Will The Naysayers Pray This Doesn't Work?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52374653
so they can s1agg off the government? is it more important to be able to berate a Tory government than to actually find an answer?
They said 18 months, we start trials on Thursday surely that is cause for optimism??

[pixie374]

Looks good. Let's hope it's successful.

[Mozz71]

No one of sane mind would want this to fail.




...awaits posts from those out to prove that they are not of sane mind.

[Bobbisox1]

Must admit it lifted my spirits hearing this on tonight’s news

[jim360]

As a naysayer, I want this to fail.

[ToraToraTora]

me too bobbi but I can just see the nasty bunch hoping for failure to sate their appetite for bile.

[Mozz71]

*taps Jim on the forehead. Makes hollow sound* ;o)

[pixie374]

He doesn't mean it :-). I can't imagine anyone will.

[ToraToraTora]

you don't want a vaccine jim? Ok I missed it, probably, but is this some sort of cryptic attitude that is not obvious?

[albaqwerty]

wonderful news. Hope the testing goes extremely well.

Bet some dimwit will ask the question on Friday, at the briefing:
'any news on the test yet?'

Yes, definitely cause for optimism.

[maggiebee]

That's good news. Is it true that the MPs at Westminster are to be the first to be offered this vaccine?

[tomus42]

In short yes. It will be criticised whatever. If it turns out to be successful, people will be asking why we didn't start trials on Wednesday rather than Thursday.

If it's unsuccessful people will be calling for Hancocks resignation on the grounds that he gave us false hope.

[jim360]

I just think it's the most stupid way to post a question like this.

[ToraToraTora]

well jim they've been ignoring everything so far and s1agging off the government, forgive me if I assumed that was standard operation.

[jim360]

Actual answer.

1: Of course I want a vaccine to succeed. In text I suppose it's natural that you'd give a double-take but I was being ironic.

2: The link to the Tory Government is tenuous at best. They will get no blame from me if these trials go nowhere, and no credit if they succeed. Credit belongs to the scientists, and blame is any inappropriate for a scientific trial which by definition can't guarantee a successful outcome.

3. I don't hold out much hope that the earliest trials will succeed, or at least it will be a couple of months before we know either way, and a few months after that when they become widely available.

[diddlydo]

I don't think TTT has read this link in its entirety and/or understood it. Many government failings highlighted. Hancock is a complete disaster. Sack him.

[Mozz71]

In fairness to 3T, I can certainly imagine someone (let's name them "Diddlyteacake") finding negative spin on my this.

[ToraToraTora]

jim 2) nowt to do with politicians but the anti British will still blame it on the Tories if it doesn't work.
I sometimes wonder, do all nations have a rabid anti section who s1agg off everything from their own side and always think the grass is greener elsewhere?

[ToraToraTora]

interesting mozz, that even gulliver is failing to back the nasties these days!

[naomi24]

Excellent!

//They will get no blame from me if these trials go nowhere, and no credit if they succeed.//

Your support or otherwise is utterly irrelevant, Jim, but no credit if they succeed? Not even for the funding? That's a pretty sour attitude.

//He [Matt Hancock] said two leading vaccine developments at UK universities - Imperial College London and the University of Oxford - would receive a total of £42.5m to support their clinical trials.//

[jim360]

I don't see how it's sour. Credit where it's due, and that goes to the scientists who are working on this. Yes, the funding helps, but even then the Government could hardly not fund. I'm not sure they deserve praise for doing the only thing they can in the circumstances.

And yes, I appreciate that my support is irrelevant, but, sheesh, I'm just commenting on an AB thread. Everything we do is irrelevant in that sense.