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[d000hg]

Imagine if Hancock had watched Zombie Apocalypse , UK would have bought shotguns and cans of food.

Instead of toilet roll?

I bought an air rifle as lockdown was coming in 90% for vermin control. Well, 100% vermin control depending how you view it.

[David71]

Imagine if Hancock had watched Zombie Apocalypse , UK would have bought shotguns and cans of food.

Day before the first lockdown I bought a new 12 bore and an air pistol

Air pistol got a lot of use in the garden over the summer, haven't had a chance to shoot the shotgun yet though .

[vetran]

Imagine if Hancock had watched Zombie Apocalypse , UK would have bought shotguns and cans of food.

KUATB

'If you have food in the house, please use that': Hancock warns people in South African Covid areas | Daily Mail Online

'If you have food in the house, please use that': Health Secretary tells people in South African variant areas they MUST use up stocks in cupboards and freezers before leaving to go shopping to halt spread of coronavirus

• Another 33 cases of the South African Covid variant have been spotted in UK
• PHE says 143 people have now been struck down with variant since December
• Hancock: 'We are saying ''If you have food in the house, please use that''.'

[NickFitz]

He ought to have taken more note of Jude Law's character. Then they might have had a plan in place to combat the entirely foreseeable stream of crap on social media from people looking to make a quick killing by promoting anti-vax, anti-mask conspiracy bulltulip

[DoctorStrangelove]

I'm waiting for it to mutate into "Survivors (1975)".

If I spot Brian Blessed I'll be off like a shot.

[NickFitz]

…featuring a virus-ridden pig.

They've got a thing about pigs, this lot

It is a good film though. Whether or not it's any more of a meaningful guide to pandemic response than Independence Day was to MacOS 9 file transfer utilities, I don't know.

[Andy2]

Imagine if Hancock had watched Zombie Apocalypse , UK would have bought shotguns and cans of food.

[Scoobos]

If you like that film - I highly recommend the book "The Hot Zone" nonfiction book by Richard Preston , which this film borrows heavily from.

[cojak]

Good grief.
So in the film were they forewarned of the 'outbreak' and who was 'at risk'?

It was actually a bloody good film - I watched it in March and it could be thought of as The Dummy's Guide to Pandemics...

[BR14]

oikios v polis.

Glasgow on Saturday night then?
Oiks vs Polis ?

[Gibbon]

On a more serious point. Drama's first purpose was to inform in a democracy, i.e. Greek Tragedy, which is the root of all western drama. In an extreme and mainly illiterate democracy such as Athens, i.e. every vote was a referendum, Tragedy give the audience much to ponder about. Usually set in a mythical past but on a contemporary theme it brought home to the audience the consequences of their decisions. Usually extreme behaviour brought down the central character, such as Antigone and her fight with king Creon. Really its about how much the state has a right to interfere in private life, oikios v polis.

[Scoobos]

If only 28, we're on 317 now and still counting!

Assuming a "US Billion" and not UK (who knows, with these thieves in power?)

+ Just taking Serco (22 bn)

that's a cost of 69,400,630 pounds per day of the pandemic so far - spent with them. Not to mention that I think we only pulled them into the frame in June.

"Because the PHE is not fit for purpose" - it might be, with 69 mil a day.

"There's no such thing as public money it's taxpayers money" - or in this case,
now Non taxpayers money, in Monaco etc.

[Scoobos]

...but it is true. He's said it more than once.

How Matt Hancock's obsession with Matt Damon film drove UK's vaccine strategy | Vaccines and immunisation | The Guardian
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Combined with the ultimate Boris

"The real hero of Jaws is the mayor. A gigantic fish is eating all your constituents and he decides to keep the beaches open. OK, in that instance he was actually wrong. But in principle, we need more politicians like the Mayor. We are often the only obstacle against all the nonsense which is really a massive conspiracy against the taxpayer."

Line that up against his PM speech in 3rd Feb and how we have since handled the whole pandemic, in true USA/Brazil fashion.

[MarillionFan]

Or 28 days after...

If only 28, we're on 317 now and still counting!

[vetran]

Or 28 days later...

FTFY excellent movie.