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Sorry to hear that. Found out this morning my sister's in an induced coma with it. Can't help but feel it's going to hit everyone in some way. In the end, we'll all know someone affected by it.

@Bjornebye

The combination of daily figures coming this weekend and inevitable footage of people out in the sun acting like bellends over the bank holiday is likely to be the prompt which finally tips us into further restrictions, I reckon. I’m not exactly a prominent advocate for authoritarian government and I appreciate it’s a deep culture shock for people to be asked to just stay inside, but I’m pretty much at the ‘Just fucking cattle prod them and stop fucking about’ point now. And people licking food in supermarkets are pure gulag fodder. Absolute cunts.

What a hero. Dutifully defending elite interests. On a football forum.

It’s my neighbour’s funeral next week. I spoke to his wife this evening. There’ll be her and their daughter there. He was an odd bloke but that was just awful to hear that they will be there on their own without anyone to show their solidarity or to comfort them

When I said Die Boris, Die, I was simply speaking German. It means The Boris, The.

My Uncle is well into his 80's hasn't been well for a while. He's in a hospice, and now has COVID. There is virtually no chance he'll pull through and my poor Auntie (my dads sister) isn't allowed visit him. So he's literally got, at best probably, a week to live, and his wife can't visit. This is a cunt of a virus. I just can't imagine having to suffer that if my wife were sick and her life hanging in the balance.

"Its just like the flu.... more people had died by this time in 2016, its embar.... oh........... oh fuck."

pray for us

It's good to know that we still have some sports coverage during the lockdown as well :

Did you use it to put your cabin crew blazer on?

Nevertheless mate. Im terrified how many more of us will have posts like this on here. Absolutely tragic times we are going through.

He's a lovely lovely man, but we're not close in that I only see him a few times a year, so I'm certainly not fishing for sympathy. Having a sister in a coma like BBN is the real horror. But it's just the situation of my Auntie (who I would be close with) not being able to sit with him and even just hold his hand. That's heart breaking for them.

Yeah about that...

That’s awful mate. I hope both her and the rest of your family get the best possible outcome. The way some people are still so blasé about this thing is fucking infuriating.

I think that reason has its merits, but it's one of many. While the city has always been relatively poor,a large part of its population are families of immigrants,Irish and Scottish are most visible but Welsh,Chinese,African(families of liberated slaves and African have sailors settled in the city over the generations) and almost any other communities you can shake a stick at. And I think Merseyside has been one of the major success stories of mixing immigrants into its culture. There has always been a sense of community that crossed culture and language barriers and most of its population were raised on stories of persecution hatred from authorities such as the British government. A common bond was formed through which the population has largely rejected right wing rhetoric and hatred and this is another part of the reason Thatcher and the tories hate the city as its been difficult to create those divides that exist elsewhere but exist much less on Merseyside. Its never been about economics where the tories are concerned,it has always about their own definition of the word 'class' and that means subjugation of everybody but the very wealthy. Merseyside,I am proud to say,has never fell for that bullshit and hopefully never will.

My understanding is that scientists just don't know for sure at present. Others may be more au fait with the current definitive state of play. With your ex in her current position I'd personally be erring on the side of caution, to be brutally honest.

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It’s my job to make people well. I wouldn’t wish death on him. If he were a patient under my care he would get the same treatment as anyone else. I wouldn’t pose in a newspaper holding up a placard saying “get well soon Boris” to a man who applauded and cheered a bill in parliament to deny me a pay rise. I don’t really see that as “fucking mental”. Quite the opposite actually.

It is there job to make people well, including him. I just find it odd to say the least how anyone within the NHS can support him and his party after the part they played in reducing it to it's knees. They can't even be supplied with the proper PPE to protect themselves. Their colleagues within the NHS are dying because of it. Each to their own but if it were one of the persons responsible for making my job a living hell while earning a shitty wage, the last thing I'd be doing is sending them a get well soon card.

Would have been anyway. If Bernie had won the nomination the Democrat establishment would have put as much energy into sabotaging his campaign as they have into fighting any Republican.

TK at work, tomorrow.

He's working from home.

Ferdinand is a fucking bellend. I watched that program about his wife dying of cancer and couldn't believe that he had the nerve to do it given the amount of women he banged while he was married to her. Not sure why her parents tolerate him on any level after treating their daughter like that. Then making out he is father of the decade by actually spending a little bit of time with his kids, meanwhile carrying on his pundit work while his in laws look after them. The odd cry for the camera then back to normal or a visit to a couple of other dads to make out he is a grounded individual.

You need this in your life. Amazing.

Mary Hid A Little Limb.

Preferred Nirvana's version to be honest...

It must be dreadful, I was with my younger sister to the end, 3 days in his hospice holding her hand, talking and playing music, not sure if she could hear me, so that was bad enough but not being able to do that is absolutely awful, so sad, i can't imagine the grief of not being able to offer comfort of sorts.

Yeah, about that...

I know two people who have died from this now a fella I used to work with and my brothers father in law. This sucks the fucking big one this.

I've got to say I'm finding how hold they are looking (chicken man too) is starting to distract me. I rewatched BB before the movie came out, so I don't know if that has highlighted it for me, but I think they're all starting to look too old for the story. I would say it would be helpful for the final season to jump to after BB, but clearly that would mean there'd be only Jimmy left.

You've finally got something right.

Any mask updates today? I’m using this thread as my mask source of information in a WhatsApp group.

I work in aviation and a few years ago I wrote a memo. I re-read it a while after sending and saw I wrote "aircraft hanger". It was too late to correct it at that point. That's how I feel now.

My strong impression is that healthcare workers are already prohibited from talking about any issues within the service, it's just not enforced as strictly as it sounds like will now be the case. I've known great nurses leave, specifically because they couldn't take what the paring back of staff/services was physically/mentally doing to them anymore, and was told in confidence by one that they're still forbidden from talking publicly about the situation once they've resigned, due to stipulations inherent in the contract they must all sign when joining up. All a bit vague and anecdotal so I appreciate its not of great value, but it's something I've heard more than once.

What do you call a man with a spade in his head? An ambulance.

This week’s episode was up there with peak Breaking Bad.

Both FIFA and UEFA have accepted that this season can be extended. The Prem want to finish it and a lot of them will face bankruptcy or at least severe financial problems if they don't. The only people now talking about voiding it are crazed opposition fans, a few ex-players and club reps with a personal axe to grind and the sports media anxious to fill columns or airtime while nothing else is happening. There is no logical reason to think it won't get finished bar a second surge in the virus over the summer.

Fuck off.

Hi res Jupiter photos Some nice photos of Jupiter.

“This Was” by Jethro Tull I don’t think I’ve ever listened to a Jethro Tull album in full before, so score one for GF Music Review club right off the bat. Anyway, bluesy psych rock with added flute, I quite like it. A bit indulgent for my taste at times and none of the tunes really grabbed me by the bollocks and made me say “this is fucking good”. Would I listen to it again? Yeah probably, would be good listening for a sunny afternoon lazy drinking session I reckon. Hang on, it’s the afternoon here, sun’s out and I’ve got the day off...

I’m getting to the point where if they don’t get a grip on this properly, I’ll have to fuck work off for a while. I’m not too proud to go off sick as an underpaid (private sector) ‘key worker’. I didn’t sign up to be put in the firing line by a Tory government‘s botched response to a crisis they could see coming a mile off. It’s done a number on my mental health and I’d rather the physical doesn’t follow.

Don’t want to hear any of this bollix fighting talk “we’ll win it next year.” Fuck off we’ve won it this year and we can’t let anyone take it away from us, 30 fucking years we can not even consider the possibility that this is taken away from us. I love all the cunts saying about an asterisks or how it’ll be regarded as a joke. They care more about us than their own club, it’s absolutely pathetic, they’re in a frenzy seeing decisions being made in Belgium and Scotland.Fifa and Uefa look on board with us, so have it you fucking bitter mongs.

An explanation of how the virus works by a professor at University College London: Seems to tally with what has happened with Johnson, particularly re the ten day time period prior to his admission to the ICU.