Shandon Par Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 21 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Probably been smoking to much soapbar over the years... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 5 minutes ago, pandarilla said: Surely h_b's slightly tinfoil hat reason above isn't true? Do we know if they have the tests available? Are they choosing to hold off or have they fucked up the orders /administration? Possible they missed out on supply contracts while they mulled over his preferred "let it run rampant and get it over" policy. Don't know though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 50 minutes ago, D.A.F.C said: So why is Germany doing better than most other major euro countries? They love organising stuff, pretty good at it too. But they'll get cocky and start another front, then it'll be panic stations... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lurkst Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 2 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: No wonder the UK levels of testing are so bad, too much perving in the labs. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) 2 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Possible they missed out on supply contracts while they mulled over his preferred "let it run rampant and get it over" policy. Don't know though. I know that one of the reasons for a delay is that the tests haven’t been proofed properly. Spain ordered a bunch of them from, I think, China that turned out to be useless. edit: though a bureaucratic snafu is equally plausible. Edited April 1, 2020 by Savage Henry 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 12 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: The debates from the wings over bath and scotland in union types on twitter over the name of the hospital and the input of the british army into its construction are really really cringey. I can't believe these people would be wasting their time having an embarrassing and irrelevant discussion. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 Quote Testing so far has focussed on patients, though NHS England has told hospitals to use up to 15% of their testing capability on staff, if this is possible. Mr Hancock has now urged hospitals to go further and test as many staff as they can, with health officials saying laboratories have the capacity to take on more tests. The government has been repeatedly criticised for having said in recent weeks that testing was a priority, but then not implementing it for frontline NHS workers. Ministers have announced plans to work with the private sector and universities to scale up testing. But Mr Gove said at the press briefing that the ability to increase testing capacity was being hampered by the availability of the chemicals needed to test patients. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
true_rover Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 Higher level of testing. More ICU beds and staff They're German.As far as I'm aware they aren't doing post-death testing though, so if a patient dies before a test confirms Covid-19 then they won't be recorded as a Covid-19 death. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 55 minutes ago, D.A.F.C said: So why is Germany doing better than most other major euro countries? Some UK spokesman said it was because they were mainly testing the young, can't remember why that would make a difference in the numbers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofarl Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 When you read about thousands of tests a day. Exactly who’s getting these tests? If I was to come down with symptoms I’d be told stay in etc. It wouldn’t be right we will rush a test kit out to you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Theroadlesstravelled Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 7 minutes ago, Lurkst said: No wonder the UK levels of testing are so bad, too much perving in the labs. There's no way she is British. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 18 minutes ago, Alert Mongoose said: People really need to be careful with language here. Is it really full of 20/30/40 yo or are there a couple. And if it is, what’s to say it’s not people that age with underlying health problems. Too many of these people commenting publicly are forgetting it’s not only the elderly that are vulnerable. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 1 minute ago, jagfox99 said: The pro-Government bots are out in force to reply that there is plenty PPE and it's all just media hype. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, MixuFixit said: I guess by spotting all these things us lesser mortals miss explains why he gets the big bucks. Not referring to this tweet in particular but It's funny that his twitter persona in general is like a petulant sulky teenager in contrast with the intimidating master of his brief he projects on television. Edited April 1, 2020 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 Schools making PPE for NHS staff. While welcome I'm sure the government could do a bit more... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 There was a guy on five live yesterday talking about the meetings and conferences governments and departments have now and again about pandemic or emergency situations. He said that almost every government was told they were well short of equipment and resources spent. He also said that the meetings were kept top secret and whoever made decisions were kept out of blames way. I don’t blame any government really but there should be a system in place that can ramp things up if required. The UK is woefully underprepared with hardly any manufacturing capability for raw materials and the health service crushed over decades. Just locally banks get bailed out despite acting recklessly and a hospital loses a&e and intensive care. We really need to reclaim back some manufacturing base and have stocks of emergency equipment, whatever the cost. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 Pictures of Boris using Zoom for a cabinet meeting despite concerns it can scrape data like IP addresses and browsing history from devices. Does it even matter? He talks shite anyway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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