Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion

[mystic pyjamas]

The British government are taking an alternative approach to most other European lock down countries.
If they throw the dice right they will be the most popular thing since sliced bread but if they fuck up.......
Equally European governments will be held to account if they have made a wrong turn.
Maybe there is no right way cos we all seem to be fumbling about in the dark here.
Suck it and see.

 

[treelover]

The info I've seen is going to include people with serious underlying health conditions self-isolating as well.

i am very very bitter about being asked to self isolate for four months by the state, people in the network i set up for disabled and sick people have struggled to get care allocated and then source carers, face a brutal welfare regime, etc, and now they come to us, who is going to look after disabled and sick people for that time, ,many have lost carers due to brexit and now C19 means students, etc are going home,

 

[andysays]

i am very very bitter about being asked to self isolate for four months by the state, people in the network i set up for disabled and sick people have struggled to find get care allocated and then source carers, face a brutal welfare regime, etc, and now they come to us, who is going to look after disabled and sick people for that time, ,many have lost carers due to brexit and now C19 means students, etc are going home,

Have a look at this thread

C19 - the 'i need help' thread.

 

[Wilf]

Over 70s (seemingly) will be asked/told to self isolate for weeks so as not to overwhelm the NHS - whereas I and plenty of others are being told to go into work tomorrow in a job that is far from vital to the economy (a university). Wartime spirit for some, business as usual for others. This is so far away from anything resembling a coherent strategy.

 

[bellaozzydog]

The British government are taking an alternative approach to most other European lock down countries.
If they throw the dice right they will be the most popular thing since sliced bread but if they fuck up.......
Equally European governments will be held to account if they have made a wrong turn.
Maybe there is no right way cos we all seem to be fumbling about in the dark here.
Suck it and see.

Some one said

in the end it will be impossible to know if we over reacted or did too much, but it will be really fucking obvious if we Under reacted or did too little

 

[extra dry]

Need to have acted weeks ago.

 

[planetgeli]

The info I've seen is going to include people with serious underlying health conditions self-isolating as well.

This is going to need defining.

 

[LDC]

This is going to need defining.

Yeah, it will be.

 

[PD58]

Posted this here as it is the most popular thread and do not think it has been listed yet...if you want a daily update

Covid-19 - 13/03/20 We are not sheep| 134,488 | Deaths 4,970

 

[bellaozzydog]

My facebook is full of my middle class mates sons and daughters excelling in their various hockey/rugby/football/horse thrashing competitions this weekend, loads of group hugs for the young victors travelling across counties to battle other groups of teens

I’m at the

“hope some of them get commandeered to move bodies from nursing homes to makeshift morgues”

level of thought process at the minute. I should probably keep off social media

 

[little_legs]

 

[Treacle Toes]

Be good to get a list together of which private health companies are involved in this...

8,000 private hospital beds to be rented to NHS for £2.4million per day

The Government is stepping up its fight against deadly coronavirus as the elderly will be told to self-isolate for four months and 8,000 private hospital beds are rented at a cost of £2.4million a day

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[phillm]

I'm not sure "please, we're desperate, we'll pay anything" is the strongest negotiating strategy, doesn't really fill one with hope about the upcoming trade talks, but I guess that's why he's an MP and I'm not.

I know nothing about these machines but do we have a UK manufacturer? How realistic is it for other high tech UK companies to retool and produce them in quick time ? Where is fucking Dyson ?

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[Treacle Toes]

Hasn't this fucker made enough money to bail himself out?

Can't he sell over one of his numerous homes or an Island or something...

Virgin Atlantic boss urges Boris Johnson to sanction £7.5bn airline bailout

The PM will be told by Virgin Atlantic bosses that the airline industry needs government aid worth up to £7.5bn, Sky News learns.

news.sky.com

 

[bellaozzydog]

Hasn't this fucker made enough money to bail himself out?

Can't he sell over one of his numerous homes or an Island or something...

Virgin Atlantic boss urges Boris Johnson to sanction £7.5bn airline bailout

The PM will be told by Virgin Atlantic bosses that the airline industry needs government aid worth up to £7.5bn, Sky News learns.

news.sky.com

he must be stretched poor lamb, having recently sued the NHS

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

If I have to self isolate, I'll need something to do

I think boredom and lack of human contact will probably be most people's challenge in this.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Be good to get a list together of which private health companies are involved in this...

8,000 private hospital beds to be rented to NHS for £2.4million per day

The Government is stepping up its fight against deadly coronavirus as the elderly will be told to self-isolate for four months and 8,000 private hospital beds are rented at a cost of £2.4million a day

www.mirror.co.uk

It's a big headline figure, isn't it?

But, at £300 per bed, per day, it's on a par with the cost of NHS beds, so either the government has got a bulk discount, or they are forcing private hospitals to match the NHS cost.

Whichever, it's going to piss off private patients, when they discover they can't queue-jump during this crisis.

 

[Celyn]

My facebook is full of my middle class mates sons and daughters excelling in their various hockey/rugby/football/horse thrashing competitions this weekend, loads of group hugs for the young victors travelling across counties to battle other groups of teens

I’m at the

“hope some of them get commandeered to move bodies from nursing homes to makeshift morgues”

level of thought process at the minute. I should probably keep off social media

As they're all very fit and healthy and athletic, some can dash around fetching groceries and essential supplies for the people interned at home, and the ones with horses will be useful for the "bring out your dead" corpse carts. All in this together!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

or they are forcing private hospitals to match the NHS cost.

Hopefully they threatened to nationalise them if they refused, although I doubt it with this lot of twats in power.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Announcement of latest figures very late today

 

[Celyn]

Because I vaguely thought "who is Hunter Davies? Possibly a bloke who used to write in "Punch"?", I had a quick Google and was amused to find that

After completing his degree course he stayed on at Durham for another year to gain a teaching diploma and avoid National Service.

Hunter Davies - Wikipedia

Obviously, being a student is more fun than being sent to Kenya or Suez or wherever, but it doesn't quite help with that whole "I have been through terrible things, me" image.

 

[andysays]

Announcement of latest figures very late today

Up to 35

 

[cupid_stunt]

Total confirmed UK cases 1,372, that’s up 232, 14 more deaths – total 35.

More than 40,000 tested now.

It's suspected there's now 'tens of thousands' cases in the UK.

Source - Sky News.

 

[little_legs]

The British are breathtakingly stupid. God damn.

 

[editor]

The British are breathtakingly stupid. God damn.

People LITERALLY puffing and panting all over each other.

 

[little_legs]

April fools day is going to be too easy this year

 

[DexterTCN]

This is in America but jeez.

 

[weltweit]

Still only 40,000 tested in UK. I thought test capacity had been increased to 10,000 a day.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

I would say that the spread of this virus has revealed something, which is - why do we have government if it cannot protect it's citizens from such an outbreak? Surely one of the 'functions of government' is to deal with such a threat?!

 

[little_legs]

We are going leave the pandemic with a great deal, get covid done.