Coronavirus update - NO MORE RESTRICTIONS

[Gofer Blue]

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Health worker in Cardiff dies after Covid 19 diagnosis: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...om-coronavirus

Very sad.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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The attitude to guns in the US will never not be amazing to me.

The only industrialised nation without universal health care.
Between 27 and 30 million people without health insurance.
Over half a million people are declared bankrupt each year due to medical bills.
Guns available to all and sundry.
Donald Trump at the helm.

Seems a very sick society to me.

[jon1959]

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The Boris Johnson letter arrived today.

My local Trades Council has sent him one back:

Boris Johnson, you have sent us 1 "simple instruction - stay at home"

We are already doing that.

Here are 2 simple instructions to you:

1. Mass testing
2. Protective equipment for all key workers

[Tuerto]

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The only industrialised nation without universal health care.
Between 27 and 30 million people without health insurance.
Over half a million people are declared bankrupt each year due to medical bills.
Guns available to all and sundry.
Donald Trump at the helm.

Seems a very sick society to me.

Have you done any travelling around the states at all? I've never been, i think it would be quite fascinating to see how peoples perceptions and beliefs change from state to state. I've always fancied travelling to the south.

[StraightOuttaCanton]

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Have you done any travelling around the states at all? I've never been, i think it would be quite fascinating to see how peoples perceptions and beliefs change from state to state. I've always fancied travelling to the south.

Other than the last 4 weeks I spend some time almost every week in the US... we have facilities in 28 of them and I have customers based in 34 of them. Our manufacturing facilities are situated exactly where you’d expect them to be. When I visit I choose to stay in the nearest big or biggish place... I feel it gives me a relatively balanced view of the cultural make of the part of the state I’m in.

Some of my best friends and some of the smartest and kindest people I’ve ever met are American, but that is also true of Canadians and British people.

The US is a fantastic country to explore... I’ve spent time in the last 6 months in all of the Southern most states apart from New Mexico... The cultural diversity is something to behold... you either embrace it or judge it... I feel richer for embracing it

[Croesy Blue]

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Other than the last 4 weeks I spend some time almost every week in the US... we have facilities in 28 of them and I have customers based in 34 of them. Our manufacturing facilities are situated exactly where you’d expect them to be. When I visit I choose to stay in the nearest big or biggish place... I feel it gives me a relatively balanced view of the cultural make of the part of the state I’m in.

Some of my best friends and some of the smartest and kindest people I’ve ever met are American, but that is also true of Canadians and British people.

The US is a fantastic country to explore... I’ve spent time in the last 6 months in all of the Southern most states apart from New Mexico... The cultural diversity is something to behold... you either embrace it or judge it... I feel richer for embracing it

I agree, I've spent a lot of time there and have met some of the nicest and most intelligent people I've ever met. Actually never came across many people who were arse holes or weird but they are obviously out there.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Have you done any travelling around the states at all? I've never been, i think it would be quite fascinating to see how peoples perceptions and beliefs change from state to state. I've always fancied travelling to the south.

Yes I have visited about ten times, including a number of road trips that were about 2,500 miles long.
However, I would suggest that some of the CCMB posters living over there have a greatly knowledge of such things.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Other than the last 4 weeks I spend some time almost every week in the US... we have facilities in 28 of them and I have customers based in 34 of them. Our manufacturing facilities are situated exactly where you’d expect them to be. When I visit I choose to stay in the nearest big or biggish place... I feel it gives me a relatively balanced view of the cultural make of the part of the state I’m in.

Some of my best friends and some of the smartest and kindest people I’ve ever met are American, but that is also true of Canadians and British people.

The US is a fantastic country to explore... I’ve spent time in the last 6 months in all of the Southern most states apart from New Mexico... The cultural diversity is something to behold... you either embrace it or judge it... I feel richer for embracing it

Surely you can embrace it in some respects and judge it in others. The geography is stunning in parts and there are some cultural aspects that are appealing while there are other things such as health care and guns that are very unappealing and perverse.

[Tuerto]

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Other than the last 4 weeks I spend some time almost every week in the US... we have facilities in 28 of them and I have customers based in 34 of them. Our manufacturing facilities are situated exactly where you’d expect them to be. When I visit I choose to stay in the nearest big or biggish place... I feel it gives me a relatively balanced view of the cultural make of the part of the state I’m in.

Some of my best friends and some of the smartest and kindest people I’ve ever met are American, but that is also true of Canadians and British people.

The US is a fantastic country to explore... I’ve spent time in the last 6 months in all of the Southern most states apart from New Mexico... The cultural diversity is something to behold... you either embrace it or judge it... I feel richer for embracing it

Sounds great, it's something i'd like to experience.

[StraightOuttaCanton]

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Surely you can embrace it in some respects and judge it in others. The geography is stunning in parts and there are some cultural aspects that are appealing while there are other things such as health care and guns that are very unappealing and perverse.

Judging or embracing is everyone’s prerogative of course. My choice is to embrace it (perhaps better words would have been respect it)... I’m not American, and I don’t live there but as with everything there are opposing perspectives present. I have my own set of values ... they’ve changed over time, but I try not to impose them... happy for people to take me as I am (good or bad)

[Wales-Bales]

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In tears, a nurse says she quit her job after she was asked to work in a coronavirus ICU without a face mask: “America is not prepared, and nurses are not being protected” https://t.co/ywoSuLOPYP pic.twitter.com/S5BsnlO5nt

— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 5, 2020

[Croesy Blue]

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She is ****ing gutted about the economy

[blue matt]

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I Know ( we both play a online game and are in the same group ) a nurse in Ohio, He went to home depot to get some dust masks ( they had none ) take take into work, He has been given nothing in the way of PPE, a few in our group has said we will mail him some, as he said, it'll be too late then and to save them for ourselves

what a mess to be in

[jon1959]

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David Squires latest:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2020/apr/07/david-squires-on-blaming-football-and-joel-bats-for-covid-19

[cyril evans awaydays]

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In tears, a nurse says she quit her job after she was asked to work in a coronavirus ICU without a face mask: “America is not prepared, and nurses are not being protected” https://t.co/ywoSuLOPYP pic.twitter.com/S5BsnlO5nt

— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 5, 2020

Ah it's WBs daily troll on how many people he can sucker