Coronavirus - Remain Calm. Do Not Panic

I found GMB unwatchable until recently. Morgan and Susanna Reid posturing in the manner of insufferable blowhards was too much to tolerate over the tea and toast. Shouty egotists trying to outdo each other. Andrew Neill is another irritating mouthpiece but he gave Morgan good advice this morning-go easy on the rudeness, basically, but hold politicians to account because that is what the media is supposed to do and too often doesn't. The BBC is afraid of what the Tories may do to it. The press with some honourable exceptions is largely supine. Morgan and even more so Neil are formidable journalists when they choose to be, which is why the Tories are boycotting them. Morgan's conversion from a slavering lapdog to Trump-as embarrassing a spectacle as I can recall for any journalist, utterly toe-curling and cringe inducing- is long overdue.

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I wouldn't disagree with that. I would like to see the Tories grow a set and face these Rottweilers but they are obviously taking the view that it would be unwise so are exercising an annoying veto.

McG wrote: some amount of gougers out today

Cycled out to Howth today about 5. Clunge central it was.

Fairly packed the last few times I've been out there.

Bolsanaro on 6th May "We're past our peak, we're on a decline" at 5000 cases per day.

Edited by coyne - 21 May 2020 at 10:23am

nvidic wrote: coyne wrote: Bolsanaro on 6th May "We're past our peak, we're on a decline" at 5000 cases per day. 20th May - 23,000 new cases, a worldwide record for the most in 1 day - And only tested 700,000 out of 209 million people so likely to be more. They are so f**ked it's sad. He's a disgrace, completely f**ked it up  Had meant to be be going to Brazil in Sep, likely be a good while before that's feasible now with him in charge

Fair play to Keir Starmer putting pressure on Bozo Johnson to sort the overseas care workers surcharge. 

pre Madonna wrote: The world is definitely going mad. On my home tonight I saw a builder standing close to naked outside a chip shop looking for a large cod, followed by a fella walking down the road with a massive speaker on his back, definitely not portable, listening to Latin jazz. I don't know how he was powering it. I come home and find that Robbie Savage has replaced Robbie Peston and Mick Hucknall ks trying to make himself relevant by ranking the world's cultures. All these, with the pandemic itself, have to be some sort of harbingers for the apocalypse?  Anyway, I listened to an episode of The Stand from a week or more back earlier, it was about Sweden's handling of the crisis. Their man Tegnell is either a genius or a lunatic. I have a tendency to trust the Nordic nations on these things, but it is certainly worth following there.

pre Madonna wrote: The world is definitely going mad. On my home tonight I saw a builder standing close to naked outside a chip shop looking for a large cod, followed by a fella walking down the road with a massive speaker on his back, definitely not portable, listening to Latin jazz. I don't know how he was powering it.