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No covid tests either walk in or drive through in any of the UK's top ten hotspots
No covid tests either walk in or drive through in any of the UK's top ten hotspots
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5,000 DNA machines, supplied by DnaNudge, to provide 5.8 million tests in the coming months.
Surely these numbers are peanuts. For this to work we need to do millions of tests daily? |
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A 20 minute test shouldn't be too difficult to produce, but would rather suggest the rigmarole of current tests to be a farce.
A little prick Of the finger A Hancock test |
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Richard E grant
Please can someone explain to me why, when you land in Rome, there is a swift and well organised COVID test, with the result given 30 minutes later, yet we don’t have this in the UK? |
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Frankfurt airport the same ^, so the Italians and Germans on the ball, dido harding, poor handcock, tory shimmy shallying backhandering,that ya go.
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leaderless fiasco, shambles.
Would not have happened under Thatch, we have become a laughing stock under this clown. May, Major, Brown all had more clue than this floundering dope. Watching Milliband dissect him was painful, those who voted for Johnson must be squirming with embarassment |
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The government is dealing with civil servants who are a law unto themselves
Sorry Doc, but that is not true. They have contracted this out to failed suppliers, and companies that have no experience. |
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No you're wrong Mister E.
It's the civil servants who contracted it out. |
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Milliband dissect him was painful
Nonsense. |
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Well sayed doctor..what were these idiots watching?..Boris was superb and totally destroyed the labour substitute.
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to be fair there is a lot of people turning up for tests that have no symptoms at all, that is partly to blame for the backlog and the fact we cant process the tests quickly enough because of limited lab capacity, any goverement wouldve had problems with this but im sure the tory haters will be out in force to slam me down.
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We are doing more tests per person than any other country with over 10m population.
Problem is people with the slightest cold if anything asking for tests. |
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If anyone has symptoms of sneezing & runny nose they should be refused a test as not major symptoms of Covid. If however their "slightest cold " means they have a temperature & are coughing then would be in line for a rest. How else would one know if it is a "slightest cold" or a deadly Covid virus? Not everyone with symptoms can get a test easily S the number of cases has increased 5fold or more in past few weeks. The testing system is going to be overwhelmed at this rate. Is it really that difficult to wear a mask for 30 minutes in a shop as we are in a global pandemic & cases are increasingly in UK. |
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So its a case of you need a test now to prove you can travel and/or go back to work
 Just round my way they are sending kids home with snotty noses, literally can't get them out the school quick enough once the nose starts running, how are these kids going to feel seriously? like a normal bodily function is being treated like a fooking hot potato and they can't get shot of them quick enough, I feel sorry for the kids I really do. 2 schools closed round my way for nothing more than a few runny noses    I'd be fooked today as my nose has not stopped running, its called temp drop ffs Get used to it peeps, this is for keeps, the new world order agenda 21 |
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My place has announced this morning that Mask wearing is now mandatory across all company buildings at all times
A bloke I was speaking to just now on our (Forest) forum Company policy tick tock |
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InsiderTrader
We are doing more tests per person than any other country with over 10m population. Problem is people with the slightest cold if anything asking for tests. Also getting more wrong results than anybody, both negative and positive. It's a shambles... |
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Peck
How do you know the accuracy of UK tests compared to other countries. If someone didn't have it but tested positive how would anybody know the result was incorrect? Likewise those testing negative woukd only get a 2nd test if we're still ill a few days later. Is difficult to know how many in one country, yet alone be able to compare with other countries. Do you have a link to this story? It sounds like is worth a read. |
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Sont
A friend of mine works for a big company and wanted a negative test but they paid for him to go private. Not heard of any cases where large organisations are ordering healthy people to lie to get a test on NHS test & trace system. This is a big story- do you have a link to it? |
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I'm afraid its on someone's word about a company she works for, her child was unwell so she was asked to prove she was "clear" before returning to work
Doesn't sound to far fetched though, we'll be hearing a lot more of this soon once the media can spin it into their own positive |
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Oh sorry Mex, does that sound like an actual fact...
It's believed also getting more wrong results than anybody, both negative and positive. There you go........don't want anyone thinking i have a hidden agenda. |
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Ireland have the traffic light system in place whereby you need a green just to "enter into society", over here we've the media now pushing a testing narrative again and BOJO is telling us all we'll need daily negatives to enter into society... its fooking mental
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4000 positive tests now. Last week it was because "more testing" only now the media have reported that testing is a mess and isn't anywhere near the numbers they need... so you've got people getting mightily fooking paranoid and petrified again
The media could become unbearable as before, in fact I'd say they will absolutely go waaaaaay into the scaremongering bin and you'll have a society so scared of their own snot ffs Get ready because this could be a loooooong bas*ard winter |
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it is not difficult for everyone to wear a red MAGA cap in shops in America?
Seems weird that with no scientific evidence there are demands on people to do do things to show their belief in the state. |
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Peck
I think you may have an hidden agenda. Who believes UK is getting more test results wrong both positive & negative. Where is this story coming from. It might be an accurate story or might be completely made up. Is there any link to the story. I really don't know how people would be able to double check enough results in enough countries to make any comparison. |
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Glad you have said sorry for posting misleading information about Covid Sont. It is against Betfair T&C after all Sont.
So Sont the reason you claim the test system is overwhelmed isn't because number of cases is increasing rapidly, or it isn't because people without symptoms ate asking for tests. No according to one person you know it is because she can't return to work while there is a somebody in her household with symptoms. She shouldn't have a test if she hasn't got symptoms. She would need to lie . Which is exactly what Lord sky said was a cause. If her child has symptoms then she can try and get a test for him. Unfortunately the test system is falling down because number of infections are increasingly rapidly- just as the scientific community said it would with people not sticking to our relaxed Swedish style system. The selfish minority have a lot to answer for. It really isn't difficult to wear a mask for 30 minutes & not meet up in large numbers. |
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The new scientist had an article where they said clinical swabs were more accurate than self testing, and that saliva tests were more accurate still.
Less false negatives. This might suggest uk testing was potentially less accurate given the amount of mail tests that were being used. But, its not an article on relative accuracy of countries testing regimes. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632823-200-how-accurate-are-the-results-from-self-testing-for-covid-19-at-home/ |
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It's not a new article and I don't see any switch to saliva tests, which would surely be less invasive than our current system.
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Do you really think wearing a face covering (recommended by health care professionals) is the same as wearing a Trump baseball cap? Wearing a mask shouldn't be a political statement & for most people it isn't. shame the selfish are causing deaths & want to destroy the economy by refusing to stick to fairly relaxed rules. I assume IT you would be upset if your town was put in a local lockdown. I assume you would blame the government rather than the people causing a rise in infections. If you don't want to wear a mask then fine you don't have to. In UK is only shops , public transport etc. where currently need to. Of course that may change if tge selfish can't follow simple rules. |
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Closing parks now, wakey wakey |
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Did the WHO say it is more dangerous to wear a mask than not. There was concern that if 65m in UK rushed out to buy face coverings in April then there would be real problems for Heath & care workers getting the equipment they required. The NHS didn't have enough Pope tge government were paying a premium for supplies at one stage nurses were being told not to throw away disposable masks. There was also an argument that behaviour could change. Starting 2m apart without covering could be safer than a 1m distance with covering. As with everything lUK policy has been a balancing act. Government wanted to open up economy to save jobs, they reduced social distancing so businesses could function. Currently in UK is only necessary to wear covering in shops, public transport etc. So just avoid these places if you refuse to wear a mask. Simple. Infections getting towards a 10 fold increase over past few weeks, the government know what works in reducing infections but wants to keep economy open . It is a balancing act , they seem reluctant to punish people who break the rules yet want to open up economy & reduce infections. Something will have to give. Find it hard to believe that there won't be more "local lockdowns" over next few weeks. They basically work but a right pain & cost money. |
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Closing parks from 5pm to 7am for a virus that is killing no one
Its utterly bizarre and disturbing |
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Sont
Don't parks close at night anyway, even without Covid. Where are they closing between 5pm & 7am - are we all supposed what you are talking about even though you haven't posted a link to the story. |
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Rumour the north east is set to be locked down soon
Newcastle, Sunderland, Durham, Northumberland, etc Even Barnard Castle eye test centre. Local paper evening chronicle running the story. |
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Its apart of agenda 21 and the great reset, closing nature parks etc
I just... I'm speechless people are accepting this its fooking disturbing not mental, mental I can wrap my head around its usually chaos then, but this is just bizarro world |
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Its on the twitter link above mex
And people walk their dogs at 5pm? its not dark properly until 7:30 yet |
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What's bizarre is their closing them and broadcasting it
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Cheers Sont
So parks in Leciester are closing an hour earlier than normal & opening at normal time? Is that the outrageous story. Or do they normally stay open at night- I'm not familiar with Leciester parks. |