COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[BosnianBlue]

Totally agree the figure today is very strange and expect it to be some kind of blip

The only thing where I could see any reason for eventual hiding of real numbers today is because of Charles. Keeping a morale of a nation or something like that.

They are indeed pretty strange, it's a huge drop at this point of pandemic. Hopefully it's true.

BTW, I was thinking today about a scenario where Queen or some other royal would eventually die. It would be logistic and epidemiological nightmare in situation like this.

 

[MikeF]

Just watching newsnight and they mention plans of setting up field hospitals in Manchester and Birmingham, maybe being announced tomorrow in readiness but who the feck are manning these hospitals????

 

[BosnianBlue]

Just watching newsnight and they mention plans of setting up field hospitals in Manchester and Birmingham, maybe being announced tomorrow in readiness but who the feck are manning these hospitals????

From what I heard these makeshift hospital around the Europe are usually made for mild symptoms patients that need hospitalization, so the critical ones would have their own places in hospitals. So probably could do with any kind of health professionals.

 

[kaz7]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/healthy-dad-39-coronavirus-records-21748197

 

[MikeF]

From what I heard these makeshift hospital around the Europe are usually made for mild symptoms patients that need hospitalization, so the critical ones would have their own places in hospitals. So probably could do with any kind of health professionals.

Cheers for that

 

[Nightmare Walking]

My letter was from the NHS. Not sure if it was sent by the GP or elsewhere but it was on NHS paper. Just said similar to the text I got on Monday, about staying at home for 12 weeks, but went into a lot more detail.

Cheers mate. Will go and pick mine up tomorrow and see what it says. Seems I got lost between two systems. Any issue with my Crohns and I bypass my GP and deal with a specialist IBD team at the MRI. They decide on medication etc and then my GP just issues the follow up prescriptions. Looks like each party expected the other to issue the letter.
The doctor has probably issued a sick note. Don't suppose it makes much difference really.

 

[moggymoz]

The Ministry of Justice has also announced that 19 prisoners across 10 jails have been diagnosed with the infection, plus four prison staff across four jails and three prisoner escort and custody services staff

Meh

 

[Ohrodneyrodney]

Just watching newsnight and they mention plans of setting up field hospitals in Manchester and Birmingham, maybe being announced tomorrow in readiness but who the feck are manning these hospitals????

Just watched Newsnight myself and all I saw was a really irate woman constantly asking a man questions, and interrupting after 3 words of his answer, asking questions like "what do you mean by that", then of course interrupting again before he has a chance to reply. Really poor interviewing. Your task as an interviewer is not to try to score smart arse points but to give the viewer information and insight. She failed miserably.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Tim Martin is a grade A Cnut. Not paying his staff, not paying his suppliers... trying to open when told to close. I suspect Covid 19 may be his Gerald Ratner moment. Vile man with a horrid business model and a ruthless nasty employer.

Agreed. Absolute pond slime. Hopefully he will go bankrupt and I cannot remember wishing that on anybody before

 

[johnnytapia]

Agreed. Absolute pond slime. Hopefully he will go bankrupt and I cannot remember wishing that on anybody before

Whilst talking about self-serving, let's see what a certain poster said about our NHS last year:
I'm prompted to ask this after my daring to question junior doctors in another thread, and the general outrage such comments cause. It wasn't particularly bad this time, but generally, if anyone makes any negative comments about the NHS, they are treated like they've fucked the pope.

What is it that causes such reaction? Is it because the NHS employs SO many people that nearly everyone has a family member or friend or neighbour who works for them?

Any suggestion that the NHS could be improved by some change or other, is pounced upon. And god help anyone who suggests - shock horror - maybe the private sector could do some of the work!?! You'd be rounded up and shot if some had their way.

If the service the NHS gave was amazing, it would be easier to understand. But the waiting times are terrible, the availability of leading edge treatments and facilities "patchy" to downright poor. And the clinical outcomes for things like cancer, woeful. In short, it's pretty poor to be honest.

People who work there are all "angels" or "heros" or whatever. Despite the fact they *chose* to go into the profession and they get paid for doing so. They weren't press-ganged into it. But dare to suggest that some nurses are lazy sods for whom picking up crap off the floor or doing some other actually important task, is beneath them.

You go up to the average nursing station on the average ward and 3 or 4 of them will blank you for 10 minutes. If any shop treated you like that, you'd walk out. But when the NHS does it, they are marvellous.

Why no such love-in for the chemical engineering industry? How about passionately sticking up for airport security staff who do such an amazing job preventing those nasty terrorists?

Nope, the NHS is rank average at best, and the sooner people can stop romanticising and face up to the fact, the sooner we can start thinking about how we can get a better health service for all of us.