Doom - Mat Hancock is a f***wit

[Old Greg]

He should be leading by example...

Loopy stuff. While the Irish government isn't (IMO) doing as good a job opening up again as they did closing down (and I accept it is harder), they've got much more sensible advice on working:

People should work from home where it is possible to do so during the COVID-19 pandemic. On 18 August 2020, the Government announced additional public health measures, including that people should work from home unless it is absolutely essential for them to attend in person. These measures will remain in place until 13 September 2020.

[darmstadt]

I just noticed that Shapps did his interviews from his home office...

[SueEllen]

Moral Duties - YouTube

Enjoy a bit of Jonathan Pie on Moral Duties

[SueEllen]

I just noticed that Shapps did his interviews from his home office...

Welwyn Hatfield isn't far from Westminster.

[darmstadt]

[SueEllen]

I would be insulted if I was the latter.

[darmstadt]

Remember this: UK looks to Belgium for Covid inspiration despite infections rise | World news | The Guardian

Belgium has been cited by the UK health secretary, Matt Hancock, as a model for getting coronavirus under control – just as its public health body recorded a 15% rise in the number of daily infections compared with the previous week.
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Hancock had praised Belgium as he sought to justify strict new laws on social gatherings in England, including the so-called rule of six people, limiting the size of social groups.

That worked well:

Belgium is losing control of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic and is very close to being overwhelmed by a “tsunami” of infection, the country’s health minister has said.

Frank Vandenbroucke, the federal minister, told the broadcaster RTL that Belgians needed to radically alter their behaviour.

He described the situation in francophone Wallonia in the south and in the country’s capital, Brussels, as “the worst, and therefore the most dangerous in all of Europe”.

He said:

We are the most affected region in all of Europe. We are really close to a tsunami … that we no longer control what is happening. Today, we can still control what is happening, but with enormous difficulties and stress.

If it continues to increase, the number of hospitalisations will be such that we will have to postpone more and more non-Covid care, which is also very dangerous. [The government] has only one message to the public: protect yourself, protect your loved ones, so as not to be contaminated.