Super-Twat

[fuzzy]

We still have an HIV pandemic. Estimates vary, but it's killed between 30-40 million people and still kills 700,000-800,000 a year.

OK, I obviously didn't think that comment through before posting.

I'm still enraged at our current government, because of what they're doing (or not doing) now, in relation to current advice, and the way they are interfering with supposedly independent scientific bodies.

Even that idiot David Davis can see that No 10 advisers sitting in on Sage meetings is entirely inappropriate.

It wasn't a jab at you, just generally that HIV seems to be the 'forgotten' pandemic.

I completely agreed that the presence of Cummings and any of his acolytes at these meetings is unlikely to be beneficial. But then I have a hard time figuring out what benefit he would bring to anything, his main skill seems to be self-promotion.

Perhaps we should sell him to Trump?

[hatler]

We still have an HIV pandemic. Estimates vary, but it's killed between 30-40 million people and still kills 700,000-800,000 a year.

OK, I obviously didn't think that comment through before posting.

I'm still enraged at our current government, because of what they're doing (or not doing) now, in relation to current advice, and the way they are interfering with supposedly independent scientific bodies.

Even that idiot David Davis can see that No 10 advisers sitting in on Sage meetings is entirely inappropriate.

It wasn't a jab at you, just generally that HIV seems to be the 'forgotten' pandemic.

I completely agreed that the presence of Cummings and any of his acolytes at these meetings is unlikely to be beneficial. But then I have a hard time figuring out what benefit he would bring to anything, his main skill seems to be self-promotion.

He gave a chat at mini's school, and from what mini reported, his principal obsessions appeared to be that both politicians and the Civil Service were a waste of space.

[spesh]

Sounds like a British version of Grover Norquist*, but observation of the happenings in the House of Commons through last year, when MPs showed that despite not wanting May's withdrawal agreement, they couldn't agree on what they wanted instead, and the general inability of many MPs to grasp the issues, would suggest that Cummings isn't completely wrong.


* Best known for the following infamous quote: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." (said during an interview on NPR's Morning Edition, May 25, 2001)

[citoyen]

It wasn't a jab at you, just generally that HIV seems to be the 'forgotten' pandemic.

No, it's a fair point and I'm happy to be corrected.

[Regulator]

We still have an HIV pandemic. Estimates vary, but it's killed between 30-40 million people and still kills 700,000-800,000 a year.

OK, I obviously didn't think that comment through before posting.

I'm still enraged at our current government, because of what they're doing (or not doing) now, in relation to current advice, and the way they are interfering with supposedly independent scientific bodies.

Even that idiot David Davis can see that No 10 advisers sitting in on Sage meetings is entirely inappropriate.

It wasn't a jab at you, just generally that HIV seems to be the 'forgotten' pandemic.

I completely agreed that the presence of Cummings and any of his acolytes at these meetings is unlikely to be beneficial. But then I have a hard time figuring out what benefit he would bring to anything, his main skill seems to be self-promotion.

As an aside, the WHO doesn't class HIV as a pandemic... but as a 'global epidemic' - which is basically a pandemic by another name.  I'm sure there's some politics behind there somewhere.

[citoyen]

As an aside, the WHO doesn't class HIV as a pandemic... but as a 'global epidemic' - which is basically a pandemic by another name.  I'm sure there's some politics behind there somewhere.

Oh no, there's no politics involved at all, all decisions are purely science-based. 

[ian]

Sadly, the cruel intersection of politics and homophobia is one of the reasons there's 30 million-plus dead from HIV and why it's still often not mentioned in the context of pandemics (people will cast back to a pandemic of 1918, but not the one – however you define it – that we're in the middle of).

[Davef]

The pandemic preparedness documents are specifically about novel influenza and influenza like viruses.


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[Mr Larrington]

Sounds like a British version of Grover Norquist*, but observation of the happenings in the House of Commons through last year, when MPs showed that despite not wanting May's withdrawal agreement, they couldn't agree on what they wanted instead, and the general inability of many MPs to grasp the issues, would suggest that Cummings isn't completely wrong.


* Best known for the following infamous quote: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." (said during an interview on NPR's Morning Edition, May 25, 2001)

See also P.J. O'Rourke's statement about how Republicans claim government doesn't work and then get elected and prove it.

[Davef]

We still have an HIV pandemic. Estimates vary, but it's killed between 30-40 million people and still kills 700,000-800,000 a year.

OK, I obviously didn't think that comment through before posting.

I'm still enraged at our current government, because of what they're doing (or not doing) now, in relation to current advice, and the way they are interfering with supposedly independent scientific bodies.

Even that idiot David Davis can see that No 10 advisers sitting in on Sage meetings is entirely inappropriate.

It wasn't a jab at you, just generally that HIV seems to be the 'forgotten' pandemic.

I completely agreed that the presence of Cummings and any of his acolytes at these meetings is unlikely to be beneficial. But then I have a hard time figuring out what benefit he would bring to anything, his main skill seems to be self-promotion.

As an aside, the WHO doesn't class HIV as a pandemic... but as a 'global epidemic' - which is basically a pandemic by another name.  I'm sure there's some politics behind there somewhere.

I am slightly surprised hiv/aids is currently classed as an epidemic. I would have thought it is now in endemic in most parts of the world.


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[Regulator]

Sadly, the cruel intersection of politics and homophobia is one of the reasons there's 30 million-plus dead from HIV and why it's still often not mentioned in the context of pandemics (people will cast back to a pandemic of 1918, but not the one – however you define it – that we're in the middle of).

Absolutely!

[Pingu]

Matt Hancockwomble.

[Jurek]

Matt Hancockwomble.

Does he get anything for making repeat appearances on this thread?
I think I've seen him mentioned here three times now.

[Andrew Br]

Pratt Hancock has been on here at eleventy twelve times* if you count those times that he will appear in the future.



*Pritti Patel counted for me.

[Nuncio]

She's only in the cabinet to make up the numbers.

[rafletcher]

An honourable mention for David “you can’t catch a virus by shaking hands but 5g will give to you” Icke.

[Pingu]

She's only in the cabinet to make up the numbers.

 

[citoyen]

Oh yes, that is excellent. I am totally nicking it.

[Andrew Br]

I think, post Question Time, we'll have a new name on here:- Luke Johnson.

[Andrew Br]

Yes, Luke Johnson. Twat.

[Beardy]

Isabel Oakeshott

https://twitter.com/isabeloakeshott/status/1260836984941088769?s=21

[Mr Larrington]

Ah yes, Isabel Talkshite, the woman who thinks the only difference between North Kensington and South Kensington is geography.

[hellymedic]

I'm finding myself in agreement with Piers Morgan, who no longer appears to be a CBE.
Apologies for Daily Heil link.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8340621/Spare-hypocritical-claps-NHS-Prime-Minister.html

Things must have come to a pretty pass!

[Beardy]

I'm finding myself in agreement with Piers Morgan, who no longer appears to be a CBE.
Apologies for Daily Heil link.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8340621/Spare-hypocritical-claps-NHS-Prime-Minister.html

Things must have come to a pretty pass!

I’ve found that he’s become the real voice of reason in these troubled times. It’s a most perplexing conundrum.

[hatler]

What's the way to get to a Daily Heil article without providing them click revenue ?