>>27720
I can sympathise. Fuck work and struggling to find even a call centre job during the Great Recession was double shit.

>Rather than look for a new job, he's going to take the redundancy cash and use it to go travelling around South East Asia.

Not entirely sure he's thought this one through.

>>27723
>I loathe cancel culture, partly because it usually gets the wrong people - he deserves every bit of it. How the fuck is he still able to publish that bullshit on YouTube?

Because some massive fanny has yet to report him for no-no thoughts.

>>27729
Various right-wing groups organise mass-reporting of left wing accounts on social media.

>>27730
I'm not a leftie in the slightest, but happy to join any mass reporting of him. I thought the lefties were usually more organised with this sort of thing? He fucking deserves it.

>>27731
IT'S ONLY A GAME SO PUT UP A REAL GOOD FIGHT
I'M GONNA BE SNOOKERING YOU TONIGHT

>>27731
>I thought the lefties were usually more organised
Ha, you really aren't a left-winger.

>>27700

Based video

Keep taking the knee and crying about dead Yank criminals you lefty melts, the overwhelming majority of the British public couldn't give a shit.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>27734
>Based

Oh dear oh dear.

>>27734
>Yank
>Based

Irony is dead. Stop getting your politics from US chans.

>>27736

Stop idolizing violent meth-head Yank scumbag criminals and bringing US grievances over here to demonize our police who don't even carry guns. Thank god the Birmingham stabby cunt wasn't shot by armed police, or you lot would have burned the whole city down by now.

>>27737
>demonize
That's rich.

>>27734
>>27737
Clearly this is the same lad who keeps posting /pol/ talking points from the other place.

>>27739
I find it really weird. I mean, who would read those chans and think YEAH I CAN USE THIS IN THE UK AND NOBODY WILL NOTICE. >>27737 is scared of something.

>>27740
He must actually be a seppo, surely nobody from this country would spell 'idolising' with a z?

>>27739
THEY'VE REPLACED SUE BARKER WITH A BLACK WOMAN. I WILL NEVER WATCH A QUESTION OF SPORT EVER AGAIN. DEFUND THE BBC.

>>27741
Someone who has spent too much time on that bit of the internet would.

Stop taking the bait on identity politics bullshit, you absolutely myopic bellends.

>>27744
We weren't talking about identity politics.

>>27745

Am I hallucinating the last dozen posts flipping out about some low grade /pol/ troll then?

You lot should know better.

>>27741
Nobody in this country follows the Concise Oxford English Dictionary? That's quite the claim.

>>27746
>look how triggered I made you all

Ok lad.

>>27748
The Concize Oxford Englizh Dictionary?

>>27746
We weren't talking about identity politics or any of the lunacy that lad was going on about at all. Someone made an incredibly stupid post and were treated aptly.

>>27749

This post had better be some sort of reverse psychology meta-troll. Otherwise have a word with yourself.

>>27671
>>27675

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

A clever scientist on the radio has just said that although covid hasn't died out in the summer like other similar viruses, there's evidence that there's a 10-15% difference in mortality in seasonal conditions.

I missed the bit about if that's higher in summer or winter, but I'm guessing the latter. Pack your rice lads.

>>27754
It feels like everyone is a bit too preoccupied with mortality rates. There should be more attention on how, even if you only have mild symptoms, it can damage your respiratory system.

>>27755
There really needs to be more of a focus on this and I think the lack thereof is why there's a decent percentage of those in their teens/early 20's walking around thinking they're untouchable, and if they do get sick, think they'll just recover and be fine. This thing can fuck you for years, regardless of your age.

>>27755>>27756
We're going to find out when it's too late - and I agree, this is going to be the big story of 2021.

>>27757

The big story of 2021 will be the outbreak of WWIII, but I get your point.

>>27755
>>27756
>>27757
Didn't we already go through this, alarmist-lads? A bad illness can damage your body but the odds are fairly insignificant. Hence why we don't care about the long-term effects of flu. We currently have no long-term data on Covid but it's not magic.

>>27759
> Hence why we don't care about the long-term effects of flu

Once again, this is not the flu and it's not alarmist, this has been downplayed enough and currently there is a huge undertaking to try and understand and mitigate these ongoing symptoms and lasting damage people are getting from covid.

They've already been tracking people for a few months now who had it and recovered, and the data coming out isn't resassuring. The best guess at the moment is the probability of developing ongoing symptoms/issues and taking longer to recover in general is 10% or a bit under, but given that there's at least 29 million cases right now, that's potentially a good 2900000 people, and the outcome for those people will be varied. On top of this we have evidence from previous corona strain outbreaks, such as SARS, that show the damage done can last for years. I really shouldn't have to point out the knock on effect this can have on health services too.

At any rate it is a valid concern that is being researched because you're right, it isn't magic, it's science.

>>27759

>A bad illness can damage your body but the odds are fairly insignificant. Hence why we don't care about the long-term effects of flu. We currently have no long-term data on Covid but it's not magic.

Young people who experience mild symptoms probably aren't going to experience significant long-term effects, but there are serious concerns about middle-aged people who suffer serious but non-life-threatening illness.

After the SARS outbreak, we saw serious long-term respiratory scarring in the majority of patients, with some people still suffering with substantially reduced lung function after a decade.

The big unknown with Covid-19 is the neurological effects. We're not sure whether it's due to hypoxia, inflammation or some combination, but a significant proportion of patients experience major neurological problems. Loss of smell and taste is common enough to be listed as a sign that you need a test, but we're also seeing patients suffer sight loss, neuralgia, muscle weakness and seizures.

We're also seeing a lot of patients with muscle damage (again, possibly hypoxia or inflammation) which can do massive damage to your kidneys via rhabdomyolysis.

We shouldn't be alarmist, nobody who feels fine now is suddenly going to keel over with Covid after-effects, but the fact that someone survived doesn't mean that they survived unscathed. Spending a couple of days in hospital with a bad bout of the 'rona might well come back to haunt you in old age if you ended up with a scarred heart and lungs.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2764549

>>27761
>>27760
Stop scaring me lads. I think I might have a flu/cold. I have the sniffles, blocked nose, minor cough from smoking a lot, and just aches and pains... It feels like a cold/flu.

Every now and again, I keep taking my temperature, and spraying different deodorants on myself to see if I can smell it. I bought shit loads of sweets, to see if I can taste it as I go through it slowly.

So far, I can smell, taste, breathe normally, and have no fever. It's only day four. I hope it doesn't get worse.

In other news - it is close to impossible to book a Covid test. I kept trying yesterday and today, every hour. Nothing. Just a shitty message telling me there is nothing available.

Britain is being run like a useless local government council.

>>27763
It's totally normal for this time of year though - my kids went back to school a couple of weeks ago, and I've spent two days this week having the same kind of cold - happens most years. 100% sure I haven't got the 'rona but I can see why many people have been panicked into getting a test.

I actually had a sore throat, heightened sense of smell, many symptoms back at the start of August - got the test from gov.uk (delivered via Amazon), sent it in the post, results back next day - it was extremely efficient. It blows my mind in the space of a month they have fucked it all up completely, it was utterly predictable and typical of us as a nation.

I'm sure you're fine lad.

>>27759
I developed Fibromyalgia and live with chronic post-viral fatigue because of pneumonia. I was told this is fairly common with viral pneumonia.

Covid just so happens to cause pneumonia at a far higher rate than the the flu does.

Retail spending is now above pre-lockdown levels.

>>27766
But what about Pret a Manger? That's what the UK economy is held up by, or so the media tells us.

>>27763
>In other news - it is close to impossible to book a Covid test. I kept trying yesterday and today, every hour. Nothing. Just a shitty message telling me there is nothing available.
Look, I insist that our testing system is the best in the world, despite any evidence otherwise. Will you povvos just stop carping on about it?

>>27763
I think the current advice on comparing the flu/a cold to covid is that you rarely sneeze and have a runny nose with covid, you're more likely to develop a harsher continous cough or keep having coughing fits and I think the loss of taste/smell is rather sudden too. As the other lad says, you're probably fine, sounds more like a cold.

>>27770
Someone I work with had it and the only side effect is that they feel a bit funny if they go down the chilled aisles in a supermarket.

>>27772
ITZ COMING

Eerily predictable full-lockdown coming.

Should I go and buy some more pasta?

>>27768
God. He is so annoying. Why do people vote for him? I don't understand any more.

>>27764
I don't feel too bad. I haven't self isolated because I think it is a cold. Although, when I woke up this morning, my ability to smell has somewhat been dulled.

Fingers crossed.

>>27772
M8 at the very least tell us which rag you got that from.

>>27775

The Telegraph - the letter K in their house typeface (Austin New) is very distinctive.

>>27773
>Eerily predictable full-lockdown coming.

If the government followed its own guidelines we'd have been in lockdown some time ago.

>>27777
>NHS is overwhelmed and hospitals are full

We've been in lockdown since 1948?

>>27777

That was before the discovery mid-May or so, that we actually need the economy more than we had previously thought in order to avoid running out of money, and thereby becoming poor (a fate worse than death.)

We are also governed by a farcical set of Spitting Image caricatures so delusional, they thought we'd be treated fairly by the fucking USA of all places, post-Brexit.

>>27773
One step ahead lad.
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