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A bloke with better connections to what the thinking is in the inner circles of the govt than an epidemioligist maybe?

About as likely as Samantha Flower being a bloke.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 8:24 pm
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Well the NHS is gearing up.

Local Hospital is booting anyone who can walk and doesn’t need a machine to live.

A couple of GP surgeries are closing their doors in favour of Telephone appointments.

Both sends everything rolling downhill to district nurses. My Wife’s former team already has 480 calls booked for Monday, that’s before the bulk of hospital patients are sent home. There’s 5 of them, about 100 calls each... they usually do between 6-8 a day.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 8:32 pm
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This weird little bit of nonsense is still ongoing:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/13/mp-andrew-bridgen-enters-coronavirus-row-between-wife-and-nadine-dorries


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 8:38 pm
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bridgen

Please can we add this word to the swear filter?


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 8:44 pm
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Denmark is now closing its borders to non-Danes without purpose to enter from tomorrow.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 8:48 pm
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Chinese are blaming the US, claiming the virus came from US Bio-warfare lab -

https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-further-evidence-virus-originated-us/5706078

Interesting read - to summarise, it says that the evidence is that there are several strains of the virus and Wuhan has but one, yet all strains have been found in the US, therefore indicating that was the origin. The background is that the US conducted a 'military games' event in Wuhan in October last year, where staff from said weapons facility 'toured' the city. First cases were detected in November 2019, with one patient having no connection to the 'wet market'.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 9:05 pm
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^^^^

More like “it is too much bother and too embarrassing to put our own house in order, so let’s take a cheap shot at the Great Satan to feed a nationalist narrative at home”.

Turns out that other countries play these games too. Who’d have thunk it.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 9:17 pm
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yet all strains have been found in the US, therefore indicating that was the origin

Utter bullshit.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 9:18 pm
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Utter bullshit.

Indeed.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 9:21 pm
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Interesting read

If you have half a brain, possibly


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 9:40 pm
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You can dismiss anything as bullshit, but you ought to say why. I'm just interested in facts.

"The inspection also found the lab systematically failed to implement safety procedures with lapses such as propping open a door while biohazard waste was removed"

https://www.salon.com/2019/12/07/the-army-quietly-re-opens-its-infamous-germ-warfare-lab_partner

"America’s main biological warfare lab has been ordered to stop all research into the deadliest viruses and pathogens over fears contaminated waste could leak out of the facility." (August 9th, 2020).

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/virus-biological-us-army-weapons-fort-detrick-leak-ebola-anthrax-smallpox-ricin-a9042641.html

The 2019 Military World Games, officially known as the 7th CISM Military World Games, was held from October 18–27, 2019 in the capital of Hubei Province in Wuhan, China. Over 109 nations took part.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Military_World_Games

A lot of that checks out, not sure about the variant strains. The US Nuclear program had all sorts of accidents over the history and it is simply astonishing nothing ever came of it. Then you've got a biological warfare facility which was closed for incompetence and had its license revoked two months before a pandemic erupts and people think do not think that is worth investigating?


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 10:02 pm
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You can dismiss anything as bullshit, but you ought to say why

Sorry, I thought I was clear enough.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 10:27 pm
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Thanks for the intelligent contribution.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 10:32 pm
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Not sure the USA conspiracy works out, just because they screwed up so badly intially trying to use their 'made in the usa' test rejecting the euro made ones that actually worked !


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 10:37 pm
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I'm sure I'll get banned soon, but I'm losing patience. If you seriously believe any of that shite you've linked to, I'm not convinced you'd recognize an intelligent contribution of it kicked you in the nuts. I can only hope you posted it for a joke?


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 10:40 pm
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I wonder if those people who are obliged to walk down stairs in their H and S gone mad offices are still duly following the same rule and walking up and down the stairs with hand contact on the banister at all times
You and a few hundred potential carriers rubbing your sweaty mits together

Over 600 people die every year in England and Wales falling down stairs, aye, H and S gone mad...

And if they wash their hands, it's not an issue.

I have no idea what a swave is. 😂


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 10:52 pm
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I'm sorry you're so upset by it. I can delete it if you want?


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:00 pm
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I have no idea what a swave is

Similar to a swathe....


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:01 pm
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A lot of that checks out, not sure about the variant strains.

That’s how conspiracies work they have some facts but surrounded utter bullshit.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:03 pm
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I’m sorry you’re so upset by it. I can delete it if you want?

It'll make you look less silly, so maybe a good plan


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:03 pm
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Thank goodness for that simulation 'Event 201' last October...

if it wasn't for the likes of Bill Gates and the John Hopkins Centre

John Hopkins Centre

(who besides the simulation, are also doing the global real time mapping of this most horrific of outbreaks), we'd likely be in a far worse situation than we are.

Just wish our government would take this all more seriously, as thanks to Trump's decision to keep transport links between the UK and US open (perhaps to encourage future trade deals?) our great nation becomes all the more vulnerable by the second!!


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:08 pm
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As long as you're feeling OK about things Twodogs, I'm okay too 🙂

That’s how conspiracies work they have some facts but surrounded utter bullshit.

I guess a US military research lab for biological weapons closed down for being ****less/incompetent two months before a global pandemic isn't worth mentioning at all then.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:13 pm
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BBC News - Coronavirus: Why is the UK not shutting schools like other countries?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51874084


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:14 pm
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thanks to Trump’s decision to keep transport links between the UK and US open (perhaps to encourage future trade deals?) our great nation becomes all the more vulnerable by the second!!

Nope. The virus is well and truly out in the UK population, international travel might bring in some more carriers but the actual spreading is now being done almost entirely by people that are already here.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:16 pm
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I guess a US military research lab for biological weapons closed down for being ****less/incompetent two months before a global pandemic isn’t worth mentioning at all then.

Pretty much that yes.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:18 pm
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Wow, ok then.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:19 pm
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Nope. The virus is well and truly out in the UK population, international travel might bring in some more carriers but the actual spreading is now being done almost entirely by people that are already here.

Phew, that's reassuring, I'll reduce my level of panic accordingly!!


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:21 pm
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For the love of dog, can one of the mods please ban me for a bit? I can't break my morbid fascination with the utter ****wits and tinfoil hat brigade on here


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:25 pm
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"Computer simulations indicate the UK is in the early stages of its epidemic which is expected to rise sharply in four weeks and peak in 10 and 14 weeks' time."

This sounds like seriously bad news.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:28 pm
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TwoDogs, this is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in on the Where's the coronavirus we're all going to die conspiracy threat, and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes...


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:39 pm
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Thank goodness, sense at last, especially excited by the emergency laws!!

https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1238593854842044419


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:39 pm
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I see Johnson is beginning to realise that the British public don’t want to be guinea pigs in his experiment. He makes Donald Trump look competent.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/uk-to-ban-mass-gatherings-in-coronavirus-u-turn?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:39 pm
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Wonder if the emergency laws against mass gatherings will apply to Her Majesty's Government...

https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1238595177402576896


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:44 pm
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Something something Scotland leads...


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:46 pm
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TwoDogs, this is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in on the Where’s the coronavirus we’re all going to die conspiracy threat, and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes…

You make jivehoney look sane..


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:48 pm
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Most secondary schools have far more than 500 in attendance.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:50 pm
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Most secondary schools have far more than 500 in attendance.

Most secondary schools don't have a police presence.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:51 pm
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Most secondary schools have far more than 500 in attendance.

Most secondary schools don’t have a police presence.

Ah, sorry I missed that reason for the ban.


 
Posted : 13/03/2020 11:57 pm
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You make jivehoney look sane..

You haven't noticed his resurgence then? I'd ban him again if it weren't for the fact that this is literally a conspiracy theory thread. All other criticisms aside I can't complain that he's off-topic.


 
Posted : 14/03/2020 12:00 am
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Covered in this thread wasn't it...

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/hsbc-pulling-out-of-british-cycling/


 
Posted : 14/03/2020 12:03 am
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Wrong mountain Cougar 😉


 
Posted : 14/03/2020 12:03 am
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Has Johnson made this U-turn due to public pressure or are things moving quicker than they'd hoped?


 
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Seems legit, surprised the general populace hasn't been begging for such sensible measures all along to be honest:

https://twitter.com/Ian_Fraser/status/1238604787702259723


 
Posted : 14/03/2020 12:24 am
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I think they have realised that, even if their policy is correct, they are beginning to look stupid as more and more organisations take the decisions for them. It is important that the public has confidence in the decisions being made so it doesn’t really leave them with much option.


 
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