Coronavirus

[sh#t waffle]

Just now, TK421 said:

Boris Johnson is doing the daily briefing today.  

Sweepstake on how many times he says 'as far as I am concerned, that matter is now closed'.

[Pureblood]

Just now, sh#t waffle said:

Sweepstake on how many times he says 'as far as I am concerned, that matter is now closed'.

There was a "matter"?

[Anubis]

1 minute ago, sh#t waffle said:

Sweepstake on how many times he says 'as far as I am concerned, that matter is now closed'.

Will see you and raise you “it’s time to move on.”

[Scooby Dudek]

11 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Can you imagine the twisted little faces of the ‘take control of our borders’ mob when they see this.

 

 

 

Fine as long as their passports are blue.

[Scooby Dudek]

5 minutes ago, sh#t waffle said:

Sweepstake on how many times he says 'as far as I am concerned, that matter is now closed'.

He will need to be asked about if first.

[sh#t waffle]

3 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Will see you and raise you “it’s time to move on.”

As far as I am concerned the matter is now closed and it's time to move on so we can get on with fighting this ruddy virus.

[Mudface]

 

Number of people tested unavailable yet again, there might be as few as 40K given the way they apparently record a 'test', which would skew the new positives downwards. At least deaths are down a bit week on week.

 

Scotland seems to be doing OK- deaths and infections down by about 50% compared to the first four days of last week, and quite a few health boards regularly reporting zero or very few new cases. These are probably the sort of figures England should be aiming for for a successful track and trace program.

 

https://coronavstats.co.uk/scotland

[PestiRed]

We’re on a rolling 7 day average of 5 deaths and under 30 new cases. Indoor areas of bars and restaurants can open tomorrow

[Bjornebye]

The sign language fella on the BBC is the spitting image of my mate. I can't stop watching him. 

[Bjornebye]

Wow you fucking shitbag tory cunt 

[johnsusername]

Another 377 deaths yesterday. It's probably mostly old people though, who seemingly don't count. 

[Bjornebye]

He has refused to let his two medical advisors answer direct questions 

[Pureblood]

He referred to vulnerable people shielding as being "in captivity".

[YorkshireRed]

I know that most on here see this but our country really is fucked.

 

Not working, so a little too much time on my hands but the comments I read on various social media platforms, callers to radio shows, conversations I hear out and about and even over the garden wall are soul destroying.

 

Whatever they do, no matter what they say the masses selectively ignore, mask their lack of understanding with deflection and/or aggression and actively champion the incompetence.

 

Those that think differently are becoming more and more marginalised. Lessons from history suggest we could be in for a difficult few years. 

[SasaS]

43 minutes ago, PestiRed said:

We’re on a rolling 7 day average of 5 deaths and under 30 new cases. Indoor areas of bars and restaurants can open tomorrow

Slovakia still kicking your ass, mate.

[PestiRed]

5 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Slovakia still kicking your ass, mate.

Yeah but they’ve opened their borders to us so we’ll soon fix that

[Section_31]

21 minutes ago, TK421 said:

He referred to vulnerable people shielding as being "in captivity".

 

Funny as fuck seeing Kuensberg put on mute as she tried to ask a follow up about why tweedledum and tweedlefuck weren't allowed to talk about Cummings. So much for you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.

 

It's been genuinely amusing seeing how all the folks who used to think the Tories would only ever shit in other people's mouths are now getting a belly full of brown. 

 

"The Tories only have a problem with the left wing media". Oh fuck I'm on the shitlist.

 

"The Tories only shit on poor people." Oh wait my business has gone bust.

 

"The Tories respect the rule of law and people who abide by the rules." Oh wait the attorney general is tweeting support for someone who broke the rules.

 

"The Tories look after their own." Oh look Philip Hammond is selling toner cartridges out the back of his jag.

 

"The tories will look after the north." Haha, get ready boys and girls! 

 

"The tories look after pensioners, we're their base." Oh look it's another meat wagon.

 

Said it before and I'll say it forever, if you've ever given these cunts your vote, or even the time of day, you deserve absolutely everything that's coming to you. 

 

[Bobby Hundreds]

Scary how they don't give a shit any more but even more scary the defence of them by people for zero reason other than brexit. 

[Captain Turdseye]

20 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

Not working, so a little too much time on my hands

Spend it on your blog. 

[Rushies tash]

21 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

I know that most on here see this but our country really is fucked.

 

Not working, so a little too much time on my hands but the comments I read on various social media platforms, callers to radio shows, conversations I hear out and about and even over the garden wall are soul destroying.

 

Whatever they do, no matter what they say the masses selectively ignore, mask their lack of understanding with deflection and/or aggression and actively champion the incompetence.

 

Those that think differently are becoming more and more marginalised. Lessons from history suggest we could be in for a difficult few years. 

40 years of media brainwashing will have that effect. 

[Dougie Do'ins]

3 hours ago, S.i.t.M aka The Boring One™ said:

At least they're consistent. Everything crashes on launch with this mob. 

Thank fuck they're not in the aviation business.

[Mudface]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/28/ppe-testing-contact-tracing-shambles-outsourcing-coronavirus

It's going to be the usual outsourcing clusterfuck, isn't it? As usual, it'll end up costing more and give a worse outcome while Serco and the rest of the parasites make out like bandits.

 

After PPE and testing, contact tracing looks like the next UK shambles
David McCoy
The government’s zeal for outsourcing and centralisation has compromised its coronavirus strategy from the outset


 ‘Various private companies have been contracted to deliver aspects of the national testing and contact-tracing strategy, including Randox, Deloitte, Serco, G4S and Sodexo.’ 
Curbing the coronavirus outbreak involves a familiar mantra: test, trace, isolate. As of this week, the government will begin to roll out the second part of this strategy. In theory, contact tracers will call or text people in England and Scotland who test positive for coronavirus, asking them to provide a list of everyone they have met for longer than 15 minutes, who will then receive a message instructing them to self-isolate for 14 days. 

But already, the contact-tracing strategy looks set to be hobbled by the government’s reluctance to involve local authorities and regional public health expertise in its coronavirus response from the outset, and its dogmatic commitment to outsourcing health services to the private sector.  


Baroness Dido Harding, who is leading the programme of testing and tracing, recently conceded that the UK system won’t be fully operational at the local level until late June. Elsewhere, contact tracers have spoken of difficulties accessing the government system, describing it as a “complete shambles”. One recruit reportedly said their training amounted to reading a pdf and taking an online quiz - “all of which takes an hour”. 

For an idea of how contact tracing works best, look to Germany. When interviewed about the country’s successful contact-tracing programme recently on Newsnight, the German minister of health described how the response had worked through the country’s federal structures and with the 400 different “communities” that are responsible for the track and trace system.

The UK, on the other hand, started by pursuing a call-centre model run by Serco and staffed with minimum wage customer service employees. Recruitment agencies tasked with finding contact tracers  are reportedly offering an hourly wage of £8.72 to staff with experience of “telephone or face-to-face customer services”. Viewing contact tracers as customer service call handlers may be a good business model for Serco, but I would like to know if a single public health specialist in this country thinks this was a good idea.

Contact tracing is fundamentally a behavioural intervention; when used well, contact tracers don’t just deliver messages about quarantine but also provide reactive advice and reassurance, and can act as important “eyes and ears”, gathering local intelligence that can be passed on to other members of the public health team. In Korea, health authorities deployed teams of specialist epidemiological intelligence service officers. In Massachusetts, local departments of health carried out contact tracing assisted by volunteers from the public health community, graduate students, Peace Corps volunteers, medical assistants and retired nurses, all of whom were paid more than twice the local minimum wage. 

This government’s enthusiasm for outsourcing and centralisation has been an Achilles heel in its coronavirus strategy. Although it recently announced an extra £300m to support local authorities in England to deliver the new test and trace strategies, these authorities will have their work cut out to quickly stitch together a coherent and organised programme from a confusing landscape of NHS commissioners and providers, parallel central initiatives, outsourced private contractors, and the recently established Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC). The JBC’s roles include collecting and analysing data about Covid-19 infection rates across England, identifying and providing real-time analysis about local outbreaks and recommending appropriate responses to spikes in infections – for example, whether schools or workplaces in local areas should be closed, or whether different restrictions should be imposed in different areas. 

Details on how the JBC will be staffed or set up to provide real-time data and intelligence for local authorities haven’t been published. Somewhat bizarrely, rather than appointing a public health specialist to lead the body, the government has appointed Tom Hurd, a senior Home Office counter-terrorism official. According to the Institute for Government, the JBC is modelled on the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, which analyses counter-terrorism intelligence and sets the terrorism threat level for the country. In much the same way, the JBC will set a coronavirus threat according to five different levels. But as with all centralised bureaucracies, there’s a risk that the JBC will contribute to delays, as data trickles down to the local areas where it’s needed most. There’s also a risk that members of the public will be put off by their data being held by an organisation modelled on a centralised counter-terrorism organisation. 

Crucially, test results can’t be anonymised if they are to be used in local disease control management. Once again, trust in the system is vital. Both the JBC and local authorities will have to rely on the various private companies that have been contracted to deliver aspects of the national testing and contact-tracing strategy, including Randox, Deloitte, Serco, G4S and Sodexo. The detailed specifications of their contracts are not public, and the division of roles and responsibilities between the centre, local authorities and the private sector remain unclear. It’s hard not to wonder why England has created such a complicated and fragmented architecture for itself, rather than following the example of other countries that have involved local authorities from the outset.

I previously worked as director of public health in Hammersmith and Fulham, and I’ve seen the efforts of public health teams in north-east London during this epidemic. Across the country, we have smart, competent and committed public health officers. Indeed, the UK has one of the best specialised public health training programmes in the world. Although we are seeing the emergence of a more prominent role for Public Health England’s regional teams and local authority public health departments, these specialised resources should never have been so neglected. The government’s coronavirus response should have had local authorities and local health expertise at its core all along.

• David McCoy is a professor of global public health and director of the Centre for Public Health at Queen Mary University of London

[Creator Supreme]

I'm surprised the gaggle of thundercunts I work for haven't got their snouts in the tracing app trough!

[Dr Nowt]

2 hours ago, TK421 said:

He referred to vulnerable people shielding as being "in captivity".

You should see the fucking state of me. It's a jungle in here.

[Elite]

1 minute ago, Dr Nowt said:

You should see the fucking state of me. It's a jungle in here.

How you getting on mate? Must be tough.