matticus
Guru
very true. "we get the government we deserve" as they say.
The mass protests (against lockdown) over there aren't entirely due to Trump's rabble-rousing - I believe they would have turned out anyway.
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The mass protests (against lockdown) over there aren't entirely due to Trump's rabble-rousing - I believe they would have turned out anyway.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
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They'll be buying shares in Mar a Lago Disinjectant next.
You've missed out a few bit's
Some states are now opening up hair dressers , nail bars, and even tattoo placers. So you may die but at least you can look nice and have the undertaker think oh nice tattoo.
Agreed. It's not like there has been a public information roll out "your local testing centre is here - come for a test". Yesterday was the first information saying that keyworkers and their families could be tested, but it still isn't that clear how to access.
I found a link on Sky news to the government website:-
Three lots of figures being mixed up, by Hancock, perhaps deliberately.
I don't have currently reliable sources, although if you take what the government says itself at other times, that seems accurate enough.
The current old fashioned professional nose sticker uppers capacity seems to be around 40,000. The two biobanks scheduled to opening/getting their arse in gear (Milton Keynes too a long time) etc will add another 36,000-50,000. This is what Hancock's talking about along with a few other labs.
The ONS study is 300,000 people per week by mostly small labs.
The essential workers kits seem to be being done by various small labs not in current capacity. The essential workers drive throughs and the place will be the all the drop off points which is being expanded (a lot of concern here on a dearth in the east of the country). It's unclear from what Valance said ages ago whether some of these will have more mobile/PCR set ups run by pros hiding out in tents/cabins on site. I have a cynical suspicion that the DIY nose kits will be sent to the three biobank sites whilst capacity continues to be unused though! And then in two week's time hancock is asked this and says well that's what was planned all along.
All of that seems plausible numbers wise when you tot it up. The concern there is for me you'll get very differential take up by job/sector.
From a practical point of view we're likely past the peak of wave-1. It's kind of too late for that. The use of this is it'll interact with wave-2. It's also too little for how broad 'essential workers' is defined.
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Well maybe so but the posh end round here was like you say was all cars all parked up working from home.But not anymore it's like any normal day now. Things are slipping maybe slowly maybe in small area of the county but it's moving.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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Bizarrely not reported on some USA news sites but it's on https://www.thejournal.ie/trump-disinfectant-covid-19-sunlight-5082830-Apr2020/
matticus
Guru
I can unreservedly recommend Tim Hartord's programme More-or-less https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd/episodes/player
I've learned something important and interesting every time I listen.
(last night's fun fact: birds sing louder when their environment gets noisier - and they've got quieter in the recent reduced traffic levels!)
I've learned something important and interesting every time I listen.
(last night's fun fact: birds sing louder when their environment gets noisier - and they've got quieter in the recent reduced traffic levels!)
Right thanks for that.
So we may well have labs space but not a hope of using it as We've got the labs but you can't have a test.
All so Hancock and co can say look how great this is. we told you we'd have all these tests and look how clear we are we've even more space left over.
Do we have any reliable number of test centre capacity ? Or any real idea if we have them in the right placers ?
The mobile testing set up's sound like way too late to me that should have been set up on day one.
The whole thing is just a total mess from start to finish. We don't have a hope of getting anything remotely looking joined up if they stick to it will be fine thinking. It's like a joe bloggs version of the PPE screw up.
I checked on the gov.uk site about getting checked as I'm a Key Worker, as per announcement yesterday. All I managed to get to was the 'Yes, but only if you are self isolating' page.
This was between 08.00 & 09.30.
Has it been updated (and overwhelmed) since then, or did I misunderstand the announcement?
Incidentally, Sky News link also directed me towards the possibly out of date link.
This was between 08.00 & 09.30.
Has it been updated (and overwhelmed) since then, or did I misunderstand the announcement?
Incidentally, Sky News link also directed me towards the possibly out of date link.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
I don't know, but I have noticed that negative tests are conspicuously missing from the stacked bar chart of testing they keep showing at briefings. Putting that and "unused tests" on that would be a start at getting a useful picture.
byegad
Legendary Member
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- NE England
I suspect that they've been stockpiling testing kits in order to use all of them on the 30th, to 'prove' that they got to 100 000 tests in a day. If I'm right you will see a slump in tests conducted well into May.
No your right expect that it's now not working at all.
Hancocks 5 pillars of testing look to be
1 we are committed to more tests
2 we are committed to more tests
3 we are committed to more tests
4 Can I have a test ..... No
5 Why not ...... We never said you'd be able to get one , all we ever said was..... we are committed to more tests.
1 we are committed to more tests
2 we are committed to more tests
3 we are committed to more tests
4 Can I have a test ..... No
5 Why not ...... We never said you'd be able to get one , all we ever said was..... we are committed to more tests.
My company has told us that they will give me/us the opportunity to be tested at the earliest opportunity, whenever that might be. Meanwhile, I'll carry on with my job, slathered in antibac..
