World's media ask how it went so wrong for 'Plague Island' Britain
Boris Johnson comes under fire as countries suspend travel from UK over new Covid variant
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World's media ask how it went so wrong for 'Plague Island' Britain
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Sadly, whilst the world's media may be asking what went wrong, a large section of the British public thinks that the Government is great, and are blaming each other for society's ills.
My wife and I had a 10th wedding anniversary to Paris planned in March. We postponed it and rebooked for our 11th next year, but I'm tempted to cancel even if we are permitted to go because I just don't think we'd be welcome thanks to the behaviour of so many British people.
Is France doing much better? I've seen reports that things are pretty dire there too.
Plague island is a bit much, considering this is a global pandemic.
As for this country, we are never going to get rid of it at this rate. It's like a body riddled with infection and the antibiotics dose has been too small, so it keeps coming back again. We should have had a strict, enforced, full lockdown. Instead we got half hearted tiers/lockdowns and no one giving a shit that masses of people think they're special so don't need to stay home.
In Windsor we have tier 4, so we shouldn't be out and we shouldn't be buying non essential shopping, yet there's a ton of people in town buying stuff they don't need, and no one's out asking them why.
As for this country, we are never going to get rid of it at this rate. It's like a body riddled with infection and the antibiotics dose has been too small, so it keeps coming back again. We should have had a strict, enforced, full lockdown. Instead we got half hearted tiers/lockdowns and no one giving a shit that masses of people think they're special so don't need to stay home.
In Windsor we have tier 4, so we shouldn't be out and we shouldn't be buying non essential shopping, yet there's a ton of people in town buying stuff they don't need, and no one's out asking them why.
I'm in Tier 2, less than 10 miles from Tier 4. Riddle me that one!
Crazy times! Full lockdown next month so we will all be in the same boat.
Tiered-system sucks to explain to people, but even then, if we are going to use it, it should be 1 to 3 and then 4 being called Lockdown, so people actually get it.
Exactly what the tories and the tory media have been teaching people to do for the last... shit, I don't know. Probably all the way back to the Thatcher days if not before.
Almost certain that it's an in joke / bet at this point. It's exactly how cunts like that work.
Speaking as a South Asian, I have alot of family in the UK and they just aren't taking this pandemic seriously. It's absolutely insane.
I'm not a fan of the tories (and Brexit) at all but calling the uk 'plague island' is dumb as fuck given this is a global issue. 'Plague island' might make a nice headline it's not a million miles off trump trying to label covid as the 'China virus'.
the uk government has messed a lot of things up with regards to covid, and there needs to be repercussions, but lazy journalism of this type is not helpful at all.
the uk government has messed a lot of things up with regards to covid, and there needs to be repercussions, but lazy journalism of this type is not helpful at all.
i wish this year hadn't destroyed any sense of humor or joy i can feel because "plague island" sounds like a reality show straight out of 30 Rock.
It's still dumb. This is a serious issue, and an American newspaper trying score cheap points (and linking this to Brexit) is so stupid I can't even process it.
Thank you. I don't think I'll shake the feeling I need to constantly apologise!
I think - as long as you're not spreading covid - most Parisians couldn't care less where you're from.
It's an educated guess. Theyve caved to pressure before - and there's a lot of pressure to do it.
It's like a skit. You couldn't write that shit even if you tried.
how much i'd love for some kind of drubbing incident to happen between liz and boris.
I feel all this lockdown are kinda useless.
Whatever it's already there or not, probably is already quite widespread around the world.
Until they verify that it's actually more easily spread care they should suppose that it could come also from anywhere else who still have covid outbreak.
Whatever it's already there or not, probably is already quite widespread around the world.
Until they verify that it's actually more easily spread care they should suppose that it could come also from anywhere else who still have covid outbreak.
We haven't done a fantastic job at managing covid of course, both in terms of government 'guidance' and adherence to any sort of common sense from a large part of the population - but I don't think we're quite at plague island levels just yet. Give it until January at least.
For better or worse, pretty much all of Europe is too caught up with how badly our respective governments are handling the pandemic to pay a lot of attention to what other countries are doing (other than a generic "everyone else is doing better" sentiment). Believe it or not, most people here in Spain don't even have a particularly worse opinion of how the US is handling the pandemic versus local politicians. Pretty much nobody would blame UK citizens even now, let alone next year; you'll be 100% fine.
It's such a shame this wasn't filmed on higher quality cameras. It's a nightmare to watch on a big ol' HDTV
If I remember corectly isn't the UK the second best in the world for genome sequencing? Meaning that if they've found and traced back the new variant back to September it is already globally around which other countries failed to report it?
This feels like the global commmunities are overblowing this.
Its cool to hate on UK currently.
This feels like the global commmunities are overblowing this.
Its cool to hate on UK currently.
I do think some of this falls on the public tbh. I've got friends who have absolutely no reason to listen to a word Boris Johnson has to say, and usually don't, and yet as soon as he said it was fine to go to pubs again they were straight in there, meeting people, "catching up on lost time".
Isn't this the governments fault for relaxing rules too fast. Some People will always do as much as they are allowed do and if prime minister says it's ok to go to the pub then they will.
Oh it's absolutely the government's fault, too. But the selfish behaviour of people who should know better isn't something I'm willing to let slide.
