NilSatisOptimum
Player Valuation: £70m
Been growing staff shortages in this part of agriculture since 2016, short term fix for the industry. Bloody hard physical work as well... Done turkey plucking myself, and fishing industry.
Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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NilSatisOptimum
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Sentinel
Player Valuation: £8m
It all depends on the links you're posting. Links can be political, apparently. I've maintained from the beginning that this supersedes politics. Doesn't help when posters like yourself have intentionally brought politics into it. Don't wash your hands now mate.
Mark Blum, actor on 'Law & Order' and 'Succession,' dies from coronavirus
Madonna, his co-star from "Desperately Seeking Susan," remembered Blum as "funny warm, loving and professional."
www.nbcnews.com
While I totally agree that they should be looking in their own pockets for donations before others, I do feel that their call for support may actually be worthwhile.
Rightly or wrongly, there are a lot of people in this world who idolise footballers, and they may listen to their call; other people will look it at being a crass gesture.
Personally, I won't hold their comments with any weight, but I do know people who I got the football with who would so if it makes them donate then it's worthwhile.
It's no different from when I heard Ant and Dec calling for donations on the radio yesterday, which held no weight with me, but Doreen down the road probably will.
Horses for courses and all that. As long as people are raising money and supporting the NHS and other key workers, I'm not going to be grumbling about how etc.
NilSatisOptimum
Player Valuation: £70m
All they have seen is an opportunity to smoke screen Brexit deficiencies, a topic in current affairs gets a political angle, go figure!
Goodison9
Player Valuation: £500k
It doesn’t till a vaccine is what I’m thinking?
All this social distancing is just to delay the spike so that the NHS isn’t overwhelmed is what I’ve grasped from it all.
No. All we're doing is extending the curve so that the virus doesn't overwhelm the NHS in one short spike, resulting in many more deaths.
The virus itself is going nowhere - it will in all likelihood become a recurrent, seasonal coronavirus strain. Even if we manage to "flatten the curve" over the next 1-2 months, the reality is that another spike will probably hit us around October-November unless the asymptomatic portion of this pandemic is around the 80% mark and a lot more people have it all over the UK than previously thought.
So to answer your question, this "all ends" only when the virus infects enough of us to develop herd immunity, and/or a vaccine is found. You're looking at 12-18 months for both of those things to occur. In that time, expect many more lockdowns to occur.
witchdoc187
Player Valuation: £70m
That's awful. Really awful. I never knew about thisLong leased off or sold to private companies to manage, but yes in most cases. Same for local authority care workers, even if you are regarded as an essential car user... £378 per year for me, local authority essential car user... But we've got more money in our pockets, than ever before...
Hospital parking: staff at some trusts paying 200 times more than others - UNISON National
Parking outside work is becoming more and more of a problem for NHS staff in England.www.unison.org.uk
It doesn't - our / the rest of the worlds exit strategy from this isn't there yet.
Stood in a queue outside Aldi. Everybody maintaining 2 metres, one in one out.
Everybody sharing the same trolleys which no staff are wiping between uses.
What is the point.
Everybody sharing the same trolleys which no staff are wiping between uses.
What is the point.
Some people can't help themselves and find it difficult to put their political leanings (well jostling) on the back burner for a while during this crisis.
A friend of mine, who is a nurse, ranted on social media that Boris shouldn't be clapping at NHS because of what happened in parliament two years ago.
Grass... greener...
My wife went to our local Aldi yesterday and had a completely different scenario: one member of staff wiping down all trolleys; no money need to open them.
They had removed all baskets as well, to ensure that they could manage the cleaning process, which she thought was a really sensible precaution.
You'd hope that the supermarkets would have a common policy towards this, but perhaps they aren't there yet or simply don't have the staff to currently cope.
I know Tesco in Old Swan have employed people who've recently been laid off to marshal parking, clean the trolleys and help ensure social-distancing is upheld.
Bluerover
Player Valuation: £60m
Watch the moment Tory MPs cheered blocking a pay rise for nurses
Every Conservative except one voted against the bid, accusing Jeremy Corbyn's party of playing politics and "milking the NHS for votes"www.mirror.co.uk
Now who's 'milking the NHS for political gain'. The Tories have a nerve with their announcement politics over PPE, ventilators and testing that wont deliver what the NHS needs. Made worse by outright lying.to deflect from their utter incompetence and incoherent approach to this coronavirus. It's never been more apt that the NHS are lions led by donkeys.
Incredibly, on the 19th March the government decided that Covid 19 was no longer a Highly Contagious Infectious Disease. If COVID 19 isn't that contagious then why isolation and safe distancing? No wonder they've half heartedly gave 'advice' about going to work - if you can work from home, if not go to work - is still the advice from the government.
Save lives, get rid of Johnson and this Tory government.
High consequence infectious diseases (HCID) - GOV.UK
www.gov.uk › guidance › high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid
Status of COVID-19
As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK.
The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.
The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID.
The need to have a national, coordinated response remains, but this is being met by the government’s COVID-19 response.
Cases of COVID-19 are no longer managed by HCID treatment centres only. All healthcare workers managing possible and confirmed cases should follow the updated national infection and prevention (IPC) guidance for COVID-19, which supersedes all previous IPC guidance for COVID-19. This guidance includes instructions about different personal protective equipment (PPE) ensembles that are appropriate for different clinical scenarios.
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