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@tewaio said in Coronavirus - UK:
I've struggled to work full days (from home) without needing a lie down.
Shit! I've got covid!
@tewaio said in Coronavirus - UK:
I think I'll take an entire month off exercise,
Excellent idea. I shall follow that advice. I also heard that loads of pies and beer can help recovery.
Glad to hear that you are on the mend.
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This has been doing the rounds this evening
If correct, then that’s Olympics level shambles and corruption.
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@mikethesnow said in Coronavirus - UK:
This has been doing the rounds this evening
If correct, then that’s Olympics level shambles and corruption.
Pretty safe to assume its bollocks.
good ol' social media, spreading bullshit since forever.
it would be 3.5 % of the entire govt Budget and same size as law and order.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/298524/government-spending-in-the-uk/
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Oh wow. It may not be bollocks.
A google search is showing numbers like that.
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Seems those figures are way, way wrong and have been debunked.
"By the end of October 2020, around £478 million was estimated to have been spent on contact tracing by NHS specialists, Serco and other contractors. "
https://fullfact.org/health/test-trace-march-2021/
"(in October 2020) The German government has said its (tracing) app cost around €20 million to develop with operating costs of €3 million per month."
https://fullfact.org/online/ireland-uk-tracing-app/
Which means Germany's 20m covid tests would have to have been done at zero cost....
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@rapido said in Coronavirus - UK:
Oh wow. It may not be bollocks.
A google search is showing numbers like that.
It is bollocks. And distracts from sensible debate, sadly.
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It is unclear whether AstraZeneca is producing much vaccine in the United States or if Washington would apply a restrictive measure on trade. AstraZeneca’s vaccine has not yet been approved for use in the United States.
“The vaccine isn’t approved in the United States, so of course we can’t sell it to other countries yet,” said Margaret Cekuta, a former U.S. trade official who is now a principal with the Capitol Counsel lobbying firm. She said exporting a vaccine before it is approval by the Food and Drug Administration could also raise potential liability problems.
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@tim said in Coronavirus - UK:
It is unclear whether AstraZeneca is producing much vaccine in the United States or if Washington would apply a restrictive measure on trade. AstraZeneca’s vaccine has not yet been approved for use in the United States.
“The vaccine isn’t approved in the United States, so of course we can’t sell it to other countries yet,” said Margaret Cekuta, a former U.S. trade official who is now a principal with the Capitol Counsel lobbying firm. She said exporting a vaccine before it is approval by the Food and Drug Administration could also raise potential liability problems.
Quelle irony.
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Spain, Italy and Germany have now suspended the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine.
There is a Guardian piece where a guy does back of the envelope maths and comes up with an expected number of 100 clotting incidents just based on the demographics of those being vaccinated and the normal rate of people having clots, vs 30 observed.
Politics over people.
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@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
Reminds me that, a few years back, scientists in Italy were convicted of manslaughter for not predicting an earthquake accurately enough.
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@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
Reminds me that, a few years back, scientists in Italy were convicted of manslaughter for not predicting an earthquake accurately enough.
FFS. That reminds me of the press-conference the other week, when there'd been those rather large quakes out in the Pacific, and there was the worry about tsunamis, etc.
One journalist asked the question "How come you didn't know the earthquake was going to happen?"
To his credit - the guy from GNS Science didn't leap into crowd and try to bitch-slap some sense into the journalist... as a scientist, he's probably aware that journalists are a sense-black-hole. -
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-56361599
At the beginning of March 2020, I asked a senior member of the government: "Do you feel worried?" They replied: "Personally? No." But just weeks later, Downing Street was scrambling to manage the biggest crisis since World War Two.
Since then, monumental decisions have had to be taken. And there have been many accusations of failings - the desperate shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE), Covid ripping through unprepared care homes, hundreds of billions borrowed and spent to keep the economy going, to name a few.
I have asked 20 of the most senior politicians, officials and former officials, who either witnessed or were involved in the big decisions, to pick five pivotal moments from the past 12 months.
What they say tells us so much about what really happened, what our leaders were thinking, and, strikingly, how little they knew. The contributors are not being named, so they could speak freely.
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - UK:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-56361599
At the beginning of March 2020, I asked a senior member of the government: "Do you feel worried?" They replied: "Personally? No." But just weeks later, Downing Street was scrambling to manage the biggest crisis since World War Two.
Since then, monumental decisions have had to be taken. And there have been many accusations of failings - the desperate shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE), Covid ripping through unprepared care homes, hundreds of billions borrowed and spent to keep the economy going, to name a few.
I have asked 20 of the most senior politicians, officials and former officials, who either witnessed or were involved in the big decisions, to pick five pivotal moments from the past 12 months.
What they say tells us so much about what really happened, what our leaders were thinking, and, strikingly, how little they knew. The contributors are not being named, so they could speak freely.
Fascinating, frustrating, and a myriad of other ‘ing’ words.
Best thing to come out of Laura Kuenssberg‘s head/hand/mouth.
Johnson is a psychopath and megalomaniac, further evidenced by his latest press room.
All you need to know about the Conservative party was summed up in the opening paragraph in two words
At the beginning of March 2020, I asked a senior member of the government: "Do you feel worried?" They replied:
“Personally? No."
Coronavirus - UK