Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[PITA]

Excuse me but I very much do get that this is and will be a major economical problem.

Nice to hear, I thought that it was only Barnwood.

 

[Barnfred 55]

It was a milk lady....even worse.....

Think the vicar had jet black hair though

 

[peteblue]

Think the vicar had jet black hair though

She didn’t.....

 

[Jebus_lives]

But you work in health commissioning with accountability for emergency planning, so exactly what the hell were you doing. Now I’m pretty sure that quite a few people in positions of power, Politicians, CS etc, did not immediately see the implications or disaster on the horizon, but we are where we are, and having a go at them, or indeed yourself, is perhaps not the best use of time at this particular moment.....there will be time later....

Listening to people tell me and beg for the government supplies of PPE that we were told not to buy because the government would ensure they would be there 2 months ago.

I managed to get community testing scheme commissioned and live in 3 days only to be told government strategy was no longer to test like that anymore.

Most people on this thread, if they get it will be treated by a system people like me have commissioned and ensured is functioning effectively.

What have you done?

 

[peteblue]

I agree....they are just incompetent.

I can live with that.....

 

[tsubaki]

I know.....and they still were not sitting on their hands for two months.....

If anything, they were sitting on their hands for a lot longer than that - though until the findings of the 2016 exercise are released / leaked we won't know for sure.

This document (sorry if its been posted before) from before this all kicked off does sort of seem eerily accurate as to what the planning assumption from that exercise was, though (the following point is from slide 7):

‘Reasonable worst case’: the most severe event that expert advice indicates could reasonably be expected to occur. This is then used for our planning assumptions.

For example:
• Up to 50% of the population potentially being infected
• 4% of those who are symptomatic requiring hospital admission
• Staff absenteeism rates of up to 15-20% during the peak week
• Up to 2.5% of those with symptoms could die as a result of the pandemic

Given where marauding firearms attack and pandemic are on that risk register, I'd say the former has had a lot more visible changes than the latter has.

 

[Tipp blue]

Never been a FG voter probably never will be, but fair play to our Taoiseach (prime minister) a former doctor who's RE-registered so he can help out on the front line. Doing 1 session a week but he's also got a country to run too.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has registered again as a doctor to help out during Covid-19

Varadkar joined the Medical Council register again in March.

www.thejournal.ie

 

[PhilM]

It happens, life is not perfect unfortunately....soldiers were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan by a Labour government in soft sided vehicles which were being blown up with ied’s....it happens......haven’t heard anyone calling out these murderous policies...

Well, they were originally designed and deployed in the NI as part of Banner, which wasn’t a Labour government.

 

[peteblue]

Listening to people tell me and beg for the government supplies of PPE that we were told not to buy because the government would ensure they would be there 2 months ago.

I managed to get community testing scheme commissioned and live in 3 days only to be told government strategy was no longer to test like that anymore.

What have you done?

I closed a pub and a shop, sorted out pay for our staff and mothballed two premises, I’m teaching a 7 year old maths and English and supporting a wife, two of my four children and a granddaughter financially, oh and I’ve been cutting the grass. I’ve been reasonably busy.....for a retired man.....

 

[Walken]

Listening to people tell me and beg for the government supplies of PPE that we were told not to buy because the government would ensure they would be there 2 months ago.

I managed to get community testing scheme commissioned and live in 3 days only to be told government strategy was no longer to test like that anymore.

Most people on this thread, if they get it will be treated by a system people like me have commissioned and ensured is functioning effectively.

What have you done?

he daydreamed that he was a commando in WWII then passed out on bombadier with his kecks round his ankles and a picture of Boris in his hand.

Keep up the good work mate, it is appreciated by the vast majority

 

[peteblue]

Well, they were originally designed and deployed in the NI as part of Banner, which wasn’t a Labour government.

That’s very poor.....scraping the barrel here.....

 

[Jebus_lives]

I closed a pub and a shop, sorted out pay for our staff and mothballed two premises, I’m teaching a 7 year old maths and English and supporting a wife, two of my four children and a granddaughter financially, oh and I’ve been cutting the grass. I’ve been reasonably busy.....

That feels equivalent...

 

[peteblue]

That feels equivalent...

It is if you ever want to buy another pint in your life or buy a picture or have a generation coming behind you that’s been educated....and don’t forget I don’t get paid for any of this.......

 

[peteblue]

he daydreamed that he was a commando in WWII then passed out on bombadier with his kecks round his ankles and a picture of Boris in his hand.

Keep up the good work mate, it is appreciated by the vast majority

I wondered when you would appear....

 

[roydo]

I closed a pub and a shop, sorted out pay for our staff and mothballed two premises, I’m teaching a 7 year old maths and English and supporting a wife, two of my four children and a granddaughter financially, oh and I’ve been cutting the grass. I’ve been reasonably busy.....for a retired man.....

Reckon the UK will have a clap for you on Thursday. Much deserved.