Off Topic SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19

So your answer is to just stick him in a care home with coronavirus residents?

 

Parliament has resumed.

Some other hospital wards are reopening to start taking the appointment that were cancelled/postponed to begin to get through that backlog.

Building work on new houses to start next month.

Schools looking to be probably be back in June.

 

And your answer is to stick him in a hotel with no adaptations and no support. In a totally inappropriate setting

 

I'll give it a try, but I also tried it on Britbox which I subscribed too, and it says you are outside the UK so service now available. However the original VPN I was having issues with is working today.

 

What has been the impact on criminal activity during the lockdown?

Domestic abuse will be up, obviously, but I was thinking about drug trafficking? Probably been watching too much Narcos but if the supply has dried up there must be a lot of desperate addicts going through cold turkey?

 

My answer wouldn't be to stick him in an hotel if it was inappropriate and I apologise if I gave that impression.

 

I started back properly/as normal on Monday (had been working on my own and some evenings during lockdown) and every one was a lot more considerate of each other and in good humour. Not sure how long it will last.. I give it until tomorrow.

 

It's a good thing there are plenty of armchair critics. If people choose to go into politics, they know they will be making difficult decisions and need to be held to account. It's no good just clapping for the NHS on Thursdays and then voting in such a way that the NHS gets decimated when election time comes around. Quite frankly, Britain's political response to Covid-19 has been shambolic. Whether it would have been different under another party, who knows. What is clear is that countries which acted quickly and rigorously -- such as South Korea, New Zeland and Greece to name but three -- have fared much better.

 

It wasn't all bad. It might seem it now, but some things were done well. Your HMRC built and provided the furlough scheme that received and processed over 100k applications on the first day. Not sure any other country in Europe managed that.

 

South Korea used tracking, mobile phone gps, card transactions and cctv surveillance. I dont think that level of state control applies here, another something that "should" have been done to control this outbreak. But would it have been undone? I doubt it. Then again. Maybe another thing to be added to the changed world we emerge to.

 

Difficult decisions yes. Expecting a pandemic. Not so sure. We are becoming a country of blame merchants and this happened way before the outbreak.

 

**** off with your party political ****ing broadcasts on here. **** off with your ****ing blame game. This isn't the place for it.

We all have a job to do and it's not about supporting red or blue, it's about following guidelines from professional medics who you actually believe in.

Politics shouldn't even come into it.

 

If only it were that simple.

 

Almost certainly, it would have been catastrophically worse.

 

The NHS was 'weaponised' by the leader of one of out two main political parties (EM).

It continues to be so today, even before the pandemic.

As regards statistical comparisons, it's a fool's errand to take them too seriously, Even in our country there are big variations between cities and between different regions, Many factors are at play - not just 'government policy'.

I wouldn't trust China's stats at all (whatever happened to their 3 whistle blowers btw?), and plenty of others don't bear serious scrutiny (Russia for example).

Not all countries report deaths the same way, not all countries report honestly, as they have their own traditions of 'transparency' and state interference.

 

Not quite sure what you’re referring to but a pandemic has been the highest risk on the UKs risk register for several years.

 

The thing is Asterix, South Korea had had two practice runs with SARS and MERS. They know this was coming and planned accordingly. As soon as word spread in Asia they took action. The rest of the world didn't have the 'practice time' and have suffered accordingly.

 

MERS is still very active in some Middle Eastern countries.

 

Apart from the several days long test of its own plans for dealing with a pandemic that the UK Govt carried out in 2016?
Operation Cygnus?
That type of practice?