Coronavirus outbreak

[tom73]

If dyson or any company can both come up with the engineering , manufacturing skills to make them.
They prove to work and are effective That's got to be the focus no health care system has a massive stock pile of ventilators laying about it's just not practical. We may well in normal day to day health care not have enough but equally most people in hospital don't need one.
We have to be thankful that we still have high quality engineering left here in the Uk let's face it no government for decades has really bothered much about it.

 

[mjr]

I hope they're better quality than his vacuum cleaners, which are both poorly designed and not particularly well made.

I hope they're better than his hand dryers, which are too short for me hands and dribble all over the floor which then gets walked all over the nearby floor. Was it beyond him to design a hole long enough for 99.9% of hands and install a drip collector and drain or evaporation trap?

 

[Johnno260]

I would say if they can make them here and they’re reliable then who cares about the brand, don’t use Shark though that thing tore the carpet off my stairs haha

also as someone else said Dyson has a plant here, better than getting made abroad and the local government decided we need those machines more then the place that’s importing them.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

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no health care system has a massive stock pile of ventilators laying about it's just not practical.

This is exactly what a recent exercise looking at the potential impact of a flu pandemic did recommend. It was not acted upon. Why is it not practical? We have strategic stocks of other things.

 

[MarkF]

As an aside...........opened last year Bradford's ICU is one of the newest in the country, it's a superb and spacious unit with isolation rooms for every patient. In all the expert years of planning just 20 beds was deemed sufficient.

 

[mjr]

also as someone else said Dyson has a plant here, better than getting made abroad and the local government decided we need those machines more then the place that’s importing them.

Does he still have anything more than a design office and prototyping here? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2282809.stm

 

[tom73]

Local tesco express even more into this added more measures. Extra signs up all over ,limiting people inside if they need.
Extra tape on the shop floor now inc self-service.
Also proving cleaning stuff if you want to wipe your trolley or basket handles.

I agree with others if you see people not getting this whole thing. Say something people have had enough time to change.
For me as of yesterday I want accept it anymore we can't fix this if only a few play the game.
From today police now have powers so once a few £40 fines start flying around or they start getting held for 48 hours for testing.
It should get the message across.

 

[vickster]

According to reports, the Dyson ventilators will be made in Wiltshire in a disused hangar and will be subject to stringent medical device testing As any of the ones made by current manufacturers

Perhaps let’s try to see the positives, eh?

 

[vickster]

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This is exactly what a recent exercise looking at the potential impact of a flu pandemic did recommend. It was not acted upon. Why is it not practical? We have strategic stocks of other things.

How recent?

 

[nickyboy]

Does he still have anything more than a design office and prototyping here? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2282809.stm

Doesn't matter. Air freight operating normally. Can be despatched from Malaysian factory and be in UK in 24 hours

Dyson is doing something and that should be recognised. There are a lot of companies and individuals who could help who are doing nothing. Target your ire at them

 

[Unkraut]

Latest figures here including increase from yesterday, average per 100 000 and number of deaths:

Total (tested)

36.508

+4.954

44

198

There's a briefing later, but doesn't seem like the curve is flattening yet. Still early days.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

How recent?

How recent?

2016.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politi...s-show-no-planning-ventilators-event-pandemic

 

[mjr]

Doesn't matter. Air freight operating normally. Can be despatched from Malaysian factory and be in UK in 24 hours

I was responding to claims above. I agree it's not insurmountable, but let's not pretend he is a big British manufacturer who gave a toss about UK workers, unlike some I know who have been making medical kit in their UK factories, working shifts around the clock, complying with guidelines but still workers risking their lives more being out, during this whole time without diverting staff to seek publicity.

Dyson is doing something and that should be recognised. There are a lot of companies and individuals who could help who are doing nothing. Target your ire at them

Plenty of ire to spare, but Dyson ain't the messiah, you know!

 

[mjr]

Latest figures here

would you mind editing your post to expand here, for benefit of new readers on mobiles who overlook your name, please?

 

[PK99]

I despair at Journalistic spin and expect better of the Telegraph:

Covid symptom tracker app suggests 6.5m people in UK may already have coronavirus

Within the first 24 hours, some 650,000 people had signed up – and an initial analysis revealed that 10 per cent of them showed symptoms of the virus.

If extrapolated to the whole country, it could mean that around 6.5 million people currently have coronavirus, the first time an estimate based on real-time data has been attempted.


FFS this is not a random sample it is a self selected group most likely weighted toward those with symptoms and wanting to report them.

Simple extrapolation to full population is plain stupid