Have to say that, the government has fallen well short in regards to testing and PPE. Also, why aren't we testing anyone arriving from virus hotspots. I can't get a handle on exactly why, other than the medical and scientific advice on strategy changing so much. We do seem to have got some of this wrong, although it is an incredibly difficult and unprecedented emergency.
They've been so desperate to get back to the Premier League they're now becoming a bit of a basket-case financially. 32 Red are likely to be financially under pressure with nothing for people to bet on so the 'House of Cards' Mel Morris has built is on the brink with FFP just round the corner... https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/derby-county-talks-over-30m-3998342
At he’s the guarantor for the loan in fairness. Then again if he personally owns a vastly over-valued stadium it probably amounts to much the same.
Like most government ministers he hasn't got a clue, especially when challenged over the arrivals from Italy, China and New York. You sometimes wonder how some of these idiots ever got as far up the greasy pole as they did...
Oxbridge and seemingly very successful previously outside of politics. Opposed Brexit but jumped ship when the time was right. Make your own conclusions.
Hopefully people realise the problem is NOT that we haven’t got any PPE to use....we have.... The problem is the PPE is ****ing **** and not fit for purpose. I’ve made it quite clear, if and when I get COVID then so be it, I do my job through my own choice....my Mrs and kids haven’t made that choice and I’d rather not put them at risk.
I’m looking forward to hearing Sam Neill tell us how to successfully fight off a T-Rex and Sigourney Weaver demonstrating how to eject an alien out of an airlock. Didn’t Kate’s character end up wrapped in plastic in an unmarked grave in Contagion?
She was crap in the film and her character died because she made a mistake! Maybe sky should use her as their health correspondent?
I don't know how real this is and most have been faked.... however. 2 things I think will happen after all this. 1. There will be criticism towards China, especially from Trump who blames them for this. 2. They guy will mysteriously disapear or get Covid-19 die the next day, cremated and turned into an urn.
20% of small/medium businesses will not get government support quickly enough, ie this month, to keep them from closing. That’s 800,000 businesses. If we are going to have a revolution, hopefully a peaceful one, I’d much prefer it if it was a positive one rather than because people are hungry and have lost hope.
I have just read ( not sure how true) that the solidarity singing in italy is now slowly turning into civil unrest. It's an obvious development during such a crisis. I have woken up to my van having been broken into last night with over a grands worth of tools gone! Just what I ****ing need.
Well to be totally honest, the timing is irrelevant as I couldnt use them now anyway. Pretty sure I have tools insurance so not overly worried. Getting in touch with the insurance company is a job in itself. Still on hold as I type this!
Michael Sandel, the Global Philosopher, on Radio 4 with an international panel of excellent English speakers debating moral aspects of the pandemic - stockpiling, access to tests, rationing of ventilators, using mobile data to check movement of the people/privacy etc etc. I find Sandel irritating as he doesn’t actually do any philosophy, just asks questions, and I think the ‘moral’ questions are fake (as I think ‘morality’ is, but that’s a different matter). But this programme is interesting to see the different perspectives of people from different parts of the world. As always from these programmes, whatever the subject, there will be no firm conclusions, but they are thought provoking. They are discussing whether people who are younger/more likely to survive should have priority for ventilation. I would like them to take this a step further, and talk about prioritising based on the character, value, worth of the individual, not just their physical attributes. Would you prioritise a 25 year old *****phile over a sixty year old doctor who is still productive and is caring for others. Sandel didn’t raise this but brilliantly the young woman from the US did. No conclusions of course, left with first come first served v save those best placed to survive (ie young) v worth of the individual. Of course in the real world, unlike the clean philosophical one, all three criteria are in use and respect to those on the spot making these decisions.
Sorry to hear that Bob. Sadly those minorities that feel all others possessions are open for them to own, but not earn the right to own legally. ****ers are scum and piss me off how they seem to think anything is fair game for them to take. They make me sick - as they likely don’t even want them, just to sell them on for pennies in the pounds they are worth to the owners. People’s morals sometimes make me despair.
