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I do. Just that the timings and therefore benefits are different (we’ve missed the boat with a couple of the more beneficial steps/actions)

Now I would be weird or smart if I knew the answer to that mate

I’ll take being weird and smart in the same paragraph (not particular either though) I’ve tried (and possibly failed) to explain why I don’t see there is much benefit of doing certain things now or why they would be almost impossible (quarantining every returning flight). I also commented that...

As I’ve said I was responding to the suggestion of now quarantining of all returning flights to the UK (not what could/should have been done in the past)

Ive not said anything about cargo. Just the ability for us to quarantine tens or hundreds of thousands of repatriated UK citizens (and all the pilots and flight attendants after each flight) therefore making quarantining nigh on impossible

SK have been spot on to date (only time will tell if they can restrict the spread longer term) and have been the best example of how to handle it from what I’ve seen. They haven’t just taken a different approach to our government though, it’s pretty much different to the whole world. In terms...

Slightly different to quarantining every retuning flight though. Which is what I was responding to. Even if you do take temperatures on individuals returning, if someone’s got it you’d have to quarantine whole flight, staff etc as you don’t know who’ve they been in contact with. Also it...

I did comment about countries with similar cases levels but even so I refer to my previous comments regarding the case numbers here and the measures put in place (would agree with you if we weren’t in lock down). If you were to quarantine each flight, all the airline staff would also have to be...

Definitely would’ve been simpler. I’d wonder how many businesses would’ve still made people redundant with the UBI though ? I believe the scheme is trying its best to allow/encourage businesses to retain staff and mothball for (hopefully only) a three month period ps not a perfect scheme and...

Points the same, whether it’s tens or hundreds of thousands. If people are following government measures on arrival there appears little benefit in setting up large quarantining centres now (would agree with you if we weren’t in lockdown)

The banks were trying to take the piss with the government backed loans, hopefully sorting themselves out now as it was unacceptable

nothing to do with party (I’ve voted for both main political parties on more than one occasion - I ignored the Tory comments as I took them in jest). I just have a balanced view on wider matters, appreciate some of the challenges and try to focus at some of the positives rather than trying to...

There are apparently hundreds of thousands of UK citizens that might have to be repatriated (as per gov briefing earlier in the week).

I’ve spoken to four companies directly that are all furloughing staff, each to their own though. Nobody’s said there aren’t issues with the other stuff. Ventilators are due to be delivered next week and by all accounts we haven’t breached capacity (yet) - I think we will in certain locations as...

Yes. We already probably have hundreds of thousands of cases here, we have measures which mean people shouldn’t be leaving their house anyway and if they have symptoms they should be self isolating for at least 7 days. So what’s the point in setting up big quarantining facilities for the...

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...