I also heard someone talking about different hospital trusts and different suppliers charging various prices. Stockpiling and distribution has also caused problems. It’s a massive task and some will miss out. This is the upsetting thing. We must also Remember the NHS is using more PPE and many other organisations/general public are now using it.
When you have to stockpile body bags it’s arguably a sign that whatever you’re about to do voluntarily isn’t a great idea.
So now it seems that the BBC is chief cheerleader for the ‘make everyone wear a face mask’ tendency, presumably so that, when it gets its way, it can then attack the government because there aren’t enough face masks. The mayor of London, who is so completely irrelevant that I have genuinely forgotten his name, has fallen for it. The message should be - social distance, stay at home if you are ill or have been exposed to someone who is ill. But I fully expect that the medical experts will be forced for political reasons to ‘advise’ that we go down this route, probably in the next week. This will raise tensions because of shortage, reduce the little bit of social cohesion we have seen growing, because seeing someone’s face (even from two metres) is important in establishing a bond, and place more stress on supply to those who actually should wear a mask for work. Next expect the government to halt 5G expansion because some people are idiots. Probably.
Grant Shapps is the one sacrificed this morning on ITV to lie through his teeth. There’s a bookshelf in the background so you know he’s going intelligent.
You do make me laugh Watford. You need to stop reading the Guardian and it’s predictions because they keep getting things wrong. Many organisation especially in food/medicines have said the Brexit stockpiling has helped them through this crisis. So actually they have saved lives. Sadly the body bags will also be crucial. Although I have read that we do have a shortage of those as well.
Yes it’s fortunate that we stockpiled ahead of a voluntary economic shock just before an involuntary economic shock. Brilliant.
There is no scientific evidence to the benefits of the public wearing face masks, soon moved to there is a little bit of evidence that these could be beneficial to the public. Guarantee that within the next 3 weeks this will change again. Even the scientists are becoming political animals!
Had to have a sad, yes sad little chuckle at the governments death graph yesterday. **** we have been rumbled after a couple of months! Someone write 'hospitalised deaths only'.
Isn’t this the bloke who was played by Tommy Robinson? Lot in there. Not sure all of it is properly thought through. Using the word ‘war’ is emotive and gets our attention. China, with its new and sexy brand of ‘totalitarian capitalism’ has already won the competition, and is in the process of securing its gains. It’s opposition is weak, divided and utterly incapable of reaching collective decisions and taking effective joint action (see climate change and the current pandemic). What Nawaz doesn’t factor in (and you can tell by his use of the words ‘China’ and ‘we/us’) is that we are talking about the Chinese Communist Party leadership and a few Chinese business oligarchs and their counterparts around the world, not the vast majority, the rest of us. One day the Chinese people will have had enough of living in fear and being lied to. And some of the rest of us won’t be so enamoured of our dear leaders either. And then we might get mad as hell. Probably one for the politics thread, apologies.
It makes sense that we’d have stockpiles of certain things that were going to be difficult to get hold of. Wouldn’t have made for a great bus slogan admittedly. Quite what we do if we still go along with the expected timelines and the stockpiles have been used up by the last few weeks and the economy is in double-digit decline I’m not sure.
I’d like to know more about the spike in non-Corona deaths. It’s great that there’s apparently plenty of capacity still in the health service but it seems odd given how constrained we’ve been historically and sort of contradicts a huge spike in other deaths.
But if we hadn’t you would be moaning there is no food or medicines? And we know who you would blame. You can’t have it both ways Watford. That stockpiling has saved us. This information has come from many business organisations. Accept it as a good thing and try not to always find a negative.
I suppose there will be positives and negatives regarding Brexit and our preparation with coronavirus.
The thing is that Grant is a very clever guy. Highly regarded in the Party. He should do more speaking regarding the briefings as Raab comes across cold.
However Watford you are correct regarding some of the people they use at the briefings. Patel, the business Sec, Raab, Gove have all been a bit crap. Chancellor is pretty good (one for the politics thread). I think they are finding it hard after losing Boris. He is the most popular and charismatic MP/PM. What they should have done is dragged May or Cameron back who both have the experience. Or maybe they should have got some bod who can actually answer a question? How about Piers?
