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Portal was never going to be up and running (they said on announcement that it would be end April - that’s probably unrealistic but finger crossed). The government backed loans were due to plug the gap in short term. There can be genuine issues/concerns ie ventilators, PPE distribution and...

Has been for 2-3 weeks mate What’s the point in quarantining when we already have high numbers here (especially if they’re coming from lower confirmed case country) ? Everyone should self isolate with symptoms anyway and social distance if outside without symptoms

I think we have a bit (up to just over 8k from the initial 4-5k which I think the original per head comparison reflects) from conversions, private sector and army. Let’s see how many new purchased ventilators come through next week as indicated at today’s briefing and whether we end up breaching...

But worth also acknowledging some of the positives... The initial trace and track, 111, self isolate strategy that brought us time in comparison with many EU nations Continued strategy for all to self isolate rather than immediately go to GP/hospital may well also prove to be a decent move (and...

No, you can talk about it when you want and in particular raise the issues that are live now (PPE or if we were breaching ICU/ventilator capacity etc) but I’m just saying you can’t make sweeping statements on the governments overall performance when we don’t know the outcome. As I say you may be...

Bit of an exaggeration ROS and a bit early to make sweeping statements I’m not saying I disagree with some of the points you make and you might end up being proved right, but we won’t know for several weeks and months how the government has handled this overall (in particular in comparison with...

Agree shmmeee, stabilising/slowing the confirmed cases (which let’s be honest are hospitalised cases over here) over the next week or two has got to be the hope

Can’t get him off tinder and bumble apparently

We all were mate but realistically it’s unlikely to consistently drop for (I’m guessing) a couple of weeks as there will be a lag between the social distancing measures impacting the number of cases and in turn the number of deaths. All we can hope for in the meantime is for numbers to not get...

Scary but not a surprise unfortunately, especially with lower numbers over the last couple of days. Just got to hope this doesn’t start to increase exponentially (day on day).

Me neither. Interesting though

It’s also known that numerous have been totally asymptomatic or have very mild symptoms ps I know one person who’s 99% certain (according to NHS 111) she’s had/got it and cough still hasn’t gone away after a week, then again she hasn’t taken any medication

Yeah, I might be a touch biased but surely finishing the current season is more important than starting next. Who knows how things will develop over the coming months and who could say with any confidence/certainty that next season will be able to be completed as normal without any significant...

Yeah, I think it’s also what Fernando was suggesting ie it’s the the quantity of the initial viral load which could determine the severity of the symptoms (something to do with the immediate pressure a higher load puts on the immune system). Therefore there could be a significant difference in...

This is the problem with graphs though....saw the attached earlier in a guardian article and thought WTF (just didn’t look right)....think it’s exactly the same as Vallences though ! but because of the scale/squashed horizontal (days) axis the gradients look/are different so the reader could...

I prefer balanced viewpoint but noted about the presser request ;)

Slides that accompanied the presser (but we couldn’t see !) incase anyone’s interested https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/876889/FINAL_Press_Conference_Slides_20200330.pdf

Im guessing this is an order in principle (subject to passing tests etc)...heard it’s potentially for 17.5m now. They’re not lies. The papers jump on this stuff and rave about it one day (overselling it) and then get annoyed when it’s unlikely to happen for a few weeks (if at all). These tests...

It’s not false. It’s widely reported regarding their post mortem testing. Im not saying it’s a significant factor in the differences in the numbers of deaths but it will mean their numbers are unlikely to be wholly accurate ps my point was relating to the fact that there’s a difference between...

Agree, it’s way too early to judge how we are doing/coping.