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About 50 words into his presser and the idiot has said it is 780,000 cases today (rather than 78,000).
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What exactly is this news conference about?
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I'm not watching the spanner, but got a text from someone saying "the PM just announced that hospitalisation numbers are up, down, and staying the same all in same speech!?!?!"

Is that right?
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Johnson said " being a jab volunteer is something you can tell your grandchildren about"

What an absolute cretin. Maybe he can hand out medals like the generation one or two back received for their efforts.
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Beavis Danzig wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 4:45 pm massive jump in numbers, as predicted. smashing through the previous record daily rise. get your hankies and paracetemol ready.

anyone actually bothered about catching this variant probably should be putting themselves under house arrest, preferably frozen in carbonite.
Quite a lot of people are bothered about catching it I’m sure. I, for one, have an elderly father in a nursing home and desperately want to be able to see him on Christmas Eve, although I do appreciate that a lot of people on here will say f*** him and who cares if he dies, he’s had his life! I am not going to the game on Saturday to try to avoid any possibility of catching it either in the crowd at the stadium or on the tube.
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Next slide please....
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BMLGirl wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 5:23 pm Quite a lot of people are bothered about catching it I’m sure.
I know I am. I've got plans for Christmas and in January I don't want stuffing up, and I think that is probably why most people don't want to catch it as opposed to actual health issues.

Most doesn't mean everybody by the way, and your point is obviously equally as valid.
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DrVenk wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 5:16 pm I'm not watching the spanner, but got a text from someone saying "the PM just announced that hospitalisation numbers are up, down, and staying the same all in same speech!?!?!"

Is that right?
f*** knows doc.

Witty gave kudos to the Saffer docs and then withdrew it as quickly as he gave it by saying people are misinterpreting their numbers and the transformer variant is a big big problem.
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BMLGirl wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 5:23 pm although I do appreciate that a lot of people on here will say **** him and who cares if he dies
I think that is very unfair.
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48 hours is "barely a day" apparently
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White Goodman wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 5:20 pm Johnson said " being a jab volunteer is something you can tell your grandchildren about"

What an absolute cretin. Maybe he can hand out medals like the generation one or two back received for their efforts.
How many potential grandchildren will Boris have?

25? 30?
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smuts wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 5:32 pm How many potential grandchildren will Boris have?

25? 30?
Depends how many more babies he gets his wife to pump out

25 is about right I'd imagine if he keeps it at just the 7 kids.

Although could be more if any of his kids are like him
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smuts wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 5:32 pm How many potential grandchildren will Boris have?

25? 30?
That's the number of kids, if they all operate like him in a generation or so a descendant of Whitty will be able to show us graphs of the exponential growth of the Johnson virus. I just hope there is a cure.
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It feels like we are heading back to square one. Also, who wants to isolate for 10 days when a lot of people are off work over Christmas anyway?
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bigcarpchaser wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 5:30 pm 48 hours is "barely a day" apparently
Over a 100% increase. Easy this percentage game innit :smiler:
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RichieRiv wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 5:16 pm What exactly is this news conference about?
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Whufc06 wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 5:41 pm Over a 100% increase. Easy this percentage game innit :smiler:
Well, Raab was struggling with it yesterday to be fair
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Danny's Dyer Acting wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 5:49 pm Image
The old "bombard them with more and more info so they forget what they were told originally" trick?
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DrVenk wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 5:16 pm I'm not watching the spanner, but got a text from someone saying "the PM just announced that hospitalisation numbers are up, down, and staying the same all in same speech!?!?!"

Is that right?
Something about 80 million new infections in England & Wales today..
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RichieRiv wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 5:53 pm The old "bombard them with more and more info so they forget what they were told originally" trick?
'BBB'.
Bullsh*t baffles brains..
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