[Politics] Ping! Bollocks - I need to self-isolate...

[goldstone]

Remove the app and you won't be pinged. If asked to scan the QR code thingy just wave your phone over it. If asked to write down your name and phone number, make both up. That way you're unlikely to be bothered.

 

[Deleted member 22389]

You can get COVID with double jab, I just have

Tested positive this morning. I've been careful I thought, but obviously not careful enough. Reckon I got it from a petrol pump and I'm double jabbed.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Tested positive this morning. I've been careful I thought, but obviously not careful enough. Reckon I got it from a petrol pump and I'm double jabbed.

Best wishes, these are difficult times for us all. I got really emotional at a petrol station this morning. I don't know why, I just started filling up.

 

[Deleted member 22389]

Best wishes, these are difficult times for us all. I got really emotional at a petrol station this morning. I don't know why, I just started filling up.

Wear your gloves

 

[Bry Nylon]

Wear your gloves

Tough crowd in today...

 

[Deleted member 22389]

Tough crowd in today...

Your joke made me laugh, but please be careful

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

A bit GALLING to see this twunt still getting extensive airplay tho

'Prof [Neil] Ferguson allowed the woman to visit him at home during the lockdown while lecturing the public on the need for strict social distancing'

- Multiple sources, May 2020

 

[goldstone]

Tested positive this morning. I've been careful I thought, but obviously not careful enough. Reckon I got it from a petrol pump and I'm double jabbed.

You can't get it from a petrol pump.

 

[Hampster Gull]

Tested positive this morning. I've been careful I thought, but obviously not careful enough. Reckon I got it from a petrol pump and I'm double jabbed.

I may have got it from the petrol station too. Went to fill up my tyres end of last week, the 50p slot had changed to a £1, went inside to get change and moan a bit and she just shrugged and said it was the price of inflation

 

[drew]

The app under these conditions is a complete nonsense.

What's the point in isolating if you don't have symptoms, especially if you're double jabbed.

I believe you could still be asymptomatic and therefore it's possible to pass it on.

 

[drew]

Must be fun playing Monopoly with Boris at Christmas.

I expect he takes Mayfair and Park Lane but everybody else has to pay for any houses and hotels plus he gets to keep the Get Out of Jail Free card for the whole game.

King of the World

That's a pathetic analogy. Of course he doesn't just take them, he get's someone else to pay for them on his behalf!!!

 

[drew]

You can't get it from a petrol pump.

Why not? If the previous user has covid and has been coughing over the pump and your next to use then why can't the virus transfer?

 

[JC Footy Genius]

I love the way these little winking emojis are used to presumably indicate the writer has some some form of elevated insight; that they have a finely-tuned political antenna that means know and understand something that rest of us and any political correspondent and commentator worth their salt are missing. When of course the reality is they are simply being taken for mugs by a selfish, arrogant chancer - just like Johnson's three wives, multiple mistresses and numerous children who doubtless have been lied to, let down and decieved time and time again because Boris - and what Boris wants - at any given moment will always come first.

My natural instincts are conservative but I couldn't vote for a party led by Therese May as I didn't consider her up to the job and I couldn't vote for Johnson as I considered him incompetent, opportunistic, immoral, unfit to lead and utterly without a plan. Nothing I have seen suggests that analysis was flawed.

Supporting Johnson in the face of over-whelming evidence that he is without question one of the worst and most self-serving PMs this country has ever produced goes way beyond politics. And using a to defend that position is just laughable. In a way, those who still choose to defend Johnson are saying more about themselves than Johnson - and it doesn't result in a very flattering assessment of either their judgement or intellect.

I always thought the wink emoji was meant to show you weren't being entirely serious but nice projection.

Fair enough, your personal standards meant you couldn't vote for them which means you either didn't bother voting at the last two general elections or voted in a way to make it more likely Corbyn would be PM. Either way you aren't best placed to make any criticisms and certainly don't hold any moral high ground.

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[Neville's Breakfast]

Covid-19: PM and chancellor to self-isolate in U-turn

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57879730

Another avoidable own goal by the Government. They really do have very poor political instincts. Just a shame for the opposition that they nailed their colours to the wrong mast on Brexit.

 

[Jim in the West]

so you acknowledge their are a number of organisations this set of rules applies. the question is then do we think PM, chancellor, other senior ministers of state should be in that group of essential workers. instead we'll have a jolly good rant about how unfair it is. there was talk about it extending to all workers, its prohibitive to administer at scale (PCR everyday), and stayed a "pilot".

The point in all of this is that our leaders need to lead - they need to set the right example (by what they say and how they act). Unfortunately we have a bunch of privileged, self-interested twats running our country. Repeatedly they say things and do things which indicate that they simply do not understand their role. They lie, give huge contracts to their mates, make rules but then undermine them by not following them, etc, etc.

I think most of us understand that leadership in these times is challenging, but we expect our politicians (esp our PM) to do the right thing and not treat us like idiots. The fact that it even entered their heads to try to use the pilot scheme as a get-out demonstrates how out of touch they are.

Incidentally, one of the 20 organisations that the Government claims are part of the Pilot Scheme (TfL) is definitely NOT part of it.....they are still waiting to be told whether or not they can be part. This Government simply cannot stop lying!!!

 

[studio150]

Couple of minor points ... they WILL be self isolating apart from essential government business and the pilot scheme already covers numerous public/private sector organisations.

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And yet TFL have denied being in the scheme, makes you wonder how many other 'named companies' are also not actually in the scheme.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

I may have got it from the petrol station too. Went to fill up my tyres end of last week, the 50p slot had changed to a £1, went inside to get change and moan a bit and she just shrugged and said it was the price of inflation

I went to an inflatable school.
I was always told that I was constantly letting myself down, the class down and the entire school down.

 

[Deleted member 22389]

You can't get it from a petrol pump.

Door handles, petrol pumps all places that many people touch with their hands. I don't see anyone on my jobs in the mornings, I have stayed away from people at the school gates when I pick up my daughter. My wife is a teacher so does tests on a regular basis and she's negative, so the garage is the only place I can think of at the moment.

 

[redoubtable seagull]

Door handles, petrol pumps all places that many people touch with their hands. I don't see anyone on my jobs in the mornings, I have stayed away from people at the school gates when I pick up my daughter. My wife is a teacher so does tests on a regular basis and she's negative, so the garage is the only place I can think of at the moment.

Did you lick your fingers, pick your nose, rub your eyes or stick your finger up your bum immediately after visiting the petrol station?

The risk of infection from touching hard surfaces is very low. The evidence of transmission risk on hard surfaces have generally been carried out in lab conditions, which don’t reflect real life.

Is your daughter lateral flow testing? Perhaps she is asymptotic but passed it to you. The biggest spike in cases is kids.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Same as Michael Gove after he got pinged on returning from the ECL final in Portugal. Fortuitously for him, he was part of the same pilot programme.

Must get round to re-reading ‘Animal Farm’ one of these days…

Just remember some animals are more equal than others!