COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Sir peace frog]

Half of Essex is in Dubai at the moment and they still have mad figures.

Every flight we do to dubai is full, they will go over there because its "safe" party with the other people from all around Britain and the world, then come back and spread all sorts, they should ban all entry into the UK for a month

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

The covid-19 app does suggest that going for a walk around the block is now not allowed though?

Exercise and recreation​

People can also exercise outdoors or visit some public outdoor places, such as parks, the countryside accessible to the public, public gardens or outdoor sports facilities. You can continue to do unlimited exercise alone, or in a public outdoor place with your household, support bubble, or with one other person if you maintain social distancing. You should follow the guidance on meeting others safely.
From the Tier 4 guidance.

Living safely with respiratory infections, including COVID-19

Guidance for living safely with respiratory infections, including coronavirus (COVID-19).

www.gov.uk

 

[tonea2003]

5 of 14 at the exs crazy chritsmas gathering have has positive tests back. headaches, no smell, exhaustion and mixture of coughs. still awaiting more tests.

what's she had to say for herself mate? potentially putting your family and others at risk

 

[East Level 2]

At least we always get beat to the “biggest shitshow“ award by the yanks.

Are our deaths per million much different to theirs?

 

[Blue Maverick]

RAMC?

What’s that mate?

 

[Blue Maverick]

booked flights to Tenerife in September and currently Spain say you have to have a 72 hour negative test result do we have that coming here?

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Does anyone seriously think all members of the government are not doing their very best in the interest of our country?

Me. The entire PPE procurement will testify to that, as will the testing fiasco.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

and you get poster after poster blaming the GOV or individuals.
The worst posters are those that say "we should have", "it was obvious"
Every thing is easy after the event, I should have bet 0-0 in the Livarpool match tonight, it is so easy after.

To anyone who’s attended, Cheltenham going ahead was an exercise in unadulterated insanity and I said so at the time.

 

[ganganvince]

What’s that mate?

Royal Army Medical Corps

The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is responsible for maintaining the health of servicemen and women. The Corps is represented wherever British Soldiers are deployed, providing medical support to operations, exercises and adventurous training expeditions all over the world.

www.army.mod.uk

 

[Gabriel]

RAMC?

Think there are fewer than 2,000, and some would be elsewhere/serving the service, but I agree they could be deployed.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Population density + Too many dickheads + A failure to use mobile phone technology to enforce isolation (it breaches human rights and data privacy rules apparantly) + Baked in PHE and NHS incompetence for the most part.

Changing the team on the bridge would make zero difference

Deploying the term ‘zero difference’ is absurd. Different people making the decisions would have led to different outcomes; possibly ‘better’, possibly ‘worse’. This is manifest. In fact, what your statement implies that if someone had been making the decisions with the intention of causing more harm to the population it would have made zero difference as the other factors to which you referred were so overwhelming in force that governmental input and leadership would have had no impact on the outcome. This is clearly nonsense.

Perhaps the truth is that all those factors, along with the quality (or otherwise) of governmental decision making, made a difference.

 

[blueparrot]

Think there are fewer than 2,000, and some would be elsewhere/serving the service, but I agree they could be deployed.

They could be, and along with, medical students and retired medical staff would be used if we had to use the Nightingales. The hope is we won't though. I'm no supporter of how the government have handled this, but like any insurance policy, it's better not to use it. At least in the case of Nightingales they took the policy out.

 

[Marvin]

Is Government partly culpable for the state of this outbreak?

Perhaps all was in order but at face value I think most people would have been very alarmed at the correlation of a variant and fast-growing clusters.

 

[route46]

I would just like to wish everyone a happy New Tier

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Not sure why the vaccine is approved and we have to wait 5 days to start rolling it out? Ok its NYs day and a weekend. But a delay of 5 days is likley to result in thousands of deaths in a few weeks time. Surely this should be 24/7 day operation. As a country we should have been preparing for this day for months. There must be thousands of qualified and experienced people who are not currently working on the frontline in the NHS with not much else to do at present that could have been utilised to start vaccinating people and these are certainly thousands of premesis's that could be utilised to vaccinate people. You could pay pub and restaurant owners for a start? Doesnt seem to be an awful lot of urgency.

 

[worsleyweb]

what's she had to say for herself mate? potentially putting your family and others at risk

we don’t speak! All through kids. No apology - fuck all.

 

[NeilYoungIsBack]

Not sure why the vaccine is approved and we have to wait 5 days to start rolling it out? Ok its NYs day and a weekend. But a delay of 5 days is likley to result in thousands of deaths in a few weeks time. Surely this should be 24/7 day operation. As a country we should have been preparing for this day for months. There must be thousands of qualified and experienced people who are not currently working on the frontline in the NHS with not much else to do at present that could have been utilised to start vaccinating people and these are certainly thousands of premesis's that could be utilised to vaccinate people. You could pay pub and restaurant owners for a start? Doesnt seem to be an awful lot of urgency.

It's a huge and complex logistical exercise. I imagine some people would be very quick to whinge about incompetence if they cut corners and the vaccine, staff or invitees to be vaccinated aren't all in the right place at the right time in every single location.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Not sure why the vaccine is approved and we have to wait 5 days to start rolling it out? Ok its NYs day and a weekend. But a delay of 5 days is likley to result in thousands of deaths in a few weeks time. Surely this should be 24/7 day operation. As a country we should have been preparing for this day for months. There must be thousands of qualified and experienced people who are not currently working on the frontline in the NHS with not much else to do at present that could have been utilised to start vaccinating people and these are certainly thousands of premesis's that could be utilised to vaccinate people. You could pay pub and restaurant owners for a start? Doesnt seem to be an awful lot of urgency.

This is an unprecedented situation,all normality has ceased to exist.....it wouldnt exactly be outlandish to believe that should include bank holidays and weekends.

More evidence of incompetence and amateurishness from this joke of a Govt.

 

[FantasyIreland]

It's a huge and complex logistical exercise. I imagine some people would be very quick to whinge about incompetence if they cut corners and the vaccine, staff or invitees to be vaccinated aren't all in the right place at the right time in every single location.

How would working 24/7 to make sure its properly tested and rolled out be cutting corners?

 

[NeilYoungIsBack]

How would working 24/7 to make sure its properly tested and rolled out be cutting corners?

We are past the testing stage and are talking about the logistics of distributing millions of does of vaccine that was only approved a few days ago.

What is the most complex logistics exercise you have been involved with?