Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion

[bimble]

Yes, I was thinking it can't be reception/clerking for that money and must be IT or something.

It’s a reception job at the new excel center massive coronavirus hospital isn’t it? So risk money maybe.

 

[two sheds]

It’s a reception job at the new excel center massive coronavirus hospital isn’t it? So risk money maybe.

Would be an encouraging precedent if so, particularly for nurses

 

[Thora]

It’s a reception job at the new excel center massive coronavirus hospital isn’t it? So risk money maybe.

Isn't "helpdesk" an IT thing? I've not seen NHS reception jobs advertised as helpdesk roles before.

 

[bimble]

Yeah it’s weird. Just found the ad and it promises full ppe & sickness benefit as well. No mention of any skills required.

 

[editor]

Not in flats. At least not here. We have the black and green boxes but don't have to use the caddies for kitchen waste. (Thank fuck.)

OK, seeing as people can't stop posting about their personal recycling conditions from wherever they are in the country, I'm going to move the posts to that other thread. This is an important and useful thread, so let's keep in on topic, please.

*Update - all the recycling posts I found have been moved here:

COVID-19: Recycling and related subjects

Refuse of unopened food being a particular issue though - not just the overall amount. Yeah that is just wrong. Should at least split it down to recycle compost and packaging, the lazy cunts.

www.urban75.net

I don't like 'policing' content particularly, but it was one hell of a derail!

 

[teqniq]

Gove caught out lying again.

 

[circleline]

[/QUOTE]

Isn't "helpdesk" an IT thing? I've not seen NHS reception jobs advertised as helpdesk roles before.

Yes, definitely IT support role. Worked on loads of 'helpdesks' for other industries (sadly not at £37k) and this (sort of money) is definitely IT..

 

[teqniq]

Junior doctor takes Johnson to task

As a doctor I have to speak out: Johnson has contributed to thousands of deaths | Andrew Meyerson

The prime minister’s neglect of the NHS has resulted in too many tragedies. If he were a doctor, he would be struck off, says junior doctor Andrew Meyerson

www.theguardian.com

 

[elbows]

In December.

 

[teqniq]

Oops.

 

[Cid]

I’d add that I believe the courts would be extremely unwanted

Gove caught out lying again.

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Yeah my mum said that a couple of days ago one of the callers to R4's any answers was an epidemiologist who pointed out that actually the idea that the UK couldn't have enough tests, and couldn't rapidly step up production was a load of bollocks. Didn't raise it at the time because 'my mum heard on any answers' is probably the worst reference you can give... Actually I would have probably dug it out, but that would have involved listening to a full episode (may the lord preserve us).

 

[Raheem]

I’d add that I believe the courts would be extremely unwanted


Yeah my mum said that a couple of days ago one of the callers to R4's any answers was an epidemiologist who pointed out that actually the idea that the UK couldn't have enough tests, and couldn't rapidly step up production was a load of bollocks. Didn't raise it at the time because 'my mum heard on any answers' is probably the worst reference you can give... Actually I would have probably dug it out, but that would have involved listening to a full episode (may the lord preserve us).

Any Answers can be pretty hilarious sometimes. Indistinguishable from satire.

I would not trust it as a source of any sort of information whatsoever, though.

 

[Thora]

Apparently healthy 13 year old dies after testing positive:

Boy, 13, dies in London after testing positive for coronavirus

Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, thought to be youngest victim in England, died in the capital on Monday

www.theguardian.com

 

[donkyboy]

man. just a kid. dying without his family with him. so sad.

 

[Cid]

Julian Peto was the guy on any answers, professor at LSHTM, specifically a statistician and cancer epidemiologist... He was arguing that many labs could use their PCR machines (currently used for a vast array of purposes), enough to test everyone in Britain once/week. So I suppose a kind of lab crowd-sourcing.

About 28:50

 

[elbows]

Ice rink mortuary plan, just like Spain.

Coronavirus: Milton Keynes ice rink to be temporary mortuary

Planet Ice in Milton Keynes may be needed if there is a rise in coronavirus-related deaths.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[gentlegreen]

UWE Bristol's exhibition centre - (used to be HP's hard drive factory) - is being gutted and prepared to act as a hospital ...

 

[TopCat]

Ice rink mortuary plan, just like Spain.

Coronavirus: Milton Keynes ice rink to be temporary mortuary

Planet Ice in Milton Keynes may be needed if there is a rise in coronavirus-related deaths.

www.bbc.co.uk

keep them cool

 

[teqniq]

Not sure if this has already been posted, but here's a statement from the company concerned:

 

[SheilaNaGig]

man. just a kid. dying without his family with him. so sad.

A Brixton lad. My heart crumpled when I heard the news.

 

[Mation]

Here we go. A solution! How we can save lives whilst preventing 6 months of lockdown. We'll be crying out for it.

Coronavirus: UK considers virus-tracing app to ease lockdown

Study describes how app would alert citizens if someone they came into contact with tests positive.

www.bbc.co.uk

And it's being proposed by academics, too. Definitely not by the Government. No.

The location-tracking tech would enable a week's worth of manual detective work to be done in an instant, they say.

But the academics say no-one should be forced to enrol - at least initially.

UK health chiefs have confirmed they are exploring the idea.

 

[Epona]

Here we go. A solution! How we can save lives whilst preventing 6 months of lockdown. We'll be crying out for it.

Coronavirus: UK considers virus-tracing app to ease lockdown

Study describes how app would alert citizens if someone they came into contact with tests positive.

www.bbc.co.uk

And it's being proposed by academics, too. Definitely not by the Government. No.

Yeah honestly I'd rather sit at home for the forseeable. It was bad enough when one of my colleagues turned on google tracking on my phone for a laugh- I freaked out when I received a "here is where you have been this month" report

 

[Mation]

It was bad enough when one of my colleagues turned on google tracking on my phone for a laugh- I freaked out when I received a "here is where you have been this month" report

That doesn't sound very funny

(My wow/wtf response was about what your colleague did, not about you preferring to stay home, btw. I'd rather stay home, too.)

 

[Epona]

That doesn't sound very funny

Oh all they did was tell it to log and send reports to me, it wasn't like they set it up to let them know where I was. The whole thing had a context to it that made it funny

 

[Mation]

What?

"The result showed that 59% of the 1.5 million people who participated and tested positive, noticed a loss of smell and taste."

Surely just 1.5 million who participated. If they tested positive too, then testing is vastly under-reported.

 

[bimble]

Christ. The words "even Trump" are trending on my twitter this morning because The President has just publicly criticised the UK's early strategy on this.



“If you remember they were looking at that in the UK and all of a sudden they went hard the other way because they started seeing things that weren’t good. They put themselves in a little bit of a problem..well you know it’s a concept, it’s a concept- if you don’t mind death.."

 

[kabbes]

That’s bizarre given that Trump hasn’t done anything different, having still not imposed any kind of lockdown

 

[cupid_stunt]

Of course it's bizarre, bizarre is his middle name.

 

[andysays]

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What?

"The result showed that 59% of the 1.5 million people who participated and tested positive, noticed a loss of smell and taste."

Surely just 1.5 million who participated. If they tested positive too, then testing is vastly under-reported.

There's a report on that study on the BBC website ATM, based on 400,000 people with symptoms, only a small number had positive tests.

 

[bimble]

What happened is probably that somebody tried to explain to him the herd immunity idea, as part of getting him to understand the numbers, just before he went on tv.