O/T:- Force Majeur

[LaxtonLad]

Interesting.


https://www.spiegel.de/international...9-eb4364c43f2e

Interesting indeed, but if I've read it correctly you can be tested and get a negative result but then catch the virus on your way home. You could also be tested positive but have passed it on before you got to wherever you get tested. So why test the public if they have to leave home for the test?

[countygump]

Interesting indeed, but if I've read it correctly you can be tested and get a negative result but then catch the virus on your way home. You could also be tested positive but have passed it on before you got to wherever you get tested. So why test the public if they have to leave home for the test?

What I gleaned from it is that they now believe that the mass testing of the public is a waste of resources and they should stick to testing front line staff.

[LaxtonLad]

What I gleaned from it is that they now believe that the mass testing of the public is a waste of resources and they should stick to testing front line staff.

That's how I read it too but the media have got hold of this testing business as if the public is clamouring for it. It isn't a cure but that doesn't interest the popular press, it's just the latest topic, the plat du jour, and they'll push it till the next dream is conjured up. In a way I feel sorry for Boris and co, they are expected to field questions about diversions like this as if the answer to the epidemic was so simple.

[Elite_Pie]

In a way I feel sorry for Boris and co, they are expected to field questions about diversions like this as if the answer to the epidemic was so simple.

I think we all know there is no obvious answer to the problem as a whole, but why are the government failing so badly on getting PPE to frontline staff? Why has this fairly simple task proved so difficult for them? The warning signs were there several weeks ago, and the fact several staff are buying their own online suggests that availability isn't a problem. Just buy what's needed, load it on lorries, deliver it to hospitals, distribute it to staff. If I'm missing something and it's actually a really hard thing to do, please could someone enlighten me?

[navypie]

I think we all know there is no obvious answer to the problem as a whole, but why are the government failing so badly on getting PPE to frontline staff? Why has this fairly simple task proved so difficult for them? The warning signs were there several weeks ago, and the fact several staff are buying their own online suggests that availability isn't a problem. Just buy what's needed, load it on lorries, deliver it to hospitals, distribute it to staff. If I'm missing something and it's actually a really hard thing to do, please could someone enlighten me?

Apparently it isn't that easy, some things are made in different parts of the world. However, I do agree the warning signs were there so the preparation should have been better.