Covid 19 Part XXXI-187,554 ROI (2,970 deaths) 100,319 NI (1,730 deaths)(24/01)Read OP

CrabRevolution wrote: »

As far as I can tell most construction companies have just declared themselves essential. A relative of mine signed up for the PUP after the kitchen company he works at closed due to the restrictions, just as they had during the first wave last March/April. Then on Thursday of their first week closed he got a text from his boss saying to go back to work the following Monday as no other kitchen companies were closed, and the building sites they served were still working.

Not a kitchen company but same thing happen to me, boss rang asking us all back to work saying all our customers are open so we will.
if one opens all will follow, we are very little to do with construction.

One thing I can't understand. In WW2 governments raided patent offices and took over factories to crank out thousands of tanks and jeeps and missiles and whatever they needed for their war efforts.

In 2021, why are the covid vaccines still in the hands of private companies? We are now seeing supply delays, why are more powerful countries like the US etc not building factories and massively ramping up production of what are now known products?

Is Covid not important enough?

bucketybuck wrote: »

One thing I can't understand. In WW2 governments raided patent offices and took over factories to crank out thousands of tanks and jeeps and missiles and whatever they needed for their war efforts.

In 2021, why are the covid vaccines still in the hands of private companies? We are now seeing supply delays, why are more powerful countries like the US etc not building factories and massively ramping up production of what are now known products?

Is Covid not important enough?

I think in the USA that is called the Defense Production Act and I think Biden has started using it for production of PPE, I'm just not sure there are facilities capable of producing the new vaccines that are doing something else at the moment

There is now the suggestion that mink may be the intermediary host that has resulted in the current pandemic. China is the biggest exporter of finished fur products and interestingly, the sale of fur pellets dropped from by nearly 9 million in one province from one year to the next.

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A little known fact is that in 2019 Shandong produced 6.5 million mink pelts, down from nearly 15 million in 2018. This means nearly 9 million mink disappeared from one year to the next, a 55% drop in production for just one province.'

Shandong province, which is the hub of fur production in China, is a mid-mountainous region, and bats in nearby caves which are known Coronavirus carriers are attracted to the farm warehouses where the minks are kept. The bats defecate into the minks cages from the rafters.

There is also evidence to suggest that minks were also being sold at the Wuhan market (CNN and Canada's Public Health Agency).

Interesting article covering the matter:

[URL] https://reporterre.net/Mounting-evidence-suggests-mink-farms-in-China-could-be-the-cradle-of-Covid-19-22020[/URL]

stephenjmcd wrote: »

An FYI for people to be aware of

https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1353393712684879872?s=19

You'd want to be some lowlife to try that. Presume they're trying to get a list of people who live alone to burgle later. Scumbags

stephenjmcd wrote: »

An FYI for people to be aware of

https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1353393712684879872?s=19

OMG :mad:

23 deaths.

1,378 new confirmed cases

ek motor wrote: »

What happened in belmullet ?

Was there hotel parties, gatherings with UK returnees too there?

stephenjmcd wrote: »

23 deaths.

1,378 new confirmed cases

Very bad figures for a Sunday....cant read too much into them...will have to wait until Tuesday to get a better idea of how its going.

StevenToast wrote: »

Very bad figures for a Sunday....cant read too much into them...will have to wait until Tuesday to get a better idea of how its going.

Doh.

StevenToast wrote: »

Very bad figures for a Sunday....cant read too much into them...will have to wait until Tuesday to get a better idea of how its going.

So lets compare them to previous Sundays then. Hows that?

StevenToast wrote: »

Very bad figures for a Sunday....cant read too much into them...will have to wait until Tuesday to get a better idea of how its going.

I’m taking the figures as a positive.

Be gone.

StevenToast wrote: »

Very bad figures for a Sunday....cant read too much into them...will have to wait until Tuesday to get a better idea of how its going.

Well that's one way to get a rise out of everyone!

Eod100 wrote: »

You'd want to be some lowlife to try that. Presume they're trying to get a list of people who live alone to burgle later. Scumbags

Info can be used for identity theft as well (saw another tweet of them asking for PPS numbers).

These people need to be caught and made an example of as well.