Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Twinkletoes123]

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

But that’s not what many people, including myself, are actually advocating or suggesting. There has to be a balance of support and justified questions/criticism.

My point is that I personally feel that we should be focusing on what they are doing now in preparation for the future - that's where our questions should be aimed.

In fact, many of your own concerns are my own, but I don't feel that it is currently right to be too focused or concerned about what's happened in the past.

How prepared we were a few weeks ago etc. or the state of NHS funding over the past few years really aren't the relevant questions to be asking right now.

How prepared we are now, what the funding is now and what equipment we've got now and in the future, including testing, is where our concerns should lie.

When it's all over, there'll be ample time to ask all the questions and vent about how prepared we were, and I think the evidence itself will be quite telling.

I'm not a supporter of Boris in the slightest, but I'd rather him and his cabinet were given the support to guide us through this, with a fair level of questioning.

After this, I think the public will do their talking with their votes.

Exactly how Hillsborough was allowed to rumble on for decades, how Grenfell has become sham, and child abuse inquiry is a joke. Allow the government to shape the narrative you get those three examples. Now is exactly when you question Governments.

 

[peteblue]

Come someone trustworthy just check outside the front door and tell me we're not actually living in an Ealing comedy? Going by this thread this morning I'm not sure any more.

Just checked but
I looked to the sky
Where an elephant's eye
Was looking at me
From a bubblegum tree
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water (letting in water)
I walked through a field
That just wasn't real
Where a hundred tin soldiers
Would shoot at my shoulder
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water (letting in water)
(I climbed on the back of a giant albatross
Which flew through a crack in the cloud
To a place where happiness reigned all year round
Where music played ever so loudly)
I started to fall
And suddenly woke
And the dew on the grass
It stuck to my coat
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water (letting in water)

 

[tsubaki]

But that’s not what many people, including myself, are actually advocating or suggesting. There has to be a balance of support and justified questions/criticism.

My point is that I personally feel that we should be focusing on what they are doing now in preparation for the future - that's where our questions should be aimed.

In fact, many of your own concerns are my own, but I don't feel that it is currently right to be too focused or concerned about what's happened in the past.

How prepared we were a few weeks ago etc. or the state of NHS funding over the past few years really aren't the relevant questions to be asking right now.

How prepared we are now, what the funding is now and what equipment we've got now and in the future, including testing, is where our concerns should lie.

When it's all over, there'll be ample time to ask all the questions and vent about how prepared we were, and I think the evidence itself will be quite telling.

I'm not a supporter of Boris in the slightest, but I'd rather him and his cabinet were given the support to guide us through this, with a fair level of questioning.

After this, I think the public will do their talking with their votes.

The problem here is that you are a decent human being, who thinks that now isn’t the time to do politics when lives are at stake.

The government isn’t composed of such people, which is why they and their loathsome commentators are so busily doing politics right now.

 

[arminisgod]

how much longer have we got? Looks like Europe will start re opening next week and italy and Spain start of May.

On that basis we should be starting to see business opening again Mid to late May here.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

how much longer have we got? Looks like Europe will start re opening next week and italy and Spain start of May.

On that basis we should be starting to see business opening again Mid to late May here.

You've got time for a quick century around the block. All the police are pretending Johnson is in hospital so you might just get away with.

 

[Walken]

how much longer have we got? Looks like Europe will start re opening next week and italy and Spain start of May.

On that basis we should be starting to see business opening again Mid to late May here.

Spain have extended their lockdown till at least thr 26th of April, that is a minimum not an end date

 

[arminisgod]

You've got time for a quick century around the block. All the police are pretending Johnson is in hospital so you might just get away with.

I'd get away with it anyway.. i have a permit for travel in & out of work

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I'd get away with it anyway.. i have a permit for travel in & out of work

You could be the next prime minister with that level of socially irresponsible cunning.

 

[arminisgod]

Spain have extended their lockdown till at least thr 26th of April, that is a minimum not an end date

Nah, they will start easing restrictions after 26th April. It's coming up to tourist season.

Plus, i know 2 people who work in Hospitals and they can't believe how quiet it actually is at the minute. I know some hospitals are swamped but others are nowhere near capacity. And since the lockdown is all about the NHS capacity I wouldn't be surprised if our's is shorter than Spain, Italy's and France

 

[mahermi1]

It's genius really. Next time I'm asked to do some hoovering, I might pop over to ICU and hide out for a bit.

You know full well a wife never forgets.... The Hoover will be waiting for you in the exact place you left it, for when you get back. Don't go and pop your clogs you inconsiderate........... lol

 

[Joey66]

Nah, they will start easing restrictions after 26th April. It's coming up to tourist season.

Plus, i know 2 people who work in Hospitals and they can't believe how quiet it actually is at the minute. I know some hospitals are swamped but others are nowhere near capacity. And since the lockdown is all about the NHS capacity I wouldn't be surprised if our's is shorter than Spain, Italy's and France

Have you seen what's going on in Critical Care lately - Hospital is the last destination the public want to go - God willing..... they wont need too....

 

[Walken]

Nah, they will start easing restrictions after 26th April. It's coming up to tourist season.

Plus, i know 2 people who work in Hospitals and they can't believe how quiet it actually is at the minute. I know some hospitals are swamped but others are nowhere near capacity. And since the lockdown is all about the NHS capacity I wouldn't be surprised if our's is shorter than Spain, Italy's and France

I was due to work a contract in Spain this month and the updates I'm getting from local contractors and government official is that there is a parlliamentry session today to discuss the continued stopping of all non-essential activities and labours, and they haven't heard anything about these things starting up again

 

[arminisgod]

Have you seen what's going on in Critical Care lately - Hospital is the last destination the public want to go - God willing..... they wont need too....

yes, and the fact people aren't going out or catching the FLU means Hospitals are much quieter than predicted. hence more capacity

 

[arminisgod]

I was due to work a contract in Spain this month and the updates I'm getting from local contractors and government official is that there is a parlliamentry session today to discuss the continued stopping of all non-essential activities and labours, and they haven't heard anything about these things starting up again

Spain's cases are dropping quite a bit now. 3 more weeks of it and they should be through it.