Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Didn't think that through did you?

Like a lot of things I do mate. lol

 

[tsubaki]

Of course face masks will be essential. The tories have been terrified to accept this and admit it because of their failings with getting face masks for front line workers.

TBF face masks won’t be essential, and it’s true they might give people a false impression of being safe.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

This track and trace app that is supposedly going to be rolled out, do we know if it's going to be optional or compulsory?

 

[tsubaki]

This track and trace app that is supposedly going to be rolled out, do we know if it's going to be optional or compulsory?

Optional, but they’ll probably work it into things that make it in effect compulsory - eg you can’t get on a train without it.

 

[peteblue]

I’ve got no problem with the concept of home tests whatsoever.
Just the counting them before they’ve happened.
In my line of work, massaging the numbers in such a way would get my sacked.

Something has to be counted. Some companies focus on billings more than receipts because it gives slightly advance knowledge of the financial state of the company. Similar with these tests I suppose, you can count them going out or count them coming back. Personally I would look at both numbers, to see if we are on the ball in getting them out , to see just how many of them bother to do the Tests, and of course what the results show........

 

[jamieni]

Coronavirus: Scientists hail 'groundbreaking' discovery of antibody which prevents infection

Building on research into antibodies which target the SARS coronavirus, scientists have identified one that blocks COVID-19.

news.sky.com

 

[random]

I've been wondering what's to stop employers outsourcing work to cheaper parts of the world?

Yeah because firms don't do this already do they ?

 

[navidson]

Coronavirus: Scientists hail 'groundbreaking' discovery of antibody which prevents infection

Building on research into antibodies which target the SARS coronavirus, scientists have identified one that blocks COVID-19.

news.sky.com

For gods sake please be true

 

[peteblue]

You can see how effective the propaganda against wearing face masks has been when you look on this forum. Apparently serious postings that "it makes no difference" have been made when clearly it has always made some difference. In an effort to look *counter-edgy* they chose to shore up the official utterings of the incompetent scum in government.

Well done lads. You were wrong again.

I‘m not not sure anyone has have they ? Obviously wearing a mask does something. It stops you coughing or sneezing all over someone else and perhaps stops a virus coming the other way. But look at the trouble we’ve had in getting ppe to half a million medics. The U.K. has 67million people, all of whom would need one or two masks per day, so say 100 million every single day, and of course everyone else on the planet wants the same. I just think the government are taking a practical view of the situation and delaying in case a test to tell if you have had the disease comes along......or until they’ve built a massive stockpile of masks.....

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I've been wondering what's to stop employers outsourcing work to cheaper parts of the world?

None at all, I suppose. Indeed there was a drift that way away from higher end jobs in many industries to foreign lands

However, from my own experience of work it requires positive face face contact... My car is my office, although not NHS I'm inbeded and work with the risk averse statistical control freakery. So as much time spent away from them has better outcomes for people and their lives.

So unless you are someone good with people, as we are finding out technologies cannot replace that contact, there is always the fruit picking!

 

[Chewbacca]

I suspect (hope) some manufacturing will return to the UK. If not, at the very least, companies will want shorter and more robust supply chains from the Far East so more stock will be held locally so there maybe more jobs in warehousing.

 

[mill]

Something has to be counted. Some companies focus on billings more than receipts because it gives slightly advance knowledge of the financial state of the company. Similar with these tests I suppose, you can count them going out or count them coming back. Personally I would look at both numbers, to see if we are on the ball in getting them out , to see just how many of them bother to do the Tests, and of course what the results show........

They don’t focus on advance billings for an advanced state of the company. It’s so they can correctly apportion the costs associated with the respective revenues so that they can correctly calculate profits (and tax etc). Business generally don’t change accounting practices half way through a year either. There is a difference been accruals and cash flow management and this though.

This was to safe face. And so that headline figures look like what was promised. The numbers included tests that were sent, ignoring the fact that a third of the tests sent in the preceding week were returned to the distributor and had not reached their intended target. The figures weren’t adjusted for this. I’m not even going into the fact that the test is highly invasive and would be hard for someone at home to administer correctly.
The latest daily figures show 56k actual tests. 56% of the target.

 

[tsubaki]

I suspect (hope) some manufacturing will return to the UK. If not, at the very least, companies will want shorter and more robust supply chains from the Far East so more stock will be held locally so there maybe more jobs in warehousing.

This is what should happen, but the signs that it will are not encouraging.

 

[ramacca]

I suspect (hope) some manufacturing will return to the UK. If not, at the very least, companies will want shorter and more robust supply chains from the Far East so more stock will be held locally so there maybe more jobs in warehousing.

Building PPE plants in every city close to the hospitals to supply their needs or built near a cluster of towns to supply them and rural areas should be on the NHS agenda, in the past and now. In fact they should have started in early March building such factories. That would have eased the lack of PPE for front line staff, who have put themselves at risk due to PPE shortages, not delivered by Hancock's SCCL company.

On a more general note, finance would be crucial to starting up or reviving widespread manufacturing in this country. Would the City of London finance such undertakings or would it need the government to do this would be the issue.

 

[Tea_drinker]

Optional, but they’ll probably work it into things that make it in effect compulsory - eg you can’t get on a train without it.

That's outrageous. But could one simply delete the app after boarding the train?