirus in the workplace because it costs too much to protect them properly. Meanwhile those making the big money off the backs of their labour will be isolating in luxury somewhere and paying the DM of feed them more BS.

There is almost an arrogance, a sort of Coronavirus won’t affect us, we are British, it’s just wops and daygos who get it. Incredible.
 

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