Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion

[Boudicca]

Boudicca
Yes we are sewing and donating to Kings, Lewisham etc. Places other than hospitals are now needing scrubs and aren't so fussy - you should be able to search in the main FB page for stuff local to you?

We are in the least hit region, so not much demand (as yet). We are not sewing because we are waiting for a set of Bournemouth hospital scrubs to be copied and fabric to be sourced. I'd rather be making now and sending to Kings.

 

[teqniq]

You know things have come to a sorry pass when Alistair Cambell, the master of spin is advising reporters on the sort of questions that need to be asked at government briefings:

 

[elbows]

Been surveyed from the air today, no idea whether its actually lockdown related.

 

[Supine]

Been surveyed from the air today, no idea whether its actually lockdown related.

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There is a 3M factory in Atherstone. Maybe someone is looking for face masks

 

[elbows]

There is a 3M factory in Atherstone. Maybe someone is looking for face masks

Its presence in Atherstone is not very subtle!

 

[teqniq]

A little light relief:

"It was exhausting, sweaty, and one of the worst things I've ever experienced," says Coronavirus, as it finally recovers from Boris Johnson. - The Rochdale Herald

The Coronavirus responsible for the current global pandemic, Covid-19, has described its recent infection of Prime Minister Boris Johnson as "exhausting, -

rochdaleherald.co.uk

 

[mauvais]

Been surveyed from the air today, no idea whether its actually lockdown related.

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What was it? Helicopter?

 

[2hats]

Been surveyed from the air today, no idea whether its actually lockdown related.

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That aerial surveying work has been going on for weeks. It's an outfit that specialises in such out of Liverpool Airport. Several days ago they were conducting a campaign over east London. I think it's just aerial surveying/photogrammetry. But I suppose the missions over urban areas could always be IMSI fishing exercises to model degree of mobility and compliance during lockdown; though I know the main carriers are handing aggregated data of such subscriber movements over to government/researchers for analysis anyway, so unlikely.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Police helicopter has done a lap of Brighton just a moment ago. I suspect those that were sat down the Level earlier won’t be for much longer!

 

[sparkybird]

We are in the least hit region, so not much demand (as yet). We are not sewing because we are waiting for a set of Bournemouth hospital scrubs to be copied and fabric to be sourced. I'd rather be making now and sending to Kings.

I think one of the issues is delivery, local pick-ups are happening here. Could you sew scrubs bags? Can me made of any cotton/poly fabric even old sheets etc and any colours. They are just as important
Take care xx

 

[Grace Johnson]

Been surveyed from the air today, no idea whether its actually lockdown related.

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I saw a few of these a week or 2 ago. One over north Wales, one over Manchester and one over south London. Couldnt figure out what they were doing. They all set off within about 5 minutes of each other. My friend said maybe checking for Moor fires. Not sure though. The Manchester one and the South London one looked like they were over urban areas.

This was the 27th of March.

 

[Raheem]

It's the 5G hypnotising pilots.

 

[LDC]

I saw a few of these a week or 2 ago. One over north Wales, one over Manchester and one over south London. Couldnt figure out what they were doing. They all set off within about 5 minutes of each other. My friend said maybe checking for Moor fires. Not sure though. The Manchester one and the South London one looked like they were over urban areas.

This was the 27th of March.

Has to be mapping/survey work flying patterns like that surely?

 

[2hats]

I saw a few of these a week or 2 ago. One over north Wales, one over Manchester and one over south London. Couldnt figure out what they were doing. They all set off within about 5 minutes of each other. My friend said maybe checking for Moor fires. Not sure though. The Manchester one and the South London one looked like they were over urban areas.

Ravenair out of Liverpool conduct aerial photographic surveys. Bioflight, based at East Midlands, conduct environmental monitoring. The OS also operate regular aerial photographic survey flights out of EMA to refine their mapping.

 

[spitfire]

Pretty wide range of possibilities (posted at the same time as 2hats).

Aerial Survey – Ravenair

ravenair.co.uk

Ravenair currently provides services to major energy, oil, petrochemical companies, Global IT organisations, government departments, wildlife and conservation organisations. Other customers include airport authorities, rail infrastructure organisations, television and news production, newspapers and specialist digital image data collection companies. Current operations include pipeline and powerline inspection and survey, environmental survey data collection (birds and other wildlife), tracking of tagged birds, air-to-surface and air-to-air photography, aerodrome lighting inspection,radar testing, global mapping, LiDAR and other types of capture with specialist, bespoke sensors.

 

[spitfire]

It's the 5G hypnotising pilots.

Yeah. Or that.

 

[elbows]

From the entirely predictable but no less tragic and disgraceful department:

Coronavirus cases 'in half of Scottish care homes'

The industry says the impact of the virus on residents alongside high staff absence levels has put care homes under huge strain.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Quote]

Pretty sure the government (here in England) have told care homes they have to accept positive Covid people to ease the strain on hospitals. So if there were care homes without it, they soon will have.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Pretty sure the government (here in England) have told care homes they have to accept positive Covid people to ease the strain on hospitals. So if there were care homes without it, they soon will have.

I would suggest this is bollocks.

I know a care home owner, who was contacted by the local hospital to see if she could take in a couple of non-C19 patients, she said she would, but only if they were tested first & shown to be negative, and that was the end of the conversation.

 

[Quote]

Not trying to spread misinformation. I saw this elsewhere, no idea how trustworthy it is.

https://www.carehome.co.uk/news/article.cfm/id/1623968/Anger-amongst-care-home-owners-told-to-accept-people-with-coronavirus

 

[cupid_stunt]

Not trying to spread misinformation. I saw this elsewhere, no idea how trustworthy it is.

https://www.carehome.co.uk/news/article.cfm/id/1623968/Anger-amongst-care-home-owners-told-to-accept-people-with-coronavirus

Even if this bit is true - 'government’s latest guidance telling them to accept people with COVID-19 from hospital' - guidance doesn't equal forcing them.

 

[elbows]

Also some of the first billions of sudden new funding thrown around in this crisis were to do with bed blocking. A problem that could no doubt have been much improved by that money if there was enough time to spend it properly over a longer period, but I dont know what they've actually managed to achieve in the short term.

Priti Patel is going to be doing todays press conference, which I believe is due to start any time now.

 

[treelover]

Just been out to bottom of garden, self isolating, no shielding though, can't believe how many people are out, i can see down the main road groups of three four people, mostly teenagers, stuidents, etc, coninuous stream, much busier than a normal bank holiday, it doesn't look like SD is working here,

oh, and a delivery driver just walked right up to me, trying to hand me a parcel that wasn't for me, no time to maintain SD, pretty angry, really

dread to think what the parks are like.

 

[treelover]

see my post, wonder what she would make of it

 

[Part-timah]

How awful is Patel doing? I can’t force myself to watch her attempt at being human.

 

[Cid]

Just been out to bottom of garden, self isolating, no shielding though, can't believe how many people are out, i can see down the main road groups of three four people, mostly teenagers, stuidents, etc, coninuous stream, much busier than a normal bank holiday, it doesn't look like SD is working here,

oh, and a delivery driver just walked right up to me, trying to hand me a parcel that wasn't for me, no time to maintain SD, pretty angry, really

dread to think what the parks are like.

Well I swung by the ponderosa earlier and it was practically empty. Also not many on the river path out to Meadowhall.

Might be possible that people are sticking to their own areas but still want to go out. So you’d see far more out and about in residential bits than usual.

 

[PD58]

Someone has obviously provided a speech and said stick to it...lets see how she gets on with the questions...

 

[DotCommunist]

I too wonder how notorious empath priti patel is doing

 

[treelover]

Well I swung by the ponderosa earlier and it was practically empty. Also not many on the river path out to Meadowhall.

Good, but the people i saw were not maintaining SD

 

[Cid]

Good, but the people i saw were not maintaining SD

See my edit... maybe people just sticking near home? But yeah, some do seem to be taking the piss.