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To be reluctantly fair to them, they were under huge pressure to communicate more from the top. Unfortunately they have chosen now to over communicate, there isn’t enough to announce on a daily basis and it’s now repetitive and the impact is zero.

Plus of course even a week ago we were in the ‘****ing great decisions are being made’ zone, now we are already in the ‘is that it, why isn’t everything better yet?’ mode. The daft over promising on things they didn’t understand and couldn’t control has turned these sessions from a ‘were all in it together, let’s knuckle down’ affair to a dodge the blame fest. They are burning my goodwill, which I gave willingly couple of weeks ago, rapidly.

I just can't bear to watch them floundering around, totally out of their depth. It's embarrassing, get some ****ing professionals in.
 
Hancock was very unconvincing....and his job was to convince.

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"We have the best record inthe world at rolling out the new tests."

Better than South Korea, who were community testing within a week?

Better than Germany...who he said very early on have a great Pharma manufacturing industry, Roche and are making all the reagents.

Sorry Matt you contradicted yourself badly, you should have stayed in Isolation


As for the new hospital, it now appears we do not have the staff to run it, as at least 25% of the work force is off...and the volunteers that have come to the front are not in a position to take the responsibility
 
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Hancock was very unconvincing....and his job was to convince.

I Quote
"We have the best record inthe world at rolling out the new tests."

Better than South Korea, who were community testing within a week?

Better than Germany...who he said very early on have a great Pharma manufacturing industry, Roche and are making all the reagents.

Sorry Matt you contradicted yourself badly, you should have stayed in Isolation


As for the new hospital, it now appears we do not have the staff to run it, as at least 25% of the work force is off...and the volunteers that have come to the front are not in a position to take the responsibility
Roche is a Swiss company. 100% solid certainly, I went to their HQs in Basel once. But hey, who cares about basic geography when your credibility is already ****ed.

We need 16,000 staff for the 4000 bed hospital. Here’s one I prepared earlier......by secretly closing St Barts.
 
Roche is a Swiss company. 100% solid certainly, I went to their HQs in Basel once. But hey, who cares about basic geography when your credibility is already ****ed.

We need 16,000 staff for the 4000 bed hospital. Here’s one I prepared earlier......by secretly closing St Barts.

It's based in Switzerland, but it's an MNC so it's in many countries. I believe it has a big presence in Germany, I guess partly because Basel is German speaking
 
Hancock was very unconvincing....and his job was to convince.

I Quote
"We have the best record inthe world at rolling out the new tests."

Better than South Korea, who were community testing within a week?

Better than Germany...who he said very early on have a great Pharma manufacturing industry, Roche and are making all the reagents.

Sorry Matt you contradicted yourself badly, you should have stayed in Isolation


As for the new hospital, it now appears we do not have the staff to run it, as at least 25% of the work force is off...and the volunteers that have come to the front are not in a position to take the responsibility

Beth the Germans have said that their testing regime has been pointless, inefficient and an expensive waste of resources. They've been recommended to move to intelligent testing. Intelligent testing is what the Uk is doing.
 
To be honest, I've stopped listening to the daily briefings and only watch the news to get brief highlights of where we are.

There's just too much doom and gloom about and it's becoming the same on here.
Half the time the information given out is inaccurate anyway.
I'm not saying this isn't a pretty dire situation, but I think I may just keep my head down and get through each day for now.

I predict there will be a massive rise in mental health problems, both during this crisis and after it's finished.
 
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I notice that Emirates airlines has received permission to fly from 6th April (outbound only from Dubai) to handful of European destinations. Paris, Frankfurt and London amongst these.
Not making any sinister aspertions, it just interested me regarding all this social distancing stuff.
 
Struggling to find the combination of ‘intelligent testing’ and ‘UK’ in there. Certainly seems to be less brilliant than the impression we have gained.

No that's what I call it and how I interpreted it.

"intelligent testing" is necessary, says Hoelscher. "Police officers, firefighters and especially people in the health-care industry are regularly in contact with at-risk patients. There we have to be as sure as we can that these people are not infected."

It's more or less what we're having to do until we get enough resources. It seems like the Germans have wasted 90% of theirs by trying to test too many people instead of prioritising.
 
No that's what I call it and how I interpreted it.

"intelligent testing" is necessary, says Hoelscher. "Police officers, firefighters and especially people in the health-care industry are regularly in contact with at-risk patients. There we have to be as sure as we can that these people are not infected."

It's more or less what we're having to do until we get enough resources. It seems like the Germans have wasted 90% of theirs by trying to test too many people instead of prioritising.

Yeah, but we haven't tested them either. Not so intelligent.

The antibody tests, whenever they might be available, will be more important.
 
No that's what I call it and how I interpreted it.

"intelligent testing" is necessary, says Hoelscher. "Police officers, firefighters and especially people in the health-care industry are regularly in contact with at-risk patients. There we have to be as sure as we can that these people are not infected."

It's more or less what we're having to do until we get enough resources. It seems like the Germans have wasted 90% of theirs by trying to test too many people instead of prioritising.
And yet....they have a death rate of 13 per million and ours is 43 per million. I can’t work it out, if it’s not testing, tracing and isolation they must be treating patients better somehow and helping them survive.

Anyway all is now good as my local, The Fat Pug, a whole 70 yards up the road has just announced that they will deliver booze (‘by sanitzed hand’). £16 for 8 pints of Doombar. Lovely.
https://www.thefatpug.com/
 
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I agree the people I saw interviewed said the same.....but mate, the system is there for a reason. Why couldn’t these interviewees of made an appointment as instructed or advised to do so ? Might have a good reason but to be honest, I’m erring on the side of some thinking...’**** it, I’m important, I’ll just turn up’...it just don’t work like that.
Same as my mate who had a row at Tesco’s last week with some fat bint (his description) during NHS hour.......Everyone waiting in queue and keeping a distance when this ‘woman’ walks to the front of the till and demands to be served first as she’s an important key worker.....from what I was told (by him), she was told in no uncertain terms that they were ALL key workers and she should wait like everyone else....I’ve seen this hasn’t been an uncommon theme.
Didn't they know who she was
 
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