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« Reply #7560 on: Monday, March 8, 2021, 18:21:59 »


Rivoting stuff
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« Reply #7561 on: Monday, March 8, 2021, 19:40:00 »

Jeez, you're all old gits.
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« Reply #7562 on: Monday, March 8, 2021, 20:02:08 »

 Not all of us, i am a spring chicken, which i class as younger than 50  Wink
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« Reply #7563 on: Monday, March 8, 2021, 20:03:12 »

Not all of us, i am a spring chicken, which i class as younger than 50  Wink

All down hill after 40😀
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« Reply #7564 on: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 12:16:39 »

I had the immense pleasure in doing my first home administered Lateral Flow Test this morning, not the most pleasant experience and all in all a bit of a faff, but needs must. Uploading the results seemed to be more of a data gathering exercise about me.

In other covid news... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56340831
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« Reply #7565 on: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 12:19:47 »


Better invest some more money into then
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« Reply #7566 on: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 12:23:09 »

So we've already wasted £22bn on a failed track and trace system that has no impact on COVID, but instead of scrapping it and giving the responsibility (and funds) to the NHS or local public health teams where it should have been in the 1st place, the govt are going to spunk another £15bn on it with equally little result. Wonder how many public sector pay rises that £15bn could fund? That's nearly £350m a week - don't remember seeing that on the side of a bus "We're going to leave the EU so we can spunk £350m a week on our mates in the private sector for absolutely no return whatsoever". Massive corruption. But, Meghan and Morgan
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« Reply #7567 on: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 14:09:39 »

Entire UK Primary Care budget - £9 Billion
Entire UK Police Budget - £15 Billion
Entire UK Fire Service Budget - £3 Billion
Cost of 5% pay rise for NHS nurses - £500 million
Money handed out to a retired jockey to run Test and Trace - £37 Billion.
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« Reply #7568 on: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 14:29:49 »

Entire UK Primary Care budget - £9 Billion
Entire UK Police Budget - £15 Billion
Entire UK Fire Service Budget - £3 Billion
Cost of 5% pay rise for NHS nurses - £500 million
Money handed out to a retired jockey to run Test and Trace - £37 Billion.

Those stats are staggering. Where on earth has that 37 billion gone??
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« Reply #7569 on: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 14:34:50 »

And a 40% payrise for Dominic Cummings
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« Reply #7570 on: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 14:39:07 »

Those stats are staggering. Where on earth has that 37 billion gone??
Well "only" £22bn of it has gone so far. The remaining £15bn is earmarked to be spent over the course of the next year according to the OBR's notes accompanying the budget. But still, it's eye-watering and I'd also like to know how they have managed to spend so much. Even if the damn system worked, which it doesn't, I just don't see how you can possibly spend that amount on some test sites, lab fees and a shit call centre operation. I know they've been paying consultants £7k a day, but even that doesn't amount to much more than a few 10s of millions. And £22bn is what they're admitting to. It begs the question what are they hiding behind that?
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« Reply #7571 on: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 14:41:04 »

Where on earth has that 37 billion gone??

Tory mates pockets
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« Reply #7572 on: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 14:50:25 »

3 month old article, but this shows the majority of it is earmarked for/has been spent on testing i.e. the bit that we actually seem to be getting right, not tracing which we are failing woefully at.

https://fullfact.org/health/local-national-contact-tracing/
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« Reply #7573 on: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 14:55:03 »

Nightingale hospitals to close. A £532 million PR stunt to make it look as if the Govt were doing something. They ended up highlighting how ten years of austerity had cut staff so much in the NHS that even when you put more beds in place there was no one to look after patients
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« Reply #7574 on: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 15:15:26 »

Nightingale hospitals to close. A £532 million PR stunt to make it look as if the Govt were doing something. They ended up highlighting how ten years of austerity had cut staff so much in the NHS that even when you put more beds in place there was no one to look after patients
They would have moved staff around. There was genuine concern that we would run out of ventilated beds. The original predicted  death toll from the 1st wave this time last year was much higher than what actually happened thankfully.
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