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blow darts?That would be a serious breach of the distancing guidance.
blow darts?That would be a serious breach of the distancing guidance.
I think you'd have to fire them from a hand-bellows. But yeah, OK, I'll authorise that.blow darts?
Rabb?
Are you watching yesterday's briefing?
Someone should stand behind him and tighten his tie every time he lies.No, I got it wrong - corrected it now (I do get confused between the two - it's the generic * young Tory face * - I must remember that Hancock looks a little bit less like he needs to loosen his tie when he's lying).
Some of the unexpectedly high French numbers were the belated introduction en masse of non-hospital deaths that had occurred up until that point. On some such days (April 2, 3) it was explicitly explained. On subsequent days, not, so I'm not sure whether it was more of the same.
That sounds right. This suggests they're still collating & introducing historical data so the high figures aren't accurate dailies.They started including care home (?) figures then, I think.
There was a question in the briefing a few days ago which related to why we aren't including all our deaths, where the response was that it wouldn't match international data.
The FT graphs, which spread deaths over 7 days (I think!) removed those figures, on that basis, a couple of days ago - we still look to be at a steeper curve than France.
Only my own reading of it all.
7 day moving average.The FT graphs, which spread deaths over 7 days (I think!)
I'll take that bet. £20 to the server fund or The Trussell Trust?
The counselling service I help run is looking quite hard at this - there has been a huge drop in the number of people attending, many of whom are uneasy about video/phone counselling, and we strongly suspect that they will return, along with a lot of people who have developed difficulties during lockdown, in a tsunami of demand, once this is over. On top of health professionals who will be burned out and experiencing PTSI/"moral injury", and people who have been bereaved, or developed anticipatory grief around severely ill friends or relatives.
Added to which, the local mental health support services have simply shut down, which means that there are quite a lot of moderate-to-severe cases out there who are currently unsupported, and who will remain that way until they become acute.
I am quite nervous about just how bad this could be. I mean, we'll handle it, but I very strongly suspect that we will be overwhelmed. And I am not optimistic about the possibility of the Trust providing commensurate funding
To further highlight just how fucking shit people are being with this. The little shop I work in took substantially more money than we do on a normal night before a bank holiday and we've been closing 3 hours earlier than normal since 'lockdown' started.
The social conscience in this country us utterly bizarre. Lots of lovely things like mutual aid and clapping for carers but 'oh, gotta keep buying shit because I don't know what else to do.' I can now, more than ever, see just how spot on Romero was in dawn of the dead with the zombies aimlessly wandering around a shopping mall.
Any who do we're treating. But the word from our liaison is that they're all either redeployed or awaiting redeployment - it may be that there are aspects of the service that are still operating, but certainly from the primary care point of view there doesn't appear to be anything. I was fairly surprised, to say the least.Is the local MH service not wfh?
What do you do with those who don't want phone/vid counselling? Will some accept a check in phone call at the same time as their usual session?
Novara just doing a show on how the media seem to be treating the higher death figures here as less serious than they treated the death figures in Spain and Italy. There is something odd about the coverage, like journalists have been instructed not to get people too worked up (and I am hypothesising that this might actually have happened).More deaths in the UK in one day than Italy and Spain's highest total.
Scary - when is this government going to get a grip on this?
Wonder how many D notices are flying around?Novara just doing a show on how the media seem to be treating the higher death figures here as less serious than they treated the death figures in Spain and Italy. There is something odd about the coverage, like journalists have been instructed not to get people too worked up (and I am hypothesising that this might actually have happened).
What do you mean like journalists being told to not tell us that 980 is a large number? Don’t think so. Think it’s more of a boiled frog thing, every days numbers so big and so little human detail that we don’t feel shock anymore.Wonder how many D notices are flying around?
D notices more likely on news of “demoralising” govt fuck-ups than data or figures. Would guess back channels to editors and owners of MSM channels being used to urge “responsible” coverage in the “national interest” Hence the bollocks focus on Johnson’s health status even when he is allegedly on the mend, while everything else is going to hell.What do you mean like journalists being told to not tell us that 980 is a large number? Don’t think so. Think it’s more of a boiled frog thing, every days numbers so big and so little human detail that we don’t feel shock anymore.
More deaths in the UK in one day than Italy and Spain's highest total.
Scary - when is this government going to get a grip on this?
Those are reported deaths over the last few weeks - most of them will be from two or more days ago. Still not good at all, but we're still at the point where most of the people in those figures will have caught it pre-lockdown.More deaths in the UK in one day than Italy and Spain's highest total.
Scary - when is this government going to get a grip on this?
Oh, a gagging order...?Here's Wiki on this, now called a DSMA Notice apparantly.
Spot on!Oh, a gagging order...?
Wonder how many D notices are flying around?
I strongly suspect that this is going on constantly right now.D notices more likely on news of “demoralising” govt fuck-ups than data or figures. Would guess back channels to editors and owners of MSM channels being used to urge “responsible” coverage in the “national interest” Hence the bollocks focus on Johnson’s health status even when he is allegedly on the mend, while everything else is going to hell.
Oh it's that as well. No doubt about it. They love the taste.the focus on johnson's health isn't because they've been told to, it's because they love eating shit.
Scary - when is this government going to get a grip on this?
Yep.Not really how it works. What is happening now is the result of what the policies were weeks ago. Even if the government suddenly started doing shit that made sense tomorrow morning, we'd still be in for another month of chaos and death before anything good happened. HTH.
Any who do we're treating. But the word from our liaison is that they're all either redeployed or awaiting redeployment - it may be that there are aspects of the service that are still operating, but certainly from the primary care point of view there doesn't appear to be anything. I was fairly surprised, to say the least.