Alok Sharma Is Today's Sacrificial Lamb

boris still injured ?

Will emerge from self-isolation on Friday.

A doctor who came out of retirement to help the NHS treat coronavirus patients has died after contracting the virus, his family has said.

Dr Alfa Saadu, 68, died on Tuesday at about 7.30am after contracting COVID-19 two weeks ago.

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Sharia is reading well from script so far. Let’s hope he is better than the Communities Secretary was this morning in answering questions.

What could possibly go wrong with that genious policy.

Sharma

I napped sharma this morning,only thing close to a human in tory party left, truss,shitti,muuggy.notsocleverly[ is he still alive]. Williamson not allowed within 5 miles never mind 2 metres of a lecturn

Dr Yvonne Doyle should go back to making tea and sandwichs for the WI.

As a public spokeswoman she is useless.

More spiel

Complete waffle again even from the Doc but they are talking confidently

Talking well. Good spectacles too. Peston not shy then!

"We want to be out there doing these tests as soon as we can."

Now they're testing the tests

, a day after truzz,patel,raahb,gove, tell the world china faces a day of reckoning peston tells the world we.ve just bought paid up front for a million dodgey test kits, , wonder if they send them down the 5g lines,

‘Rohit’ an improvement on Gove.

To be fair they have not exactly been handed a loaded gun. The6 have obviously been brief after this mornings fiasco with Jendrick. At least they waffle with confidence and most people would believe them. They  cannot really say we have been slow to realise what needed to be done

so,s peppa pig but she didn't want the gig

So Sharma said 'will learn from the Germans'
[regarding testing]

It's too late YDC

..unless he is referring to the next pandemic

to be fair testing,experimenting on millions is in the german DNA, nice of them to ask permission this time

Why do people in positions of power and influence find it so difficult to just be open and honest and admit the deficiencies?

Or are they so out of touch with the real world that their advisors fill them full of bullshit and they just spout platitudes to the masses?

There either needs to be a revised format for these briefings or just can them.
Very little value from them.

Ant & Dec hosting tomorrow's conference.

If they say, "we're tucked in just beneath Italy"

It might be funnier

Is Beth Rigby a fella?

Not as good as last week...... When they were handing out free money

The most unconvincing performance so far. Questions are pointless if they are not going to answer them and instead just make shallow statements. Doubt that we will see that pairing again in a hurry.

Italy 4,782 new cases (4,053 yesterday), 727 additional fatalities (837 yesterday).

Same old bollocks every day. FFs get something you useless f*****s

still capacity in hospital ,there will be when there freeing beds at 600 a day, ,wait till a  few fighters,bed blockers come along,

Apr 1, 2020 -- 5:30PM, Injera wrote:

Is Beth Rigby a fella?

She probably was

What's this testin thing she keeps asking about?

handjob hancock wants self isolating nhs staff given priority testing any negatives win a nearly new only used twice hazma suit and a taxi ride straight to A and E, , any losers those testing positive can stay on their jolly,s,

I said well over a month ago that the Government haven’t got a clue and don’t know what they are doing. As can be seen currently they can’t even organise testing.

We should be talking now about how and when we can get back to work and save jobs and businesses that are going to fold soon. The public will not stay locked down for much longer than 3 weeks. People will start going out soon and some will be running out of money. Then we will have a public order crisis prior to the oncoming financial or rather business meltdown which will be followed by mass unemployment and food rotting in fields followed by a food crisis later in the year.

I am actually quite optimistic we can come out of this but the carry on with these incompetent Government Ministers is alarming. Nobody is able to hold the Government to account. Not Labour, not the Journalists and I genuinely fear the people will not put up with it much longer

What are you on about? Lapping up the media nonsense about testing.

It's PHE that organise testing, not the cabinet ministers

People rabbiting on about testing, clueless, thinking it's some kind of solution.

Cabinet ministers are implementing testing caps then removing them .....

Government lifts 15% cap on NHS staff testing

NHS England has sent a letter to all trusts saying the government has now lifted the 15% cap on staff testing.

The letter states:

Effective today we are asking chief executives of trusts that host an NHS lab doing Covid-19 testing personally to ensure that your lab’s capacity is fully used each and every day.

This can be achieved by using all spare testing for staff/index testing, either from within your own organisation or those of neighbouring acute and ambulance trusts.

As soon as this has been implemented, and as extra lab volumes become available, the approach can over the coming days be extended to community, mental health and primary care services, along with social care.

To clarify for those in the dark, the CMO clearly stated (weeks ago) their advice was we had crossed the tipping point for testing/contact tracing, and there was no value in directing resources to community testing. Government went along with the sensible advice. They would however bring in community testing to the AB test (the so-called game changer). They weren't to know people in the media would come up with this false narrative as they have to be outraged about something.

So this has turned political, they've been forced into expanding the 'have you got it' test due the media 'outcry'.

Lack of ppe is the main worry, front liners are going to start dropping like flies in the weeks to come.

I don't know for sure Angoose, I assume the cap was in place to ensure there was capacity for actual hospital patients with suspected covid 19 (and Prince Charles!).

the scientists want the data from the have you had it test,for their herd immunity theory but it wont be proven one way or another till a 2nd wave,next winter comes,hopefully there,ll be a vaccine if not countries will have to prepare foir another pandemic and if weve built iup immunity its a bruice bonus,nothing lost,steps taken will be there for the next virus to come along

Cider, the government announced that they had a target of 10,000 test per day, nobody did it for them.
They then raised that target to 25,000 a day.

If they genuinely believe that there is no benefit to performing these tests then they should come out and say so.
From day one, they have stated that they will stand behind the science.

There will always be conflicting views on this, they simply require to explain what they are doing and why they are doing it.
No one can ask for anything more.

We now have the US producing more positive test per day than the number of test the UK is performing.

We now have the US producing more positive test per day than the number of tests the UK is performing.

We now have the US producing more positive tests per day than the number of tests the UK is performing.

Three attempts to get my s's sorted

It's not doing the US much good is it. Once you've passed the tipping point, testing becomes a peace of mind thing. I agree there's value to getting consultants and ICU nurses tested in case they could come back to work a little earlier, and nobody has said they won't do that. I'm assuming the calculation was that they will be back within 7-14 days anyway. The ones who have it, one would hope the majority if they have the quite specific symptoms of covid 19, can't return anyway.

keep seeing these nhs workers self isolating getting interviewed saying they had a cough but no signs of coughing on screen

nhs workers arnt think but might lack common sense

the advice was a new continuous dry cough together with a high temp, or they might just fancy wagging it, if tests so far are proving 85% of them are negative, for dr,s,nurses doesn't make them very good judges does it, I realise some are self isolating because of other family members, but unless their prepared to leave home a negative test doesn't help them

The "stick" is coming out anyway,unless you get a doctors note you will lose your pay.

Cider, what we don't have clarity on is the criteria being used for performing a test.

Performing a test on someone who is displaying symptoms appears to be logical to me.
As does performing tests on front line workers.

Difficult to imagine that tests are being performed on individuals who are not in either of those two groups.

No requirement for a fit to work note for covid 19, you can self cert.

Only hearsay on my part once the 14 days are up.

In regard to NHS I believe the criteria so far is those self isolating where it's determined by bosses they have a critical role.

Testing on those displaying symptoms appears to be a last resort.
i.e. only happening when symptoms have become more severe following initial reporting

Bhuna?

Shank.

Other thing, loads of people holding up Germany as an example but they only appear to be a few days behind on the deaths curve. Around where we were last Friday.

Agree with you on that, Germany is on a very similar path.
And keep an eye on Sweden, remembering that they have a population of just 10M.

Switch to C4 news .....

You know what, why don't betfair chit chatters take over government and everything will be OK?

said it days ago if germany have most vents 30,000 plus they can keep more people alive for longer but all evidence shows their not recovering and over 80% of them will eventually die

You said more than that, you were castigating Boris for not copying Germany, claiming they were a shining example of how wrong we were.

San Quentin • April 1, 2020 7:17 PM BST
You know what, why don't betfair chit chatters take over government and everything will be OK?
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Indeed, I'm sure all the "experts" on chit chat know far more about coronavirus than the chief medical and scientific officers.
And every self appointed experts on Twitter and in the Grauniad who just HAPPEN to hate Boris/the Tories with a religious like zeal, and strangely find fault in every single thing done, they'd have sorted it right out.

They'd have magicked up 1 million testing kits out of Karl Marx's grave, and uniquely amongst pretty much every other country, stopped the virus in it's tracks. As only Boris and the Tories could get it wrong. As they are Tories and everything they do is wrong.

I'd LOVE to see a press conference with 1tp answering questions. Popcorn at the ready.

Correct me if I am wrong but doesn’t

TheChief Medical Officer

The Prime Minister and

The Health Secretary?

have the Corona Virus or symptoms of

You would tryst and follow the advice of these people?

Really?

You would trust these people to keep your mother safe?

God help you and your mother!

What part of they don’t know what they are doing don’t you agree with?

To clarify for those in the dark, the CMO clearly stated (weeks ago) their advice was we had crossed the tipping point for testing/contact tracing, and there was no value in directing resources to community testing. Government went along with the sensible advice.

More rocket science!

Was Herd Immunity SENSIBLE ADVICE?

They weren’t on the ball from the start cider!

They let people in, they did not tag and trace enough and they kept our borders open

Here’s a bit of advice from someone on the chit chat forum

When out shopping or on public transport wear latex gloves and a mask.

The Government are not being held to account and more people are dying because of it than there should be including medical staff who still do not have proper PPE. It is more than a disgrace it is dangerous and killing people.

Here’s another bit of advice from someone on the chit chat forum who is unqualified to give medical or scientific advice, get Pharmacists proper PPE gloves, masks and even a face shield. That is not rocket science either.

saddo
produce one word,one sentence where I say doris should be following germany,
you wont
you cant
your talking absolute shoite  I assume your username is be cause ypou couldn't spell stupid koooooooooont,

but feel free to continue to pedal your lies

1tp you mentioned the possibility of spread through the air a couple of days ago, one study says 8 metres is the correct distance to keep apart because of this. the w h o still dont recommend masks yet the czech republic mandate wearing them in public and it has helped them get some measure of control. even if they dont stop you getting it they stop you coughing at everyone else. also as you cant touch your mouth or nose you have less chance of infecting yourself.