COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Deleted member 77198]

Captain Tom Moore's 100th Birthday Walk for the NHS Update

Cpt Tom Moore is walking 100 lengths of his garden for NHS Charities Together because our fantastic NHS workers are national heroes

4003%
£20,017,409.81
raised of £500,000.00 target
by 978329 supporters

I think that money needs to get to the NHS soon if the front line staff are being told to re-use PPE thus weekend!

 

[MCFC_ Phil]

So first they get blamed for using too much,they have been badly let down

Doctors and nurses have been advised to reuse pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) ahead of expected shortages this weekend - even if they are labelled as single-use.
The Department of Health has published advice for all NHS workers in light of impending supply issues, which the government has blamed on enormous worldwide demand for items such as masks and gowns

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...e-ahead-of-expected-weekend-shortage-11974895

Do you think they have been "badly let down"?

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

And also saying not to bother thinking about going away in the summer...

Hopefully it'll boost staycations. If not, UK tourism will be dead and buried. There's no way it'll sustain a summer shutdown.

 

[DrBlueBob]

The sake belongs to fuck, therefore it is; “for fuck’s sake”!

Quite what a fermented Japanese beverage has to with grammar is confusing me.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Natural World, BBC2 now - there’s a woman with wild Pangolins in her house and she’s carrying them around on her shoulder

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Natural World, BBC2 now - there’s a woman with wild Pangolins in her house and she’s carrying them around on her shoulder

Ain't we all.

 

[MCFC_ Phil]

Natural World, BBC2 now - there’s a woman with wild Pangolins in her house and she’s carrying them around on her shoulder

Bloody scapegoats those pangolins

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Natural World, BBC2 now - there’s a woman with wild Pangolins in her house and she’s carrying them around on her shoulder

It’s for the BBC3 show Pangolin Queen. The low budget U.K. version of Tiger King.

 

[SilverFox2]

Picking fruit is not easy and is quite a skill to do properly and quickly enough to meet demand. Having experienced fruit pickers is more beneficial to mass producers.

There will still be many farms who take up the offers from many British novice applicants and can use them well, if they are a farm who don’t need to supply in large quantities.

In Spain the fruit harvest is a once a year event particularly citrous fruits.

Other crops mean as many as 4 crops per season can be achieved so a full time job to lay irrigation tubes plough, plant then harvest. So not seasonal.

Incidentally Spain does not use EU labour but North African as cheap labour. In fact our local doctors which does blood tests just on wednesdays has normally 5 or 6 young Senegal person starting life working in Spain

 

[BlueAnorak]

The government has 100,000+ NBC suits.
Just the suits (not the masks or gloves) are better than gowns and can be cleaned and reused.
Why have these not been deployed just in case?
Our bureaucracy is just fucking useless.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Binmen are a real essential service at the moment - anyone know the best way to go about giving them a tip ? Doesn’t seem any real nationwide appeal to do this - was thinking just running out with fiver/tenner when I see them coming round. But not sure what the etiquette is.

 

[oakiecokie]

If that doesn't make @BlueHammer85 list, he might as well stop now

Fair play and well done to him.

 

[maccieblue]

Only thing I can think of is the government don't want the public taking the NHS masks by panic buying.

And to stop people buying them all to sell on at a vast profit

 

[maccieblue]

Or if in 10 years it makes your cock fall off. I am concerned about quick vaccines

If lockdown continues much longer my cock will probably fall off in the next 10 weeks

 

[davek1808]

If lockdown continues much longer my cock will probably fall off in the next 10 weeks

We had tablets for men like you in the army lol.

 

[johnnytapia]

The sake belongs to fuck, therefore it is; “for fuck’s sake”!

Incorrect use of semi-colon. Should be a colon. And, "For fuck's sake" - the "F" needs to be capitalised.

 

[Ric]

Binmen are a real essential service at the moment - anyone know the best way to go about giving them a tip ? Doesn’t seem any real nationwide appeal to do this - was thinking just running out with fiver/tenner when I see them coming round. But not sure what the etiquette is.

Tape it to the front of your bin and hope it doesn’t get nicked before they see it.

 

[crublue1]

That's because farmers want their loyal EU slaves, not a Brit that'll demand better rights and pay.

Know many farmers do you?

 

[crublue1]

Had a look at the farm picking jobs available and the pay is poor and any overtime paid is on a flat rate, there's also the accommodation to be paid out of any wages, I'd rather we all paid a bit more for our fruit and veg so that the pickers could get a better wage.

No wonder they are shipping planeloads of Romanians over.

If this is true it should not be happening. We can train our own people to pick fruit. We have a minimum wage structure in place. If it adds a few pence to fruit the government should subsidise it.
No risk of outside infections.
British people back to work.
No brainer

 

[BigBluey]

So they know what kills the virus?

I will refine my reply to say that there is no evidence that it's transmitted by blood products. Please check out their information literature.
Will be going to my appointment in May. Hopefully they will have the necessary social distancing in place.