David O'Day
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I don't believe you but you are a Boris fanboy with a history of chatting whiff
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Sick Boy
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I’m starting to lose track of days and time. Tomorrow I’m risking a fine and driving to a supermarket that’s 8km away, it’s my first time leaving my street in 3 weeks I think.
Have you got any leftover paint in the shed or garage .
I'd highly recommend that
Very therapeutic.
Edit:- maybe you might be able to get a delivery.
matesx
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Everything you enjoy and look forward to has suddenly vanished.
For me, my mates and family, my holiday, football, pub, my squash league and worst of all....... my favourite Indian has shut.
The worst bit is not knowing when normality will return.
Every day is groundhog day with only bad news, queuing to get into a shop, fucked finances, lock downs and death all around.
Apart from that I'm staying cheerful.
....and God Bless the NHS
Skyblueweeman
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Hope so. I turn 40 in mid-late June and the wife turns 30 in mid July so we were planning a large party end of June. Reckon if the restrictions are lifted by then, we can have a brilliant celebration!!
Skyblueweeman
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Friday is my last day as well Dave. I'm going off with a 40% wage reduction and no sign yet if my contract will be renewed once the maternity cover I took 11 months again ends mid-May.
Hoping to get an email from HR today. Furlough I can deal with. 40% reduction in wages I can deal with (with the help of the mortgage window). Not knowing if I have a job after mid-May is the sole concern for me at the moment.
David O'Day
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Yep but let's not fixate on daily totals or ages of the dead.
Yiu need to look at the trends and if the last 2 days increases continue at the current rate then we will have a problem.
We are are likely to see increaes for at 2 to 3 weeks
Skyblueweeman
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Expected. Have the released the number of new cases yet? That's the key stat to judging where the light at the end of the tunnel begins to be seen.
David O'Day
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Sick Boy
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That’s not the new positive cases though, is it? That’s the overall numbers combined.
cc84cov
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Jesus
Expected I think
Like every other function this country is so tardy.
Think I'm right that a lot from yesterday's total were from prior to the WE.
Guess these are the likely numbers we're likely to see daily across the next 10-12 weeks.
Awful
David O'Day
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That's the increase in positive cases
Sick Boy
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Shit, that’s high. It’s on around 1,600 here now.
More testing?
May include a lot medical staff.
David O'Day
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Yeah it's likely to get worse but we are unlikely to see these figures for 10 to 12 weeks. They will tail off at,some stage
David O'Day
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UK numbers seem to be all over the place and it can take days for positive results to come back from labs.
Good Luck WM.
David O'Day
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Not sure that many tested, still yet to hit the promised 10k a day
Sky Blue Pete
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Thankfully still only 163 critical cases though so that’s hopeful
Sky Blue Pete
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So it could be 4500 out or 8000 tests were positive
David O'Day
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Isn't that just the last reported figure
SkyBlueDom26
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Italy peak will be next week? Surely not as the numbers are now down each day and it looks like the curve has flattened... don't you think the peak has already happened as most people do
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Skybluefaz
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You'd think he'd do a bit. Right time of year too init?
David O'Day
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Not sure as a lot of testing can still take days to come back so the tests may have not been run at the same time.
They need to finalise and roll out the same day test thevwere talking about for a clearer picture
chiefdave
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Its crap isn't it. I know there's loads in the same situation as we are but that doesn't really ease any worries.
I got notified about an hour after a team meeting where we were given last months stats which showed it to be by far the busiest month in the companies history so you can't help but query being furloughed because there's no work. I could understand it maybe for staff who weren't dealing with the day to day work but it seems odd to reduce the level of frontline staff when its so busy.
Of course when I was told it was happening it was all 'this is to ensure everyone has a job to come back to' but then I got the paperwork and there's a lovely section in there that says when the government scheme ends we can be put on short time or lay off with no pay. Quick google suggests lay off is perfectly legal as long as they pay the statutory minimum which is less than £50 a month!
Ring Of Steel
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UK hospital's staff could 'limit work' over safety fears
A&E doctors at a hospital in Essex are warning that they could limit their work with patients to a "bare minimum" if they don't receive more personal protective equipment as a matter of urgency.
In a letter to the chief executive of Southend Hospital, the medics say they've been made to feel like "naughty children" for demanding the kit.
BBC News has been told that one in four medical staff at the site are off sick with coronavirus symptoms.
They're now saying that they will not be able to test 25,000 per day until the end of April, so that means our figures can't really be used as an accurate gauge of new cases, we basically don't know because we are not testing nearly enough.
A&E doctors at a hospital in Essex are warning that they could limit their work with patients to a "bare minimum" if they don't receive more personal protective equipment as a matter of urgency.
In a letter to the chief executive of Southend Hospital, the medics say they've been made to feel like "naughty children" for demanding the kit.
BBC News has been told that one in four medical staff at the site are off sick with coronavirus symptoms.
They're now saying that they will not be able to test 25,000 per day until the end of April, so that means our figures can't really be used as an accurate gauge of new cases, we basically don't know because we are not testing nearly enough.
Grendel
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They say that every week don’t they?
chiefdave
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Wouldn't it make sense for them to also issue adjusted figures as they go along. So you have something like figures for how many tests were submitted each day and what the results were rather than just the date they were completed. I know we are told its 7 days a week but there's a jump after every weekend which suggests it isn't.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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It won't be immediate as the value of the health service will be prevalent in people's minds for quite some time. But they don't have to rush as they've got five years for people to forget.
But it won't be too long before some are saying how poor the NHS was to deal with this situation and call for it to be made more like a private business. They'll continue to ape the US model even if it proves to be much worse than ours
But with the expected economic problems that will stem from this and the short-term funding required for the crisis will see a pretty swift return to cost-cutting and an excuse of lack of funds. But on the other side Labour etc will see it as a way to call for more take to fund it properly. And sadly given those options by that time I expect many will be back to cut costs being preferred over more tax.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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But if everyone hoarded April may be a lot worse than normal. Guess it depends on how many people stocked up perishables they've had to chuck, but most of it seemed to be stuff that would keep for a decent amount of time,
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Not for a bit. But the Tories aren't in a rush and will gradually bring their narrative back in by the next election, using the economic downturn this will cause as ammo.