The English should start committing some offences for their personal safety.
The death rate among prisoners is only 0.22%, virtually half that scary 0.43% for England and even higher in London.
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Brexit, for once some facts.
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The death rate among prisoners is only 0.22%, virtually half that scary 0.43% for England and even higher in London.
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I wonder if any business has been nicked for opening illegally ? Stores selling agricultural items can stay open so that would include some of the larger garden centres that sell bigger items like sit-on mowers etc.
Maybe not if known as garden centres it seems and that is their complaint. I've got a very big Knights one near me that remained open at first but were then ordered to close since all the garden centres were ruled to be non essential. The DIY stores were ruled as essential, but despite that the DIYs closed since they couldn't instantly reorganise for social distancing. It remains to be seen whether they've achieved that now.
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Interesting long article on Independent; doesn't say that much not already covered elsewhere, but ...
We are paying with our lives for austerity and incompetence at the top
www.independent.co.uk
It's on Independent Premium. I got a trial for just a few pounds; I think you can register and get one premium article a week?
We are paying with our lives for austerity and incompetence at the top
Is austerity to blame for our inability to cope with coronavirus?
The government has been accused of 'massaging the metrics' to reach its target of testing 100,000 people a day. With such an ill-informed strategy, the chaos was hardly surprising, writes Arron Merat
www.independent.co.uk
It's on Independent Premium. I got a trial for just a few pounds; I think you can register and get one premium article a week?
Chuckle of the day Hancock gets his backside handed to him!
My local B&Q has been open for some time I gather although oddly it wasn't on their list of open stores. I was told the queues outside were huge as they were only letting so many in at a time, avoids bunching at the checkouts I guess. From what I heard many were driving into the car park then on seeing the queue driving straight back out again.
I'm hearing all sorts of stories of what's happening in my local Tesco regarding customers, apparently many shoppers are just wandering around aimlessly inside picking things up and putting them back on the shelves basically just killing time. Back in the day the elderly would occupy libraries all day long and nod off to sleep, it was something to do and they could keep warm for free. These days Supermarkets & large stores provide a place of.... well sanctuary in a sense. There but for the grace of God go I.
Difficult sentence construction there. Are they suggesting that their President escaped from an animal market or Lab?... It would explain a lot.
The truth is testing!
It transpires that of the 122,000 test achievement announced for yesterday, some 40,000 were only of tests sent out for use.
The number of persons actually tested was 73,000, so Hancock didn't quite reach three quarters of his target.
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It transpires that of the 122,000 test achievement announced for yesterday, some 40,000 were only of tests sent out for use.
The number of persons actually tested was 73,000, so Hancock didn't quite reach three quarters of his target.
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1001 Excuses. Number 1: The cheque is in the post.
The government has changed the way it is counting the number of covid-19 tests carried out in a bid to hit its target of 100,000 tests per day by the end of April, HSJ can reveal.
Previously, a test would be counted once the sample had been processed in laboratories. But this definition has been changed in the last few days, a senior source told HSJ.
The Department of Health and Social Care is now including tests that have been posted or delivered to people’s homes in its figures. This means tests which are sent to people are counted before the recipient has provided and returned their sample to a laboratory.
Speaking at today’s press conference, health secretary Matt Hancock said the government had reached its target yesterday after carrying out more than 122,000 tests.
HSJ understands that up to 50,000 of those tests include the dispatch of tests sent to individuals at home.
The number of tests carried out have increased dramatically in the last week. On 23 April just 23,560 tests were carried out.
The source told HSJ that work to achieve the 100,000 tests per day had been “manic” and that the health and social care secretary Matt Hancock was “obsessed” with reaching the target. “They are trying every trick in the book,” the source said.
“They had to get the permanent secretary at DHSC (Chris Wormald) to agree to a change in the counting process.
“We’re now counting a home test as tests which have been sent to people’s homes.”
https://www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-performance/revealed-how-government-changed-the-rules-to-hit-100000-tests-target/7027544.article
Two QuestionsInteresting long article on Independent; doesn't say that much not already covered elsewhere, but ...
We are paying with our lives for austerity and incompetence at the top
Is austerity to blame for our inability to cope with coronavirus?
The government has been accused of 'massaging the metrics' to reach its target of testing 100,000 people a day. With such an ill-informed strategy, the chaos was hardly surprising, writes Arron Merat
It's on Independent Premium. I got a trial for just a few pounds; I think you can register and get one premium article a week?
Do we have to pay now to be tried?
Did they find you guilty?
Am I allowed to drive 30 miles to get to a B&Q?
And when I get there, can I buy anything they have in stock? Or does at least one item have to be classed as essential?
If I may employ for a moment the eloquence of a Soundwave style quote.
FFS they are the Tory party pmsl (Must look that last one up)
And by golly I think he's got it! he's right about them
Well, the legal system is much more likely to find people who pay (for expensive legal representation) not guilty. Maybe simpler in other countries where you pay the judge directly and miss out the middle man.
Of course I can't say if I was guilty, or whether I was found guilty. Sensitive information; a bit like reports on how the country should prepare for epidemics.
There is an interesting article here about how cities around the world are planning for life after the virus.
City leaders aim to shape green recovery from coronavirus crisis
Mayors coordinating efforts to support a low-carbon, sustainable path out of lockdowns
www.theguardian.com
It’s interesting that there are suggestions that people from deprived areas are disproportionately dying from Coronavirus.
Certainly from what I see when I go to my nearest town, it seems to be the shitheads from the crap end of town who are totally disregarding the social distancing measures. Large gatherings, groups drinking together and kids playing with each other. It’s not hard to work it out.
Certainly from what I see when I go to my nearest town, it seems to be the shitheads from the crap end of town who are totally disregarding the social distancing measures. Large gatherings, groups drinking together and kids playing with each other. It’s not hard to work it out.
I think we could possibly forgive them if they deployed a bit of honesty and were a bit more humble about their achievements / lack of achievements. The BS is insulting.