Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[tsubaki]

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A quick google threw up https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/rcdm.htm

the clue to its location:

 

[zzr45]

As bad as his conduct during the election was, this latest behaviour of his is one of the biggest betrayals of journalistic standards it is possible to imagine.

For a start nowhere does he mention that this is a radical change from the plan of last Thursday night, which was after all a mere two days ago.

Secondly, he claims that "army hospitals" will be used. There aren't any.

There's something really odd about that part. I've never seen someone write PS at the end of a news article.

 

[davids]

Spanish PM: “The measures we are going to adopt are drastic and will have consequences”

After a seven-hour Cabinet meeting, Pedro Sánchez announces the government’s plans after approving the state of alarm in Spain

english.elpais.com

 

[tsubaki]

There's something really odd about that part. I've never seen someone write PS at the end of a news article.

All of it is absolutely risible, but that army hospital things is a clear lie and serious questions should be asked of him.

I mean look at that claim they are planning to requisition private hospitals and order more respirators. Really? Isn't that something that should have been done weeks ago or at the very least announced when he said loads of people were going to die a couple of days ago?

Shouldn't a journalist actually question why they haven't done that already?

 

[Joey66]

I’m extremely sceptical of the claims of a vaccine nearing readiness, as there’s never been a vaccine successfully developed for any COVID virus, including SARRS that they’ve been trying to conquer for years now.

This is far more dangerous, and infectious than those as bad as they are ......I have the flu vaccination every year, and if my family go down with the flu - I tend to only catch a very minor dose of them in my experience.......

 

[john jako]

Some absolute vermin posts in here.

 

[Catfish Blues]

the clue to its location:

It's still a services hospital though. Just because it just sits inside a bigger NHS establishment doesn't alter that fact. In the grand scheme of things , the 600 or so health professionals employed by RDCM won't make a massive difference, but it seems a bit weird to say there's no army hospital when there plainly is.

You should have read it first mate.

I did, they moved it there from Gosport ages ago, something I vaguely remembered but had to google to check.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

It's still a services hospital though. Just because it just sits inside a bigger NHS establishment doesn't alter that fact. In the grand scheme of things , the 600 or so health professionals employed by RDCM won't make a massive difference, but it seems a bit weird to say there's no army hospital when there plainly is.



I did, they moved it there from Gosport ages ago, something I vaguely remembered but had to google to check.

It’s staff used for services deployments based at an existing NHS hospital, not an Army hospital.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Okay so I’m kinda getting on board with the herd immunity idea, BUT is there actual evidence to suggest we would become immune after we all get infected?
From what I’ve been reading, this thing isn’t gonna just vanish so do we just bite the bullet while protecting the vulnerable?

The way I understand it, and I may be well off, but herd immunity should be thought of more as a phenomenon that can occurr in certain conditions. There is no guarantee that it will.

 

[larrygobfiend]

The way I understand it, and I may be well off, but herd immunity should be thought of more as a phenomenon that can occurr in certain conditions. There is no guarantee that it will.

That doesn’t really fill me with confidence

 

[Shevin Keedy]

That doesn’t really fill me with confidence

Nor me.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

That doesn’t really fill me with confidence

I ultimately think every strategy leads down the same inevitable road - most people will get it, most survive and unfortunately some dont like most cases of illness.

Essentially the only alternative is complete lockdowns lasting months if not years which would result in economic chaos and thousands homeless without hand sanitizers.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

 

[Brennan]

I ultimately think every strategy leads down the same inevitable road - most people will get it, most survive and unfortunately some dont like most cases of illness.

Essentially the only alternative is complete lockdowns lasting months if not years which would result in economic chaos and thousands homeless without hand sanitizers.

This...

 

[tsubaki]

It's still a services hospital though. Just because it just sits inside a bigger NHS establishment doesn't alter that fact. In the grand scheme of things , the 600 or so health professionals employed by RDCM won't make a massive difference, but it seems a bit weird to say there's no army hospital when there plainly is.



I did.

it isn't; its in effect a big ward in an NHS hospital