Off Topic Coronavirus

Just aswell mate cos you only have 2 hands

 

I struggle to ‘stand up’ to Rachel Riley these days, mate...

 

She's let herself go after that pregnancy. You do the maths

 

I still would though

 

Do the maths?

 

Lucky girl.

 

Reckon the bloke Hitchens P retweeted (surely he has a young person do that for him) has got the headline right - we’ve ****ed it on both deaths and the economy. But we have spare intensive care beds!

 

Despicable, and surely culpable of murder or manslaughter if the **** is found....

UK rail worker dies of coronavirus after being spat at while on duty

Family of Belly Mujinga, a ticket officer in London, voice concerns over lack of PPE


The family and friends of a railway ticket office worker who died of coronavirus after being spat at while on duty say the incident raises serious questions for her employer.

Belly Mujinga, 47, was working on the concourse of Victoria station in south-west London on the morning of 22 March when a man who said he had Covid-19 spat and coughed at her and a colleague. Within days of the assault, both women fell ill with the virus.

Mujinga, the mother of an 11-year-old girl, Ingrid, was admitted to Barnet hospital and put on a ventilator but died on 5 April. Her cousin Agnes and a colleague who witnessed the incident said Mujinga had pleaded against working outside the protection of the ticket office without PPE.

They alleged her employers, Govia Thameslink, knew she had respiratory problems but still insisted she work on the concourse and interact with passengers. They claimed she was also sent back to work on the concourse after the spitting incident despite physically shaking with the trauma of what had happened.

A colleague who witnessed the incident said: “We begged not to go out. We said ‘our lives are in danger’.”

But she said they were told they had to go out.

“We were told that we are not even allowed to put on masks,” the colleague added. “Govia has behaved reckless and negligent. They have failed in their duty of care. We are treated like we are robots.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/12/uk-rail-worker-dies-coronavirus-spat-belly-mujinga

 

Right the next well paid media person who says ‘global pandemic’ will be hunted down, and when captured, taunted mercilessly.

 

Oh dear !!!! And what rights and freedom have been taken away (permanently) is the question, next you’ll be telling us that Covid19 is caused by 5G, you’ll probably suggest that Boris is useless next !!!

 

Yep strangely I’m allowed to claim on the 15th as well !

 

It isn't - and he is

 

Think they are staggering it to save the system overloading. A few of my mates have different times and dates

 

How did she get on with the actual test mate ?
I was offered to have one last week but kindly declined as I couldn’t face sticking the swab up my nose or down my throat. I understand you have to go pretty deep in

 

Am I correct in thinking your daughter tested positive and you all self isolated?
Was your wife tested when your daughter was 999s.

 

If the tests were accurate (big assumption I know) do we think an infection rate of about 0.1% is good? I suppose given the business of the Marsden they would have been very rigorous about preventing spread because of how vulnerable their patients are, so it looks pretty good to me. Would be interesting to test everyone in a particular community to get a sense of prevalence outside managed environments.

 

Precisely Hitchens P's point. If the measures taken have been to minimise deaths, then they've failed against their own arbitrary target of 20,000 being 'acceptable'. They've certainly shafted the economy big time, so altogether not a particularly impressive performance, eh?

What is true, however, is that we'll not really understand the real excess deaths over and above the norm until all this has gone away and the numbers can be properly crunched.

I have no idea whether a government of a different livery would've fared any better in its management of this crisis, but one would have to be irretrievably entrenched in the Blue if one still believed the Tories had done a cracking job on all of this. So many inconsistencies and so much lack of clarity. If there is an overall honest strategy here, then they've failed to articulate it to the great unwashed. I'd say the only thing they've got largely right is the financial measures taken to ease the burden on those unable to work... but there are obvious issues here (as described by contributors here) as one size simply cannot fit all.

 

Lack of testing in Northern Ireland putting whole Island of Ireland at risk......

Seems we have different guidelines from the North which is a bit daft...….

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/coro...jeopardy-–-expert/ar-BB1414gU?ocid=spartandhp