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But yes, you are right - a Government that has knowingly contributed to the deaths of healthcare workers by pressurising them to work without the correct PPE is really doing a "superb" job.

- Moved my wife who works as an HCA in the NHS to another house so that she can continue working rather than quit her job because she was so terrified she was going to infect and kill her own mother who lives with us. - Looked after her whilst she has self-isolated with Covid-19 contracted as a...

There may not be a next time. The likely lesson here will be that no matter how much money and resource you throw at it once the shit hits the fan, you can't keep a public health service is a state of constant crisis and get away with it indefinitely. This was pretty interesting on Germany - a...

We can't compare with Sweden - their population density is nothing like ours - maybe they can get away with it, I doubt it though. What they have done up to this point is no worse than our approach though. The ballsup on herd immunity in this country was a very simple one that even the most...

We could have had a healthcare system that wasn't in crisis as a state of normalcy. We could have learnt from the failed NHS pandemic stress test in 2016. We could have learnt from the countries who were going through it in the weeks up to and including Friday 13 March when we were still...

Yes, I definitely asking way too much that healthcare assistants in NHS wards on £9 per hour aren't pressurised to work without the correct PPE because the government a) ignored one of its own reports and b) in the knowledge that we were unprepared to cope with a pandemic were still too slow to...

And then the eventual public enquiry whitewash will blame NHS managers (a la Grenfell & firefighters) and the British public at large. Keep yer eyes peeled.

Was Boris Johnson joking about shaking Coronavirus patients hands a month ago "superb"? Was it superb that until 13 March the Government was still pursuing herd immunity despite anyone capable of the most basic mental arithmetic being able to work out that there was no conceivable way the NHS...

They've been saying testing will be ramped up for about 2 weeks now haven't they?

From the 10 seconds we got to look at the graph today, it looked like we are going to overtake France as well, which is some effort considering the head start they had. Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

Tried that last time and it didn't work. Strongly suspect we'll have to invest this time. Especially since any other sensible country will be doing that. Green infrastructure - 2 birds, 1 stone and another thing helpfully given to the Tories on a plate in the last Labour Party manifesto. Sent...

I know we are 300 posts in but has anyone defined what the measures of success of our response will be yet? Deaths vs France & Germany? We had more time to prepare than both and are further away from the European epicentre so should do better (though convinced France's initial spread like Italy...

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Yep, I'm also liking what I'm hearing about this tangible support to keep those most at risk out of harm's way today.

Very much so, I've been working flat out on 30 odd unique client scenarios this week - small businesses to huge corporates across a wide range of industries - I totally get the impact on business and the knock on effect on people's lives, better than many I imagine. All I said was that the...

I'm convinced he would have done as he would have been less bothered about being open for business and would have been more ready to learn the lessons form the places that have managed to keep this contained in order to save lives. The Sunday Times article today suggests a believably cavalier...

Rightly or wrongly, if Corbyn were in charge do you think the guiding principle would have been "how many extra lives are we happy to lose to keep businesses open?" OR "how do we save the most lives possible?"

Sniffany and The Nits are amazing. Lots of good stuff released on Gob Nation - did you ever hear The Snivellers demo? https://gobnation.bandcamp.com/album/the-servile-worm-demo A couple of Jo Gru's, a then current now ex-Porridge Radio and a Garden Centre.

The new Porridge Radio album finally emerges tomorrow. I've heard it and it's as good as the reviews are saying. Maybe better. https://www.metacritic.com/music/every-bad/porridge-radio%20

The Slum of Legs album I've been waiting four years or so for is finally coming out next month. First two tracks are on bandcamp now - https://slumoflegs.bandcamp.com/album/slum-of-legs