Exactly. This essential shopping means different things to different people. As if people won’t buy, as you say sweets and beer. Non starter.
Yes, I think you’re right about pressure for beds. Also think the last place you’d want to be if you’re hoping to avoid the virus is a hospital, so you’re brother is right, I fear. I hope her recovery is swift and incident free.
Here's a wee Coronavirus treat for you all. As the US announced their lockdown, all the TV channels were decoded.... feel free to browse and binge watch what you like, for free (I don't know how long this will last....) https://nites.tv/latest-movies-added/
Yeah, he must take the public for mugs if he thinks holding a few boxes will restore him to public affection. I really despise the bloke
And to do it with little or incorrect PPE makes it even worse. Then rub a little salt into the wound by telling them it's been on the way for the last month!
I do hope Boris wasnt watching Priti do the daily briefing otherwise he would have been straight back into intensive care!
It makes you wonder what the procurement personnel are doing? Every NHS Trust is a mini-empire and has an army of them working on £50 - £60k a year. They must've had a contingency plan, surely? I'm pretty certain that the government aren't ringing around and signing off petty cash to pay for this stuff. My wife has said that it's easier to go out and acquire items on local purchase than go through procurement personnel.
I'm also surprised that this thread has politicized itself with the demonisation of the UK and its politics. No mention of China, where this all started from strangely?
Didn't know that the Italians were so anti vac Why is New Zealand's Covid-19 mortality rate so low? There are a few reasons why mortality rates are so different in different parts of the world. It could be due to demographics, characteristics of the health care system, and differences in the number of people being tested, according to Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking Covid-19 developments around the world. "With more testing, more people with milder cases are identified. This lowers the case-fatality ratio." But many other factors which could explain the different mortality rates remain unknown, the university said. Germany's low rate has been attributed to the country widely testing people even with mild symptoms, regardless of age, and its meticulous tracing methods - which it started right from the outset. While on the other hand, Italy's testing has focussed on those most sick. Robert Bartholomew, an honorary academic at Auckland University's School of Medicine, said Italy's death rate could be attributed to a number of factors. "They include an older population, air pollution, and the fact the country is the centre of the European anti-vaccination movement, and elderly Italians fighting the flu would be at greater risk of dying of Covid-19," he wrote. Another reason was how the country coded deaths. Experts in New Zealand have said our low mortality rate is in part due to the number of young people testing positive. Those in their 20s account for 24 per cent of New Zealand's total cases. They also attribute it to limited community spread. When asked about New Zealand's low death rate earlier this month, Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said he put it down to two things. One was that we reacted much earlier in the outbreak than other countries and had put in measures much sooner. "But secondly, we've got a much better idea than [other countries] have of the total number of cases and I think there's agreement around the world that where you see what appears to be a disproportionately high number of deaths compared with the overall case numbers, it's very clear they're not finding all the cases." please log in to view this image A coffin is taken out of a hospital in Italy, where there have been nearly 20,000 deaths (GETTY IMAGES/MARCO DI LAURO)
