Coronavirus

[Commachio]

I get a temp test at quite a few companies, usually the raygun to the head but one place has a cool one, you place your wrist at the side of it and a sexy female robot voice say's "you are clear to enter"

If that was my shift manger saying that,, 'i'd just say, text me'

It's a ****ing farce these heat guns.

 

[remembercolinlee]

You make no sense, do bosses/employers ask for this proof every day?

If a person gets a test and trace call they should not go to work until either they have
1. Isolated for 14 days
Or
2. Had a negative test.

I have no idea how what I have said makes no sense but I'll stop confusing you now.

 

[Diego]

Test and tracking claim to be contacting thousand every day...

The last figures I have seen was for 27th August to 2nd Sept 2020 where they claim to have contacted 35,700 people.
They have claimed that this number is going up each week so it will be well over 140,000 people at least in the past 4 weeks.

Yet i keep hearing it's a total farce and the government have failed with this.

Confusing isn't it.

I have a lot of respect for you as a poster RCL and even more (much more) for the job you do but feel you are being a little swayed by headlines with this and are not thinking reasonably about real life.

 

[Commachio]

If a person gets a test and trace call they should not go to work until either they have
1. Isolated for 14 days
Or
2. Had a negative test.

I have no idea how what I have said makes no sense but I'll stop confusing you now.

you really have no idea how the other half live do you?

social distancing at work

 

[remembercolinlee]

you really have no idea how the other half live do you?

social distancing at work

I aint said anything about social distancing at work.
I work with kids who can be and are violent...it is impossible to socially distance from the kids and near impossible to distance from staff...so I have no idea what half you are on about mate.

 

[remembercolinlee]

Yet i keep hearing it's a total farce and the government have failed with this.

Confusing isn't it.

I have a lot of respect for you as a poster RCL and even more (much more) for the job you do but feel you are being a little swayed by headlines with this and are not thinking reasonably about real life.

What real life...one where a lot of people are financially struggling so will take a test so they can work?
I aint swayed by headlines ... we've had staff contacted and they are now off until they can get a test. Luckily for them they will get full pay but lots won't be so lucky.

 

[Diego]

you really have no idea how the other half live do you?

social distancing at work

You look at some places and you see a warehouse that is 180,000 square foot in area, has 15 roller shutter doors open each side (delivery and dispatch) with fresh air blowing through it all day and the 60 plebs who work in it all day have to wear masks yet the 15 people in a 1,080 square foot office with no real ventilation don't have to wear masks.
People are so thick it hurts.

 

[Diego]

What real life...one where a lot of people are financially struggling so will take a test so they can work?
I aint swayed by headlines ... we've had staff contacted and they are now off until they can get a test. Luckily for them they will get full pay but lots won't be so lucky.

TBH i have not heard of or met one person who has been contacted by track and trace, maybe you just know some unfortunate people or something.

 

[remembercolinlee]

Like I said...official government figures are claiming that for the week of 27th August to 2nd September it was well over 35,000 and has been rising each week.
There are reports of schools sending kids home with colds and sickness and saying they have to be off for 14 days or until they got a negative test.
Thats why so many kids have been seen in news reports at testing stations cos their parents can't afford the time off as unpaid child care (unless an employee can use holiday pay) as employers are under no legal obligation to give staff paid time off.

My only point is that I think that a large number of those being tested when they aint got symptoms are doing so for valid financial reasons.

 

[FosseFilberto]

I get a temp test at quite a few companies, usually the raygun to the head but one place has a cool one, you place your wrist at the side of it and a sexy female robot voice say's "you are clear to enter"

Think that might be a different toy mate ...

 

[pompeymeowth]

@pompeymeowth

Oh Commy wommy , you are awful, but I like you.

 

[Archers Road]

Give us a detailed run down of what you would have done different.

Everything

 

[Archers Road]

We've failed miserably and it isn't going to change. The test fiasco is so bad, even the Daily Mail are going after Bozo.

And The Spectator - and he used to be editor of The Spectator ffs

 

[Archers Road]

So every week you have to show up with proof of a negative test?

**** me, it's no wonder the system can't cope


Not happening in the NW yet

Don’t they have radios in the NW? If so, you can’t fail to have heard the govt sponsored ads advising people with symptoms to “Stay at home, get tested. That’s how we protect each other.” Those ads were running every day til about a week ago ffs.

 

[Tobes]

And the amount of labs capable of doing the tests, who's fault is that?

We need to get people back to work as a number one priority, i was furloughed for 8 weeks because custom fell off, when called back i didn't take (or ask for) a test because i had no reason to.
If you have no symptoms then don't waste resources (and peoples time) by going for tests.

They’ve had 6 months to get this right. And it’s a complete ****ing dogs arse.

The issue around lab capacity is driven by a lack of trained personnel, and a lack of joined up thinking. As often the lab testing is done a huge distance away from the test centre. There was numerous solutions to these issues, but they’ve lobbed a bucket load of cash at their mates at Serco again who’ve ****ed up more Govt contracts than Bozo has women but who’s noses are firmly in the Tory trough. They’ve also hired a woman who’s CV is a litany of failure and yet was deemed suitable as she’s Hancock’s horsey mate from the Jockey Club and her husband is a Tory MP. Not surprisingly she’s overseeing a debacle.

People are being offered tests on the system hundreds of miles away but by changing their location they can apparently get the test on their doorstep. What the **** have they built into that system? It’s sheer incompetence.

As for what did Johnson get wrong personally, try not bothering to attend the first 5 COBRA meetings, taking 2 weeks jollies in Feb, when he’d spent the entire Christmas and NY period in the Caribbean. They were patently holding off restricting the economy and waffled on about herd immunity whilst doing absolutely **** all to stop it. The airports were left completely open to anyone, no testing, no quarantine, no track and trace. So it arrived here and spread like wildfire. Let’s keep Cheltenham on, Matt likes horses.

Utter and complete incompetence, from an inherently lazy, sack of bloviating ****e.

 

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[Treble]

What happened to project speed?

Boris snorted it all.

 

[Libby]

Seems clear me to me that somebody made a big **** up numbers wise recently.

Up until about 3 weeks ago I don't recall hearing about such issues with lack of lab capacity. It wasn't 'world class' but it was doing well enough with most people able to source one when needed.

Conveniently it was about 3 weeks ago that I was told I could receive weekly asymptomatic testing and that I was encouraged to do so.

Seems obvious to me that somebody thought we were in a position where we could begin routine testing for key workers without affecting testing for the general population. Evidently this was well wide of the mark as seen by the complete clusterfuck it has become recently.

What a mess. Wonder if they'll roll back on it.

 

[Treble]

Nothing to see here...

The Commons Leader dismissed the growing pressure on the Government over its testing shambles as he claimed the system had been a 'phenomenal success' which should be celebrated.

Meanwhile, official NHS Test and Trace statistics showed that just 33.3 per cent of people who were tested for Covid-19 in England in the week ending September 9 and had a so-called 'in-person' test received their result within 24 hours. That represents a massive decrease on the 66.5 per cent recorded in the previous week.