Coronavirus and football.

[Geoff Parkstone]

The other interesting stat is that deaths by NHS employees is a small proportion of those employed by the NHS, in comparison to the overall population I believe - around 20 out of 10650. Under 0.2%.

NHS employs 1.2m people out of 60 population (obviously less if one looks at working population). That's about 2%.

Im not sure what this tells me other than you are 10 times more likely to die of COVID if you don't work for the NHS, which is about as counter intuitive as you can get!

Or my figures are wrong

[Ram59]

The other interesting stat is that deaths by NHS employees is a small proportion of those employed by the NHS, in comparison to the overall population I believe - around 20 out of 10650. Under 0.2%.

NHS employs 1.2m people out of 60 population (obviously less if one looks at working population). That's about 2%.

Im not sure what this tells me other than you are 10 times more likely to die of COVID if you don't work for the NHS, which is about as counter intuitive as you can get!

Or my figures are wrong

There are so many other considerations, like how many of the NHS deaths had underlying health issues, if none then the figures seem to be very high.

[Trickytreesreds]

The other interesting stat is that deaths by NHS employees is a small proportion of those employed by the NHS, in comparison to the overall population I believe - around 20 out of 10650. Under 0.2%.

NHS employs 1.2m people out of 60 population (obviously less if one looks at working population). That's about 2%.

Im not sure what this tells me other than you are 10 times more likely to die of COVID if you don't work for the NHS, which is about as counter intuitive as you can get!

Or my figures are wrong

I would think you are more likely to die from this as a normal civillian.
The NHS workers dying is tragic. Yet at least they take many more precautions than any of us to avoid it.
When you factor in the amount of exposure to the virus they have, it is massive to to a normal civvy.
Only way to not contract it, would be to have a hospital like a germ warfare facility, which isn't going to happen.
It's the same as the others getting it outside. Bus drivers for example. the amount of exposure made it inevitable.

Here's my contribution for next time.
Public transport should see staff fully shielded in their cabins. All travel should be by pre paid travel cards, that are contactless.
Addhand wash at the entry point. Swipe and wipe I'd call it. Same on exit.

[MadAmster]

Here's my contribution for next time.
Public transport should see staff fully shielded in their cabins. All travel should be by pre paid travel cards, that are contactless.
Addhand wash at the entry point. Swipe and wipe I'd call it. Same on exit.

Precisely the way Dutch public transport works. Except for the shielded off cabins. For the duration of the crisis, the front doors of buses are kept shut and there is tape across the front row of seats to keep passengers away from the driver. You enter and leave via the rear doors and, as Tricky suggests, swipe but without the wipe. Having said that, the public transport are reporting that they have less than 10% of the normal amount of passengers........

[Ram59]

I've just read Sky's tribute to the NHS staff who have sadly lost their lives.

What surprised me, is that a lot of them weren't front line staff that were directly involved with covid 19 paitients such as physyciatric nurses at medical sites not treating covid 19 patients and planners who should not be on covid 19 wards.

[Geoff Parkstone]

They probably contracted the virus away from work then. NHS staff are human too!

[MadAmster]

28 mentioned on the BBC 2 days ago, most doctors or nurses.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52242856

[Ram59]

28 mentioned on the BBC 2 days ago, most doctors or nurses.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52242856

Yes, but are they doctors and nurses working with covid 19 patients?

On a side note, I've seen reports, backed up by a paramedic I know, that emergency call outs have collapsed during the crisis. Obviously, this is partly as a result of the lockdown, but he says that they're getting very few of the normal 'time wasting' calls, which clog up the ambulances and A&E departments.

Many of these are by a few people who make multiple calls, hopefully, they'll get out of the habit and reduce the strain on A&E in the future.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Back to football and covid, don't you think that it's the government's awful handling of the crisis that has meant we have lost access to the beautiful game? Had we adopted the German or the Danish approach we would have, erm, still not played the games but felt much better about it.

And what about that dreadful Ryan Clark-Neal. His existence is entirely Boris Johnson's fault, and how can he keep social distancing with people racing uncontrollably round the shop running into each other. And no sanitiser either.

And magpies, I had one of them in the garden yesterday, bullying the neighbours cat who was trying to steal his eggs. Typical Tory, even had bits of blue on his wings and was mostly white. I blame the government for giving these birds financial support while little robins get nothing.

[Ram59]

Back to football and covid, don't you think that it's the government's awful handling of the crisis that has meant we have lost access to the beautiful game? Had we adopted the German or the Danish approach we would have, erm, still not played the games but felt much better about it.

And what about that dreadful Ryan Clark-Neal. His existence is entirely Boris Johnson's fault, and how can he keep social distancing with people racing uncontrollably round the shop running into each other. And no sanitiser either.

And magpies, I had one of them in the garden yesterday, bullying the neighbours cat who was trying to steal his eggs. Typical Tory, even had bits of blue on his wings and was mostly white. I blame the government for giving these birds financial support while little robins get nothing.

Them Robins in their red shirts, can't stand them. 😁