Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Bruce Wayne]

TBH Bruce I don't know a great deal about them. What I do know I pretty much picked up from your own posts and links.

The reason I brought them up in the first place wasn't really to criticise them, God knows they have a difficult enough job on at the moment without me throwing my ten pence worth in. The OP insinuated in his post that the contact tracing app was some sort of backhanded gimme to some Tory Minister's chum, and I just wanted to point out that it was given to an actual government department to sort out.

I could imagine it being relatively easy to hoodwink those doing the choosing. Even Dido Harding is blatantly there because she moves in the right circles. It makes Cummings talk of intellectual diversity about as credible as his Durham fantasy.

 

[Jebus_lives]

I'm not sure many would get such senior jobs anywhere else tbh.

Wouldn't be so sure about that. My experience is these sorts of people jump from position to position regardless of how poor they've been.

The NHS does seem to have a lot of experience in moving service people who have failed in one job straight into another

 

[YoboCopter]

@YoboCopter you just want a mad sesh with the boys dont you lad?

I can sense the frustration in your posts at these draconian social distancing measures

Ive had plenty of them already!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Wouldn't be so sure about that. My experience is these sorts of people jump from position to position regardless of how poor they've been.

The NHS does seem to have a lot of experience in moving service people who have failed in one job straight into another

Within the civil service perhaps, but I don't think many would get jobs outside it. The only exception I can think of is for lobbying purposes, if an organisation was selling into the NHS and could use their contacts.

 

[YoboCopter]

Had it, or have it?

Had mate

You had the blood test? They found antibodies?

Just know ive had it at some point

 

[spectateur]

Had mate

Just know ive had it at some point

Without a test how do you know?

 

[YoboCopter]

Without a test how do you know?

Ive had the test

 

[Barnfred 55]

I could imagine it being relatively easy to hoodwink those doing the choosing. Even Dido Harding is blatantly there because she moves in the right circles. It makes Cummings talk of intellectual diversity about as credible as his Durham fantasy.

Yeah Okay.

 

[davek]

Dido Harding.

FFS, is there anything that sums up the sheer brass necked cheek and inadequacy of these murderers more than that divvy?

An unelected, uselesless monument to nepotism.

 

[spectateur]

Without becoming too political about it the factories use a lot of agency staff, a large number of these are from romania.... now I have absolutely no problem with that ... I do have a problem with dubious practices the factory and the agencies use ... up to 12 people sharing a house... 6 on day shift and 6 on night shift .... your bed is still warm when you climb into it.... there’s also a distinct lack of social distancing on sight ... it can’t be avoided apparently. It’s akin to modern slavery... despicable practice.

This sounds like modern day slavery.
So people fuss about what went on 300 years ago but put up with the modern version just to have cheap meat in the supermarket.
Thoughtless.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Wouldn't be so sure about that. My experience is these sorts of people jump from position to position regardless of how poor they've been.

The NHS does seem to have a lot of experience in moving service people who have failed in one job straight into another

It's the same everywhere. Public Service and Private Industry.

 

[paultheblue]

Dido Harding.

FFS, is there anything that sums up the sheer brass necked cheek and inadequacy of these murderers more than that divvy?

An unelected, uselesless monument to nepotism.

Dave stop sitting on the fence do you like her or not?

 

[Jebus_lives]

Within the civil service perhaps, but I don't think many would get jobs outside it. The only exception I can think of is for lobbying purposes, if an organisation was selling into the NHS and could use their contacts.

I've worked in the public sector, private sector and charitable sector. In my experience it cuts across all of it.

I think it feels like it's amplified more in the public sector as everyone has a vested interest. What I would say is that the greater degree of public scrutiny, moral decency and statutory responsibility should bring with it greater calibre and it's not necessarily the case.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Wonky eyed Tories were salavating over Sweden's approach couple of weeks ago, just as they were over herd immunity, RAF PPE scrambles, ring of steel round older persons social care, track and trace app, and 20,000 deaths being a good result. Probably a whole host of other world beating policy and statements on how not to govern.

Sweden COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer

Sweden Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.

www.worldometers.info

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Report estimates 9,000 non-COVID excess deaths from pandemic in England | Imperial News | Imperial College London

Around 9,000 non-COVID-19 deaths in England during three months of the pandemic would not have occurred had the pandemic not happened.

www.imperial.ac.uk