Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "The London Standard" channel.

  1. Try implementing the protocol you signed up to. Boris's oven ready deal.
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  2. Human slogan: 'Save the Whale'. Whale slogan: 'Save the Humans'.
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  3. People bringing in Covid, passing it on and taking it home to their communities
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  4. He always finds a bandwagon to jump on
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  5. She was/is a Trump supporter.
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  6. Who is bullying who, since the majority in Ireland are in favour of the protocol which gives them trade advantages over Brexit Britain and the EU? The USA is also a guarantor of The Good Friday Agreement so doesn't want to see that broken.
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  7. I don't know how his name is meant to be pronounced, but I heard a TV announcer pronounce it like 'made off' which seems appropriate since he made off with all the money.
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  8. @Demoralisation Destabilisation Crisis Normalisation No I don't support tryanny. Far from it. I support altruistic action by people to care for the health of their communities and the protection of the NHS from being overwhelmed. These people support selfishness.
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  9. Really? I had no problem understanding her.
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  10. The countries that are quietly and more effectively beating Covid 19 are the ones that are not being led by egomaniac macho orang utans.
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  11. She was/is a Trump supporter.
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  12. They must have gone to the 'I Saw You Coming' design company.
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  13.  @mick6370  It's not a mild cold. It can thicken the blood and cause clots and strokes, and damage lungs and other organs. My brother in law had it and had a stroke during it. He's had 2 more strokes since and seems to be dying now.
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  14.  @jakedickson2311  A survey found only 6% of people in NI were unhappy with the protocol. The rest want it implemented. Not surprising as NI have a better deal than the rest of the UK. Meanwhile Boris and the DUP keep stirring things up for ulterior motives. Boris is trying to pressure the EU into caving in to changes, though he and they signed up to the deal. The DUP want to wreck the Good Friday Agreement. It's criminal really because Boris is prepared to sacrifice the peace and safety of NI in order to boast to Britain that he actually got some benefit out of Brexit because so far no benefit has been identified.
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  15.  @rolandrimann8788  Thank goodness you two can't vote for her then.
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  16. People who can't be arsed to go to their GP and turn up at A&E for minor ailments are no longer going there for fear of catching Covid 19. Also with more people at home and bars and pubs not open there are fewer work accidents and fewer accidents due to alcohol consumption and drunken fighting.
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  17. It's a kind of dialect thing among the black community. Many Londoners can't say the TH sound and use V or F instead but there seems to be no problem with that.
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  18.  @mikeed1944  What's heard immunity? Immunity from being listened to?
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  19. @Demoralisation Destabilisation Crisis Normalisation *their life. It's not freedom to lock yourself in a basement. This is about controlling the virus to minimise the amount of restrictions we need to go through as a society. It's not about 'I'm all right Jack' and in any case some people who have mild conditions initially go on to have longer term damage. You can't predict who those will be.
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  20.  @mick6370  Learn to live with it or learn to die with it you mean.
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  21.  @opalfruits8596  It's not mild for everyone.
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  22. Boris is only interested in obedience. That's 'success' on his terms.
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  23. Khan is also British and a Londoner and Londoners don't share your racist views. She is a Trump supporter though.
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  24.  @john.highheels.3244  I'm a celt. If you are an Anglo Saxon you are as much of a foreigner and Johnny-come-lately to me, moreover your ancestors invaded these islands with violence, but hey, let's be tolerant now.
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  25. So simple isn't it?. I wonder why better heads than yours have struggled with the issues for 4 years. They should have put you in charge. Wasn't I G Farben a German industrialist that supported the Nazis?
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  26. I understand it wasn't all rich people he stole from. The newspaper (Daily Mail) said 'His victims, large and small, included individuals, charities, pension funds and hedge funds' and headlined it 'He stole from the rich. He stole from the poor. He stole from the in-between'.
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  27. Asset stripping of the poor. Asset protection for the better off.
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  28.  @Nelson_Churchill  Rubbish analogy.
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  29. It was David Cameron that made the target that obliges Khan to cut pollution but it's the right thing to do anyway and if you cut the congestion charge in central London, good luck with trying to drive anywhere any time soon.
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  30.  Tom  Don't be silly. Look at the number of excess deaths this year and explain those. My brother in law had Covid and as it can thicken the blood he got a stroke from it. He has had 2 more strokes since having Covid and is probably not going to survive now, but he won't be counted as a Covid related death, if he dies, because 28 days have passed since he got Covid. P.S When our Covid deaths were counted as 45,000 (before they reduced the number to 41,000 after the 28 day rule), the excess deaths figure was 60,000. It must be higher than that now so it seems like Covid cases were undercounted not overcounted and that ties up with the fact that many people dying in care homes were not tested for Covid in the first months of the pandemic. No professional doctor is going to count a road accident as a Covid death. Have some sense.
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  31.  @john.highheels.3244  I'm not much in the habit of talking to racists.
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  32.  @Inaflap  And spaffing the economy up the wall.
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  33.  @uniquevideosUk  And what else do you know about her? If she was a Trump supporter you can say she is right wing, anti-democratic and lacking judgement.
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  34. And David Cameron set the requirement to cut pollution.
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  35. She's a Trump supporter.
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  36.  @DW14974  My brother in law is currently dying because he got this 'mild cold'.
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  37.  @bigbig83uk  And your scientific and medical qualifications are?
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  38. Protesters gifting each other Covid to take home with them. How nice!
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  39. No. We like to live and we like our children to live. London is not a cut through for the rat race.
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  40.  @john.highheels.3244  Yes, Unfortunately I do know what you mean. Are you a Londoner? I doubt it. More likely from the backwoods.
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  41. Remember that's a story. It isn't going to happen with the EU.
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  42. So how are they making money by having to spend billions propping up the economy?
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  43. Why? There's room for both. Diane Abbot has a large majority in her constituency which is a strong endorsement.
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  44. If you are so pro England, why are you named after a German industrialist who supported the Nazis? It seems to me that you are a troll egging on England's destruction.
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  45. I hope not. My asthma has improved now. I don't want to go back to worse health.
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  46.  Read Siege By James Mason  We can't. The Tories have already sold us to foreign investors such as the Saudis, the Qataris and the Russians. They tried to sell us to the Chinese also but that's not worked out. Next they'll be selling us to the Americans. They are a bunch of self interested charlatans - snake oil salesmen. I'd rather be in partnership with the EU.
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  47. Didn't say anything much in the way of policy either.
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  48. 'Wasting' 'their'. I think laughter can be a unifying force. There's been too much nastiness in Parliamentary debate of late.
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  49. Stupid comment
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  50.  @uniquevideosUk  The pollution also affects the working class more as they often can't afford to live in the quieter less polluted roads.
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  51.  @raatkirani4405  Your comment is so ignorant it's staggering. A candidate for the Guinness book of records I think. Genetic material is not the same as a virus. It's not a DNA test.
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  52.  @micah.101  What have old people's deaths, or lack of them, got to do with the virus not being killed by the heat? Old people who know they are vulnerable are probably avoiding the risk situations. A lot of older people in care homes died because they could not avoid the risks when untested hospital patients were sent back into care homes, which at the time didn't have PPE and other protective equipment.
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  53. Unsurprising news: Poor spelling disproportionately affects right wingers.
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  54. I think the doctors know more than you when they give reasons for deaths.
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  55.  @michelgobets3803  No they don't It's professional doctors who sign death certificates. There are at least flu vaccinations to protect against flu. There are no vaccinations for Covid at present.
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  56.  @michelgobets3803  Bully
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  57.  @seyley2901  From Kemi as he or she said. Everyone needs saving from Kemi.
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  58. Sorry, nurses are more important than most of the rest. They have our lives in their care. The private sector have had pay rises way above the public sector now but I agree many people need a pay rise now and need to press for one, not condemn others that do.
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  59. The way of self destruction.
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  60. It's o.k in its short form 'Wilf'.
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  61.  @rolandrimann8788  Yes, thank goodness you don't.
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  62.  @stevepal8432  He didn't recover in 3 days. He had the virus for about 10 days I think when he self isolated. Then it got very bad (as sometimes is the pattern with that virus). Then he went into hospital and was in intensive car for 3 days - not the most serious intensive care where you are intubated on a ventilator but intensive care where you are given oxygen. It was 50/50 at one time whether he would need intubation or not, but fortunately he started to get better. Then he spent a further period at home recovering. People vary in how they are affected by the virus and how serious it gets for them. I wish people would look up the facts.
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  63. We are just going to become a satellite of the USA instead. Parliament has already (very recently) voted to prevent the UK from blocking the import of chlorinated chicken, showing they will bend over to be rogered by the USA for a USA deal.
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  64. So NHS staff are killing themselves looking after people how? How do you explain the excess deaths figures this year, and why are governments around the world ruining economies - for what reason? What benefit would they be getting from this 'scam'?
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  65. This attitude is why we get useless people voted in as representatives. It's his job to be accountable and handle questions without flipping out about it. If he can't handle that, maybe he's in the wrong job or has something to hide. I'm sure people who voted Boris in thought he was 'a good laugh' but when chaotic government is the result it has serious consequences for real people.
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  66.  @immyu6566  OMG as soon as you mentioned David Icke. He's a complete loony. Listen to some proper scientists and medics who know what they are talking about and have verifiable science and research to prove it, not someone who believes in aliens and that we are ruled by lizards.
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  67. I'm sure lorry drivers earn more and don't have people's lives at stake. You have to take into account that she lives in London where rents are very high and mortgages are unaffordable on that income. Average rents in London are £1000 though it depends where you live. It's much higher in some areas and I found this via googling 'Tenants in London could end up spending 15 per cent more on rent by 2023, according to a leading property agent. Savills told the Standard it predicts rents will rise much faster than house prices over the next four years, as Brexit uncertainty, larger deposits, a reluctant buyer's market and pricey build-to-rent homes impacts on property costs.' Are nurses all to leave London? Their wages have lost about 25% in value since the Tories came into power while the cost of living has risen by 10% in 2022 alone. Many nurses are leaving the profession because they can earn more in supermarkets. That can't be right. It seems people on low wages resent more skilled and responsible jobs from being paid more, even if nurses have had to spend years studying before earning a wage and funding that study at their own expense.
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  68. This guy's victims did include small investors, pension funds and charities as well as rich people.
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  69. Happy Covid day.
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  70. It's an important part of history and as someone said on the radio this morning, a week before this interview she visited journalist Max Hastings (who is not connected with the BBC) and told him the same things.
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  71.  @DW14974  And your scientific and medical qualifications are?
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  72. @Bob Marley *their bags...their cars. It's funny how those who think they know better than the scientists and medics don't even know their own language.
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  73.  @deanthorpe1684  I don't think you're sorry at all about what you said, and I never said you could enforce it. You can go and boil your head but remember I can't enforce that.
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  74. I think he has the kind of 'liberal' economic views that Boris has, and probably has the ambition that means he'll do what he's told by number 10. If Johnson is going to dictate spending and then expect the Chancellor to take the flak by 'balancing the books', we could either be in for more savage cuts or a chaotic economy.
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  75.  @seyley2901  Do you not know who Kemi Badenoch is? Lucky you.
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  76.  @gc4575  Yes they are a right in any decent civilised society and especially in a rich western one where 1% of the population now owns as much as 70% of the rest of the population together.
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  77. And too many low skilled holding Ministerial positions.
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  78. But it's not clear what it means. Disliking the fact that Covid cases are up, or disliking being told about it, for other reasons?
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  79. What's fair about it? He abused her in the marriage and then couldn't handle when she moved on. That's a sign of a pathetic individual.
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  80. It's not his fault if people don't follow the guidelines. It's not his fault if a more easily transmissible variation of the virus appears. It's not his fault if the government didn't prepare effectively or allows air traffic through without checks.
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  81. @Phoenix What exactly does it go to show? Do tell us.
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  82. So why are government Ministers saying they need EU help for an airline deal?
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  83. Those on minimum wage are not as qualified as her, have not spent years qualifying at their own expense, do not have life and death responsibilities and probably aren't paying average or upwards London rents which are increasing when the value of their pay has gone down 25% under the Tory government, or is everyone to be paid on minimum wage in which case all our skilled workers will move abroad? The Tories love it when workers attack each other rather than them.
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  84. Strains and variations are different things. These are variations but they are created where there are few controls and lots of people mixing and spreading the virus.
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  85. Because it takes time to distinguish economic migrants from refugees. There are international obligations on refugees but not on economic migrants. However if they don't do the work to establish which is which, the courts will stop any removals.
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  86.  @JohnKobaRuddy  Nobody owns anybody else. Nobody has the right to kill anybody else.
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  87. What exactly are their policies? Nigel never says does he? He just knows how to whinge and criticise.
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  88.  NAGOL HAYES  Exactly!
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  89. Capitalist competition is supposed to stop prices rising, particularly in a slump where demand is low. That's how capitalism is supposed to work, according to economists and capitalist theorists.
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  90. They probably make their money as an offshore tax haven, not that it's shared out among the population.
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  91. Cox kept giving the wrong legal advice but it was what Boris wanted to hear. Perhaps he started to give the right legal advice and Boris didn't want to hear it. That's what they usually mean by 'not a team player'. Leadsom is both dim and also only wanted power because it's useful to her brother the hedge fund manager, and I think her husband also has business relations with him.
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  92. Sunak is going for the rat runner vote.
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  93. Rarity will add to their value in future.
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  94. *'ensure' 'are corrected'. (There, I've corrected your failures)
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  95. *breaking
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  96.  @deanthorpe1684 This is a free comment section so I don't have to shut up because you say so.
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  97.  @jakedickson2311  It's crazy indeed and there is no solution that would please everyone in NI and the Tory government. I remember pointing this out in a youtube comment after the Referendum vote in 2016, but no one took any notice. Lol. The 6% are the hard line 'never agree with anyone ever unless they get their own way' mob who vote for the DUP. They never agreed to the GFA and never agreed to power sharing. There is no solution that everyone would be happy with, indeed, but pandering to the 6% would break the Good Friday Agreement. The government has not yet tried 'implementing the protocol'. After all NI got a better deal than the rest of the UK. As the British Foreign Secretary put it, if such a deal was offered to the rest of the UK they would be biting hands off to get it.
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  98. * should've or should have (learn English)
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  99. It is a game to him but not to Labour.
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  100. Rubbish. People in London work very hard.
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  101. How do you prepare for self destruction?
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  102.  @seyley2901  In the UK Kemi Badenoch was a rising star in the Conservative Party and government. She was the Secretary Estate for Business and Trade. President of the Board of Trade. She was also Minister for Women and Equalities and Secretary of State for International Trade. She's now the Shadow Secretary for Housing, Communities and Local Goverment. She is highly ambitious and a current contender for leadership of the Conservative Pary but she is also highly controversial and divisive, liked and disliked by voters and the party.
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  103. Their pay has devalued by 25% since the Tories came to power but rents and rates and the cost of living is going up and has been going up for some time. They spent years qualifying at their own expense. Who would do that unless they expect a payback in the form of higher pay? They have life and death responsibilities and put their own lives at risk during the Covid pandemic. Yes everyone needs a cost of living pay rise. The minimum wage is at least scheduled to go up by over 9%. The nurses have not been offered anything near that percentage. The Tory government loves it when workers attack each other rather than them. They are also fighting for the NHS against a government that is allowing it to collapse.
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  104. You can search for cases by London Boroughs, but they never break down the figures to smaller areas it seems.
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  105.  @roywatson8133  * wait until they're all in then etc (learn English)
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  106.  @venetiangenoesewarmachine5152  No. You can look up the meaning if you don't know it.
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  107.  the man with the green cortina  Nope. Free education service.
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  108.  @TraderBrando  I think her questions were aimed at finding out if he was doing what he was supposed to do. The fact that he reacted in a hostile manner to being accountable for what he does, suggests he's not a good representative. He should be able to accept and answer questions as being a normal part of his job, otherwise it might also suggest he's not doing his job and has something to hide.
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  109. Well she couldn't have a baby if she was his age.
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  110.  @benferriggi9765  So every doctor who takes an oath to 'first do no harm' is forging death certificates? Don't make me laugh. It's not the banks telling us about the virus though, it's the government which you say is getting into more debt, so Covid's no benefit to them.
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  111. Government by The Giant Hulk. Far be it for me to defend Cox, who often seemed to get his legal advice wrong, but surely his job is to give the correct legal advice rather than being 'a team player'. It's clear why some of them were sacked (i.e what the disagreements were) but there's no information why the women Ministers were sacked. Was it just because they were useless or were there also points of disagreement?
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  112. Why should that matter? She's a senior qualified nurse whose pay will have devalued by about 25% since the Tories came to power but her London rent will have kept increasing along with the cost of living. Nurses spend years training at their own expense. Some are leaving to work in supermarkets where they can earn more. I bet a lorry driver can earn more than her.
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  113. @@Spitfire1969 Why don't you move if you don't like it. It's not just my chest. It's the chests of millions of Londoners and their children.
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  114. It's a Covid party.
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  115. @Knowthing Who is 'they' who are telling you? Often you have to make appointments to go to test centres.
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  116. @Phoenix What do you mean they don't help you? They help if they can. If you mean they don't listen to you, are you explaining things well and being polite about it? Do you have realistic expectations of what they can do for you? It's hard to know what you mean.
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  117. You can tell he was ill in various videos before he went into hospital and after, he sounds short of breath. This is the trouble when people find they have been so easily gulled by fake news they start to distrust all information they hear, and can no longer tell the truth from lies.
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  118. It wasn't miraculous. If you've been following the facts he was ill or recovering for quite a while in total - about 3 weeks or more. His fiancée, Carrie, had already had the Covid virus.
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  119. The Speaker is third in line to the Presidency after the President and the Deputy President, I believe.
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  120. It was David Cameron (Tory) who introduced the requirement doe cutting pollution that requires Khan to go ahead with this.
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  121.  @chips1889  Boris introduced it but he ceased to be Mayor in 2016. The target requirement set was for 2020. I understand that Cameron set the requirement for air pollution reduction. 'More than 80 per cent of central London would be expected to meet the nitrogen dioxide (NO2) annual EU legal limits in 2020'. So even Boris might have had to extend it if the target was not met.
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  122.  @mickbmx  No. I think it's Conservative ineptitude. As part of the EU illegals could be returned to France but that arrangement doesn't apply under Brexit. It made things worse.
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  123.  @johnfletcher1611  Covid affects people with underlying conditions (such as diabetes, COPD and obesity) more than those without. That's true, but the way it affects them can mean it damages their organs even if those organs were healthy beforehand. Look at the science or listen to what medics say.
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  124. Where did he go? He didn't look that old. Actually he looks like Postman Pat's cat.
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  125. Or you can always do a quick exit rather than a slow undignified decline with asset stripping as a part of that.
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  126.  @biggusdickkus2956  I think they identify with them because of the patriotic ballyhoo, personal aspiration to 'get on' in life and, attitudes to immigrants. It's the party for the 'not interested in politics' and the 'not thinking or knowing very much'.
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  127. Eh? What are you on about.
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  128. When Chris Philp said there was a safety net clause preventing people being sent to a country where they are in danger of risk to life I wondered how does that square with the Tories legal declaration that Rwanda is a safe country to deport people to? I don't believe that people from Congo would not be sent to Rwanda.
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  129.  @stevenmacdonald9619  Don't you trust a democratic justice system? If they weren't illegally murdering folk, they'd nothing to fear.
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  130. The figures are also probably understated since some countries count the deaths better than others and are more honest about the death numbers than others.
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  131. They need to do their jobs properly.
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  132.  @natyak5641  No it's the other way around. Though cockneys may drop the letter h at the beginning of a word and sometimes add one which is not there, the name of the letter itself is 'aitch' and not 'haitch'.
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  133.  @1chish  Cox gave the wrong advice on more than one occasion. I followed it at the time but I've forgotten the detail now. I did listen to the full judgement of the Supreme Court. Their role is to interpret the law and that's what they did. They didn't make one up. The judgement was evidence based and Boris made the mistake of giving his supposed reasonable (lawful) reason for proroguing Parliament and then not submitting any evidence to back that up, in spite of the Supreme Court's request for evidence. He shot himself in the foot either through incompetence or more likely because the evidence didn't exist. As for Andrea Leadsom, we have different opinions, that's all
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  134. Well my reaction is that as a public representative taking taxpayer's money, he's meant to be accountable and able to answer questions and regard questions as normal. If he can't cope with that maybe he's in the wrong job or has something to hide. How would you react if a colleague at work swore about you and suggested there was 'something wrong with you' when you were just doing your job.
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  135.  @freelanceart1019  Boris a communist? What planet are you on?
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  136. That's because the government and the MSM are following the science, as far as it's known, and not conspiracy theories. Science is verifiable. The whole world is not involved in a conspiracy.
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  137. How?
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  138. 'Wilf' is o.k
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  139. Yeah. All those thousands of people in India dying from the new variant. Great actors I suppose in your mindset.
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  140.  @Firitesen  Nobody ever dies from a virus or a bacteria. They die from the damage these things cause. If they didn't have Covid their organs would not have been damaged so Covid is given as the cause of death. We need to keep track of deaths caused by Covid so we can take measures to prevent them. If doctors didn't distinguish between non Covid patients who died from lung disease or heart attacks, and patients with Covid who died of lung disease or heart attacks we would not have the data to monitor or control the virus. I don't understand why people look to pointlessly split hairs. Another things is, that if you have a heart condition but no Covid you will be in a different ward, hospital area or hospital to prevent you getting Covid. That's important too because your chances or survival would definitely reduce if you contracted Covid on top of such existing conditions.
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  141. Unfortunately spines are no help with the Coronavirus and people won't have spines for long if they are dead.
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  142.  @deanthorpe1684  Yes. It was written in the imperative tense.
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  143.  @deanthorpe1684  He wasn't able to get out. He had carers visiting him so it seems he caught it from his carers. His symptoms weren't classic. He had a lot of pain in his legs and was taken into hospital where he tested positive for Covid. Pain can be a symptom but it's not one the government mentions as a main one. I was reading Private Eye (the MD in there is very good). He said that a lot of people's Covid symptoms don't match the 3 mentioned by the government and other symptoms a lot of people get are fatigue and headaches. In March this year 3 of our household had fatigue and headaches that lasted about 3 weeks. I now wonder whether we had Covid then.
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  144.  @michelgobets3803  It's about the consensus of the majority of scientists - such as those in SAGE or WHO. You can always find a few dissenters any any group.
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  145.  @tomhayes750  Thanks for that info.
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  146.  EpicGurth  I wasn't referring to Varadkar.
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  147.  @syncj838  You don't prepare by being quiet.
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  148. Yes, It's Boris dictating from number 10 now what the level of spending will be and on what (vanity?) projects. The Chancellor will just have to go along with that, however unrealistic and be expected to 'balance the books'. Cue either more savage cuts to balance the books or failure to balance the books and more economic chaos.
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  149.  @spartacusmills3569  *you mean 'what you are talking about'? What I've said is common knowledge coming from medical experts and scientists.
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  150.  Ivan Gromov At this time of Covid, I don't support any event that creates crowds with no distancing and no masks.
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  151.  Ivan Gromov  I disagree with ANY and ALL demonstrations in this time of Covid where people don't wear masks or keep their distance, and it's pretty impossible to do that in demonstrations. I'm not going to single out one demonstration above any other.
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  152.  Ivan Gromov  Strange that you don't know the meaning of ALL and that you want me to single that one out. Are you racist?
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  153.  Ivan Gromov  I wasn't silent I just wasn't biased. You were looking for some kind of bias. Are you a Russian troll, Ivan?
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  154. Really? Queues for vaccines are normal in our area. Perhaps you weren't in the right location.
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  155.  @bektaskonca5189  There are queues in our area but you also have to have an appointment. They designated only 2 places in the whole area.
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  156.  @seyley2901  If you know why did you comment thus Sorry, what? Given that you are the in control of all things binary, you tell me who Kemi is? I don't expect people to 'comply' with anything I say. I just express my opinions as it's a free country.
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  157. It's the cases of the Indian variant that have risen. It's not a general or overall rise so far. The Indian variant is more easily transmitted. Travel from India was not closed down early enough, and this variant affects younger people too, so the easing of lockdown measures will have contributed to the spread.
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  158.  @godislove8740  Lol.
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  159. It's not happening because the opposition wants Boris Johnson to extend or for him to take us out on a hard Brexit. When voters see he's extended or the impact of a no deal Brexit the thinking is that they will vote for the opposition in the next election. If the opposition stops Brexit that will favour Boris and the Conservatives in the next election. They want Boris to be hoist with his own petard or his chickens come home to roost (to put it another way). Boris on the other hand is trying to set up a scapegoat to blame for any failure of his.
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  160.  @shadowmoon7337  *there
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  161.  @thewhitepatch2730  * what's * you're
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  162. I think we have more cases than 1600. The UK is only testing and diagnosing those who end up in hospital now. Anyone with symptoms who is told to stay at home, is not tested. The government estimates that in reality there are between 5,000 - 10,000 cases in the UK now. Germany also probably has more ventilators and intensive care beds. We have 4,000 intensive care beds and many of them are in use for people after serious operations.
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  163. And what is the Tory government going to do about that? Nothing.
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  164. How do they determine who dies 'purely' of Covid? If people have underlying conditions Covid can kill you quicker than otherwise. Covid can cause blood clots, and cause strokes as well as damage to organs such as heart, liver, lungs, kidneys. What then is counted as a 'pure' Covid death?
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  165.  @aviahveredusa6099  Jumping to conclusions aren't you? Of course I care about those with cancer. I have it myself and had an operation for it only this year (which was delayed for several months because of the virus). I read a lot of non fiction books and I don't watch much TV.
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  166. She hasn't been sacked as deputy. I believe that's an elected post, but she's been sacked from her roles as Chairman or Chairperson of the party and Campaign Manager. I'm not sure that will be a positive move for him. At the very least it's not going to make for a great relationship between the leader and the Deputy, but she had advantages as a woman, a good networker and a northerner. Without some analysis of the campaign it's hard to know why she was sacked. He must have gone along with the campaign strategy.
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  167.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  Does Boris know the meaning of the word?
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  168.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  Not really. Why pick on Labour party leaders in terms of responsibility, when Boris hides from any media who are likely to ask him tough questions?
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  169.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  Er, Boris is also part of the establishment. Mainstream does have worldwide reputations to uphold which would be trashed if they were constantly telling lies, unlike conspiracy sites which are founded on lies. I guess you like media that reflects your own views.
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  170.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  I wasn't 'projecting on you'. I thought you were responding to my comment that Boris hides from media that will give him a hard time, by suggesting that Boris hides from certain media because they are part of the establishment.
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  171.  @marcmarc8524  True.
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  172. Booed by the Britain First candidate and his supporters and also bigots who presumably have lost the British value of 'fair play'.
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  173. How is stupidity heroic?
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  174.  @JohnKobaRuddy  They should just have divorced then. She was estranged from him because of domestic abuse and had clearly been starting over with someone else. It doesn't seem as though he could cope with that, but people don't own each other. If he cared about her so much perhaps he could have been nicer to her in the marriage.
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  175. That's probably the least relevant aspect of the changes, but someone was bound to come out with that knee jerk comment.
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  176. They are not bothering to claim VAT on imports at the moment and they are not reclaiming billions in fraudulent furlough claims paid out during Covid . They overpaid companies by billions during Covid because of lack of competitive tendering, and on equipment that was sometimes useless and not fit for purpose. They have also turned a blind eye to money laundering and allowed the creation of companies for offshore investments whose real owners are not disclosed. The most wasteful government ever.
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  177. *their * countries. If the virus was fake, you couldn't spread it.
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  178.  @moonbeam8120  No I don't see that someone was looking for a reason to spread fake news.
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  179. *hearses
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  180. There was a guy who lived en route to a hospital, who commented on youtube, at the height of the pandemic, and he was seeing them alright, frequently on a daily basis. Perhaps you are not en route?
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  181.  @2Truth2you  Well you can always volunteer in a care home or a hospital if you have doubts.
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  182.  @alexbell8687  * got thrown (why don't people learn their past participles these days?). I was a cancer patient who had an operation delayed by 4 months but it was o.k for me.
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  183.  @alexbell8687  I'm sorry to hear that. Covid is not flu though. Opinions don't have to be 'asked for' in a comment section.
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  184.  @alexbell8687  That's o.k. I wish all the best for you and your family.
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  185. Intellectual comment.
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  186.  @catsploitation  Why no? It was a compliment anyway.
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  187. It's not just about the mistake. It's about the attitude he revealed towards his own colleague in front of everyone. Hard to go back from that.
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  188. @Liam Fullarton-Ward I don't complain about people being like a bot when they are doing their jobs, if their job isn't to entertain me. I once had someone haranguing me on the phone for half an hour and I didn't lose my cool or swear at them or about them, but I did mention to colleagues that I'd had someone trying to browbeat me on the phone. When another guy got angry on the phone at me about something I had no control over, I just let him vent his anger and explained things. At the end he apologised to me. I used to swear at football matches but football songs are full of swearing and everyone swears there. I probably have sworn at people in my life but I can't recall particular incidents. It would have been likely that I wanted them to go away and leave me alone. I'm sure I've told someone to f**k off but I can't think when and I've sworn when I've injured myself or made a stupid mistake.
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  189. @Liam Fullarton-Ward Nope. I'm just professional as you'd expect someone to be and would be moaning if they were not, when interacting with you, I'm sure.
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  190. @Liam Fullarton-Ward Good for you then. Great tolerance of poor behaviour from public officials. I hope that works out well for you.
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  191. Pathetic comment.
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  192.  @Quest4Horror  * bear arms, (unless you are proposing a requirement for long sleeves).
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  193. So many people on this channel know nothing about international law and they vote and comment on the basis of knowing nothing. You could look it up if you could be bothered.
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  194. The civil service is neutral and only serves to carry out the wishes of the government of the day.
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  195. Wearing masks will control the spread of the virus and keep town centres open.
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  196.  @matthewwalker5317  So how would you control it?
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  197.  @davidbarlow350  It's more about not spreading it, so those people who unknowingly have it won't spread it around through coughs and sneezes as the mask will inhibit much of that liquid from being jettisoned as an aerosol spray in the air. If masks were no good at all, why do all the medics wear them?
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  198.  @matthewwalker5317  What you are not taking into account is the longer term or permanent effects on some survivors, even those who are young or who didn't have a severe experience of the virus. There is plenty of information on that if you look. I'll give you one example. In Germany they MRI screened 100 patients who had survived the virus and discovered that the hearts of 78 of them had been affected. Many had infllamation of the heart, but Covid can affect other organs too. e.g. lungs, liver, kidneys. It can cause blood clotting that leads to strokes. That's not to mention long term fatigue afterwards or loss of muscle tone while on ventilators, leading to people needing physiotherapy in order to walk again. It's a nasty disease and one best avoided. Of course there will be people it doesn't affect much who won't be aware they have it, but it's not entirely predictable. Even Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who dismissed the disease, said he was fit and it would not affect him much if he caught it, took no precautions and caught it, now says he's been left with 'mouldy lungs' afterwards.
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  199.  @davidbarlow350  No. I am going to get my flu vaccination as usual, but Covid 19 is not flu.
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  200.  @davidbarlow350  I'm in a vulnerable group so the statistics are different for me. I'm not intending to take the Covid vaccine until I see how that goes with people. Covid is a coronavirus not a flu virus. I can tell you're getting frustrated as you are resorting to insults, so this will be my last comment. I'll let you have the last insult. It's good to get things out of your system. It might calm you down.
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  201.  @matthewwalker5317  I didn't think that about you but it seems an apt description now that you say it.
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  202.  @matthewwalker5317  👍
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  203.  @JackIves  Are you calling me a dumbass child or someone else? Your comment does not need explanation by me. It's self explanatory.
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  204. Why does anyone vote in Neil Hamilton? He's practically a Nazi in his beliefs.
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  205.    He's the biggest charlatan. He cares only about his own career. You do know don't you that the day after the Brexit referendum vote he was queueing up for a German passport and that he was trying to arrange a career in the USA?
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  206.  suburben yobbo  I believe he was turned down for the passport because he didn't meet the criteria ( the requirement to have lived in Germany for a certain length of time) and he gave false details on his application in response to that question (A German address). There was a German police case on it. Anyway it's hypocritical because Brexit will mean Brits in general will find it harder to travel to EU countries (more bureaucracy, more cost, longer airport queues) but if he got a German passport he would escape all of this. I suggest Brexit was what prompted his application for it, as he applied the day after the Referendum result. Other hypocritical wealthy Brexiteers can escape some of the the consequences of Brexit, having their cake and eat it, by buying citizenship of Malta, and some are doing so.
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  207.  suburben yobbo  My point was that it will still benefit the wealthy after Brexit, only the rest of the population including the working class will lose out. I think it's hypocritical when the wealthy Brexiteers or those with dual passports don't come clean on that. Farage was applying for a passport for himself by the way. His kids may have them already as they have a German mother.
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  208.  suburben yobbo  You seem to miss the point. He was keen for a no deal Brexit which would see British people suffering the downside of that while at the same time thinking he would not have to suffer the downside, and not being open about that with Brexiteers. In the end I don't think he got his German passport. I'm not sure because he refuses to give a straight answer to the question. However if you are happy with him, good for you.
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  209. Another massively ignorant statement.
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  210.  @TheLemonadedrinker  Agreed. However I'm sure there are plenty of crawlers to be found or people who see eye to eye with Boris. They will also be useful scapegoats if things go wrong and highly 'replaceable'.
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  211. I'm sure partners do have influence with PMs behind the scenes. We just don't usually get to hear about it.
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  212.  @CORNISHDUDE  Oh for pity's sake!
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  213. It's not just about the swearing. They are both in the same party - both meant to be on the same side, and he revealed to all the opposition parties how little he values his own colleague. How would you get on working with someone, who'd just done that to you?
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  214.  @MaelstromTranquil  As a democratic representative he should accept answering questions as a normal part of being accountable, and if he can't cope with that without a hostile reaction, it suggests he's not a good representative or he's got something to hide. You shouldn't have people swearing at you on a daily basis, but thankfully they are not swearing at you as someone in an official position. If a doctor or a police officer started swearing about you just because you were asking some questions, and suggesting that something was 'wrong with you' for doing that, maybe you'd feel differently. Would you get away with swearing back at the customers?
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  215. A vaccine is a preventative measure. The drug used to treat Covid is an advance but it doesn't save everyone.
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  216. Blaming his staff although Boris overruled their advice and took the final decision? How base!
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  217. Can you believe a liar who says he's no liar? If he told the government he had enough PPE at the time when all the newspapers were reporting that care homes didn't have it, that's a lie, and if he told the government that all elderly patients would be tested for Covid before being discharged to care homes, that's not what the guidance on the government website said, so that's a lie. The guidance warned that patients discharged from hospital may have Covid but that care homes were equipped to deal with it (at a time when they were not) I also experienced it in my family. My brother in law had Covid and the hospital wanted to discharge him even though he'd not been tested to check he was clear. They told my sister 'the government has told us to free up beds'. That ties in with what Cummings said hospitals were told.
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  218.  @fivewindow32  Glad to amuse.
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  219. Would you buy a house from this man?
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  220. @Alex Nelson So you'd trust him?
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  221. No medical procedure is without risk. Life is not without risk, but some risks can be reduced, based on the science we have, luckily.
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  222.  @rolandrimann8788  Because you might vote for her.
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  223.  membershipofbus  Eh?
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  224.  but ton  It's part of his image. He thinks women like it. It brings out the mothering instincts. As for men, it makes him look like no threat. He hides his real intentions behind a false image.
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  225. Not a very nice one.
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  226.  @uniquevideosUk  * not have or not've (English please). He has to meet a target set by David Cameron in earlier years.
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  227. Which time machine have you fast forwarded on?
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  228.  @scottm5425  I thought Scotland was on top of Covid now and had plans for getting back to normal. Maybe too slow for your liking. Check what Stugeon is saying. we don't get much Scottish news down here but I know she was talking about it recently.
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  229. @Phoenix People don't understand that the reason hospitals weren't packed is because normal work was largely suspended so that hospitals could deal with covid and covid patients were kept in particular areas to avoid contaminating whole hospitals. Staff had to be diverted to treat Covid patients either at their own hospitals or other designated ones. A&E visits were also down by as much as 40% as people either didn't really need to go there or were afraid of catching covid. Then there's the fact that with people at home and pubs closed, work and alcohol fuelled accidents would be down, also street crime like stabbings.
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  230.  @krielle3877  Some of these will end up in A&E but some will be dealt with by social care. A lot of people may be drinking while watching tv, and that's a safer place to be drunk. There may be a lot of people suffering abuse who aren't known about at this time and don't appear in hospital. Housework has always been done. It shouldn't result in more accidents. Suicides won't be going to hospital though some attempted suicides might. I'm sure some stats will be issued eventually that will show what's been happening.
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  231.  @krielle3877  The government may distort statistics or present them in self serving ways but the people who produce statistics such as the ONS are professional and don't allow political tampering with the source statistics. It's always possible to go to the source. If you have faith in nothing then there is no truth, or if there is you won't find it or will never be sure you've found it. Science is validated through the fact that experiments and results of research are independently verifiable and repeatable.
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  232.  @AsimKhan-ch2mo  That's a bit shocking. She should speak to the doctors. I guess she's not one of the staff who deals with covid patients.
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  233.  @krielle3877  250k and 2 millions predictions were if there were no lockdowns. I suppose if you get Covid 19 you'll be relying on prayer and no medical help in line with your beliefs.
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  234.  @prince57able  Have you actually read the comments?
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  235.  @carveh13  Hmm! I'm trying to think. I work on the basis that things will usually get worse and plan for that. I've not been wrong on that score. When someone points me to genuine facts that show I'm wrong about something, I apologise but it doesn't happen often because I like to keep up with events. Also I usually look up facts myself before I comment or I know them from looking things up previously or because I've worked in close connection with the NHS. It's easy to find reputable sources of information if you have the desire to look for them. I'm also a NHS patient at the moment.
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  236.  @tonytucker7359  Are you related to Little Tommy Tucker who sang for his supper?
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  237.  @wattage2007  Well, at least you don't have a bad Covid problem now. England went through the mill what with Boris flip flopping and changing tactics all the time.
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  238.  @wattage2007  That surprises me. If you are referring to me, my favourites list is open. Click on playlists. I think the no content message refers to the fact that I haven't created or uploaded any videos of my own.
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  239.  @wattage2007  Maybe not, but who is better equipped to judge than doctors? In any case the 'excess deaths figure is independent corroborating evidence.
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  240.  @tonytucker7359 No I don't know him, except by his reputation, but I imagine his surname is rhyming slang.
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  241. He abused her while married to her and they had been separated. That's not cheating. It's moving on.
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  242.  @stevepal8432  O.K I don't know so much about Prince Charles or how long he had it for. The Royals keep their affairs more private, but from what I heard it doesn't sound as though he got it as badly as Bojo. I can't believe he'd just make that up. He was around and about a lot beforehand, meeting and greeting, and images show he kept sticking his hand out to shake hands and then remembering not to at the last second, but who knows whether he shook any or not. It's interesting that Camilla didn't get it. Perhaps they are not as close a couple as people might think.
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  243.  @spitymaeh  I think the sheep ( not sheeps, the singular and plural are the same) are the ones who believe in lizzard people.
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  244.  Read Siege By James Mason  You think the Tories will look after people? Dream on.
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  245. I don't think Boris understands it himself.
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  246. I'm just slightly younger than you but I have asthma and diabetes so I probably would not survive it.
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  247.  @davidholgate123  It's not science. What was described is nature. Science just enables us to explain it and perhaps find treatments.
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  248.  @jonathanbowen3640  We had our own Kent variant which then spread worldwide. (Strains and variants are not the same thing. These are variants that are appearing not strains).
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  249. The Tories have always protected and invested in motorists when other greener interests have not been protected, bus routes, train fares, lack of incentives to use these etc. Motorists have been largely sheltered from the effects of needing to cut carbon emissions. It's unrealistic in the longer run.
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  250. Don't bother reading the comments. I'll summarise them. It's either all 'haters' or unbelievers.
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  251. Some celebrities think if they can use their fame and influence for good, that's no bad thing. I think 'me me me' is the least of the issues to be bothered about at this time.
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  252.  @elrjames7799  If refugees/asylum seekers make it to this shore they have legal rights under various international agreements. Their method of entry then becomes irrelevant in legal terms. Only those entering illegally who are not refugees/asylum seekers, can be deported but the government has to have done the work to distinguish who is who. otherwise courts can stop deportations.
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  253.  @elrjames7799  Well I guess that's what Priti Patel is planning to do but we are currently going through the Brexit withdrawal period so we are still keeping to those agreements until January 2021 at least. However changing that will mean we will turn everyone away that enters illegally including genuine refugees/asylum seekers.
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  254.  @elrjames7799  I think she's got something in mind but probably can't do it until the Brexit withdrawal transition period ends.
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  255.  @uniquevideosUk  No. I read it. Do you read?
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  256.  @spinofthewheel5345  Or perhaps never got involved with her horrible husband.
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  257.  @mickbmx  Give it a rest.
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  258.  @mickbmx  Now you are being silly.
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  259. *Nazi. For the sake of community and world health, yes. or does selfishness trump everything else now?
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  260.  @michaelcaine2405  I've done loads and loads of research. Have you, or are you just listening to your preferred conspiracy theories?
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  261.  @Julia56401  Do I have to explain further for the 'hard of understanding'?
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  262.  @Julia56401  I'm not in a little world. It's you that is - stuck in front of your computer swallowing silly conspiracy theories.
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  263.  @Julia56401  I take my information from multiple sources that take it from the science and the experience of medics in the front line, not from fantasy sites. Feel pity and laugh all you like. It's good for your health, unlike conspiracy theories which are very very bad for your health.
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  264.  @Julia56401  Do you take your standard of honesty from Donald Trump? We can't be reading the same material, or you are being very selective in what you look at.
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  265.  @svetlanaprice5896  😆 😂😁
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  266.  @svetlanaprice5896  It's not over yet. If you want to risk your health, go ahead. Why not test your approach by volunteering in a care home or a hospital? 🤞 Whatever you say to me won't change the science.
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  267.  @svetlanaprice5896  You're bonkers. The pandemic came from contact with wild animals in China, prepared for the eat market in Wuhan. The scientists have looked at it and agree that it's not man made. If it's planned depopulation it's not very effective, it's much more effective at hitting the economies which is hurting every country that has it and people at all levels in those countries. If you wanted to depopulate there are far more efficient ways of doing it. I really can't be doing with people who are paranoid enough to believe every crackpot theory. I'm not going to exchange comments with you any more as you are not rational and you have no evidence to back these theories.
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  268. Because Covid can attack organs including the heart.
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  269.  @johnfletcher1611  I don't normally shout out abuse. I just made an exception here because I'm getting fed up with people's lazy ignorance. I will remove 'you plonker' from my previous post'. Science is not a left/right issue. It's about verifiable facts.
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  270. Talking fish?
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  271. How do you know? Would you vote for someone who just says they'll make things better? No lessons learned then.
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  272. There have been lots of cases in Thailand. I think they have it under control now but you might not be able to get flights and even if you do the flight might be the biggest risk factor for catching the virus. If you need to return to the UK during the outbreak, you might not be able to either.
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  273. You mean white? Khan is English as he was born here. She is a Trump supporter.
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  274.  @jackflash743  * There are (English please).
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  275.  joe loney  The Indian variant which is in their area now, has been killing younger people in India.
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  276.  @Nelson_Churchill  Leave the playground now and find your Mummy.
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  277. No but the average temperature across the world across all seasons has been rising and continues to rise. A seemingly small rise in the average, even just 1 degree can cause severe weather problems such as melting ice caps, sea levels rising, forest fires, more hurricanes, drought and starvation in some parts of the world.
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  278. They are doing their best not to put lives at risk but they know lives are at risk anyway as the Tory government lets the NHS collapse. So how do they get a pay rise and address these problems when the government just ignores their plight?
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  279.  @celticcc3658  You've completely misinterpreted what I'm on about. It's not the swearing as such, though being so disrespectful to his colleague and suggesting there's something wrong with her for asking questions is not good. It's the fact that he doesn't seem to think it's right for him to be questioned in this way, but it's part of the job for him to be accountable as a public representative who is taking taxpayers money. People have a right to ask him questions and if he can't handle it he's either in the wrong job or got something to hide.
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  280. On what evidence?
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  281.  @immyu6566  I'm not going to check out loony conspiracy theories. Those are for people that fear and have lost their sense of perspective.
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  282.  @immyu6566  So according to you, what accounts for all the excess deaths during the Covid period? Every death is registered (I don't just mean Covid deaths) and from the death register can be seen the number of deaths happening currently and these can be compared to the average number of deaths that occurred in the same periods in previous years. That shows the current 'excess deaths' figure. The Excess deaths figure was approx 60,000 when the deaths attributed to Covid on death certificates was approx 40,000, which sounds like Covid deaths are more likely to have been undercounted as a lot of people died without being tested.
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  283. I have an idea for a comedy sketch based on photoshopping. If anyone has seen the scene in 'Marathon Man' where Laurence Olivier is drilling into Dustin Hoffman's teeth without anaesthetic while constantly asking him 'Is it safe', just substitute a refugee for Lawrence Olivier and a Home Office Minister (or maybe Rishi Sunak) for Dustin Hoffman.
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  284.  @0saintclark0  Indeed unless it's even unsafe for its own citizens.
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  285.  @stevenmacdonald9619  Agreements to end wars often require compromises.
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  286.  @TruthHurts-s7g  There are only two options on fitting NI into Brexit. 1) Break the Good Friday Agreement by having a trade border in the Island of Ireland. 2) A trade border in the Irish sea. Boris Johnson signed up to the latter, supported by the DUP. The trade advantage is for NI as they can receive and trade goods with the EU without barriers. The disadvantage is with the UK as there is a trade barrier between NI and Great Britain. However Great Britain is not imposing any border controls as yet on goods coming into GB from NI or from Continental Europe. The only country suffering from it is Great Britain (exporters) but having more border controls and bureaucracy was voted for by the UK as a whole (though not Scotland or NI individually) since it was an inevitable consequence of Brexit.
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  287. Scotland and Wales may just not be at the top of the 'most cases' list.
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  288.  @slackdee  That's not true. For a number of reasons 1) Doctors are professionals and do not write false causes on certificates 2) The excess deaths figures which are calculated from the figures for all deaths, from whatever reason, from the death registers, compared to the average figures from the same sources for previous years, reveal an excess death figure that indicates that Covid deaths are understated rather than overstated. In the UK that ties in with the fact that elderly hospital patients who were untested for Covid were sent out to care homes and spread Covid there causing many deaths, but the people they infected in care homes were also untested for Covid because in the first few months of the pandemic only hospital patients were tested. People dying at home, if their GPs could not, or did not, get them into hospital were also untested for Covid when they died.
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  289.  @UfcClippaz  *breathe
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  290. So now Jair Bolsonaro has it. He who thought it was all a fuss over nothing and did nothing to protect the health of his citizens. Karma, that.
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  291.  @mikeparker9794  Wilfred is not the Doctor's name. It's the name of Boris's grandfather. Boris had 2 Doctors both called Nick (Nicholas).
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  292. *given. That's not going to happen though.
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  293.  @rolandrimann8788  Glad you don't live in London too. TfL has debt which does not make it a cash cow. This was from a news article in 2019. 'Efforts to reduce the level of dust include new signalling on the Northern and Jubilee lines, which reduce the need to break defensively. TfL has also introduced new techniques to replace tracks, swapping jackhammers for “concrete breaking” that creates less dust. The inquiry will look into whether increased tunnel ventilation using fans could reduce airborne particulates, and whether barrier doors could could lower the level of pollutants, as was shown in two studies on the Barcelona metro. An electrostatic precipitator could also be deployed, using electrical forces to collect particles.
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  294.  @rolandrimann8788  I don't know. I'm not the scientific expert am I? Don't shoot the messenger.
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  295. What's your beef? No relation to Edwina Currie are you?
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  296.  @jcw9539  Something to bear in mind before voting foolishly.
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  297.  membershipofbus  Indeed she can, but who she likes tells us something about her true beliefs.
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  298.  membershipofbus  I don't hate her but having criticised me for doing so, you then tell me you hate me for liking Sadiq Khan. Where is your sense of logic?
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  299.  membershipofbus  I travelled on those Routemasters. They were a vanity project of Johnson costing over a £1m for each bus and they were poorly designed and poor value for money. The windows didn't open and in the Summer people would roast. His shortening of bus routes was designed to reduce congestion in the centre of London although I wish he hadn't done it to the 4 or the 134. I'm glad there are 20mph speed limits. I used to worry about my child crossing a busy road when the cars were racing along, and the air has cleaned up since his clean air policies were introduced and my asthma has improved as a result. I like the fact that he provided free school meals for all primary school children and that he froze many transport fares and allowed 2 bus journeys for the price of one if they are both taken within an hour.
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  300.  @Kaizan27  In hers more than mine. He's still around to potentially cause havoc if he gets elected again though.
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  301. If the electorate had got something right, you wouldn't have those leaders in the first place.
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  302.  @micah.101  When people think they know 'the real truth' more than the scientists and the medics, you know they are beyond hope.
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  303.  @raatkirani4405  It's not about following the mainstream, it's about following the science, the scientists and the medics. I trust them more than conspiracy theorists. Science is at least verifiable.
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  304.  sid viciouss  Well the whole world has to be like your own small circle does it? Thank goodness no one you know has been infected, but why not talk to some nurses or volunteer in a care home for a broader picture? My sister and brother in law have had it. A local shopkeeper has died from it. Those politicians who didn't take it seriously have had it, Boris Johnson, his health secretary, his Chief Medical Officer, his Foreign Secretary, his political adviser, Republican senators in the USA, Jair Bolsonaro, President of Brazil. Hotspots in the UK and US have occurred where people have ignored the request to socially distance or wear masks or where people have been working in crowded working conditions.
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  305.  LetsTalkSense1  Nighty night.
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  306.  LetsTalkSense1  Where does the 15% come from?
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  307.  @danormal1707  Herman Cain, politician, died in the USA. He was against mask wearing and social distancing. He caught covid 19 and died. My brother in law who caught Covid 19 had a stroke as a result of it. (The virus is known to cause blood clotting) The damage from the disease can last. He has just now had a second stroke.
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  308.  @danormal1707  Prince Charles is 71 not 90+ and he's engaged in sport for a lot of his life (polo) so he's probably fairly fit for a 71 year old. I think you are confusing Prince Charles with Prince Philip. Prince Philip who is 99 has not had Covid.
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  309.  @danormal1707  Here's what the doctor in 'Private Eye' magazine says: "Covid is much less likely to be fatal in the under 50s but evidence is emerging it may cause severe long-term health consequences, even if the initial infection appeared relatively mild. A small study of 100 German patients who had recovered from Covid had MRI scans of the heart and it was found that 78 had 'cardiac involvement' and 60 had ongoing myocardial inflammation, which was independent of, any other conditions they had, how severe the illness was and how long it lasted. Whether this translates into long term damage remains to be seen. In terms of lung damage the NHS is anticipating that Covid survivors will have more chronic cough, fibrotic lung disease, bronchiectasis and pulmonary vascular disease. Those who have been in intensive care will have long term rehabilitation needs. The Long Covid Support Group study estimates that 10% of people with the virus take at least 3 weeks to recover with 250,000 people in the UK thought to experience symptoms for 30 days or more. Brain fog, chronic pain, headaches, dizziness, nausea, palpitations, shortness of breath, post exertional malaise and a severe reduction in everyday activities, and many are suffering anxiety and low mood. Overall, it's a virus best avoided."
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  310.  @devilsadvocatetrolledition3183  It seems he has but he's now saying that people testing positive for Covid only have a slight chance of having it.
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  311.  @raatkirani4405  I'm following the NHS and British scientific advisors and the WHO. I don't know ant British scientists who say the virus doesn't exist. The WHO website says the virus was isolated.
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  312.  @danormal1707  You want to wallow in ignorance and conspiracy theories because it suits your mentality - that's all. Science is at least verifiable - that's what makes it science.
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  313.  @micah.101  Which scientists and which medics are you 'reiterating'? Thay may have said it's not serious for most people who are young and healthy but you know many westerns societies have ageing populations and also many people who suffer from chronic illness, disabilities or obesity. Young people may pass it on to others who are vulnerable, if the spread of the virus is not controlled.
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  314.  @danormal1707  You are in a muddle. 1. Masks allow oxygen through them, otherwise you would die wearing one. 2. There's Carbon Dioxide in the air anyway. Your body only takes in what it needs - oxygen and breathes out what it doesn't need - carbon dioxide.
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  315.  @danormal1707  You can live without optimum Oxygen but you can't 100% say you can live if you get the virus. I don't know what you mean by depopulation using vaccines? Where is the evidence of that? Is it another conspiracy theory? Why are you so keen to believe unproven cobblers?
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  316.  @danormal1707  Everything is only linked in a paranoid conspiracy theorist's mind or a Chinese or Russian troll's posts. Whose agenda do you think this is? Have you actually found evidence of Bill Gates sating this?
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  317.  @danormal1707  I can't see any link.
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  318.  @pointblankracer6274  Good luck to you too xD
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  319.  @GamingBear_Q_E_D  That's not true.
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  320. Everyone knows that. The only remedy is to oust the Tory government.
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  321. You must have low self esteem to think of yourself as a 'nobody'.
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  322.  @alaistermclellan6710  Strangely enough when I worked for the civil service I knew someone who worked there called Alastair McLellan but I know it's not the same person as he died.
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  323.  @jonnie350zje  You know you're not really a fan if that's all you can say and all you can focus on.
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  324.  @hitas3799  O.k. Those are fair points, but the vast majority of England fans are not like that and would condemn that behaviour.
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  325.  @jonnie350zje  Yes, I hope so but England fans are very bad at counting their chickens before they are hatched, so I will have no expectations and make no assumptions. Italy is a great footballing nation and will be a formidable opponent. i think as long as England play as well as they can and without fear, no one could criticise them if they don't win.
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  326. I wouldn't believe everything you hear or read.
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  327. It's not the numbers of those who would have died anyway. It's corroborated by the 'excess death' figures. i.e the number of deaths above the average for the time of year.
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  328.  @wattage2007  No one is paralysed with fear except those believing bonkers conspiracy theories. Socialist probably take more notice of the science.
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  329. @N S Brilliant actors then, producing those harrowing scenes day after day for so long and feeding in those stats. They must be spending millions trying to fool people - oh sorry, it's you who is the fool.
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  330.  @fatbobe1986  I know you didn't mention India but I did because asked how cases have risen so I explained it to you. The NHS is not protected. We could easily spiral into a situation where it's overwhelmed if precautions to avoid a spread of the new variant are not taken.
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  331.  @mynameismyname7795  They may be at higher risk not necessarily because they are BAME but because as a group, they are highly represented among key workers who worked through the pandemic, they may live in poorer circumstances in more crowded accommodation where it's hard to self distance - lots of reasons. Apparently the worst BAME Covid death rates are among South East Asians and South East Asians have a higher rate of diabetes which is a high risk factor for Covid death. That may be from genetic predisposition or from diet.
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  332.  sunshineuk1965  Or perhaps science rather than conspiracy thinking.
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  333.  @secretbillionaire463  Covid causes organ damage which kills.
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  334.  @secretbillionaire463 True. Your point is?
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  335.  @Team_Banchamek  How do you know that they die of something that has nothing to do with Covid? How do you expect Covid to kill people? What would be the signs? It destroys people's organs and that's what kills them - could be lungs, heart, kidney or liver failure.
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  336.  @Firitesen  Well surely this info is coming from medics not from journalists making things up? That would not be news.
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  337.  @mrbishooo3781  Just to clarify. When people die from the damage caused by Covid, it's perfectly valid to say that Covid was the cause of death.
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  338.  @mrbishooo3781  Yes but they wouldn't necessarily die of them quickly without Covid causing more damage. Usually there's an explanation on death certificates. They would not just say Covid but something like heart attack caused by Covid (but in more medical terms). As I said before, if we don't keep track on death certificates of Covid as a cause, how are we going to track and prevent Covid which does hasten deaths? I have diabetes. I've had it for 10 years. I could live with it for another 20 years or more but if I caught Covid it could kill me within days. It would be valid to include Covid as a cause of death on my death certificate.
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  339. The accusation of fake news is more often the fake thing.
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  340. I don't understand this. I received a text saying I'd be sent an appointment for a Covid vaccine (in due course), so I'm not sure why such queues should be necessary.
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  341. Cain was certainly not seen as able.
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  342. These are cumulative figures aren't they, so they don't tell you which way things are going unless you remember the figures posted previously?
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  343.  @leicestersq1  He had a number of health issues.
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  344. Eta Carinae. I think it's already got to your brain.
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  345.  Terry Tibbs  They should be ashamed when immigrants speak better English than they do and they were born here.
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  346. Such cold eyes.
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  347. You know when you get ill with anything, it's as easy to get rid of. Just tell yourself you are not ill.
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  348.  Steve Terry  What do you mean?
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  349.  @Truth_Seeker_UK  That's not true. You only get that impression if you read right leaning media and harping on that is designed to divide potential opposition to government. Look at Labour's last manifesto. I don't think you'll find much if anything in there concerning identity politics. People are now so primed to read that into everything. If I make a general comment on youtube, I've been surprised that some people think that because I'm a woman my comments only refer to, or are about, or on behalf of, women. That is their mindset now.
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  350.  @Truth_Seeker_UK  Oh well (face palm) what people obsess about there isn't the same as the policies set out at election time. There's nothing wrong about being inclusive though. It's good for social coherence. It would be nice to know what policies Starmer favours though. Hopefully he'll clarify soon. Trouble is Tories will have spent all the money and left a large debt by the next election as well as permanently f*ing up the economy with Brexit, so it's hard to get back on track.
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  351.  @monicawarner4091  Most people don't read Manifestos. The Labour one unlike the Tory one was costed. A lot of the projects were investment ones, just like people borrow to invest in a house which they expect to increase in value in the long run, but again most people don't understand economics do they? The Labour manifesto was about investment for growth and actually covered a period longer than 5 years. Spending would not have happened all in one Parliament. Now this government has spent far more than Labour's manifesto would have cost, but not for any investment or growth. The Tories always say Labour's plans are unaffordable and they they steal some of them and find the money tree themselves, especially for their supporters, friends and lobbyists. They still haven't published the £37bn of no competition contracts, in spite of a legal requirement to do so. I don't think Labour would have made such a bad job of handling the pandemic as they would have prepared for it as many reports had advised the government, followed the science early on, and closed borders and air travel when necessary. The Tory policies are resulting in not enough health workers or care workers, and not enough HGV drivers or not enough people to pick crops in the fields. I watched a BBC report today about how the British economy hasn't bounced back since Covid, unlike the USA, and unlike other European countries. The obvious reason is Brexit which is a horrendous mess but you don't read about it much in the media and the BBC didn't mention it. They seem to be protecting the government now that they have a conservative appointed as Chairman and one as Director General. The last Labour government's financial problems were due to a global banking crisis with the government spending billions to bail out the banks. The regulation of banks was too light but Tories had wanted even lighter regulation, and if they'd not bailed out the banks there would have been a crisis of confidence in capitalism and people's savings would have been lost too.
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  352.  @nihilistcentraluk442  That won't necessarily translate into policy though. Activists are always more 'out there' than the party leadership itself. I'm sure you'd find that true of Tory activists too, but on different issues.
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  353. *their.....their
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  354. How is Bolsonaro getting on? We don't hear much from him now, but I did hear he said he has mold in his lungs now.
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  355. Who cares what he wishes. He's an oaf.
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