Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[ramacca]

Some councils will now have to answer why they forced care homes to take in coronavirus patients. Hopefully they face the full force of the law - corporate manslaughter charges.

Care homes faced funding cut if they didn't take in coronavirus patients
Several councils threatened to withhold funding to help care homes deal with the coronavirus outbreak if they didn't agree to take in COVID-19 patients, Sky News can reveal.
msn.com

• Did you feel pressure from hospitals to take patients before 15 April? 70% told us they did.
• Did hospitals discharge patients to your care home with COVID-19 symptoms before 15 April? 41% said yes.
• Do you think COVID-19 positive patients discharged from hospital caused the virus to spread in your care home? 38% said yes.

The original government advice given to care homes said "negative tests are not required prior to transfers/admissions into the care home".
This was replaced with new advice on 15 April which read: "We can now confirm we will move to institute a policy of testing all residents prior to admission to care homes.
An absolute inhuman response to 'protecting' the elderly and vulnerable. No doubt CQC will be holding investigations into deaths in care homes as they are legal obliged to.

 

[Death]

The legs don’t move that fast (no sharing of 5k times for me!) but retrieving stats I fancy my chances

They’re more Walkers than anything else these days.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

they’re pushing ahead with EU End Transition planning now, it’s not getting delayed, funding is being ramped up to deal with consequences at an operational level.

The movie “The Perfect Storm” comes to mind; if we’re still remotely close to a partial lockdown come January and the current EU Transition plans go ahead, then I’d be worried very very very worried

Indeed. There would seem to be an opportunity to muddy the waters and pass off Brexit-related pain as Covid-related pain. We'll see I suppose. I'm certainly planning for the worst though.

 

[tsubaki]

Some councils will now have to answer why they forced care homes to take in coronavirus patients. Hopefully they face the full force of the law - corporate manslaughter charges.

Care homes faced funding cut if they didn't take in coronavirus patients
Several councils threatened to withhold funding to help care homes deal with the coronavirus outbreak if they didn't agree to take in COVID-19 patients, Sky News can reveal.
msn.com

• Did you feel pressure from hospitals to take patients before 15 April? 70% told us they did.
• Did hospitals discharge patients to your care home with COVID-19 symptoms before 15 April? 41% said yes.
• Do you think COVID-19 positive patients discharged from hospital caused the virus to spread in your care home? 38% said yes.

The original government advice given to care homes said "negative tests are not required prior to transfers/admissions into the care home".
This was replaced with new advice on 15 April which read: "We can now confirm we will move to institute a policy of testing all residents prior to admission to care homes.
An absolute inhuman response to 'protecting' the elderly and vulnerable. No doubt CQC will be holding investigations into deaths in care homes as they are legal obliged to.

CQC are one step above nothing when it comes to taking action.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

The question of who pays for this is a going to define his administration. If it’s mostly us, he will get kicked out at the next election, or sooner given the potential for things to snowball from there. If it’s the tax avoiders he might stay there for a while.

Spoiler alert - it'll be us!

My guess is Johnson tries to sure up London as the global economic powerhouse through incentives and the burden is laid on regular households.

People have forgotten Brexit by and large too - that'll cripple us as well.

Johnson spoke these sunny uplands summer evening teas in our country gardens by getting Brexit done...

However, from October - December he manged to produce zero growth followed by a 2% contraction.

And he confidently talks of a bounce back.. When it took 10 years of Tory Government Austerity for the UK to get over financial crash and wages still below the levels in 2008.

And no wonder Johnson won't use the term Austerity it's been anything but when it comes Tory Government racking up debt.

 

[davek]

Good article from Naomi Klein on the long term impact for us all from tech companies taking a greater role in decision making and a grip on our lives by delivering remote learning and facilitating sweeping changes to the way health care is delivered.

Shock and awe, hit them in a crisis when they're dumbfounded and vulnerable.

Naomi Klein: How big tech plans to profit from the pandemic

The long read: As the coronavirus continues to kill thousands each day, tech companies are seizing the opportunity to extend their reach and power

www.theguardian.com

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

The idea of leaving a significant portion of victims to die in nursing homes rather than admit them to hospitals and clog up ICU's massively helped with that. And as a country we don't need a pandemic to ensure we have people lying on floors or trolleys. That particular shortcoming has been a well documented feature of our NHS for a while now.

And being left to die, is just that. There will be minimal intervention to even make it a painless and peaceful death. Days of death rattling and groaning, hopefully the heart packs before to long to end the suffering, painful but quick.

 

[davek]

And this from the man who believes every word and stat that is pumped out by the CCP lol

Who's paying you for all this?

 

[ramacca]

CQC are one step above nothing when it comes to taking action.

Agree, very flimsy with 'action'. But it's always in the detail that exposes what has happened. And care homes will be in the firing line of court action.

 

[peteblue]

Ah thought I'd seen you somewhere

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“Jebus in aisle 3”.......

 

[ramacca]

Good article from Naomi Klein on the long term impact for us all from tech companies taking a greater role in decision making and a grip on our lives by delivering remote learning and facilitating sweeping changes to the way health care is delivered.

Shock and awe, hit them in a crisis when they're dumbfounded and vulnerable.

Naomi Klein: How big tech plans to profit from the pandemic

The long read: As the coronavirus continues to kill thousands each day, tech companies are seizing the opportunity to extend their reach and power

www.theguardian.com

Add in Tory donors and Tory friends who're getting funded even for their incompetence and negligence.. A 'crisis' will always make money for the rich and their hangers-on apologists.

 

[COYBL25]

Who's paying you for all this?

The CCP should be made too.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Who's paying you for all this?

I know who is building our nuclear power stations, China, I know who is a founding member of the Chinease investment bank UK. I know who has signed billions pounds worth of China trade deals, Cameron/Clegg May and Johnson.

 

[davek]

Add in Tory donors and Tory friends who're getting funded even for their incompetence and negligence.. A 'crisis' will always make money for the rich and their hangers-on apologists.

All part of the extensive Johnson Gang - climbing over dead bodies to make a fast buck.

In this order:

- The Hague
- A Trial
- A verdict
- A noose

 

[ramacca]

Johnson spoke these sunny uplands summer evening teas in our country gardens by getting Brexit done...

However, from October - December he manged to produce zero growth followed by a 2% contraction.

And he confidently talks of a bounce back.. When it took 10 years of Tory Government Austerity for the UK to get over financial crash and wages still below the levels in 2008.

And no wonder Johnson won't use the term Austerity it's been anything but when it comes Tory Government racking up debt.

If he did mention austerity he'd have to mention (more like deny) the 130 000 preventable austerity deaths.