Rayvin

The Prime Minister should be tested indeed, as he is a key worker in the whole situation. I have an issue with Prince Charles getting one though since he is an irrelevance. I do think it's fair for Johnson to take some flack for being part of successive governments which failed to properly fund the system that is taking such good care of him.

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No arguments on that front. Trump has been hilariously bad. Well, it would be hilarious if not for people dying.

It's not just on him though - they were in decline anyway. Hegemony is a short lived drug these days it seems. Europe would have been a great partner to get in with for the new era...

Well fucking said.

Can we assume that this is down to gig economy fallout?

Is that rate of increase (or something) or overall totals? Rate of increase wouldn't be that scary, but if that's the actual sum totals of US unemployment over time then fucking hell.

I think the logic of all of this isn't to prevent you or anyone else getting the disease, it's just to slow it down. So you can take from this that as an NHS employee, you're sort of in the group that has been designated to get it earlier. But that aside, this seems to be really stressing you out man, and you've mentioned previously that you struggle with this kind of thing. Is there anything you can do to try and find calm in all of this? The high, high likelihood is that whatever happens, you and your family will be ok.

Maybe we should just start calling her Goebbels.

My mum got out ahead of this and set up a poly-tunnel with a fair stash of seeds - also now has 6 chickens They were going to do that anyway of course but the plans were brought forward as a precaution. The thing is though, the government isn't going to let us run out of food - they'll ration before that happens.

Aye, sounds rough indeed. My last 3 years have been fucking horrific, but was fine before that so not quite as bad. Grim as all this is, we'll make it through. Always darkest before the dawn, and can't get much fucking darker right now. I'm on a social media thing called Next door, which kind of tries to develop local communities in neighbourhoods. So instead of friends, you sign in for your street and you can see things your neighbours post, etc. The number of messages I've seen on there from people offering to help the elderly, nurses, NHS staff, anyone who is vulnerable. I mean there's hundreds. Some people are really stepping up, and that's what will get us through it IMO.

I'm in the same boat with my mum. Seriously vulnerable. We're doing everything we can and at least she's taking it seriously. Sounds like you've done everything you can mate, and you should take comfort from the fact that it will absolutely be making a positive difference. I guess we can all vent feelings in here as we need to as well, which helps.

Is this relative well isolated? Like, seriously well isolated? Now is the time to pull out the stops on that.

I really don't know if this has become that big a deal yet. Maybe I'm too isolated from it presently to know, but so far, it doesn't feel that big (it feels big, but not Brexit cancelling big). Are you basing it on Renton's doomsday projections?

Are you sure about that? This is the central thing I now hope with respect of Brexit but after so many failures to avert it, I can't quite believe an act of god is going to save the day.

The premise is that you're alone on an alien planet and have to start from scratch basic materials and work your way up through more and more complex technologies until you're able to fly off, so zero workers. But you do pollute the planet in the process which causes the indigenous population of bug aliens to attack your base. At which point your turrets slaughter them. So y'know, not a totally 'Greenpeace friendly' game.

It's on steam, so your PC. If you've got time to kill it's just really satisfying.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/21/europe/putin-coronavirus-russia-intl/index.html Sounds like they closed the border with China immediately once it started though. They have just a few hundred cases. I also read earlier that the repeated sanctions we've placed on them has meant that their isolationist economy is better protected than ours is for dealing with things like this.

Has anyone got any particularly good theories as to why Russia appears to be basically immune to COVID btw?

aye, i don't know what's wrong with me either. When the game was described to me I thought it sounded boring af but after being forced to play it, I was hooked. I still play Rocket League too, because it's the closest thing to playing actual football that you can get in a video game. Good one to play with kids too if you're stuck with them.

In all seriousness, that game is a fucking drug. You start off mining coal and iron ore and in the end you have a fully automated rail network carrying supplies and loading factories, a drone network, automated factory defences and a fucking space ship It's beautiful. If you're a complete dork. Which, as we all know, I am.

Also drinking It's not so bad this, you all just need to get into online gaming. There are now games that basically simulate work anyway, so that's where we'll all end up I strongly recommend Factorio for anyone who likes logistics and operational optimisation. Aren't you all glad I came back?

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Does feel like we have a higher calling on here sometimes though Genuinely think you could form the best government we've had in years using posters from this forum.

Added to that, some of the treatment nurses are getting from members of the public has been disgraceful. Spat at and called disease carriers according to the independent...