Priti Patel is useless, she hates experts telling her why things can't be done her way. How unsurprising she has no answers as to why medical staff still have no PPE when only a few weeks back Boris Johnson was telling us that sadly a lot of us were going to lose loved ones as we dealt with the herd immunity getting to 60%. Assuming they knew the NHS pressures coming from adopting this strategy then why were they not pre-ordering everything that would be needed for massive numbers of people dying?

 

Oh hang on, they hadnt a f***ing clue, did f*** all, still can't do enough to keep medical staff safe, still can't provide medical equipment theyve bunged millions away on Dyson to provide, and keep having press conferences where they are so out of their depth they are shitting bricks at how incompetent they look, how vague platitudes don't save lives, and trying to self-congratulate themselves for taking the necessary action that they should have taken in the first place when any blithering idiot could see what was coming. The economy is going to be more f***ed-up because they hadn't a clue than it would if they'd put their-own arrogant self-belief propaganda on one side and acted responsibly. Making excuses like "other countries were just as shit as us" doesn't work when it's your job not to be killing 10,000 citizens out of sheer arrogant "i know what's best for you" stupidity.

 

That's what you get when put complete twats in charge and they put other twats in places where they can do the most damage.

 

It's a good thing I'm biting my lip and not saying what I REALLY think!

 

 

One of my favourite tweets of this period was from Frankie Boyle when he said I wondered what it would take for proper media scrutiny of this government and clearly 1000 deaths per day is t it.

Priti Patel saying "I'm sorry if people feel there have been failings over PPE" is like a killer saying to a victim's family "I'm sorry for your perceived inconvenience".

 

No acknowledgement. No ownership. No remorse. No empathy.

Priti Patel is a f***ing disgrace of a human being. End of.

 

Her incompetence and lack of feeling is mind-blowing.

800 further infections in china, the biggest jump in weeks due to people coming into the country mainly from Russia!

^ I can't find anything official that supports that. There's approx 800 active imported cases in the country but not all on the same day. 108 was the number for yesterday with 98 imported.

 

The border regions with Russia, Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang (but not Jilin), seem to have had most of that, let's hope it stays there but you know, there is a risk of it coming back again even with inter-province travel being checked.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52275823

 

The media finally reporting the scandal that I've been talking about. How has this been allowed to happen and what has been the causes?

 

Why weren't care homes immediately told by the government as soon as they were aware it was spreading that staff should take extra precautions, and visitors should stay away. Oh that's right, they'd already sort of apologised that our elderly relatives were sadly going to die as they pursued their policy of inaction.....

 

Apology not accepted.

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BBC reporting yesterday that Scotland is struggling to get PPE for anyone other than NHS Scotland because the UK Government has mandated that England is the priority instead of allowing all 4 nations of the UK to get a share. Wales has reported the same tale so this isn’t Scotland trying to cause an issue or something

^ I can't find anything official that supports that. There's approx 800 active imported cases in the country but not all on the same day. 108 was the number for yesterday with 98 imported.

 

The border regions with Russia, Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang (but not Jilin), seem to have had most of that, let's hope it stays there but you know, there is a risk of it coming back again even with inter-province travel being checked.

 

Just goes to prove international travel is not happening again until there is a cure imo. I cannot see a way people are allowed to move freely between country to country.

 

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BBC reporting yesterday that Scotland is struggling to get PPE for anyone other than NHS Scotland because the UK Government has mandated that England is the priority instead of allowing all 4 nations of the UK to get a share. Wales has reported the same tale so this isn’t Scotland trying to cause an issue or something

 

Not that there might be an element of truth in this, but it could also be because of NHS procurement contracts.

 

My next prediction is mask wearing is going to be advised in public as an advisory before it becomes mandatory when things start to resemble a small form of normality..

The NHS contracts arent the issue, it’s what supplies the care sector can obtain after the NHS contracts are fulfilled. The UKs four largest producers of PPE have been directed by the UK Government to starve the devolved nations of supply and direct all produced materials to English care homes after NHS contracts have been fulfilled. This is a new directive and as a result Scotland and Wales have seen their previously healthy supply lines to their care sectors dry up. It’s cold and callous and will kill people in Scotland and Wales.

 

So much for “better together”.

My next prediction is mask wearing is going to be advised in public as an advisory before it becomes mandatory when things start to resemble a small form of normality..

 

If that's going to happen they're gonna have to provide a better supply. If they can't even get enough masks to those working on the frontline there's not a hope in hell Joe Public is gonna be wearing one...

Some countries are recommending Scarfs or homemade cloth masks where they haven’t been able to distribute any of the usual masks that you see.

I remain appalled that the UK government actively discouraged people from wearing masks or scarves and spread around that they were unhelpful. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

 

Besides that, I was struck by the most recent reporting of deaths - 700 in a day for the UK. Buried deep in the article was the expansion that of the 700, 670 were in England with the remainder split between Scotland, Wales and NI.

 

If the difference between figures is so stark it begs the question of why the entire UK is having the same lockdown applied.

If that's going to happen they're gonna have to provide a better supply. If they can't even get enough masks to those working on the frontline there's not a hope in hell Joe Public is gonna be wearing one...

 

It's going to happen it's only a matter of time, if only as it will prevent people with no symptoms spreading it rather than stopping you from catching it.

 

Assuming it won't be manatory until some restrictions are lifted.

I remain appalled that the UK government actively discouraged people from wearing masks or scarves and spread around that they were unhelpful. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

 

Besides that, I was struck by the most recent reporting of deaths - 700 in a day for the UK. Buried deep in the article was the expansion that of the 700, 670 were in England with the remainder split between Scotland, Wales and NI.

 

If the difference between figures is so stark it begs the question of why the entire UK is having the same lockdown applied.

If anything the lockdown in the SWNI parts have prevented ithe situation from.getting as out of hand as England is

Yeah I don’t think lockdown should just be based on how many cases are in your area, it’s should be prevention before solution without a vaccine. Just look at how well New Zealand are coping and that is down to a fast moving and assertive government.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52275823

 

The media finally reporting the scandal that I've been talking about. How has this been allowed to happen and what has been the causes?

 

Why weren't care homes immediately told by the government as soon as they were aware it was spreading that staff should take extra precautions, and visitors should stay away. Oh that's right, they'd already sort of apologised that our elderly relatives were sadly going to die as they pursued their policy of inaction.....

 

Apology not accepted.

 

I'm finding everything absolutely infuriating.

 

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'The UK government has previously said it was unable to join the EU’s procurement schemes as it had not received an email of invitation.'

 

Ideology being the priority rather than saving lives — it's all so disgusting.

 

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Those ONS stats will hopefully put paid to those 'they'd die anyway' comments, that highest ever weekly figure is soon going to be the 4th/5th highest ever weekly figure.

Yeah I don’t think lockdown should just be based on how many cases are in your area, it’s should be prevention before solution without a vaccine. Just look at how well New Zealand are coping and that is down to a fast moving and assertive government.

 

While I agree they were fast and assertive, it also helps a lot that their outbreaks were largely contained to 3/4 clusters so the goverment had a hand on it. It also helps that the country is split in two and is largely quite rural in it's makeup.

 

Just why I find the figures in the UK very active, seems like it is beginning to stablise , but then places which are largely urban and dominated by a few big-medium urban cities are not flattening quite as thick (Midlands, Yorkshire & North East).

that breakdown of total deaths is a good indicator (because I don;t believe it's just coincidentally massively higher than the average) that the number of deaths extra to "normal" times is about one-third higher than the figures quoted.

 

It's scandalous. I'd be willing to bet a hell of a lot of countries are massively under-reporting deaths and it's almost certain to be double the quoted figure. If you can't trust many democracies to be open and honest, then it's a sure thing IMO.

My assumption from the latest press conference is the goverment and the advisors have pretty much admitted they got things wrong, without actually saying they got things wrong. Also sounds like while the economy will be in a bad place, they have obviously learned we massively screwed up so I'm expecting a very slow and steady lifting of the lockdown restrictions.

 

Looks like while we got things wrong, there is an attempt to mitigate risk and try to make things right. Could be worse, could be the States I suppose.