United Kingdom VII: Taking Pride in Your Success

[QualityChimp]

"lier"? I'm mortified for him.

Oof.

Maybe that's to get around Parliamentary law?

"No Madam Speaker, I didn't say "Boris Johnson is a liar", I said "Boris Johnson is a lier"."

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2021/jul/23/uk-covid-live-news-latest-updates-coronavirus-pingdemic-boris-johnson?page=with:block-60fa73768f08bb57f5f7d38c#block-60fa73768f08bb57f5f7d38c

The Environment Secretary has said that 10,000 food industry staff members will benefit from isolation exemption, a scheme separate from the one the Government announced last night though

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2021/jul/23/uk-covid-live-news-latest-updates-coronavirus-pingdemic-boris-johnson?page=with:block-60fa7e498f08bb57f5f7d3e2#block-60fa7e498f08bb57f5f7d3e2

The BCC says the schemes won't stop staff shortages

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2021/jul/23/uk-covid-live-news-latest-updates-coronavirus-pingdemic-boris-johnson?page=with:block-60fa896e8f085dcd6b59647c#block-60fa896e8f085dcd6b59647c

The TUC also says the plans are flawed

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2021/jul/23/uk-covid-live-news-latest-updates-coronavirus-pingdemic-boris-johnson?page=with:block-60fa8ae78f0814e7a316fe35#block-60fa8ae78f0814e7a316fe35

And the British Medical Association has called for the Government to abandon its COVID strategy saying the lifting of restrictions is a step too far and that the media is over-focusing on test and trace pinging that only exists as a result of letting COVID spread without restriction - also that the new exemption list is another desperate and unsafe policy

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2021/jul/23/uk-covid-live-news-latest-updates-coronavirus-pingdemic-boris-johnson?page=with:block-60fa911c8f0814e7a316fe8d#block-60fa911c8f0814e7a316fe8d

This is backed up by the Frozen Food industry body calling the exemption plan worse than useless

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https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

Number of new cases drops again - we're now tracking close to 20,000 less than last week...

[Cassius_Smoke]

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
Number of new cases drops again - we're now tracking close to 20,000 less than last week...

Something somewhere isn't being counted...

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Just read something that might explain it - the sharp decline in recorded case numbers coincides with school closures which would mean a drop in detection rather than cases

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/23/ministers-letting-young-people-catch-covid-to-prepare-for-winter-sage-adviser-claims

A member of Sage says the Governments Covid strategy is back to the original her immunity plan - aka the blood on your hands approach

[wheelaa]

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveyantibodyandvaccinationdatafortheuk/21july2021

Always worth a quick read.

On a related note, I am rapidly becoming, 'covid bored' I suppose (entirely of my own making).

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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/covid-news-live-hospitals-experiencing-perfect-storm-as-coronavirus-cases-and-holiday-season-collide/ar-AAMvxLP?ocid=msedgntp

Javid - THE HEALTH SECRETARY - says the public shouldn't cower from the virus

p****

[charlesr]

"Meanwhile, health secretary Sajid Javid has urged people to “learn to live with, rather than cower from” coronavirus, as he declared he has “fully recovered” after testing positive for Covid-19 a week ago and suffering “very mild” symptoms." - that's nice for him. My GF (single mum with 2 kids) has been in bed for 8 days, double jabbed, totally incapacitated by Covid. All she has bene able to do is make the kids food and go back to bed and has been sleeping almost all the time. Her daughter, 18, got it first (after being jabbed) and has lost her sense of smell and still hasn't got it back. She can't taste anything. And has "just" had a cold that has lasted for two weeks so far. **** you Javid.

Also, how can he be "fully recovered" if he tested positive a week ago? I thought it was 10 days before you stopped being infectious.

[fishbowlhead]

My partner is laid up in bed still after 12 days of having it, double jabbed, she’s up for 30 mins at a time the asleep for 4 hours straight. We just have to dog to sort out luckily no kids to worry about so thats a big plus.

Javid is a lying little worm if he says he actually had it and has already recovered.

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Javid's approach to this is literally the Trump Playbook, there's no real difference at all and I hope it works out just as well for him too.

[kryss]

What the **** is with those c***s attacking staff in Asda?

[Cassius_Smoke]

A London ad firm finds it has a gender pay gap so it fires a load of men to narrow the gap rather than increase women's pay. Words fail me.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jul/23/top-ad-men-who-feared-obliteration-win-sex-discrimination-claim

[cutmymilk]

"Meanwhile, health secretary Sajid Javid has urged people to “learn to live with, rather than cower from” coronavirus, as he declared he has “fully recovered” after testing positive for Covid-19 a week ago and suffering “very mild” symptoms." - that's nice for him. My GF (single mum with 2 kids) has been in bed for 8 days, double jabbed, totally incapacitated by Covid. All she has bene able to do is make the kids food and go back to bed and has been sleeping almost all the time. Her daughter, 18, got it first (after being jabbed) and has lost her sense of smell and still hasn't got it back. She can't taste anything. And has "just" had a cold that has lasted for two weeks so far. **** you Javid.

Also, how can he be "fully recovered" if he tested positive a week ago? I thought it was 10 days before you stopped being infectious.

My partner is laid up in bed still after 12 days of having it, double jabbed, she’s up for 30 mins at a time the asleep for 4 hours straight. We just have to dog to sort out luckily no kids to worry about so thats a big plus.

Javid is a lying little worm if he says he actually had it and has already recovered.

Really sorry to hear this, both. I hope everything works out soon. Covid really is random on how and who it affects. Javid really misspoke. I guess we should be thankul we had Hancock for most of this!

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I know it's bad that disgraced politicians get to come back down the line so easily but after just 2-3 weeks of Javid I'd almost welcome Hancock back with open arms already