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Coronavirus: Nurses should refuse to work if they aren't given PPE, new guidance says https://t.co/70HuL5cZIo
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I would like Foxy to comment, if he is around...
That’s slightly better than the Corbyn cultists, who are wilfully malign, stupid and incompetent, but not by a lot.
I am shocked, shocked, I tell you....
Nobody was going to die because Boris Johnson's shameful prorogation.
David Icke must be free to air his nonsense about 5G.
Tom Slater"
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/10/why-we-shouldnt-censor-covid-conspiracy-theories/
1. Though I know he doesn't mean this interpretation, saying 'Transparancy is all now' and 'Now is not the time [to be evasive]' rather suggests that normally the actions of government aren't important enough for honesty to be the best policy. Defence, Law and Order, NHS funding, and more are all life and death decisions in normal times too. The media should demand, and reward, transparency at all times. Calls for it now should avoid suggesting it is needed due to the current circumstances.
2. It's all well and good to say 'The transparent prosper, the evasive don't' but Boris Johnson is PM and not because he is the most honest man in politics.
- manufacturer to main warehouse.
- main warehouse to satellite store.
- satellite store to hospital.
- hospital store to ward.
One thing is absolutely certain - it's not manufacturers Amazoning boxes of PPE to Wards.
There should be sufficient manufacturing and scientific resources in this country for these problems to be solved.
But the likes of Whitty and Vallance are proving to be incompetent.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-sets-out-plan-for-national-effort-on-ppe
As you can see everything is in hand and there is a new website written by the army that will be launched in the next few weeks.
I was having a zoom drink the other night with a friend of mine who works for a university arts department. He's offered to use his departments 3d printers to make some PPE masks etc for non hospital health organisations (cancer charities etc).
His management wont let him go on site until 'proper' risk assessments are performed even though he'd be the only person in the building.
What really marks countries like Germany and South Korea out as having a relatively low level of Covid 19 cases and deaths per head is mass testing for it and that is what the Government needs to expand above all
"I understand you love the guy. It's good that you love him. But you're not required to love him."
It would never happen here. Just imagine the outcry if, say, Mo Mowlam were sacked for getting a longer standing ovation than Tony Blair!
You need to test to do that.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-kingdom
Now compare our stats to Germany's?
It is actually the opposite way around to how a model should be, you should be more confident about your prediction for tomorrow than you are for week down the line.
They are still claiming that the NHS has 17K hospital beds available.....
I suppose it is a fairly common name in fairness. I hope that is all that it is, in terms of being near the worst.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgPj6e3jtz0
So if our nurses refuse to deal with Covid-19 patients due to a lack of PPE you can see why we become Europe's worst.
IIRC the Italians didn't down tools like that.
Re PPE what are the manufacturing times for the kit, where is it sourced from? What material is needed to make it? How much is made outside/inside the UK? Is it all one use only?
Which trusts are short of PPE, which ones are not? Who is responsible for procurement and distribution?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52261859
The key threat to the lockdown continues to be the lack of either a published strategy or a timetable (even a very vague one) for easing it - not necessarily because people are recklessly impatient but because we all need hope that it won't drag on forever. The great mass of the population - especially young people, who are least at risk from the disease and also account for the greatest proportion of those made unemployed by this disaster - have shown great forbearance so far, but cannot and should not be expected to put up with perpetual incarceration.
PB Tory master strategists would have had us burn that bridge weeks ago.
Just saying.
When WHO said test test test our Government thought that meant do 3 a day!!
Cue BigG to say its all so easy BJO
They prefer posturing rather than sorting out the mundane.
But its the mundane which is vital here.
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I guess you don’t like oppositions asking questions?
They are not asking questions, he knows well that they are supporting everybody they can. He is grandstanding with a few disgruntled unionists who want a bigger slice of the pie, greedy gits. He should not be asking his questions via a newspaper , why did he not ask it at FM' questions on Thursday. He got his arse reamed there as well as he does every week. A clown devoid of any use or sense, his only cry is no referendum. Oh to actually have an opposition.
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Malc first I hope you are all recovering.
And secondly, I don't think anyone has yet managed to repeal the law of comparative advantage.
Hello Topping, wife is not too bad considering , cannot get further treatment given the state of things at present but lucky to be home before it all went Pete Tong. Thanks for asking.
1) How many hospitals are reporting shortage of PPE?
2) Which PPE are they short of?
3) How big are the shortfalls?
4) What are the sources of PPE at the moment and in the future (planned) by category?
last time they updated , with 3 days of extra data , they trebled the netherlands predicted deaths.
Or is it the usual case of vague responsibility and lack of leadership.
If they're using that shitehawk model, or not scaling by population, then I think its safe to ignore them.
https://twitter.com/Andrew_Adonis/status/1249346639296430082?s=20
https://twitter.com/IsraeliPM/status/1249324178689404929?s=20
It is one thing to make money available and issue the order to do something, getting it to actually happen though can be a frustrating experience when you are dealing with a beaurocracy that almost seems at times hellbent on not doing something. Certainly had that experience in firms for example when trying to order a laptop. Funding is agreed order is raised then its shunted back because it isn't like the laptops they give normal office staff and on and on it goes.
Sometimes getting the funding in place and saying make it happen is simpler than it sounds. Not saying that is the case here necessarily which is why I wondered earlier whereabouts the holdup is.
China is currently our only way of mitigating our PPE Gowns and testing crises and he agrees with PB Tory master strategists that we should be cutting lifelines
Let us hope this is continued but it may not be.
And one thing bureaucracies don't like is change as it is a threat.
In particular they don't like losing control of the process by going outside of the system.