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The UK response to Covid-19 [MOD WARNING 1ST POST]

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  • #202
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,690 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    EDit wrote: »
    TBH, people all over the world aren’t getting it. On the BBC website this morning under a story about how the Australian government are tightening “social distancing rules - people in small gatherings should now be separated by at least 4 sq m” was the picture below in which no-one (including the cops) are even 1m apart
    Those police aren't there to enforce social distancing requirements; they are there to prevent toilet paper riots.

    (I am perfectly serious.)


  • #203
    Gen.Zhukov
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,012 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov


    the purple tin wrote: »
    The irish chat show hosts sit well away from each other, look on the BBC morning they are not even a half a metre apart, the same distance thay have always sat.
    Now they are telling viewers how serious cv19 is but still sitting on top of each other :confused:

    BBC news earlier in the week.
    Yer one on the left is actually speaking to Simon McCoy about the importance of social distancing


    bbc-tv.png


  • #204
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,226 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Aegir wrote: »
    To me it shows that in the UK, differing options are welcomed and allowed.

    Reminds me of this



  • #205
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,808 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Watching UK television is painful, when you know what should be done.


  • #206
    gimli2112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,409 ✭✭✭✭gimli2112


    I find it odd that for a disease that is particularly bad for the elderly the UK government are asking retired NHS staff to come back and help out.
    I'm either missing something really obvious or something is seriously wrong with their approach.


  • #207
    barneystinson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,685 ✭✭✭barneystinson


    gimli2112 wrote: »
    I find it odd that for a disease that is particularly bad for the elderly the UK government are asking retired NHS staff to come back and help out.
    I'm either missing something really obvious or something is seriously wrong with their approach.

    I presume that this cohort will not be deployed at the frontline treating Covid-19, but elsewhere to free up resources for that “front”...?


  • #208
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,303 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Lost for words at this...

    https://twitter.com/OxfordDiplomat/status/1240776914693951496


  • #209
    Imreoir2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Imreoir2


    gimli2112 wrote: »
    I find it odd that for a disease that is particularly bad for the elderly the UK government are asking retired NHS staff to come back and help out.
    I'm either missing something really obvious or something is seriously wrong with their approach.

    What you are missing is how serious a crisis this is. These people are undoubtably at risk, but due to their experiance they can slot into the system quickly and expand the capasity of the health service. They may well become ill themselves, but they will help hundreds before that happens.

    This is a war. Wars have casualties.


  • #210
    gimli2112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,409 ✭✭✭✭gimli2112


    People don't sign up to become casualties, they're conscripted


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  • #211
    meeeeh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    gimli2112 wrote: »
    People don't sign up to become casualties, they're conscripted

    Ireland is doing the same, so is Italy and as far as I know other countries. Death rate in Italy is do high because they don't have enough staff and beds.


  • #212
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,303 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Tim Martin shows his concern for his profits the public (but at least transmission levels in pubs are very low)...

    https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1241001618675585025


  • #213
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,303 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    another tweet but this one is more serious...

    https://twitter.com/LawrenceDunhill/status/1241015122858070018


  • #214
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    Tim Martin shows his concern for his profits the public (but at least transmission levels in pubs are very low)...

    https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1241001618675585025

    Tim Martin is a cock. This only goes to further prove that.


  • #215
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    Tim Martin shows his concern for his profits the public...

    https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1241001618675585025

    Astonishing expertise to be able to claim no one has contracted the virus in a pub. Guy should be on the frontline. But curious no government source has stepped forward to contradict this obvious and dangerous twaddle. That i am aware of at least.


  • #216
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,268 ✭✭✭threeball


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    Astonishing expertise to be able to claim no one has contracted the virus in a pub. Guy should be on the frontline. But curious no government source has stepped forward to contradict this obvious and dangerous twaddle. That i am aware of at least.

    You don't confront your benefactors, hes an ardent Brexiteer.


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  • #217
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    EDit wrote: »
    TBH, people all over the world aren’t getting it. On the BBC website this morning under a story about how the Australian government are tightening “social distancing rules - people in small gatherings should now be separated by at least 4 sq m” was the picture below in which no-one (including the cops) are even 1m apart

    This was posted by the guardian to illustrate an article on WHAT TO DO yesterday! :eek:

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    Aegir wrote: »
    Tim Martin is a cock. This only goes to further prove that.

    Brexiteer mentality.


  • #218
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    "A major London hospital has declared a “critical incident” due to a surge in patients with coronavirus, with one senior director in the capital calling the development “petrifying”.

    In a message to staff, Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow said it has no critical care capacity left and has contacted neighbouring hospitals about transferring patients who need critical care to other sites."

    source: Health Service Journal
    https://www.hsj.co.uk/news/hospitals-critical-care-unit-overwhelmed-by-coronavirus-patients/7027189.article


  • #219
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,268 ✭✭✭threeball


    otnomart wrote: »
    "A major London hospital has declared a “critical incident” due to a surge in patients with coronavirus, with one senior director in the capital calling the development “petrifying”.

    In a message to staff, Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow said it has no critical care capacity left and has contacted neighbouring hospitals about transferring patients who need critical care to other sites."

    source: Health Service Journal
    https://www.hsj.co.uk/news/hospitals-critical-care-unit-overwhelmed-by-coronavirus-patients/7027189.article

    The UK are a week away from meltdown. They have a surge in deaths. Most of their cases are concentrated round London and are running out of PPE and beds already. Patients complaining about arriving to hospital with all the tell tale symptoms and being told no tests are available.


  • #220
    Be right back
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,239 ✭✭✭Be right back


    Aegir wrote: »
    Tim Martin is a cock. This only goes to further prove that.

    And appears to be a pal of Boris. The UK are in for a tough time of it.


  • #221
    Be right back
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,239 ✭✭✭Be right back


    177 people have now died in the UK.


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  • #222
    CelticRambler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    There's a lovely bit of satire on the Guardian today, including this snippet:
    His ... area of expertise is disguising rather basic points with needlessly obscure language. Once this made him a highly overrated prose stylist; now it could make him accomplice to the death of your relatives and friends. “The key message,” Johnson key-messaged on Tuesday, is that people follow the advice “sedulously”. Ah, sedulously. Sedulously. The signal for 10 million hardworking families to draw down the leather-bound thesaurus from their shelves and browse synonyms for the word “twat”.


  • #223
    Baseball72
    Registered Users Posts: 207 ✭✭Baseball72


    Darc19 wrote: »
    Look, it's blatantly obvious you have a utter hatred of FG / hse.

    So fuc off.

    LANGUAGE!! but I understand your sentiment!


  • #224
    RobMc59
    Registered Users Posts: 4,831 ✭✭✭RobMc59


    Slightly off thread title but could people of latin european race and ethnicity be more susceptible to the virus? (only exception being Portugal to date)Infection rate seems considerably higher in Italy,Spain and France.


  • #225
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,268 ✭✭✭threeball


    RobMc59 wrote: »
    Slightly off thread title but could people of latin european race and ethnicity be more susceptible to the virus? (only exception being Portugal to date)Infection rate seems considerably higher in Italy,Spain and France.

    They're saying Type A blood is more susceptible. Don't know if thats more prevalent there.


  • #226
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,268 ✭✭✭threeball


    [/I]
    Be right back wrote: »
    177 people have now died in the UK.

    184 according to worldometers

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/


  • #227
    LoughNeagh2017
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,074 ✭✭✭LoughNeagh2017


    I'm just disappointed that Tesco stopped their half price easter egg deal, I ate 3 last weekend.


  • #228
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,460 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    Tim Martin shows his concern for his profits the public (but at least transmission levels in pubs are very low)...

    https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1241001618675585025

    He's a massive sh!t stirring gobshoite


  • #229
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    They've fired the big bazooka of finance at this.


  • #230
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,479 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Yeah that's why this thread has gone a bit quiet since.


  • #231
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    threeball wrote: »
    They're saying Type A blood is more susceptible. Don't know if thats more prevalent there.
    The 'blue bloods aka royal bloodlines' of O- (RhNeg) (according to one early, non-peer reviewd study), have it the handiest.

    But this was study was taken when figures were lower in Chinaland, small 1k circa sample group.

    Would be interesting to see if it still holds water, with the current larger data sets available 265k. Might be very hard to get hold of that data, assuming it's even collected.

    Asia would have lower percentages of RhN 0.3%, compared to 15% in euroland.

    One for the C'Theroy section...
    ...But most of you folks 85% come from the auld Rhesus monkey (explains a lot), us Negatives are a bit more special, and come from 'out there' somehwere, descended from the Gods, or somesuch.


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  • #232
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,268 ✭✭✭threeball


    Catalina Inexpensive Piano wrote: »
    The 'blue bloods aka royal bloodlines' of O- (RhNeg) (according to one early, non-peer reviewd study), have it the handiest.

    But this was study was taken when figures were lower in Chinaland, small 1k circa sample group.

    Would be interesting to see if it still holds water, with the current larger data sets available 265k. Might be very hard to get hold of that data, assuming it's even collected.

    Asia would have lower percentages of RhN 0.3%, compared to 15% in euroland.

    One for the C'Theroy section...
    ...But most of you folks 85% come from the auld Rhesus monkey (explains a lot), us Negatives are a bit more special, and come from 'out there' somehwere, descended from the Gods, or somesuch.

    https://www.sciencealert.com/paper-suggests-certain-blood-types-might-be-slightly-more-susceptible-to-covid-19


  • #233
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Where’s everyone gone ???


  • #234
    mags1962
    Registered Users Posts: 395 ✭✭mags1962


    AB- here, think I'll go on the lash wherever I can find the biggest crowd and safe in the knowledge that it looks like I'm all good.


  • #235
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,808 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Very difficult to compare postives in diff countries as it's all down to testing. For example we're testing everyone with any symptoms, yes a few days wait for a testing appointment. In the UK, incl NI they won't test you unless you're seriously ill in hospital. So you cannot compare the positives in ROI and NI. Sadly, the only rate that can be compared is the mortality number per population.


  • #236
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,268 ✭✭✭threeball


    splinter65 wrote: »
    Where’s everyone gone ???

    All our UK posters have come down with something, completely out of the blue.


  • #237
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    threeball wrote: »
    All our UK posters have come down with something, completely out of the blue.

    Dumbfounded is what they are.


  • #238
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Rishi Sunak is a legend.


  • #239
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    No matter what the Brits are politics first over everything. I’m so glad it’s one of the few things we didn’t carry over from them and we actually have a sense of community.


  • #240
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,310 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    splinter65 wrote: »
    Rishi Sunak is a legend.
    How so?


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  • #241
    RobMc59
    Registered Users Posts: 4,831 ✭✭✭RobMc59


    threeball wrote: »
    All our UK posters have come down with something, completely out of the blue.

    I`ve reduced posting on this as in all available online statistics the UK infection rate is unremarkable and confirmed cases are actually less than all similar sized European countries but that has`nt stopped continual unsupported posts claiming that the UK is much worse than it is.


  • #242
    timhenn
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 514 ✭✭✭timhenn


    Like everything, I couldn't give a sh1t what the brits do to themselves, run their countries anyway they want to and let as many die as they want to. The issue I have is that they still have power over a section of our country. I do give a sh1t about the damage they are doing to Irish people in the 6 counties. This crisis is another reason to add to the long list of why we need to get rid of that border.


  • #243
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,479 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    splinter65 wrote: »
    Where’s everyone gone ???

    I found them, they're over on the Politics forum.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112899139&postcount=77 :pac:


  • #244
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    timhenn wrote: »
    Like everything, I couldn't give a sh1t what the brits do to themselves, run their countries anyway they want to and let as many die as they want to. The issue I have is that they still have power over a section of our country. I do give a sh1t about the damage they are doing to Irish people in the 6 counties. This crisis is another reason to add to the long list of why we need to get rid of that border.

    Or lock it down completely. If it’s the Uk then it’s the UK, but they can’t have such fee access to here when things like this arise.


  • #245
    timhenn
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 514 ✭✭✭timhenn


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Or lock it down completely. If it’s the Uk then it’s the UK, but they can’t have such fee access to here when things like this arise.

    Lock it down the Irish sea! Let no flights in. Much easier. Brits out and lock them out!


  • #246
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    timhenn wrote: »
    Lock it down the Irish sea! Let no flights in. Much easier. Brits out and lock them out!

    That isn’t happening in our lifetime thankfully. What needs to be done is to get rid of all the small crossings and get the police/army on the major ones.


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  • #247
    timhenn
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 514 ✭✭✭timhenn


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    That isn’t happening in our lifetime thankfully. What needs to be done is to get rid of all the small crossings and get the police/army on the major ones.

    They tried that before and got their answer. :cool:


  • #248
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    When this is all over the blonde buffoon will be out on his ear.


  • #249
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Driving testing ended.

    From doing less they are now getting very active.


  • #250
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    timhenn wrote: »
    They tried that before and got their answer. :cool:

    They did. Brexit.

    It’s coming.


  • #251
    timhenn
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 514 ✭✭✭timhenn


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    They did. Brexit.

    It’s coming.

    The british army tried to close the border before, you remember? They'd be scared sh1tless if you told them they'd have to do that again. :pac:


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