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But if the private sector do run it more 'efficiently' (usually meaning cut corners to cut costs and thus a poorer service) then the cost savings are lost to private sector profits. So instead of a better health service you get richer rich people. If it's NFP then that could be fine. But it...

But I think there's probably a fair few who are also glad of it. Unfortunately when Trump throws his toys out of the pram and stops funding etc reaching the states in a hissy fit it's the state that will suffer, and then Trump and his cronies will say look at how bad they did in combating it...

He didn't ask that. He asked if you'd had the money through yet, which by your failure to address the question is......no, you haven't. Although I expect you'll be the first to receive it as you've been given special access to apply before the system is even fully set-up.

By asking how I think you're going to respond....and thus sidestepping you saying that ICU staff didn't need face masks. But should you actually try and answer the question as to why they don't need facemasks I've got excuse/reason No.1 in mind. And no I'm not revealing any clues.

I don't. Maybe I'm a Foreigner.

Then how about this? I've got an inkling how you're going to respond but it'll be interesting to see if I'm right....

It'd be great if we didn't, but I'm prepared for the likelihood we will. It would be good to start seeing the figures start to decline soon, but I think we've still got a little way to go yet unfortunately.

Yesterday you used a single person (Chris Smith) to suggest PPE equipment wasn't effective. And that you took massively out of context as he was talking specifically about the general public, not frontline NHS staff.

People have been furloughed. Getting the money from the scheme is a totally different matter. That can't be known until it actually happens.

Well let us know when you actually receive the money back off the government. A month ago people were confident there'd be no problem with Covid19. As with anything in politics, you believe it when it happens, not when they say it will happen.

I've not really looked at the scheme but I do have some questions. Firstly, how can you 'know' all those using the scheme will be re-imbursed? That can only be confirmed when the money is actually received from the government and it's not like governments before have made promises and then not...

Although I am loath to back up Patel in any way, shape or form, her error was just one of stumbling over her words rather than just getting her actual figures wrong. So I don't expect her to get quite as much grief over it as Abbott. If she does though it would be quite instructive as to where...

So why are so many in charge of the wards desperately requesting it? Are there studies proving it's ineffective and thus stop us wasting time and money on it? I'm getting images of that Blackadder episode with Tom Baker on whether a ship needed a crew. "Opinion is divided on the subject. All...

Which is interesting as it supports a misogynistic/racial element to the criticsm given that the two couldn't be more polar opposites politically but she's had a stronger reaction than the male in her political party who made a far bigger error.

We've done eleventy billion tests. It was just a slip-up and there's far more to criticise her for. However it will be interesting to see the reaction to it as Abbott's was supposedly all because she's a woman and/or ethnic minority, boxes Patel also ticks. Will she get the Abbott treatment...

Because this is NOT normal times. It's not wasting PPE, it's following the guidelines to stay protected (both themselves and the people they care for.

While I get what you're saying it is effectively trying to shift blame from government failings onto the health workers. According to guidelines the PPE should be changed for every patient due to fear of cross infection etc and while that would not appear to be feasible it is NOT the health...

But was he doing it to the tempo of the Archers theme tune?

Deflecting. Instead of investigating this (I wonder if people caught this disease in the place which is filled with people with it that they have to be very close to to treat them or elsewhere) how about investigating where the fuck all the PPE and ventilators you supposedly had on order have...

Without doubt that's his MO. The frightening thing is how many people believe him, and even worse when it's pointed out his revisionist take on things with old tweets/comments they still refuse to believe he was ever wrong or changed his rhetoric.