That'll count one for sent out, two for returned, three for analysed, four (nil) for returned and five for received. Unfortunately at the wrong address.
Not my curve ....weighed myself yesterday I have put on 5lb in the 6 weeks I have been off.....got to find a weight watchers red wine
I lost 2 1/2 stone 4 years ago in about 3 months whilst enjoying my usual amount of wine. 5:2 diet with a twist. 5:2 but on the 5 days low carb only. Even the 2 fast days were delicious - a nice steak and unlimited veg comes in at about 600 calories. So all i did different on the 5 days was eat the same more or less and had a bottle of red (600 cals) so 1200 all day. Coupled with exercise (I swear by the home vibration plate I have), lost loads of weight and still enjoyed my food Not for everyone though.
My problem is that I am still eating the same,admittedly drinking more, but apart from 1 walk a day I am doing no exercise whatsoever.
Further to my post above, to get the thread back on topic: GOVERNMENT CHANGED TESTING RULES REPORTS HSJ Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, proudly announced at today’s Number 10 briefing that the government had exceeded its target of 100,000 Covid-19 tests a day. Mr Hancock claimed that 122,347 coronavirus tests were carried out yesterday. But according the Health Service Journal (HSJ) - a news service covering the NHS – that isn’t the actual number of tests ‘carried out’. The way tests are counted was changed by the government this week, according to the journal, so that tests sent to people’s homes, but not yet returned for processing, are included in the figures. HSJ reported today: ‘The Department of Health and Social Care is now including tests that have been posted or delivered to people’s homes in its figures. This means tests which are sent to people are counted before the recipient has provided and returned their sample to a laboratory.' HSJ added that it understood that, 'up to 50,000 of the tests that will be reported as having taken place on 30 April will actually represent the mailing or the agreeing to mail a home testing kit.’ The source told HSJ that this was part of a “massive one-day mission on the part of Royal Mail and Amazon” that it is unsustainable. “They are trying every trick in the book,” the source said. “They had to get the permanent secretary at DHSC (Chris Wormald) to agree to a change in the counting process." It’s understood that the number of home tests that have been returned by Amazon this week is about one third of the number posted. Previously, a test would be counted only once the sample had been processed in laboratories. But this definition has been changed just in the last few days, a senior source told HSJ. When directly asked about this at the Number 10 briefing today, Mr Hancock said, “It’s not something I recognise.” Professor John Newton, coordinator of the national testing effort, replied: “There’s been no change to the way tests are counted. As we develop new ways of delivering tests, we’ve taken advice from officials on how they should be counted. “So the tests are done within the control of the programme, which is the great majority, and are counted when the tests are undertaken in the laboratories. “But for any tests which go outside the control of the programme, they’re counted when they leave the programme. “So, that’s the tests that are mailed out to people at home and the tests that go out to the satellites. So, that’s the way that they are counted, have always been counted, and the way we were advised to count them by officials.”
...missing my aldi wines. At the moment I am on delivery from Ocado only and the cost associated with that.
If the tests have always been counted this way, doesn’t that make all previous figures lower as well, then? Time live briefings were stopped until reporters are given the capability of asking follow up questions, when fed a crock of bullshit.
So are we all friends again? Good. Just having a couple of glasses of spiced rum. Happy Friday all xx
According to the HSJ, which is a very respectable publication with no particular political axe to grind, the counting method was changed this week to include the test kits sent to people’s homes, presumably because we were nearing the end of the month and the looming 100,000 target. As Sir Paul Nurse said on Question Time last night, the actual number of tests is a bit of an irrelevance, the important thing is the contact tracing which people will be able to do via a phone app later in the month. That, combined with being able to get tested quickly, will be crucial in the next phase of the pandemic, the easing of lockdown restrictions. It’s such a shame the government have to treat us all like idiots in the meantime.
