Off Topic SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19

After this settles, people need to remember the companies/people that screwed them over during these times. They won’t but they should.

 

Yay!!

 

I will and I certainly won't be buying a Victoria Beckham dress again.

 

Strange. Weren't we all told that the lockdown was temporary to flatten the curve, now it's about no new cases until a vaccine is created.

 

That's how you make America Great Again - **** them plebs.

 

I always knew they were a Mickey Mouse company.

 

Could do worse but can you afford the RAF transport plane to go and pick them up?

 

Oh it’s no different at all

it was wrong then

And no one protests because most people can’t see an alternative

 

Completely
I was just pointing out that criticising the NHS for cocking up supplies would be the same, using your analogy, as criticising the Environment Agency for the Department of Transport closing all the roads round some flood defences

 

Wasn't there a company near Lincoln in the news the other day exporting PPE. Wining and dining someone in the NHS purchasing department may be more profitable.

 

Coronavirus: Social restrictions 'to remain for rest of year'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52389285

The UK will have to live with some disruptive social measures for at least the rest of the year, the government's chief medical adviser has said.

Prof Chris Whitty said it was "wholly unrealistic" to expect life would suddenly return to normal soon.

He said "in the long run" the ideal way out would be via a "highly effective vaccine" or drugs to treat the disease.

But he warned that the chance of having those within the next calendar year was "incredibly small".

"This disease is not going to be eradicated, it is not going to disappear," he said, at the government's daily coronavirus briefing.

"So we have to accept that we are working with a disease that we are going to be with globally... for the foreseeable future."

The latest figures show a further 759 people have died with the virus in UK hospitals, bringing the total number of deaths to 18,100.

Prof Whitty said the public should not expect the number of coronavirus-related deaths to "fall away" suddenly after the peak.

"In the long run, the exit from this is going to be one of two things, ideally," he said.

"A vaccine, and there are a variety of ways they can be deployed... or highly effective drugs so that people stop dying of this disease even if they catch it, or which can prevent this disease in vulnerable people."

Also speaking at the briefing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said easing social distancing measures too soon would risk a second spike of coronavirus cases.

He said this could trigger a second lockdown that would "prolong the economic pain" across the country.

Mr Raab, who is deputising for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, acknowledged the mental, physical and economic strain social distancing measures were having on people throughout the UK.

But he said that the measures "must remain in place for the time being".

Mr Raab said: "The greatest risk for us now, if we eased up on our social distancing rules too soon, is that we would risk a second spike in the virus with all the threats to life that would bring and then the risk of a second lockdown which would prolong the economic pain we are all going through."

Gen Sir Nick Carter, the chief of the defence staff, also joined Wednesday's press conference and described the military response to coronavirus as the "single greatest logistical feat" of his 40 years of service.

"Our role has been entirely in support of the heroic healthcare workers on the front line - that's both the NHS and social care - with humility very much being our watchword in the way that we give that support," he said.

Gen Carter said the military has been involved with planning, testing and helping the Foreign Office with repatriation efforts during the coronavirus pandemic.

He added that the military was also preparing mobile pop-up testing centres in a bid to roll-out more Covid-19 testing.

"What we are trying to do at the moment is up-scale that idea so that we have enough capacity to get out into those areas which are harder to reach," he explained.

"It is an overall system that is being put together at the moment, it will be very sophisticated once it is completed and there are some really good people designing it and we are working with those people to make it as good as it possibly can be."

Earlier, the government insisted it would meet its target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of April - an increase of 82,000 on Monday's levels.

Sir Keir Starmer, who was making his debut in Prime Minister's Questions as Labour leader, said the UK had been "very slow and way behind other European countries" on testing.

He asked how it was possible to go from 18,000 tests a day to 100,000 in just eight days.

Mr Raab said the UK currently had testing capacity of 40,000 a day and, with new laboratories coming on stream, the government would reach its target.

In other developments:

• Coronavirus is likely to result in a high mortality rate in care homes, England's chief medical officer Chris Whitty says
• Downing Street denies anyone put pressure on the Foreign Office permanent secretary to retract his testimony to MPs that a "political decision" was taken not to join EU schemes to source medical equipment
• An RAF plane carrying a delayed delivery of protective equipment has arrived in the UK as the government remains under pressure about NHS supplies
• The last Britons to remain on a cruise ship during the pandemic will finally disembark the Costa Deliziosa in Genoa, Italy, on Wednesday, the Foreign Office says
• A group of 25 doctors has written to the health secretary over concerns about the UK's current advice on self-isolation for coronavirus
• Delays in diagnosing and treating cancer could lead to more years of lost life than with Covid-19, a leading cancer expert says
• The Welsh health minister has been caught swearing about a Labour colleague in a virtual Welsh Assembly session

 

Weird though isn't it

Although actually a club could legitimately argue that they don't need footballers at the moment so choose to lay some of them off (apart from the weird contract).

Suppose it won't get tested until one of them tries it (or has any tried before?)

 

He needs to liven his act up or change his name before Trading Standards get hold of him.