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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    This pandemic was foreseen on 2015, when the government were presented with a detailed report outlining the steps they should take to prepare for that eventuality. In 2015, Jeremy Hunt [Health Secretary at the time] decided it would be too expensive, so shelved any preparations. In 2020, the...
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Because we’ve got members of the cabinet who own companies that make soft ware and apps.
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    I noted some pages back reference to the medics potentially having to make decisions regarding who is ventilated and who is not. This is not a political matter, but as in any major incident/accident or wartime the medics will make clinical decisions on whom they have the best chance of saving...
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    So far this week we've had over 20 flights into the UK from New York [which is particularly bad] & flights continuing from Spain, Italy & China. There has been no testing at airports and passengers have been given advice to self isolate. The Home Secretary has pushed to stop those flights but...
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    The support from the public is great, but my son as a Doctor on the Covid19 ward still doesn't have protective equipment. The utter incompetence of the authorities will lead to an increased loss of life amongst the medics and public.
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    Tubby - Lard XI

    Ernie Hunt?
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    The primary responsibility of any countries government is the safety and wellbeing of it's population......unless of course it's Donald Trumps country where the most important thing is to get him reelected.
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Same old banks. From 2008 onwards they were refinanced by the government with the direction to get money out into the "real economy". That basically means companies that make and do things. What did they do.....very little...they sat on the cash. I don't object to paying my tax to HMRC, but I...
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Until they keep spreading the virus across the country, as they move about building.
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    HS2 isn't shutting down round here. The workers there are definitely not self isolating, they are holding meetings and briefings with 10+ persons.
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    The test is about 70% accurate, so it might be worth having a couple if you at first test negative to be sure. This is what happened with Bolsinaro [Brazilian leader], he tested positive [which he didn't like], so he got a retest and was negative.
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Unlike you???
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    As I stated in my earlier post, we are responsible for the governments we have elected as a country. So clearly, you didn't read my post properly. I have a very specific interest in this subject, as my son is facing the daily threat of Covid19 without proper protection and we'll need him to be...
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    The wealth creators in our society are the risk taking entrepreneurs, but the people who generally gain most are the bankers and lawyers who feed off them. They’ve created a system for their own gain. Look at Parliament, it’s full of ex-lawyers, bankers and oxford/Cambridge graduates who studied...
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    As a country we got our priorities wrong. Look at the behaviour of government and people it’s been personal gain as the over riding culture.
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    My son is a Doctor on the Covid19 wards. He doesn’t have the right protective equipment. There is not enough ventilators and he and his colleagues expect to get ill. As a country we are woefully under resourced for what we are facing. This can be attributed to 10 years of under funding the NHS...
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    The issue for the UK is that we have 2.3 ICU beds per 1000 people, in Italy they have 2.9 ICU beds per 1000 people and they've been overrun. This has led to medics making decisions that people over a certain age or condition are just sent home to die, as they cannot cope. If we don't change our...
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Any governments primary responsibility is to keep it's population safe. That is defence and health, but the current trend is that we have done too little and now it could be too late. I can't believe that we haven't stopped flights into the UK from Iran, Italy, etc. The NHS has less capacity...
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