Off Topic Coronavirus

I don't like people shouting at me, upsets my hearing aid...

 

It's really quite unbelievable that they haven't given you a call!!

 

NHS and Care workers that have needlessly died. If they had been tested and found to be positive, they could have isolated and remained safe. Similarly, they would have been aware whether it was safe to return to work. We can't quantify how many would still be alive, but the point is that they were let down by the lack of testing availability.

 

Not really, it’s unbelievable that the advisors to the government aren’t on top of the data. Had he understood the study he could have wiped the floor with the journo in a ‘death of Peston’ moment which I would really enjoy.

I’m as pissed off as you were a few days ago.

 

Great news that we have the capacity to test 100,000 plus people a day. Please Mr Newton, that's not World leading at all.
As for contact, track and trace, how come it's now so very very important Mr HanCOCK but a few months ago wasnt? Just think, if we had been this prepared 2/3 months ago when we witnessed what was happening elsewhere in the world, and took heed of the warnings and steps to take, then I truly think we wouldnt be riding this high in the league table. Good work on testing capacity though, a quarter of the year after our first case.

 

I got a call Col but I was washing the motor outside!

 

Agreed, but Professor John Newton, head of the testing strategy, says that loads of capacity in testing at the beginning would have made no difference, which is only true if you ignored the result of the tests rather than trace contacts and isolate those exposed to the virus which they did in Germany and New Zealand. This wasn’t a choice open to us because, as you said, we didn’t have enough testing capacity. This bloke’s wish to put his foot in his mouth is astounding, he really didn’t need to say anything on this, just take the applause for hitting the testing number. Perhaps he guessed that the applause would become somewhat muted when it emerged a chunk of tests had been posted but not necessarily received, let alone done and returned.

 

Unless people can be tested on a daily basis how can they say it's safe for them to go back to work? Did I hear Newton say people have had the antibody test too?? Thought they didnt exist?!?!?

 

You really are a tad unhinged.
I certainly have not, do not and will not enter in to written jousts with you, as quite simply, I find your written manner contemptuous.
I’m sure you must reread some of your posts in a haze of distinct pride.

Please don’t be offended, it’s just I find the persona you portray here as ugly.
Ignored herewith, suggest one doth do same.

 

Our dear leaders’ glorious achievement of a world-leading 122,000 tests includes tens of thousands posted out but not yet received or with a result. All hail the dear leaders.

 

Scientific point with no comment:-
They have taken 100,000 tests yesterday (well done, that is what Matt Hancock promised)
How many have they processed?
How many results are out now?

 

73k. The other 39k are in the post somewhere. Lucky postmen.

 

Delighted to confirm we’ve surged past Djibouti and now closing in on Venezuela and Aruba.

 

Meanwhile over here, we just had our address from the stand-in Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. I have tried to summarise what he said below.

The current restrictions have to be extended from 5th till 18th May as new cases and death rates are still too high but they have improved greatly recently. Over 70's will be allowed leave their homes and end the cocooning from this Tuesday. The 2KM limit for exercising is to be extended to 5KM.

From 18th May, there will be a 5 step easing of the restrictions - 3 weeks apart up to 10th August. At any stage, we may not proceed from one stage to the next if the rate of new infections increases.

The first step involves allowing outdoor workers, construction/landscapers etc to return to work. DIY/Garden Centres/Repair businesses would be allowed to reopen then. Small gatherings of family members will also be allowed at this stage. Non contact sports would also be allowed. Schools and Colleges won't reopen again until September/October.

He didn't elaborate on what stages 2-5 would be.

Government formation talks to conclude fairly shortly. It is looking like a combination of Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and the Green party will make up the government with Micheal Martin as the new Taoiseach as nobody will form a coalition with Sinn Fein.

 

**** you !!!!
You really are an arrogant fool.
I find you as as ugly and contemptuous in your written manner, you are warned one more post insinuating I’m a racist, a homophobic, or an Islamaphobe and legal action will ensue.
I will not tolerate you or your kind insinuating I am something I’m not,
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

 

Only because Yorkshire is a state of mind not a race

 

Gods county my friend. Men are men and the women are men!

 

Chelsea are ****s

 

Well, I thought it was kind of odd that my Mum wasn’t on the vulnerable list when it was announced. She’s 80, and about 4 years ago had major heart surgery (on a heart lung machine while they fixed her aorta which was on course to burst). She is also frequently short of breath (undiagnosed though not without trying).

Yesterday she got a letter (posted a week ago) saying that actually she is on the list, and shouldn’t go out. Bit late, especially if she was a nervous type. Fortunately she isn’t. Her response was ‘**** that’ (a direct quote), I’ll go mad if I don’t go out. She wears her mask (fully aware that it is a placebo) in shops and has a little stroll in the open air every day. She has friends who haven’t been out for seven weeks and she is concerned for their mental health.

Any raising of restrictions which tells elderly people they are under house arrest is an affront to civilisation. Tell them the risks let them make their own decisions.