clint van damme
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Incredible effort. Turns 100 on the last day of this month. Legend.
Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (6 Viewers)
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tisza
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easing up from Thursday but if you go outside have to wear a mask or scarf across your face. One eye on the May Presidential election
shmmeee
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Isn’t this all down to lack of testing generally? Have we ever had a reason given why our capacity is so low?
David O'Day
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The set of bslls on Hancock.
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Ring Of Steel
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The more suspicious would say that herd immunity was never actually given up on, I don't know.
There are care home workers being refused tests on the basis that its "NHS workers only"- people should be fucking locked up when this is over. Even Ireland- tiny- is testing way more than the UK, it cannot just be some kind of problem or issue.
That wasn’t the discussion or point mate. This was about testing those returning from hospital to a care home (which I’m glad they’re now doing but thought the comments were OTT)
Ring Of Steel
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ok fair enough- I'm still working and grumpy and just popped over for a gander. Still- when you are refusing tests to care home workers when we apparently have all this "ramped up" capacity, can't be right.
What’s more bizarre is that we aren’t currently utilising the increased capacity !!!!
fernandopartridge
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I hate to break it to you but they're full of shite. The additional capacity no doubt has numerous caveats like most of their headlines.
David O'Day
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The non testing of people heading back to a care home from hospital is negligent and will have killed countless people.
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Think they are now offering testing to all care workers (agree with you about issues in the past though)
ps sticking with your work is probably more fun than catching up on here !! Couldn’t resist a quick look either though !
David O'Day
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The president of the institute of biomedical sciences was on the bbc today.
There is issues with the amount of reagents available. The government was late in speaking to the chemical manufacturers about production.
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clint van damme
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The governments motto throughout this crisis
SkyBlueDom26
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Whitty said we are at the peak however deaths will continue to go up for 10 days or so
David O'Day
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Yes because if we are at the peak of infections already infected people will die.
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fernandopartridge
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Let's hope this is true, if it is true then the Nightingale hospitals will never get anywhere near capacity if used much at all.
shmmeee
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Doesn’t the model predict a larger wave around winter?
fernandopartridge
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I'm not sure, I don't think so necessarily. The London Nightingale is different to the others mind, in that it's for critically ill patients whereas the others aren't.
David O'Day
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Yeah the london one was designed because they saw Milan and were scared that the London ICU departments would be over run.
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David O'Day
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I like the comment underneath about malcolm x following malcolm ix
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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The lack of testing now is either a failure by government to secure the tests/processing by now given so many other countries are capable of much higher levels, or it is deliberately being kept low despite expert advice and some evidence to back up testing makes a massive difference and the rhetoric of ramping up is a complete lie that needs to be called out and investigated.
Being shit at your job is one thing. To deliberately mislead the public of your intentions in a health crisis is quite another. At best scandalous, at worse criminal. But misleading people is what they do best.
Being shit at your job is one thing. To deliberately mislead the public of your intentions in a health crisis is quite another. At best scandalous, at worse criminal. But misleading people is what they do best.
shmmeee
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Article is a bit confused. A wet market is just any market selling meat and veg, Coventry Market is a wet market.
The one they’re reporting on had live crabs and crayfish, which is pretty normal AFAIK. China banned a whole load of animals as meat quite recently.
Seems like most of the article is Australia’s far right PM getting angry at stuff he doesn’t understand.
Ian1779
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This is tragic... how come she wasn’t at home as she would be identified as vulnerable/at risk?
Just floating the question not accusing to be clear.
SkyBlueDom26
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skybluetony176
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Isn’t the 19 just an abbreviation of 2019? Ie the year the virus hit.
shmmeee
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David O'Day
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Yeah Dom posted a video of a market that sold fish and veg and called it disgusting.
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David O'Day
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Sick Boy
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Yes it does mate I also heard that the intensive care cases keep falling as well, I have had a couple of client pitches the last couple of days so not been able to watch the daily briefings, will try to tomorrow though
MalcSB
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Capacity is not the same as tests done. Capacity is increasing. Tests done is a function of the testing strategy in place. More NHS staff are being tested now in addition to hospital patients. You have to increase the available capacity before offering the test more widely else that capacity will be swamped, backlogs developed and turnaround time for results extended. Availability of testing equipment and test reagents has been limited and delivery unreliable. There has been no financial barrier to the acquisition of either.
shmmeee
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Just saw Hancock saying it’s down to demand not capacity.
I do have to question why countries that have stated testing is part of their plan can get the tests and those that have gone a different route have problems.
