COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Chippy_boy]

Of course it isnt true

Did you miss the gist of this? The context was anyone in a residential nursing home. And that was what was apparently said by a local MP this morning.

 

[kaz7]

NHS awards digital contracts to help in coronavirus fight

People who fear they have the coronavirus will soon be able to see their GP digitally.

The NHS has awarded a series of emergency new digital contracts - with Doctorlink one of the technologies selected.

Patients will be able to talk to a doctor, receive clinical advice and get repeat prescriptions.

Rupert Spiegelberg, chief executive of Doctorlink, said: "COVID-19 is accelerating the need for healthcare systems to deploy scaleable technologies to ensure people can get access to healthcare in a timely fashion.

"Doctorlink is honoured to be part of the solution and combined with its online symptom assessment service will be working day and night in the coming days and weeks to supporting the NHS get this technology in to the hands of frontline GPs

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...g-as-uk-death-toll-continues-to-rise-11966657

 

[Barcon]

Some feral little fucks were spitting at the tram as my colleagues were trying to get off it this morning.
One of my colleagues has a mother who is dying (not virus related) in a hospice (one visitor at a time) and a father who was diagnosed with terminal cancer 3 weeks ago. Yet she is still going into work and trying to process new benefit claims.
These kids need rounding up and putting into boot camp. Or worse.

I read this yesterday and it's still bothering me today. Why are these scrummy little cunts spitting at you?

 

[SilverFox2]

It has always been the case that hard decisions are made with elderley patients,people just don't want to hear it,you did the best that you could as a son so don't worry about that lovely

Thanks for reply.

As you say there has always been a policy to sacrifice the elderly. I am questioning why this should be.
Is it financial or some sort of expectation that they have lived a good innings or is it something else?

 

[AlgarveBlu]

Well if this is socialism, then sign me up. This is impacting human society across the globe. Only essential businesses need to be kept funded and afloat.

Otherwise, households needs to be sustained with a universal amount until a vaccine is developed. My mortgage company just kicked the can down the street for three months when the payment holiday ends.

What then? Same goes for all these other initiatives. Three months pay, three months for this, three months for that.

I'm certainly no economist but why go £1trillion in the hole, if households in this country could get it instead and spend the money to essentially live, thus paying that cash directly back into the very economy it needs to keep afloat?

It's not as if people can go out and spend it on a holiday is it?

The solution you are proposing is commonly known as helicopter money or a helicopter drop by economists.

There are quite a lot of associated complex economic issues attached to helicopter drops.One of the more readily understood problems is that the government will have no assurances that the money that is dropped into peoples bank accounts will be used in the pursuit of generating economic activity to stimulate economic growth. People have a propensity to store and save in times of hardship. There are quite a few other issues but they become far more technical in relation to the impact on inflation/currency depreciations etc.

 

[1.618034]

I work for The Coop Group, they are spending millions installing extra walk in body storage/cold rooms at any and every funeral home that has the possibility of converting space. Garages, archive rooms, locker/changing rooms, any space that can be better served as being a cold room, is going to be one. The numbers are frightening. I’m looking at 11 branches now, £1.2m spend to create capacity for roughly an extra 700 bodies. And that’s just over 11 funeral homes, not all in the London area either. Coop has over 1000 branches.

Although that is hard to hear, it does mean that planning is happening. Let's just hope it won't all be needed.

 

[1.618034]

a phi and a pint?

They also did a mean soup and sandwich.

 

[kaz7]

Thanks for reply.

As you say there has always been a policy to sacrifice the elderly. I am questioning why this should be.
Is it financial or some sort of expectation that they have lived a good innings or is it something else?

Money,realistic outcome of treatment,distress to the patients of being away from their home/care home, also the hospitals are full of elderly people who have nowhere else to go and are taking a bed when they don't need it,it is called bed blocking,this is not a new thing,it has always happened,i can understand why that can't be allowed to happen at this time,i am hesitant to accept this blanket 75yr old cut off without seeing it for myself

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Both myself and my son have but not made any sense of the app yet.

I’m in the same boat. I could seem to find the get started pack either

 

[bluemoon32]

Classed as a key worker, just had a meeting and we're told we're staying open all through this and by the way, you all have to take a 20% pay cut but still put your health at risk every day.
We won't even get the 20% back at a later date, it's gone forever.
Cnuts