I think there were issues with key workers accessing the tests. There are a lot of areas where the nearest test centre is very far away, and even if you don't live far away it can be difficult to access them if you don't have a car. If you look at the map in this article you can see the problem.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51943612
That is a fair point. Do you think they will make them more accessible to get up to the 200k? I do wonder how enough managed to make it on 30 April though.Quote:
Originally Posted by drillerpie
I've no idea. Sending them through the post has its merits (cheap and allows you to claim big numbers, mainly) but there are no guarantees that the tests will be done effectively.Quote:
Originally Posted by magpie_mania
Apparently you basically have to ram a long cotton bud into your nose and push it until you can't push it any more, and I know two people who have done it and said it was very unpleasant. A lot of people will just jiggle them around up their nose and send them back, and the whole thing will be a waste of time.
The ideal thing would be to have testing centres in easily accessible populated areas, and teams of professionals to carry out tests in people's houses.
Where I live, for example, they put up a testing centre in inflatable tents in a hospital car park. One of the people I know who was tested had healthcare professionals come to her house to do it.
Then contact tracers to find out who else needs to be tested. I think the government is trying to recruit 20,000 contact tracers now, but at the moment I'm not sure contacts can be traced properly. So it kind of makes all the testing pointless anyway.
Another problem we have is those that get halfway across the Channel, phone ( I don't know where they get the number from) the Navy up saying they are in trouble and when we get there, champagne corks are being popped. Yesterday a record number came across putting us all at risk, Covid is rampant in the Calais camps. The very least we should be doing is towing them back to French waters.Quote:
Originally Posted by queenslandpie
Yet you say I must have said no objective truth about one hundred times????Quote:
Originally Posted by drillerpie
Please show me where.
Meanwhile get your CV ready Fleet street awaitsB)
No objective truth is not the way you would write it, but that is my way of summarising the many times you have dropped in on a thread where people are discussing an issue, or a quote, or a statistic, or a governmentmal body, or whatever, and said that there is no point discussing things and sharing sources to back up your point of view as everyone only believes what confirms their biases anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by i961pie
To be fair to i961, Driller, I'm pretty sure those posts about media objectivity being an impossible target was Jackal and not him.Quote:
Originally Posted by drillerpie
Driller and Elite have been badgering poor ode 61 for days now.Quote:
Originally Posted by sidders
Jackal said that in a more sophisticated way. I961 doesn't go into that much detail, but does what I described in my last post.Quote:
Originally Posted by sidders
Jackal , relaxing.https://www.sophisticatedscratch.co....2000_.jpg.jfifQuote:
Originally Posted by drillerpie