What an irresponsible Tweet! Utterly shameless! Sweden, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan have all kept schools open.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-madness-of-torygenocide

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This is not that. This is not a scholarly exchange on the merits of ‘herd immunity’ or social distancing. This is the proposition that the Prime Minister is so wicked, sadistic and Machiavellian that he is, per the internationally recognised definition of genocide, acting ‘with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group’ by, inter alia, ‘deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part’.

Let me be clear: if you believe this, you are a loon. A wack-job. Nuttier than an M&Ms spillage in a Snickers factory. The #torygenocide conspiracy theory is not the mutterings of a bus station wino but of apparently intelligent people unable to surrender a psychological crutch. That is, the reassuring conviction that their opponents are plainly evil, so evil they would perpetrate mass cleansing of the weak and vulnerable out of ideological callousness. Who wouldn’t want to lean on such a crutch? If those you disagree with are monsters, you no longer have to go to the trouble of disagreeing with them. You can simply pronounce them hostis humani generis and hear your analysis echoed in your political silo of choice. "

Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 

Keeping schools open this long and allowing people to gather in crowded supermarkets and not ordering closures of businesses, is basically the herd strategy ongoing. If they really wanted to contain this, they should force people to stay indoors and deliver food to them, like in Wuhan. But job done. Virus is now endemic and will do its thing

Pay attention to the utter contempt & scorn on @BorisJohnson’s face as the context from @Peston’s questions dawn on him. What an evil crook. #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/SlNsd0jnuf

— Miffy Buckley 🏳️‍🌈 (@miffythegamer) March 17, 2020

Originally Posted by: The Beast from the East 

What an irresponsible Tweet! Utterly shameless! Sweden, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan have all kept schools open.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-madness-of-torygenocide

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This is not that. This is not a scholarly exchange on the merits of ‘herd immunity’ or social distancing. This is the proposition that the Prime Minister is so wicked, sadistic and Machiavellian that he is, per the internationally recognised definition of genocide, acting ‘with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group’ by, inter alia, ‘deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part’.

Let me be clear: if you believe this, you are a loon. A wack-job. Nuttier than an M&Ms spillage in a Snickers factory. The #torygenocide conspiracy theory is not the mutterings of a bus station wino but of apparently intelligent people unable to surrender a psychological crutch. That is, the reassuring conviction that their opponents are plainly evil, so evil they would perpetrate mass cleansing of the weak and vulnerable out of ideological callousness. Who wouldn’t want to lean on such a crutch? If those you disagree with are monsters, you no longer have to go to the trouble of disagreeing with them. You can simply pronounce them hostis humani generis and hear your analysis echoed in your political silo of choice. "

Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 

One rule for the rich…..

Coronavirus: Harley Street clinic has sold 2,000 home test kits to celebs and wealthyhttps://t.co/Ino8vA6qVY pic.twitter.com/r9CzFZic49

— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) March 18, 2020

Originally Posted by: The Beast from the East 

Sweden have closed their schools as of yesterday apparently. Also, SK did close their schools 

Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 

I did not know Sweden had changed their position on schools - up until yesterday they had the same position as UK.

Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 

Worth checking out "medical school syndrome" which Shawn Achor talks about. Even very intelligent people with specialist knowledge are fooled into convincing themselves they have a disease when they study it.

The problem is that, as research shows, when we think about something as being unhealthy, it has an unhealthy effect upon us. That's why people oft en start to manifest the symptoms of the diseases they most fixate upon, and it's the reason first-year medical students get the infamous "medical school syndrome" in which they start believing that they have each disease they are studying. But this poses a significant problem for hospitals: How can you make people feel healthier in a place associated with sickness and disease?

Link to Oprah but he is quite well known and respected.

http://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sunday/shawn-achor-on-why-happiness-is-contagious/all

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

Finland also closing schools.

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

At the rate I am going, I wont have many friends left on facebook.

I even just called out my step mother who said she was soldering on and going to get her nails done today.

I am sick of people flagrant attitude to this.

Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 

Having gone into work feeling a bit under the weather, with a sore throat (usually means a cold for me, not one of the symptoms for covid), I found my voice had gone really gravelly when I was speaking to the head!

She asked if I had a fever, I said I felt a bit off colour but couldn't check... and five minutes later (leaving me in the office) a thermometer was procured. It read 38.something and so I've now been sent home to self-isolate for a week - it's official now!

I'm more annoyed I can't sort out the utter cluster-mess of Google Classroom today than anything else... the sync script written by someone else in the Trust borked and removed all the kids from their classes yesterday night.

As I said a couple of days ago, there's no way schools can continue to run due to staff self-isolating. I can pretty much gaurantee that they will be closed by Monday.

Originally Posted by: Retron 

It is clear that schools will be closed in the UK - my son-in-law told me last week that the planning assumption was that UK schools would shutdown at the end of this week.

But there may be subtle effects - could some facilities be kept open on a skeleton basis to look after the children of essential workers in the NHS and other essential services?

Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 

At the rate I am going, I wont have many friends left on facebook.

I even just called out my step mother who said she was soldering on and going to get her nails done today.

I am sick of people flagrant attitude to this.

Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 

If the Government don’t close places down then this will continue to happen. 

The specific message of “we strongly encourage you not to go” rather than “you have to close” , is muddying the waters and is a rather mixed message. This is the fault of the Government. 

Originally Posted by: Joe Bloggs 

If the Government don’t close places down then this will continue to happen. 

The specific message of “we strongly encourage you not to go” rather than “you have to close” , is muddying the waters and is a rather mixed message. This is the fault of the Government. 

Originally Posted by: Joe Bloggs 

What an irresponsible Tweet! Utterly shameless! Sweden, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan have all kept schools open.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-madness-of-torygenocide

"...

This is not that. This is not a scholarly exchange on the merits of ‘herd immunity’ or social distancing. This is the proposition that the Prime Minister is so wicked, sadistic and Machiavellian that he is, per the internationally recognised definition of genocide, acting ‘with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group’ by, inter alia, ‘deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part’.

Let me be clear: if you believe this, you are a loon. A wack-job. Nuttier than an M&Ms spillage in a Snickers factory. The #torygenocide conspiracy theory is not the mutterings of a bus station wino but of apparently intelligent people unable to surrender a psychological crutch. That is, the reassuring conviction that their opponents are plainly evil, so evil they would perpetrate mass cleansing of the weak and vulnerable out of ideological callousness. Who wouldn’t want to lean on such a crutch? If those you disagree with are monsters, you no longer have to go to the trouble of disagreeing with them. You can simply pronounce them hostis humani generis and hear your analysis echoed in your political silo of choice. "

Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 

I totally agree Joe. How are you coping? Haven't seen you on for a while and I know this is all probably making you very anxious

Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 

Thanks for asking mate. :-) 

I’m feeling a tiny bit calmer now my grandad’s funeral is out of the way. I had the hardest day of my entire career yesterday - single handedly managing a team of 30, closing down the office, a few of them were crying, delivering emergency briefings etc. One of them asked how long we’d be closed - I responded with “possibly around 3 months”, she left the meeting immediately in tears. We all think our jobs could be at risk soon.

Hope you are okay :) 

Originally Posted by: Joe Bloggs 

London is clearly the fear. It could make Lombardy look like a teddy bear's picnic if a lockdown isn't imposed soon. I'm glad I live outside the M25 and north of it.

Prof Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he developed symptoms on Tuesday and a high fever overnight - hours after attending a Downing Street press conference.

"Central London is really the kind of hotspot in the UK at the moment... still in Westminster, there is a lot," he said.

"It is becoming quite a widespread community infection especially in hotspots like London," he added.

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

There is going to have to be a major crackdown because otherwise those who 'talk a good game' - utter tw4ts like Beast and one of my friends who said he was going to stop going to the pub and then went anyway 'because he felt fine' - will continue to do so.

These people don't care about the virus continuing to spread more quickly because of numbers circulating in pubs, clubs, etc. All they think about is that they are OK, their friends are OK and so there is no risk. They don't care about asymptomatic carriers, they don't care about the elderly and the vulnerable. All they care about is their own gratification. They will contort any argument to justify carrying on as normal while slagging off the Govt and others for not doing enough.

It makes me sick to the pit of my stomach, frankly. It is just about the most selfish act possible. It should be as socially unacceptable as drink driving but unfortunately there are plenty of red-faced pr1cks out there who are willing to tell the Daily Mail or Sky News that there is no danger from going to the pub.

To anybody who is doing this, I say this: Get this through your thick f5cking skull - it is not about you. It is about the continued circulation of the virus among medium to large size groups. By ignoring advice, you are potentially signing the death warrants of scores of vulnerable and elderly people. 

Originally Posted by: Justin W