Coronavirus outbreak

[tom73]

Horrible whatever it's called 😢 When I was in the prison service I had the misfortune to be first on the scene of a 19 year old girl hanging. Rest of the staff came round and we did CPR and technically got her out alive, but sadly the brain must have been starved of oxygen for a bit too long and life support was switched off a couple of days later. You then have to relive it all again months down the line at a fatal accident enquiry.

Yes it's grim Mo and waiting to have to go though it all again is hard to deal with without the rest. Mrs 73 once had 3 to deal with left waiting years down the line.

 

[tom73]

Coroners are particularly keen to show the inquest process is open and above board if a prison or prisoner is involved

Rightly so it should be it's just the time it takes and no-one really can start to move on until it's happened. inc the family

 

[tom73]

London mayor in interview this morning turns out "boris bikes" are now free for NHS staff to get to work.

 

[Johnno260]

Wife just messaged me from Tesco and they’re checking ID’s, people are still trying to sneak in and kicking off when turned away.

 

[tom73]

Having set times for NHS staff is ok and great but they don't work set times. Accessing it won't be easy I bit of rethink will have to happen. Online is one option if you can get a slot that is.

 

[Johnno260]

I like G-Techs thinking basic but in tests it’s holding up well.
https://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk....medical-ventilator-manufactured-matter-days/

 

[marinyork]

Mass prisoner release you mean? That is an option here in the UK but only for D and C cat. (if we have start moving on to B then it's grim) but not without issues since Graylings "pet project" community supervision is a total mass. Probation is a shell of the former service. Many are already graded as poor or failing add in many are being released with no place to go. we already have some being let out with nothing more than a tent. You face the situation of a mass input of people with complex needs into already over worked services. Add in mass number needed pre release assessments the extra work load would be totally unworkable. Sadly for many Prison is the only place they feel safe. They already commit petty crime in order to recalled. Again adding to extra work into the mix. Many would simply go off the radar completely. You could tag them all but then again that service is a mess and would just not cope and recall rate would be high. Police custody would collapse.

Thanks for your thoughts.

On the other side I hope the tech side which I've written about does come on board the next month to three months for testing. A mobile qPCR or other test would give more of a sporting chance of picking up covid-19 cases early in prisons if there are few releases. I do have worries generally that when this fantastic tech comes into force it may suffer from a lack of imagination by the government and it just being used in hospitals and the odd large health centre, rather than more widely (you do need someone to take swabs and run the machines and a few other things, but this could be done at a large number of sites than at present).

 

[marinyork]

I like G-Techs thinking basic but in tests it’s holding up well.
https://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk....medical-ventilator-manufactured-matter-days/

Nick Grey was on Sky and cautiously optimistic that very large numbers could be produced by GTECH (up to 1000 per day, a couple of days ago were talking smaller numbers). McLaren were also on the news as part of a consortium and hoping things could get rolling the next few days.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

On another board a guy working for a pharmaceutical firm says his company are working on an order for 6.5m test kits. What's slowing them down is the logistics.

 

[Mugshot]

Wife just messaged me from Tesco and they’re checking ID’s, people are still trying to sneak in and kicking off when turned away.

Checking IDs?

 

[MrGrumpy]

On another board a guy working for a pharmaceutical firm says his company are working on an order for 6.5m test kits. What's slowing them down is the logistics.

logistics of sending them out or gathering the required parts ? Or both !

 

[mjr]

London mayor in interview this morning turns out "boris bikes" are now free for NHS staff to get to work.

Great move but potentially a load of new-to-city cyclists added to inner London days after the mayor let the motorists back in by lifting the congestion charge and ULEZ might not go well :-\

 

[glasgowcyclist]

A climbing friend commited suicide in 2004

This is a phrase that ought to be avoided as it has those lingering connotations of criminality. Suicide was decriminalised in 1961. Better to use a phrase such as died by suicide.

Sorry to hear about your friend.

 

[Johnno260]

Checking IDs?

for the NHS opening times, you can look and fill trolley 1hr before opening times.
Wife said everyone was responsible and it looked like food to cover 3-4 days max.

 

[Mugshot]

for the NHS opening times, you can look and fill trolley 1hr before opening times.
Wife said everyone was responsible and it looked like food to cover 3-4 days max.

Ah right, thank you