To find myself agreeing with Piers Morgan?

[SaulBerenson]

These are strange times indeed!

More worked up about the CV than any PM on TV.. I rather liked that.

Staying at home is OK when you have a dozen bedrooms and acres of garden but not such fun when you are a family of 4 in a 2 bedroomed inner city flat so it was not unreasonable that many headed out to a park.

Living in an overcrowded flat in a pollution ridden city is their choice. It's not acceptable to risk other peoples lives because people won't do as they're told. People need to stop making excuses and accept responsibility for their actions. We're in a global pandemic, it isn't supposed to be fun.

He said that people were morons for going out in droves like they did yesterday. Yes we can go for walks but people were thronging around markets and tourist attractions.

Once in a blue moon he talks sense.
I can't watch him I can't stand how he over talks cuts people off. I hope he is practicing his preaching.

He's said Boris has been too vague and should be more decisive. He's saying we need a lockdown and more testing. Basically he has been saying for weeks exactly what everyone in Italy and the WHO has been saying.
He was also saying the Chief Medical Officer announced a herd immunity strategy and then they changed it to social distancing, isolation, schools closing strategy, and that they should never have opted for herd immunity in the first place.
The Govt is trying to pretend no-one ever mentioned herd immunity. Piers played a clip from the CMO interview on Radio 4 where he clearly did say it. Matt Hancock was denying it had ever been policy.

stopped clock..he's still a total ..

I’ve found myself agreeing with him on many subjects for quite a while 🤷‍♀️

If he donates to charity that might be a good thing ( although he may already do so to be fair) or free drinks in his pub when it opens up again!
Matt Hancock is only human. He did not want this crisis no more than we did. He looks crushed and also has family too I suppose.
Piers needs to be a more empathetic I think.
They are doing their best and I'm no Tory.
Be kind : the fallout can wait for another time. This will drag on for a while.

He stands in judgement, not a nice place to be.

I believe the reason some beaches and parks were so packed is because those going thought they would find quiet places to have a stroll. Unfortunately many people thought the same
So when they found the place packed with people why the fuck didnt they go home or find an empty place? Nope they wandered around in herds of stupid people thinking that the fresh air would kill the virus! Or that social distancing didnt apply to them.
Its not rocket science do not gather in large crowds! pretty simple i would have thought

so it was not unreasonable that many headed out to a park.
Its bloody unreasonable to gather in crowds in a fecking global pandemic!
Wtaf is difficult about that?

he says things that need to be said.

Like he did when he published the fake photos? And lied about hacking people's phones?

He's totally right.

That's actually 3 things I agree with him with.

-Gun control
-No transwomen in women's sport
-This. Stay the fuck at home.

Living in an overcrowded flat in a pollution ridden city is their choice.

Is this for real?!

Staying at home is OK when you have a dozen bedrooms and acres of garden but not such fun when you are a family of 4 in a 2 bedroomed inner city flat so it was not unreasonable that many headed out to a park.

I would say it would still be more fun than catching it or knowing you've helped to spread it.

I'm sure Matt Hancock is working hard and is exhausted. But he's in a position to argue for complete lockdown. None of us are. None of us can try to commandeer supplies or put in processes to speed up supply chains.
It's actually imperative that we can trust the Govt just now.
All Hancock had to say was 'yes we were considering herd immunity but our projections quickly showed it wasn't possible for the NHS to cope with the influx that would create. We are working hard to put all necessary infrastructure in place to support a lockdown.'

TabbyStar

Choice or not. It's their primary residence and the place they've been told to stay. No excuses, end of story.

If people used two brain cells, turn up somewhere, it’s busy, then surely they turn around and go back.
The government has been giving very clear advice so far. People simply need to interpret this advice as a rule. I think playgrounds absolutely should be shut but then again, I know I’d be mad to take children there in the first place.
Sometimes people need to think through the consequences to their actions and keep informed about what is happening.
Italy cannot make it more clear that this is beyond bad. Forget about China because we’ll never know what happened there. Forget about higher proportion of older population. Stay at home and keep your distance (better 6 feet apart than 6 feet under - saw this on fb).

Don’t need Piers Morgan to say anything, we simply need morons to stop being morons in day to day life.

His sense of self-important is off the charts and his entire career is based on him airing his opinion on basically EVERYTHING.

So yeah, it's not really a surprise that most people agree with him on some of them.

He's not saying anything that a million other people around the country haven't been saying for weeks anyway.

Piers is spot on about this. Boris has been too slow and wishy-washy reacting to CV and it's people like Piers who have contributed to the government's u-turns, holding daily press conferences etc. If his tweets help speed things upon highlight problems needing fixing then that's great. For example NHS staff should have their parking charges at hospitals waived for a while.

People generally dont think the rules apply to them.

YANBU! The man is talking sense and to be honest I'm starting to like him more than Alan Sugar, I am sure you will know why!

Totally agree. A friend was telling me (via text) they went for a lovely long walk. Got coffee first, then grabbed another coffee on the way back. Complained that there was loads of people around. Didn't cross her mind for one moment that she was one of these people and therefore part of the problem.

I have no idea why people always need to bring up what someone has done in the past to dismiss a current view. Either you agree with someone or you don’t.

And actually I can totally see why the government have acted as they have but it is the fact that people are acting like entitled morons that mean that liberties are going to be curtailed much quicker than if people had actually followed advice.

On my FB over the past few days I’ve lost count of the numbers of people checking into this and that place, talking about how they won’t be stopping gatherings with friends, and in one instance a friend flying from one country to another and saying how he didn’t feel he should self quarantine when he came home because he’s used good hygiene. Never mind that he’s actually been running around the tourist attractions on his holiday and checking in at various places on the way.

I am firmly of the belief that social isolation and lockdown is going to have detrimental effects on people’s MH, however there needs to be middle ground between total isolation and running around the parks and coffee shops in your droves, but because people are too stupid to see that they’re going to have to be forced to stay home.

I did think it was quite amusing when Piers was reading out the headlines this morning and, when there was footage of crowded tourist spots yesterday referred to them all as idiots.
You don't get that on the bbc!!!