The Corona Virus

[sinkov]

Just your typical police overreaction sinkov.
Have you seen the Accrington bobby threatening to hit the suspect with "fake" charges?
Death rate is normal.
Testing - why bother - the kits are not fit for purpose anyway?
PPE is short but hardly justifies these completely OTT police tactics.
Crying about poor quantity of ventilators, don't know why, if you need one you are already dead.
Hospital capacity is currently running at 58%, which is low.
The Mayor of London is demanding an "ethnicity data" publication now.
I think he is suggesting BAME citizens are dying in greater numbers than our pensioners in care homes.
I suggest these over zealous policeman nip down to his HQ and lock the daft fu-cker up?
Ah well - on with the day.

I know BT, insanity reigns, and imo a few jumped up little Hitlers in police uniforms are the least of our worries.

Besides asking about Bames, one of the muppets yesterday was asking why the death rate was so high in the UK compared to most other countries. Take out London and the rate in the UK is not high at all, a more interesting question would be why is the rate so high in London compared to the rest of the country, but for some reason no muppet wants to go there.

And then there's the continuous whine about PPE and testing and 'what are you going to about it Minister'. They seem so keen to pin everything on the government and I'm beginning to sense an element of panic in the lefty media bubble. If they can't blame the shortages of PPE and the testing fiasco on the government, then they might actually have to pin the blame where it really belongs, on the NHS who are the procurers for PPE, indeed I would think the NHS has a legal duty of care to it's employees, which includes providing them with adequate PPE, and on PHE which is the body responsible for the testing regime and is responsible for emergency health planning.

This might lead to a more fundamental question, which they will avoid at all costs, why is the NHS, envy of the world, and PHE, both publicly funded bodies, performing so much worse than most other countries which have, horror of horrors, privatised health care systems. Best not go there eh BT, best blame it on the government. Our woke lefty media will most certainly NOT go there.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Question for you sinkov, who do you consider to be, "Our woke lefty media?"

[sinkov]

Question for you sinkov, who do you consider to be, "Our woke lefty media?"

It would be much quicker and to list the very few in the media bubble who aren't woke lefties BT, and I'm sure you know who they are anyway.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

It would be much quicker and to list the very few in the media bubble who aren't woke lefties BT, and I'm sure you know who they are anyway.

I honestly had no idea what you are on about. Now I know!

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...ore-we-need-it

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I don't think it's prudent to politicise the dreadful lack of PPE for our doctors and nurses sinkov.

I have read somewhere this morning we should stop the country and have a minute's silence for the NHS workers who died from COVID-19.

It seems fairly obvious to me that if you incarcerate health workers in a hospital with patients who need treatment and care for the coronavirus, the least we could do would be to supply them with the necessary equipment to safeguard their lives?

I asked yesterday who is running this sh-itfest, the government or their "advisors"? Duty of care my arse!

[sinkov]

I don't think it's prudent to politicise the dreadful lack of PPE for our doctors and nurses sinkov.

Couldn't agree more BT, our woke lefty media should stop trying to politicise it by blaming individual government ministers, and put the blame squarely on the shoulders of the organisation responsible for procuring PPE for NHS staff, namely the NHS itself.

It also raises an interesting point, if we shouldn't be politicising this, then why do the media send their political journos to cover the announcements and ask the questions ? They do employ health correspondents as well, but they don't seem to get a look in. Just asking like, it's almost as though they want to politicise it.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Couldn't agree more BT, our woke lefty media should stop trying to politicise it by blaming individual government ministers, and put the blame squarely on the shoulders of the organisation responsible for procuring PPE for NHS staff, namely the NHS itself.

Have a ten minute trawl through this lot sinkov and tell me we are not living in a fu-cking lunatic asylum?

https://www.gov.uk/government/organi...ial-care/about

[Supersub6]

Have a ten minute trawl through this lot sinkov and tell me we are not living in a fu-cking lunatic asylum?

https://www.gov.uk/government/organi...ial-care/about

The Civil Service has always held sway, as was first publicised by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn when they first aired in 1980 --some 40 years ago! It had been the same for many, many years but they actually showed it for what it was.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

It's scandalous Supersub6, it really is.

[Supersub6]

It's scandalous Supersub6, it really is.

It has always been like that though. Take for instance the way that every government switches minister around For two years we had Gavin Williamson who was Defence Minister and then Boris gets in and he is Education Secretary. One minute he is professing to know all about the defence of the country and its Armed Forces and the next he is professing to know all about the education system.
The bottom line is that, although they are the minister for this that and the other and known to us as such, they are all being manipulated by the heads of the Civil Service who have been in their respective jobs for years.

I experienced this at close quarters in the 1980s when I was in the RAF ---it was a real eye opener and confirmed that they only tell you what they want you to know. Anything, even slightly controversial, has 'D' notices slapped on it and we will never find out what happened.