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Obviously shouldn't laugh at anyone getting COVID-19 (unless you're a paedo, murderer, sex abuser etc etc) but the Israeli Health Minister has tested positive for it. He has previously claimed that testing positive for it is 'divine punishment for homosexuality'

In simpler times before the lockdown.

God, the worst thing (well, after the death, disease and damage to people's livelihoods) must be the myriad of celebrities trying to cash in on a vague sense of brotherhood, recording horrible, soppy songs and other crap to 'help keep people motivated'. I guess it's a fair trade-off, though, as at least Eurovision was cancelled.

Saw this on reddit and thought it's pretty interesting. The evolution of some race team factories:

Friday morning half-awake look, rugged myself up with body warmer and hoody and went for a stroll in the back garden, not a bad morning weather wise but that will do me for the day and now I will go back and hibernate in our little lockdown flat, coffee for now and maybe a wine tonight.

Not quite true on a few levels. They weren't "all" saying herd immunity requires a vaccine. A vaccine is an option to achieve herd immunity, which is in all diseases of which such has occurred in the last 50 years. The original stance was that the virus would keep coming back for years until each community developed herd immunity. No vaccine was mentioned. Lockdown measures were not implemented earlier because they were modelling the impact of each measure and the timing in which to do that. As was said at the time there are negative health consequences with each measure in the modelling. Isolation causes sedation which leads to premature death for those with particular conditions for example. They also noted concern for long term isolation not being followed, suggesting that because of that if they go too early it wont work due to rule breakers. They were waiting for community outbreaks to reach particular levels they modelled to be optimal for the response. They explicitly said the aim was to broaden the peak, flatten it. That goal is no different to the approach today. To say the approach wasn't people centred is to completely miss the argument laid forth by people with decades of experience. The end failure of the early response was really the modelling. It was wrong and missing huge confounding variables. We lost time because of that. We didn't mobilise testing and ventilators earlier because of that, just as the French didn't mobilise in 1938 because they didn't see what was coming.The premise of the argument was built on bad data and that was exposed when published and when available for public scrutiny. Allowing experts from outside SAGE to chip in, putting weight behind those within SAGE and government who disagreed with the premise behind the work. The lesson therefore resides in a slow pace to transparency. That no organisation has a monopoly on expertise in a country like the UK.

I've been playing Prey. So far it's like BioShock and Dishonored had a baby (the Dishonored connection makes sense, because Arkane studios made Dishonored). I'm trying to beat it before the 15th, when it's off GamePass.

Experts at the time were all saying that herd immunity would only really work if there was a vaccine, the approach went against advice from WHO...it definitely wasn’t a people centred approach. The governments ignorance in light of what was happening in China and Italy particularly was astounding. I’m happy we have done a u-turn on that disaster of an approach but hardly thankful it’s taken the government this long.

I honestly don't think you can properly judge any government's handling of the situation until after the whole thing has died down, and even then it's a massive case of hindsight. I think Johnson has shown leadership qualities throughout the crisis in some ways. In other ways I think he should have been more decisive earlier on and introduced the lockdown measures sooner. We could see from what other countries were doing that introducing those measures was effective and we left it a bit too late because we were busy twatting around with herd immunity and Cummings' behavioural science units. The bum/contradictory advice Johnson got from the government scientists can't be blamed on him though.

Weird way of coming out of the closet.

Yeah I’ve got plenty of people on Facebook loving him, it’s amazing how far a persona can take you in this country I don’t see a rationale argument to suggest the handling of this pandemic has been anything but catastrophic, people are just viewing it as “oh well he’s just an ordinary bloke trying to do his best” but he is a. The PM (they’re eager to point this out when people moan about testing) and b. his best has been getting people killed at the expense of financial interests when successful and viable options have been underway elsewhere around the globe

I never watched Clemence play live, but having read about him he is rightfully a great. But Reina wasn't half bad. Won golden glove three times in a row. We celebrate Alisson and Ederson for being good passers, but Reina was great with his feet before it became cool to be ball playing goalkeepers. And on top of that he was good guy. I don't remember anybody saying anything bad against him (except maybe the Gooners because he put a Barca shirt on Cesc for banter). He is my all time favourite Liverpool goalie too.

Channel mostly headed and run by Indians . Some of my commie comrades here hate it, because its anti-China and pro Indian government (to an extent). I mean, their editor in chief, Sudir Chaudhary is absolutely hated by the left here. @topic Tablighi Jamaat members continue to be scum - shitting in quarantine centre rooms now.

I found this film to be bordering on average apart from a solid 30/40 mins from the moment Brad Pitt picked up that girl to take her back to the ranch. That whole segment from the moment he arrives to the moment he leaves is pure class. Very intense. How a film can just meander along and then grab you like that was beyond me. Maybe it was intended that way. The ending was ok. A bit 'marmite' for me. Some will like, some won't. He flipped the script to what the audience possibly expected the storyline to follow which is a slight shame because they could have incorporated that or did it instead of, but it at least provided some crazy action in the only way QT knows how. 6.5 for me.

Do you ever watch the channel 'Wion' on YouTube? They are exposing China more by the day.

Boris is a massive cunt, his history of racism and classism is clear to see for anyone, his incompetence behind the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe issue, his role in the windrush generation scandal and his handling of this pandemic, putting the economy over people’s lives with herd immunity...and whilst I don’t feel sorry for the position he has put himself and many people around the country in, only a proper wrongun would be wishing death on him and anyone at this point in time. Its possible to dislike someone and what they stand for and also not want them dead...ironically most people wanting him dead most likely don’t have a personal grievance against him. If it was a relative of the windrush generation for example you’d get it, but it’s mostly just either keyboard warriors or far left weirdos.

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Same with everywhere mate. A scientist even claimed other day that he believes 400,000 people in Catalunya alone have probably been infected by it. It knocks some people for 6 but there are also many who don't know they even have it. But then how do you get rid of a virus like that? It'll always be with us as someone will always be infected. I also believe this virus has been around longer than they say as I'm adamant I had it at the end of Jan and all the symptoms make sense now. Simply lifting a plasterboard up a scaffold led me to lay down for 10 mins, out of breath, feeling as though I was having the asthma attacks I had as a kid. The cough I had was also far dryer than normal and the headache was horrible. I thought it was due to the working conditions as at that point there was no roof on the building I was working in, so when it rained, it filled up with water. 4 of us, who were working on that floor ended up full of this flu-like bug, 1 even had a week off. It's also got to be noted that I had just gotten rid of 2 colds within 2 months before it, so it would seem weird for it to be another cold so soon. Just before moving to that site also, a mate of mine who I worked with on the site around the corner had the same thing. He was ill as fuck at work for 5 days, then ended up having an additional week off. This lad is also a beast, he lives in the gym and whatever he had caught knocked him for six. It does make you wonder. The "experts" seem to know fuck all themselves, so I certainly wouldn't rule out that this has been with us longer than we are aware of.

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I'm very happy for you that Peru is doing well.

An antiviral drug named EIDD-2801 has showed promising results on mice and will move into clinical trials soon. Action mechanism similar to that of remdesivir but unlike remdesivir, EIDD-2801 can also be taken as a pill instead of having to be administred intravenously, so offers better ease of treatment and potentially prophylaxis. Could be potentially used together with remdesivir for greater efficacy. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uonc-ana040320.php

Mel's come out with a tweet outlining the backtracking of the club on their decision. Good move by them.

Plenty of them, pretty much all of the most liked tweets replying to the BBC were stuff like 'hope he dies tory scum' or inferences to how they've handled this ergo now deserve to die. I do wonder how many of these accounts then also go on about #BeKind and mental health etc. when those crop up. I'm not a Tory and doubt ever will be but there's an awful underbelly on social media of this kind of them, that seldom seems to be replicated (as much anyway, or as viciously) when someone on the left suffers some misfortune. When you see some of the people saying it, teachers and nurses and stuff, you really fucking wonder. At the end of the day we are all human beings, we all have the same emotions and the same highs and lows in live. Stop acting like cunts and have some grace and actual humanity about you.

Nice white t-shirt

Yeah but our flag is our flag and should not be seen as submissive to any other flag or on the same level of any other flag. Fuck the EU flag. You'll never successfully combat this winning argument (however dumb it might be).

Canada GP latest to be postponed https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/52191975

I went out for a walk yesterday and didn't last 5 minutes because my heart felt weak... Hopefully that's only temporary.