COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Gelsons Dad]

Unfortunately absolutely everything about the government's strategy has been reactive. And when they have finally acted they've been disorganised and often taken the wrong option. We are going to keep falling behind other countries, even ones who had less warning than ours, and our economy will suffer as a result. The best way to get the economy moving is to manage the virus response properly. That's the government's job.

The government is still focused on short term gains. They've struggled to get contact tracing in place but still want to rush teachers back so that the kids' parents can be rushed back soon afterwards. Doing this will harm the economy even further in the long term if we risk a second spike that is worse than in other countries.
There's a ceiling on how far you can get trampling all over the poorest in society in order to further your economy. We need something that protects everyone from the bottom up right now and unfortunately the Tories are completely unfamiliar with that concept.

Difficult to be agile when you have big government. The wheels of motion take time to spin up. Just look at how many departments are concerned with health! That's a fuck load of civil servants to shepherd.

 

[Nellies left peg]

I see 3 people at Watford FC have tested positively for covid 19.1 player and 2 staff no wonder Troy Deeney is a bit reluctant to resume training. Can you blame him? If the premier league restarts and we have more cases players will be sueing the ass off the league if they are forced back under duress Now is the time for the whole country to stick together and get this thing under proper control. I agree hand sanitizers should be everywhere. I've seen more defibrillators than hand sanitizer stations. Fuck the sport for now, some things are far more important.

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

Keir starmer giving boris a grilling got to say im warming to the guy always asks the right questions boris was looking vexed.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Keir starmer giving boris a grilling got to say im warming to the guy always asks the right questions boris was looking vexed.

This surcharge is a disgrace for immigrant care workers and Boris says they helped save his life, but because it raises 900m its acceptable?????

 

[Gelsons Dad]

This surcharge is a disgrace for immigrant care workers and Boris says they helped save his life, but because it raises 900m its acceptable?????

But you have to look at it objectively. It is designed to make up for the short fall created by migrant workers who have never contributed being eligible for free healthcare from day 1. If you arbitrarily remove 1 category of migrant worker you have no argument against removing them all. You then have free healthcare for all migrants paid for by those who have contributed. Not a very amicable situation.

 

[ganganvince]

This surcharge is a disgrace for immigrant care workers and Boris says they helped save his life, but because it raises 900m its acceptable?????

But do you think its OK for non health workers?

 

[Mr Partridge]

Who are these experts? Only seen the cancer specialist fella Sikora say that, and even then he said it was just a hunch.

The thing is, should we be listening to "experts" at this stage? How can you be an expert on something that didn't exist 6 months ago?

Nobody really knows what this virus will do long term, it may have gone by winter or it may not, there may or may not be a second peak, and if there is it may or may not be worse than the first. The fact is we just dont know. And in my opinion neither does anybody.

Since the very beginning of this I have read something almost every single day that completely contradicts what I read the day before. And all from so called experts.

They're guessing, same as all of us.

 

[GornikDaze]

The thing is, should we be listening to "experts" at this stage? How can you be an expert on something that didn't exist 6 months ago?

Nobody really knows what this virus will do long term, it may have gone by winter or it may not, there may or may not be a second peak, and if there is it may or may not be worse than the first. The fact is we just dont know. And in my opinion neither does anybody.

Since the very beginning of this I have read something almost every single day that completely contradicts what I read the day before. And all from so called experts.

They're guessing, same as all of us.

I think there are more experts on here than the WHO have at their disposal

 

[Vic]

But do you think its OK for non health workers?

I had free health care without paying for it. And free National Health orange juice. I've paid plenty for it since in tax.

 

[ganganvince]

I had free health care without paying for it. And free National Health orange juice. I've paid plenty for it since in tax.

You are Boris and I claim my 50p good answer but not to the question I asked