Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[BlueToff]

Still having the issue with your arm?

Had my 2 doses already mate with the last one sending me to Whiston Hosi next month where I'll likely catch bloody Covid as the places are rife with it.

I'll hold off getting another for now unless the Government tell me off.

 

[mill]

Myocarditis - Symptoms and causes

www.mayoclinic.org

So there is a 1 in 100000 chance of it happening AND a virus can cause it too?

 

[BlueToff]

To be fair, I don't begrudge anybody earning what they earn. There was a job, he asked for X amount and was given it. It's not his fault the job exists and that it pays that amount.
Also a pay drop would literally be a dropmon the ocean. Let's say 50%. It gets you 4 nurses. Not really anything to shout about.
The real waste is what you don't see. £1k a week for a room in supported accomodation, HMO's etc. £1-2k a week charged by care homes a week to look after the old folk.
Obscene amounts contractors are payed for simple jobs. Well above what should be paid.
I know of a ward where I work, that put in a new kitchen for the patients to use and cook there own food. £10k. Could have got the same thing from IKEA for £3k
The salary that goes on managers who mange the managers who manage the managers
Pointless jobs, like just no need for them.
I can think of 1 example on ours. We have 3 roles all doing exactly the same job, well I say same job. Out of those 3 roles, you never see 2 of them
There is so much waste.

Yeah I don’t begrudge him as such. It’s like a footballer demanding £400k a week and getting it.

Fully agree on the contractors too. Pointless mid-level management. As I said, misfunding.

In this example mind, £50k off his annual wage could pay for more machinery that could save people’s lives.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Just as an aside Legs, this isn't having a dig at the thread or the info he presents (as it's actually very useful) you know when people on here say how the NHS is underfunded etc.

And I can agree with that.

But, that bloke is on £250k a year. He's obviously a Union boss, kind of, but £250,000 a year...

Maybe he could take a wage drop.

This is my issue when I see posts about the NHS underfunding. It is underfunded, but it's also misfunded, with heads of organisations linked with it, and within the NHS itself, on far too much money, and people on the frontline of it not on enough.

Depends what the comparable rate is for similar sized organizations.

Fwiw £250k a year doesn’t sound excessive for such a CEO role of a huge organization to me although perhaps I’m inured by silicon valley wage rates.

 

[Martin Alvito]

You can buy some scales from Argos for £9.99

Lob "Medical" on the description, its £199.99. They do the exact same thing.

Times that several thousand scales, and well, you get the picture.

It's a question of variance. The precision level demanded of the medical scale is much higher. That said, if you don't know how to calibrate the thing then there isn't much difference between the two, and when we're talking adult weights even a pound up or down of range between measurements isn't real meaningful in most scenarios.

Different ball of wax when you're talking about kids, mind you. There, you really need to know what they actually weigh for a whole host of reasons.

 

[BlueToff]

41.5% of public sector spending on Health and welfare

 

[LinekersLegs]

Kopite

Think you meant sheepish kopite mushroom

 

[ForeverBlue92]

You really are a tart.

Because im not advocating Nazi policies mate?

 

[BlueToff]

Depends what the comparable rate is for similar sized organizations.

Fwiw £250k a year doesn’t sound excessive for such a CEO role of a huge organization to me although perhaps I’m inured by silicon valley wage rates.

Well it’s probably an issue with wider society but I don’t think any public sector executive should be getting paid that

Private sector is ultimately different. Can’t really do much to stop that.

 

[CharliePotato]

The only dangerous people I can see on this thread are the Covid fanatics like yourself jabbing everyone every 3-6 months regardless of age, health, side effects.

Doesn't matter if little Jimmy potentially suffers irreversible damage to his heart from Myocarditis from the jabs fcuk him so long as he doesn't get a sore throat from Omricon eh?

They are robots.

Mushrooms shaped robots.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Why should one person earn so much? I’m not downplaying the role he plays, it’s clearly important. £250k plus bonuses?

I do believe the NHS is underfunded. That’s on the government. It does however take up what, 60% of the tax (I’ll check on that, it’s off the top of my head). So I think it’s fair to say some funding goes to the wrong places/people

Maybe because they do an important job? Why does a chief nurse earn £90k a year? Because they're responsible for an awful lot of nurses, just as a CEO is responsible for all employees.

Agenda for change - pay rates | Health Careers

Band 1 (Please note that following the 2018 pay deal, band 1 closed to new entrants from 1 December 2018). £25,272

www.healthcareers.nhs.uk

 

[Bruce Wayne]

41.5% of public sector spending on Health and welfare

Welfare includes benefits and other social payments. Just so we're clear on that.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Well it’s probably an issue with wider society but I don’t think any public sector executive should be getting paid that

Private sector is ultimately different. Can’t really do much to stop that.

Disagree with you on this one, you pay what a role requires to attract and retain talent and that principle should be used throughout the organization and across all levels irrespective of whether it is public or private sector.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Because im not advocating Nazi policies mate?

No, because you're fannying on about having dozens of vaccines in no time at all. Stop being a drama queen.

 

[BlueToff]

Welfare includes benefits and other social payments. Just so we're clear on that.

I know it does.

But i said health and welfare initially. I would be happy if the 4.5% allocated for defence was cut and health and welfare both received a higher percentage.

I'd be worried where that money ended up going, mind.