Gov stats for nursey https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures...ness/workforce-diversity/nhs-workforce/latest
Admin 2 mate Ya have to laugh but when the lockdown ends those sheds arent going to build themselves, you'll be in clover Blighty & Ireland have turned into islands full of ****ebags
http://inproportion2.talkigy.com/ TL;DR etc Seasonal Flu/respiratory illnesses strike every year. Compared to a typical epidemic, the current Covid-19 pandemic is hitting the UK badly. However, since 1995 in England and Wales, there have been five seasons that were worse (measured in terms of cumulative deaths, all causes, weeks 49 to 15) - updated 2020-04-21. Draconian lockdowns were not considered necessary then, why are they now? Share on: Twitter / Facebook please log in to view this image Note: Updated 2020-04-21 using the latest data released by the Office for National Statistics and Public Health England, complete to 2020-04-17. Numbers will be lower than those given in daily government press releases as all figures here exclude Scotland and Northern Ireland. They also exclude estimated deaths between 2020-04-17 and the most recently announced. For overall mortality, recent weeks have not been as bad as some previous flu seasons The week ending 2020-04-17, was a bad week 18,516 people died. However, since 1996 there have been three weeks in previous years which were worse. please log in to view this image [Click image to enlarge] The lockdown may not be helping If you compare Sweden with the UK, it looks as if the lockdown may not be helping It is taken by many for granted that the lockdown will save lives by slowing the spread of the virus - including those who build the computer models used to forecast and set Government policy. This may not be true. In the UK strict lockdown measures were imposed on 2020-03-23. Sweden did not impose a lockdown. Sweden has done well compared the UK. please log in to view this image In other countries too, stringent lockdowns tend to be linked to higher infection rates Sweden may be doing better than the UK because it is less densley populated. It is therefore useful to compare with more countries. The Oxford University Coronavirus Government Response Tracker compares around 150 countries giving them a stringency score that reflects how strict a country's lockdown measures are. Oxford has plotted the stringency index against the number of Covid-19 cases for that country. For example, Taiwan (TWN) despite its proximity to China has low number of cases (at time of writing only 6 Covid-19 deaths) associated with one of the least stringent lockdowns. The trend line indicates that stricter lockdown measures are associated with an increased spread of the virus: please log in to view this image Many experts advise that strict lockdown is not the best policy Dr Krause Dr Montgomery Dr Bhattacharya Dr Schabas German Network for Evidence-Based Medicine Dr Tegnell Dr Bhakdi Dr Brownlie (Vet) SOURCES please log in to view this image Dr Gérard Krause head of Department for Epidemiology at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection in Braunschweig "We have to keep these serious social measures as short and as low as possible, because they could potentially cause more illnesses and deaths than the coronavirus itself." [1] Could it be that the lockdown is a cause of excess deaths in the short-term? In the long term, there will be a price to pay for the lockdown in terms of damage to the economy and in knock-on effects to health and mortality. Everyone expects this. However, it may be that the impact of the lockdown is already having a measurable impact on mortality! In the weeks ending 10th and 17th April, compared to the 5 year average, an excess of 4390 deaths occured not attributed to Covid. In these two weeks, 25,215 people died from causes other than Covid-19 - the extra non-Covid deaths would represent about a 20% increase on average deaths. Did some of the 4390 die as a result of reducing the delivery of normal hospital services due to the lockdown? Are thousands already paying for the lockdown with their lives? (See discussion of this here) please log in to view this image England and Wales. The following chart shows the proportion of weekly deaths that are due to Covid-19 in the context of total deaths in the same time period during 2000, when the peak overall mortality of the worst weeks exceeded what we have seen so far in connection with Covid. please log in to view this image [Click image to enlarge] Europe In the following chart, downloaded from Euromomo on 2020-04-16 you can see overall mortality in a European context up until 2019-04-10 - that is deaths from any cause, including COVID-19. Overall deaths in Europe are represented by the green line. Notice that Europe remains in a better position than it was at the worst of the 2016/17 flu season. This raises the question: why are we taking such unprecedented measures with quarantines and shutdowns now when this was not necessary then? Overall European Mortality is better than it was in the 2016/17 please log in to view this image [Click image to enlarge] Is the cure worse than the disease? To deal with the threat of COVID-19 the UK Government has ordered unprecedented shut-downs and quarantines, and many support this in the spirit of "better safe than sorry". However, this overlooks the fact that shutdowns and quarantines also kill. The economic, social and health costs will almost certainly include: Earlier deaths for cancer sufferers due to diagnosis and treatment delays Business failures leading to more business failures Job losses leading to poor health, social problems and suicides Fewer taxpayers available to fund an increasing need for social benefits Reduced funding for the NHS and the rest of the public sector Lost educational opportunities and disruption to exams and graduations Inflation as Government "prints" and "borrows" more, while tax revenues fall Pension values reduced by stock-market crashes Reduced life expectancy for people moving deeper into poverty Or in the words of a former UK Supreme Court Judge: "The real question is, is this serious enough to warrant putting most of our population into house imprisonment, wrecking our economy for an indefinite period, destroying businesses that honest and hard-working people have taken years to build up, saddling future generations with debt, depression, stress, heart attacks, suicides and unbelievable distress inflicted on millions of people who are not especially vulnerable, and will suffer only mild symptoms or none at all?" former Supreme Court Judge , Lord John Sumption, discussing the UK response to COVID-19, BBC interview 2019-03-30 [5] “All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences.” Albert Camus, The Plague
****ing hell, that means that there are nearly 87,000 of the lazy ****s they employ that aren't working.
Rachel Reeves has sent a letter to the Government criticising PPE procurement to date and attaching what she insists is a helpful list of companies offering to help supply the national effort. Closer inspection shows the letter to contain duplicate providers, and be include some less than helpful, Del Boy-ish time-wasting chancers. A football agent company run by a professional football agent offering to provide “ventilators”. Really? A historical clothing company offering to make up to 175 gowns a week – or fewer than one gown per hospital per week. Its products currently include a sixteenth century silk bodice. Gowns need to be single use and made to advanced, exacting specifications from specific fabrics. Guido’s not sure this is where the Government should be spending time chasing up… A lady called Bella Gonshorovitz who makes clothes to measure and has a Go Fund Me page offering to make up to 500 gowns a week. Just under 1.5 per hospital per week. Does she really have the medically approved resources for this specialist task? The Whent, a Company that exists to reduce dependence on plastic, peculiarly offering to produce tests and also gloves. Medical gloves must be made to exacting specifications and are largely made of plastic. The company currently makes canned mineral water but is now offering to make Covid tests… An events company in Surrey offering “supplying masks and respirators from China”. The companyclaims to provide the “ultimate corporate day experience…[with] delicious cuisine from sushi to sandwiches, hot and cold buffets, BBQ, breakfast, snacks and lunch”. Great, just no mention of advanced medical equipment like respirators… A private legal practice in Birmingham with only two employees and no website offering to provide scrubs and gowns. How?.. A provider of ‘wholesale electronic and telecommunications parts and equipment’ that doesn’t appear to be an active company has offered to provide 250,000 plastic aprons and masks as well as hand sanitiser. They don’t even have a website… One company only incorporated in February 2020 that has only one director and shareholder. There’s no evidence of it ever having conducted any business…
French researchers are planning to test nicotine patches on coronavirus patients and frontline health workers after a study suggested smokers may be much less at risk of contracting the virus. And alcohol disinfects, so get them pubs open. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-smokers-at-lower-risk-of-getting-coronavirus
My fault,I said there might be 100,000 Irish working in the NHS,was a bit out,13,000 in 2018 as Simon pointed out and that's were his 87,000 comes from.
