Gav 9152 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 1 hour ago, Claytons Left Boot said: First question tonight from a guy from Preston. If the new strain of the virus is more contagious than that in March, why then are the restrictions currently more relaxed (or words to that effect). Completely ignored by the Home Secretary. Continued to waffle for several minutes without addressing the question. As I type this, same question asked again by another guy. More waffle and, again, ignored. Andrew Marr tore him a new one on Sunday over the same point CLB, no answer. 9 months in and they're buying 300,000 laptops for kids to work at home, where have they been for the past 9 months, they should already be available and with the kids that need them. Useless ****s Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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RoverDom 1868 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 One of our subsidiaries with a few thousand staff have just done a laptop refresh so they repurposed the old ones to donate to local schools. Once again, local organisations bailing out the governments inadequacy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jim mk2 8746 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 ‘Unacceptable’ lockdown food parcels axed by UK school chain and apology from Chartwells https://www.ft.com/content/1c2af058-3f87-4694-b0b8-ab9c6f5d4731 Is the UK turning into Russia? One of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny's revelations (ignored in western media) is the corruption in Russia's own school meals programme which led to hospitalisations and deaths among schoolchildren because Vladimir Putin's "cook" provided substandard food and pocketed the difference. As far as the UK is concerned, Marcus Rashford can only do so much. At least UNICEF is standing by to pick up the baton. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philipl 7032 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 The Finland Food parcel for kids cost less and is this: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hoochie Bloochie Mama 5280 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Burnley College tutor dies from coronavirus aged 42 | Lancashire Telegraph Tragic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
arbitro 9201 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 14 minutes ago, Hoochie Bloochie Mama said: Burnley College tutor dies from coronavirus aged 42 | Lancashire Telegraph Tragic. Tragic as you say. When I read that it infuriates me even more when people won't do something simple like wear a mask. RIP. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
47er 8977 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 14 hours ago, Gav said: They don't want to make the meals look to attractive imy, the parents will be trading them in for drugs 😤 Hardly buy a Paracetamol with that rubbish! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Silas 1763 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/covid-19-study-suggests-almost-half-of-icu-staff-have-turned-to-alcohol-or-had-suicidal-thoughts-12186480 The research shows that 45% of ICU staff polled met the clinical threshold for at least one of the following: post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), severe anxiety or depression and problem drinking. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
47er 8977 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 4 minutes ago, arbitro said: Tragic as you say. When I read that it infuriates me even more when people won't do something simple like wear a mask. RIP. Have you seen the film of the Democrat reps and Republican reps barricaded together in their Chamber with the mob trying to break down the doors? Staff and Democrat reps offer the Republicans masks to wear and plead with them to take them but the R's scornful reject them! The cult of Trumpism. 9 of those Democrat reps have now tested positive for Covid and they blame that occurrence. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jim mk2 8746 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 17 hours ago, Gav said: They don't want to make the meals look to attractive imy, the parents will be trading them in for drugs 😤 Standard right wing trope........ and as if a crack dealer would actually accept kids' food vouchers for baked bins or a packet of Dairylea in lieu of actual money. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hoochie Bloochie Mama 5280 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 What's as scary as Covid? The fact our leaders still have no plan to control it | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian Excellent article on this Govt's incompetence. Some good links embedded in the article too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philipl 7032 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 American numbers: There were 22,000 flu deaths in 2019-2020. There were 22,000 COVID19 deaths last week. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DE. 12102 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Wouldn't have known there was a lockdown at all when I went out to walk the dogs at lunch. Local primary and high school car parks full. People walking with their kids all over the place. Roads as busy if not busier than normal. People standing around in the street chatting. Here we've gone from Tier 2 to Tier 4 to "lockdown" in the space of about 3-4 weeks and it hasn't looked any different. It's little wonder nothing is changing in this part of the country. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RoverDom 1868 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Trouble is everywhere is shut and police are fining people for going 7 miles from their house even if 7 miles from your house is the middle of no where (i've heard of people being turned round going for a walk in the lakes). So people are only going to be exercising within a mile or two of their front door step which means in even moderately populated areas you're going to be people dodging all over the spot and tbh if you bump into someone you know why would you not stop and talk (from a distance)? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gumboots 4539 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Its still pretty quiet here in the Ribble Valley, even on busy walking routes Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joey_big_nose 3058 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 48 minutes ago, gumboots said: Its still pretty quiet here in the Ribble Valley, even on busy walking routes Quiet in North London as well. Streets etc deserted. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jimbo 401 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 I've not been out, but my missus reported it being very quiet when she went to the shops yesterday Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hoochie Bloochie Mama 5280 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 1564 deaths today and another new variant, this time form Brazil. Boris presently blustering about whether he will implement an immediate travel ban from there. Waste of space. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dreams of 1995 4668 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Birmingham is quiet but not during work hours. I got caught in a traffic jam on the way back today. Yep. The m6 is notoriously shite but I went traffic jam free from May - Octoberish last year yet on my first day out since isolation I have been in one! Clearly a lot of people still working. Sound bites about shutting click and collect, limiting exercise etc etc. All a load of shit. Had one site shut down this week because all management got Covid so literally no one left to manage the site. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tyrone Shoelaces 12325 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 My 90 year old mum got a letter today telling her to phone 119 and book an appointment for the jab. After about 1/2hr she got through to be told there wasn't any vaccine available in Rochdale and they'd be back in touch with her when there was some. Could be a week she was told. Funnily enough there was an article complete with photographs in our local paper at the weekend showing people who had been vaccinated in our local infirmary. Reading between the lines it appeared to me that a batch of one of the vaccines had arrived out of the blue and they'd just vaccinated people who just happened to be in the infirmary that day and happened to fit the age bracket ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tyrone Shoelaces 12325 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 22 minutes ago, Hoochie Bloochie Mama said: 1564 deaths today and another new variant, this time form Brazil. Boris presently blustering about whether he will implement an immediate travel ban from there. Waste of space. He's a very slow learner. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joey_big_nose 3058 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 (edited) Anyone found anywhere to easily track how many vaccinations have been jabbed? Found it : https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare?_ga=2.81886737.625431594.1610562987-1433914007.1609422585 We did 207k yesterday. That's pretty amazing. To hit the target of mid Feb need to get a bit higher per day but does look good. Edited January 13 by joey_big_nose Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RoverDom 1868 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said: Reading between the lines it appeared to me that a batch of one of the vaccines had arrived out of the blue and they'd just vaccinated people who just happened to be in the infirmary that day and happened to fit the age bracket ! From what I've heard at times theres very little notice, surgeries can just be dumped with vaccines that they need to use up. One of my friends mum got a call from a lady in her choir who works at a health centre at about 6pm one day "we've got spare vaccines get down now" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
only2garners 1674 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 At the moment there is plenty of capacity at centres but not enough vaccine getting through. My wife's surgery centre has had two lots of Pfizer vaccines in the last two weeks, (975 in each *) but nothing this week. They can comfortably do that every week and at a push could probably do double. Anecdotally I have heard the same from other areas and the Government admitted today that vaccine supply is the current blockage. They are making the right sounds about this being sorted very soon but we've heard this sort of thing before. * The Pfizer vaccine comes in a block of 975 vaccines, but that was assuming that there were 5 shots in each of the 195 vials. When they are diluted they are finding they can get 6 shots out of pretty much every vial but they don't know how many more they've got until they have diluted them all. In my wife's case they are taking 3 days to get through a batch, so at the beginning of the last day they are totting up how many "extra" shots they have and then ringing up some more patients to come in on the same day. Nadhim Zahawi, who is in charge of the vaccine rollout said today that the Government had expected 10% wastage with the vaccines but they are hardly getting any and have the bonus of the extra shots. This is easily managed by GP surgeries because they can very quickly react to finding extra vaccines or getting others to replace no-shows and the patients all live very locally. The mass testing centres are presumably using the Oxford vaccine - they can easily store large numbers and just keep on going. Tyrone - your Mum has got one of the letters sent to all the over 80s who had not been vaccinated (at the time of sending the letters obviously). She will have been invited to one of the mass centres and could no doubt have gone to the Etihad to get vaccinated. But she can wait to get one more locally if she wants. She should be getting called by her GP very soon - I might be tempted to give the surgery a ring to see where they are. My wife's centre is already doing the over 75s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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