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Borris heading news conference tonight at 5, do we think new restrictions coming?

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Loveatthe5anddime · 04/01/2022 13:36

Just seen on Sky New there is a news conference tonight at 5, interested to know what will be said...

There hasn’t been the usual rumblings “leaked documents” etc so hopeful just an update, what do we all think?

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LivingDeadGirlUK · 04/01/2022 18:06

@JustSinginIntheRain

He will want people to step up and work for free. 'Blitz spirit chaps while we drink the champers.'
It's not the Blitz spirt, as in the Blitz only 40,000 people died....
smilingthroughgrittedteeth · 04/01/2022 18:06

Im sure i read an article earlier that said the new variant in france wasnt considered to be concerning

Lex345 · 04/01/2022 18:09

Not really anything ground breaking. I suspect this haw been held today as a "softener" for death data tomorrow-this should be EXPECTED to be higher because of weekend and bank holiday. NHS has been chronically understaffed for a long time. Whether it has the contingency to withstand the inevitable rise in staff absence with winter pressures and COVID admissions increased has yet to be seen.

And they could do a lot more to bring in temporary staff to the NHS. Many nurses-myself included-have recently left the register (voluntarily allowed to lapse with no restrictions on practice). Can confirm I have not been approached to return. I would consider a short term return with the right support.

Poetrypatty · 04/01/2022 18:10

I would like to see someone dissect his replies, and stop him when he starts waffling on

Yes. Or they could put out an edited version just with the bits where he's actually saying anything at all which would probably total about 8 minutes.

I'm sure he was happy that the journos asking questions are back on zoom so he can cut them off when he wants.

curlymom · 04/01/2022 18:13

The hair cut was very distracting

Topseyt · 04/01/2022 18:17

@curlymom

The hair cut was very distracting
Yes, I was quite worried when I saw Boris had had a haircut. Boris just doesn't do haircuts!
Sparklingbrook · 04/01/2022 18:18

Why after years of Boris being PM are people still obsessed with his hair and prefer to comment on that above all else? Confused

Akire · 04/01/2022 18:21

Wonder if it’s always same one. Now don’t you dare tidy it up make it lay flat, or appear to be same legth or look half decent. It must always have that dragged through hedge ruffled school boy caught up to no good look. Bet it costs ££££ as well

It’s not unreasonable expect an adult with senior job to get one hair cut in his life where he doesn’t look huge mess. He does on purpose.

ItchySnoof · 04/01/2022 18:22

[quote whittingtonmum]No further restrictions then.

Even more vital that we get air filters into every classroom then.

Every school. Every classroom. ASAP.

Please sign and share the petition if you haven't yet done so already
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/595205

If you would like to join the Clean Air Clasroom campaign you can do so on facebook www.facebook.com/groups/185770800399238/[/quote]
Didn't someone on one of the school threads say these things are entirely pointless and a massive waste of money?

InCahootswithOrwell · 04/01/2022 18:23

@Poetrypatty

I would like to see someone dissect his replies, and stop him when he starts waffling on

Yes. Or they could put out an edited version just with the bits where he's actually saying anything at all which would probably total about 8 minutes.

I'm sure he was happy that the journos asking questions are back on zoom so he can cut them off when he wants.

Be even shorter if you cut it to the bits where he's saying things that were relevant to the question asked.

The answer to that first question from David was awful. He was nowhere near attempting to answer it and at least 1 of the journalists should have picked him up on it and made him answer it.

rrhuth · 04/01/2022 18:24

@ItchySnoof

There is evidence that air filtration is effective in preventing transmission, some NHS trial had good results.

whynotwhatknot · 04/01/2022 18:26

the problem with the lft is its not accurate- ive had all mine come up negative but a positive pcr whats the point of sying on day 6 and 7 im clear when i could possibly not be

Nidan2Sandan · 04/01/2022 18:29

@rrhuth

I always wonder how things will play politically and I think flat press conferences like that are risky, it was neither positive/cheerful nor was he announcing anything to tackle the problem.

Basically we know it is quite crap, and it will carry on being quite crap, but we CBA to do anything because it isn't completely crap.

Its not CBA to do anything, the govt IS doing something. They're doing plan B..

The only alternatives are more restrictions or less restrictions. They have looked at the data, looked at the science, the economy etc and decided our current best option is to continue doing Plan B.

VintageCookbook · 04/01/2022 18:31

@Sparklingbrook

Why after years of Boris being PM are people still obsessed with his hair and prefer to comment on that above all else? Confused
Hah. Totally agree.

Old news now. Move on.

rrhuth · 04/01/2022 18:32

@Nidan2Sandan

I am just asking how that will play politically, because it is quite a flat message.

The country seems currently to be split into large groups a) people who think there is too much covid and b) people who think there are too many restrictions.

Sparklingbrook · 04/01/2022 18:32

I thought it was just me @VintageCookbook Grin PM has messy hair, has always had messy hair. Meh.

AnyFucker · 04/01/2022 18:33

I thought it was a PCR you weren’t supposed to repeat within 90 days

That has never been sugggested for LFTs Confused

sadpapercourtesan · 04/01/2022 18:34

@Sparklingbrook

Why after years of Boris being PM are people still obsessed with his hair and prefer to comment on that above all else? Confused
a) not only is it unsightly and slovenly to a very noticeable degree, it's a clear and useful signifier of the contempt in which he holds his office, the professionals he works with and the general public he is paid to serve

b) it's different people commenting

c) there isn't much else about him that's worthy of comment, in most of these insultingly basic press conferences. Most of us tune in to hear what Chris Whitty has to say, and the giant slobbering glove puppet comes as standard. Our comments about him are on a level with the quality of his own contributions.

SailingNotSurfing · 04/01/2022 18:38

@Sparklingbrook

I thought it was just me *@VintageCookbook* Grin PM has messy hair, has always had messy hair. Meh.
Deliberately styled like that, so people discuss his hair rather than what he is saying.
Sparklingbrook · 04/01/2022 18:43

Deliberately styled like that, so people discuss his hair rather than what he is saying

That's a bit of a theory. But his hair has been like that forever...

TitsInAbsentia · 04/01/2022 18:44

@MarshaBradyo

Have we had a Chris Whitty looks terrified post yet ;
Not terrified, but I did think he looked even more knackered than usual and in need of a few weeks on a sunlounger!
InCahootswithOrwell · 04/01/2022 18:45

I am just asking how that will play politically, because it is quite a flat message.

I don't think it was aimed at the public. I think it was aimed at the CRG. Even after Whitty showing the graph he attempted a WITH covid not OF covid for hospital admissions and threw in nosocomial infection as a term. There were a couple of other covid tropes in there too. I think it's his response to all the other Tory hopefuls vying for his job.

VikingOnTheFridge · 04/01/2022 18:50

Its not CBA to do anything, the govt IS doing something. They're doing plan B..

The only alternatives are more restrictions or less restrictions. They have looked at the data, looked at the science, the economy etc and decided our current best option is to continue doing Plan B.

Yes, whether you consider it to be sufficient or not, the idea that Plan B isn't anything is not one that survives contact with reality. If we'd newly arrived in time machines from 2019, we'd be agog at vaccine passports, laws requiring substantial percentages of the population to isolate (do not try and pretend this is anything like most people's previous experience of reportable diseases) thousands of care workers having left/lost their jobs due to vaccine requirements and mask laws.

Re Boris, I think the key point about his appearance is that it's a sign of inherent and ingrained class and male privilege that he can look like that and still be PM. Theresa May would never have got away with that, nor John Major if he were leader now, and whichever of Starmer and Burnham Labour go into the next GE with couldn't dare either. It says a lot.

rrhuth · 04/01/2022 18:53

@InCahootswithOrwell

I am just asking how that will play politically, because it is quite a flat message.

I don't think it was aimed at the public. I think it was aimed at the CRG. Even after Whitty showing the graph he attempted a WITH covid not OF covid for hospital admissions and threw in nosocomial infection as a term. There were a couple of other covid tropes in there too. I think it's his response to all the other Tory hopefuls vying for his job.

I agree that for Johnson his primary concern is the CRG but I was just wondering how it will play politically, because voters have views.

He seems in slow but endless decline in terms of approval and I can't see this imporving his numbers with either side of the covid debate in terms of voters?

rrhuth · 04/01/2022 18:55

@VikingOnTheFridge it is not nothing compared to 2019, but what Johnson announced today was... nothing.

Not an improvement but a worsening with no action.

In political terms it most certainly was... nothing.