Coronavirus

No, fell through as far as I know. What a surprise, not

 

I just checked and the deal was signed, U.S. troops started withdrawing. Taliban started taking the piss a bit and a few top U.S. brass have called them out on it, but the deal still exists. That was just a cursory skim and scan mind.

 

By the middle of Feb we had a really good idea of what was happening,

By the beginning of march articles like this were circulating that made it clear the price of delaying
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

I emailed our HR on the 12th March asking them to advise all employees to work from home where possible and me and my staff took the decision to do just that. The governments choice to say only home quarantine if you have been abroad was just plain wrong and anyone with half a brain could see it. Meanwhile Boris was on the tele saying we could let it infect all of us and it would just sweep through no problem.

I know I'm anti-tory but really right now I'm just saddened that we thought we knew better and didnt prepare when time was so precious. Like I said before social isolation means each infected person infects less than one other person so the number infected falls, without it the number infected doubles every 2-3 days on the 12th March we had at least 10,000 infected, a week later it was at least 150,000. Just that week cost us dear.

 

i knew

 

Ffs, i just clicked on sky news, hoping the toll was in decline.

No such luck, it's risen again ffs.

 

even if only one person dies in the next two weeks, it will go up again. Or did you mean daily today is up?

It does look like the measures are doing the job somewhat at least. It doesn't currently look anything like the NHS will be overwhelmed.

Fingers crossed.

 

It's still gonna get worse before it gets better I reckon.

 

They are predicting roundabout Easter Sunday as being the peak

 

Definitely this. But it's not the exponential disaster we worried it might be. Thankfully

 

What?

They are already ****ing overwhelmed.

 

I know it's not a thousand a day but seems like recently the "thousand" in the total is going up by 1 every day.

 

everyday is like walking in a mine field...

at least that would be a swift end.

 

Anyone think, even when this is all over, this new Nightingale hospital is never going back to being the Excel centre?

 

I think it will go back, but I hope they take a look at the capacity we ideally need going forward and build some purpose built new hospitals. Enough to meet the full need and not just enough to get by. They can tax us whatever it takes to do that as far as I am concerned

 

Good post

 

Easter egg eating ?

 

In London they are, in large part thanks to Khan and his "oh go on trains, you'll be fine, it's all good" advice a few weeks ago.
Then he cut the available trains in half, making sure the remaining ones were packed.

Nationwide, there is still capacity is there not?

That 22 million he spent on woke art a while back would have been better used by the NHS.

The people we elect are pieces of ****

 

Not so sure Nev, that place is going to see some terrible things over the next few months. I can't imagine after that it all being packed away and going back to hosting wedding shows and trade exhibits. Agree though, the Tories pledged new hospitals in the GE and this has shown they have to deliver on that promise.

 

where do you live?

 

fanning the flames of blame and recrimination