When Mexican beer attacks! Corona Virus

[cdlxxvi]

Last night's Panorama was terribly sad, if not at all surprising: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-52440641

From essential equipment not being bought despite 10 years worth of warnings to what little there was disappearing without a trace - truly an "apparent success" 🤦‍♂️

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[Nobby the Bastard]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I truly hate to side with bnp72 (a stopped clock is correct just twice a day) but I do think the majority and most vocal MSM are left wing and intent on criticising every government decision. The way the NHS has coped with this pandemic makes me wonder whether all the talk of "Winter crises" is drummed up. My fortunately limited experience of the NHS suggests that they're not as pressured as they portray. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of the NHS, but I wonder if it is being used by politicos intent on either criticising the government or delivering it into the hands of the likes of Richard Branson.

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Tell me. Apparently there was a vast warehouse located in the NW stocked with PPEs ready for the pandemic but the problem was in distribution, hence the army were brought in. It also explains why companies have complained that they've produced thousands of PPEs but can't get rid of them. It's a shortage of distribution.

What happened to the previous prison governor?

[Nobby the Bastard]

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[Ribenapigeon]

Back in 2017 austerity was being linked to an extra 120000 deaths. https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/health-and-social-care-spending-cuts-linked-to-120000-excess-deaths-in-england/
Ive seen first hand how cutbacks in spending have been slowly destroying the care sector. Cuts were going on before 2010 though as a result of Gordon Browns race to the bottom promotion of competitive tendering in the care sector. Of course the 2008 financial collapse was manna from heaven for the Tories as it gave them the great excuse to pull the financial rug out from under health and social care.

[Polarbear]

Brazil looks fcuked. The presidents is more worried about the economy than dead people.

Mind you, that's going to be the result with every country - put up with the dead, lets make some money.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

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[Ribenapigeon]

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[Nobby the Bastard]

[Lord Percy]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Polarbear]

It seems there will be a big spike in Covid19 deaths because the numbers reported will now include everyone from care homes and in the community as well as the previously reported hospital deaths.

Maybe it should have been done form the start but my tin foil theory is the government want to frighten the proles into staying in with a 'sudden increase in death, stay home and protect the NHS' scenario.

They are, in my view, starting to lose the people with more and more breaking lockdown and more shops reopening.

Whatever it does it will give Val and CDX*** a huge stiffy to be able to lay into how sh1t Britain is.
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[Ribenapigeon]

I've been suspicious about the obscuring of care home deaths since the begin as there is sn automatic reporting system for deaths in care. Not just residential services either, but any social service registered with the Cate Inspectorate has to report the death (and cause of) of a client immediately. So the figures were always there.
Granted Britain is not exactly s#ite ad a place to live but there's an unexeptabke chance that living here means metaphorically speaking you get a lot of s#it on your shoes walking around the place.

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[Lord Percy]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Islander]