At least for this inevitable second lockdown we have used our time wisely and established an extensive test and track system and stocked up on PPE.
Thank the lord all those billions have been funnelled into the NHS and not into Tarquinâs offshore account too.
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Iâd be fucking ace in the Commons, although iâd have to play it up a bit. I would pitch it as a Roger Mellie / Jeremy Clarkson hybrid and absolutely mullah the expenses. Half the Country would love me and half the Country would hate me. Of course, no existing MPâs would behave this way, so iâd be a breath of fresh air.
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Hands off Mellie!
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No mixing with other families.
Unless youâre at work, then itâs all cool. Our place is actually being sensible. Everyone signs in, visitor or not. Temperatures are checked at the door.
The missusâ place arenât doing that, and they wonât let anyone self isolate unless someone in their household is a confirmed case.
And of course, you need a test to be a confirmed case.
Add Eat Out to Help Out in, schools opening and a lot of non immune people all going back into circulation at work and itâs the perfect storm.
I think this graphic shows one of the reasons why people are blasé about the virus.
Cases per 1,000 people is 50 or more in the worst affected areas. thatâs 1 in 20 people will have tested positive. Now in most peopleâs minds thatâs not a massive figure so they donât see it as a problem.
The next reason is âitâs not as bad as the fluâ or â20k people died from the flu last yearâ. When you try to explain about the NHS being overwhelmed or half the country off work because theyâve got the virus you can see eyes glaze over.
The 3rd is government âencouragingâ people to go back to work, school pubs etc.
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As Iâve said before, very few people wear masks the further you get out of town. The shop over the road told me that the coppers arenât enforcing it, and they werenât either.
Weâve done legal gatherings at my place, which is pretty big so socially distancing is easy. My daughter turned 21 two days before the six person limit and we had a party.
If it had fallen tomorrow night, we wouldnât be having it.
The media are properly knocking one out over the prospect of a second wave. They will create so much noise and panic that the govt will have no choice but to appease them.
I have to say if there were two things I could change in my lifetime it would be the advent of the power of social media and a 24hr news culture. Both have been utterly corrosive
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To be fair the government is complicit in using the media to create the culture of fear that is being used to subjugate the massesâŠ
Abso-fucking-lutely. 
Well said, that man. 
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With all the cuts to media and investigative journalism, the two are in lockstep. The media is increasingly employing kids.
Itâs like a circular human caterpillar involving only two participants. Each eats what the other shits out. And round and round it goes.
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But itâll be a âcircuit breakâ which is clearly a massive, positive, âworld beatingâ step up from last weeks âmoonshotâ testing.
Canât wait for next weeks initiative. Any ideas for the next slogan that isnât âhalf bakedâ?
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Donât Give a ShitâŠYou Wonât Get ItâŠGo To Work.
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Doesnât roll off the tongue tbh. Half the plebs canât read and / or are dossing on Furlough (according to Baz) .
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They seem to like three word slogans so: Neglect-Infect-Deflect
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Cookie Dough?
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Just look for an MBA Marketing text book and the catchphrase chapter.
Itâs what their Interns will be doing.
(I am not dissing Interns, just pointing out they use unpaid under Grads for everything)
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Bullshit Baffles Brains.
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