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Ancient Citizen said:
Done that, starting on the garden implements later.
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self-sufficiency beds ready for planting!!!
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everythingchangesbutblue said:
She just seems to revel in it. This morning she is talking about 14 transport workers dying. Now anyone with feeling will know that these workers are selflessly working helping key workers get to work and that a number of people in any profession will have died whether it be transport workers or DJ's but she asks the bloke thats on "why are your workers dying?" like he is just leaving them to die. She is callous and unfeeling.
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Piers Morgan was no better on GMTV this morning with the Mayor of London, I understand he has the right to question him but for me he went to far.
 
kevin horlocks wand said:
All journalists are the same. They were the same in the financial crash and brexit. They want to be superstars .

They don’t give a shit. They use words like crisis , unprecedented the worse it gets for everyone else the better it is for them . We will always need news in times like this and more news than normal and some of them absolutely relish inflating their massive fucking ego to be the self appointed expert who must take the limelight for the country.

burley,
Morgan
Peston

are the three worst.

edit: it won’t be that long if we are locked down further for peston to use the phrase , if this goes on much longer the economic impact will be harsh and sources close to me have indicated there could be a run on the banks .
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I agree those three are the worst and you can add Kuenssberg to that list. There are a few good ones not full of their own self importance like Sarah Hewson, Anna Jones and Sophie Ridge on Sky.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
My interpretation is that we lost the month of February where we should have been carrying out urgent planning for testing and procurement of test kits/PPE and ventilators.
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That was my take too from the article.

Have started to notice the first few rumblings of shifting some blame from this onto scientists. It seemed to me though that the government also had it's own ideas
 
BlueAnorak said:
Hospitals across the land are being (or have been) reconfigured to separate COVID-19 and imune deficient patients (mainly cancer related) by location.
My daughter (registrar) found it astonishing how a bureaucracy famed for filling in documents in triplicate could push through the moving of cancer and children's services to a different hospital in two days flat.
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Interesting, isn't it?!

It does go to show that there's a well executed plan to keep hospitals on the brink of needing/ desperation for it to function.
By denying the service it needs and forcing more work on the few shoulders left to bear the brunt, the NHS has been forced on its knees.

I hope to goodness people see how important services to the people are. This includes teachers etc., as well.

I'm afraid it's inevitable to make this political, but this has been shouted about for years.

I, myself with others, have been saying what an important issue this is to fix and less important issues have taken its place.

That's not, and has never been, right.
 
I have a real dislike for the blame culture that exists in the media, this morning i have seen interviews that have been little short of personal attacks against the person put in front of the camera.

We need to remember that this is a global pandemic, while nobody should be above critism the venom in some lines of questioning disgusts me.

The last thing that anyone could level at me is that of being a Tory but i put my hands up and say that i believe they have done an excellent job in my opinion, yes they have made mistakes and in hindsight may have done some things differently but that is understandable.

Just look at that baffoon over the pond, only weeks ago he was down playing the who crisis and today he is slagging off the WHO for being to slow to react. Even though they were warning him and he took little notice.
 
abu13 said:
I have a real dislike for the blame culture that exists in the media, this morning i have seen interviews that have been little short of personal attacks against the person put in front of the camera.

We need to remember that this is a global pandemic, while nobody should be above critism the venom in some lines of questioning disgusts me.

The last thing that anyone could level at me is that of being a Tory but i put my hands up and say that i believe they have done an excellent job in my opinion, yes they have made mistakes and in hindsight may have done some things differently but that is understandable.

Just look at that baffoon over the pond, only weeks ago he was down playing the who crisis and today he is slagging off the WHO for being to slow to react. Even though they were warning him and he took little notice.
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Not even 10am but a strong contender for hypocritical post of the day.
 
Bigga said:
Interesting, isn't it?!

It does go to show that there's a well executed plan to keep hospitals on the brink of needing/ desperation for it to function.
By denying the service it needs and forcing more work on the few shoulders left to bear the brunt, the NHS has been forced on its knees.

I hope to goodness people see how important services to the people are. This includes teachers etc., as well.

I'm afraid it's inevitable to make this political, but this has been shouted about for years.

I, myself with others, have been saying what an important issue this is to fix and less important issues have taken its place.

That's not, and has never been, right.
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The Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) had a network of 50 laboratories. They were largely closed down leaving is with a handful of major labs (one of which is in Manchester).

That's why the UK is struggling to get its testing regime up and running unlike Germany.

Government is simply reacting and watching. They need to get ahead of the curve and instigate a mass-testing plan. If it required overseas technology so be it.
 
Marvin said:
The Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) had a network of 50 laboratories. They were largely closed down leaving is with a handful of major labs (one of which is in Manchester).

That's why the UK is struggling to get its testing regime up and running unlike Germany.

Government is simply reacting and watching. They need to get ahead of the curve and instigate a mass-testing plan. If it required overseas technology so be it.
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Quite right. Mass testing and tracing has to be the way forward out of this. Once they ease the lockdown they need everyone to get an app on their phone which, in effect, says ‘hello’ to other phones it encounters. If someone tests positive and they’ve been in close proximity to your phone, you’ll get an alert saying you need a test, that day. I’m probably making it sound more complicated than it is, but it’s the way to open the economy up again.
 
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