Most got away with it but some came very close. Still not out the woods yet much of this depends on enough people carrying on plain by the rules.
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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Still quite a few exercisers out here today despite the rain, including a walker on a C road that I don't remember ever seeing a walker on before. Long may this continue!
What annoyed me about the rain was that I intended to ride home a new way through the forest edge, but the skies opened and I've no idea how well-drained that route is, so it'll have to wait!
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Good! It'll reduce the queues and overcrowding and maybe they'll be better at keeping supplies coming than the shambolic ones!
kingrollo
Guru
Bottom line is though that 30% of people admitted to hospital with covid 19 die. Unless we find better treatment s that will continue. That's not a critiscm of anyone - that's just the world we are living in.
flake99please
We all scream for ice cream
- Location
- Edinburgh
I wonder if the country reaches its target of 100,000 tests today? I will take a guess at around 60k.
If like many you will be clapping tonight just also take a moment to reflect on the health and social care workers we have sadly been lost.
Which sadly now stands at 156. That's 156 families grieving , 156 dedicated and caring individuals lost.
They come for all area of health and social care many classed as low risk many expected to work without the right PPE.
But they carried on going the job because they cared sadly the state did not return the favour.
Which sadly now stands at 156. That's 156 families grieving , 156 dedicated and caring individuals lost.
They come for all area of health and social care many classed as low risk many expected to work without the right PPE.
But they carried on going the job because they cared sadly the state did not return the favour.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
I believe they've been busting a gut to get just over 80,000, a figure that will last one day. There was a minister, justice, I think, who was going around briefing something along the lines that it was necessary to promise undeliverables to be able to deliver something substantially less than promised or some other twisted form of logic.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
These revised dates of deaths match my suspicions: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...d-by-time-uk-reported-first-coronavirus-death
Milzy
Guru
Yet people are licking the government's boots saying they're heros. They've got blood on their hands. It's not good enough. It's all good and well saying hindsights a wonderful thing blah blah.
kingrollo
Guru
I know, how can it be hindsight ? - we had warnings from WHO and an advance viewing in Italy ?
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Part of the blame has to rest with the NHS reporting system, which appears to have been in such a pitiable state that Victorians would have been ashamed of it.
Rusty Nails
We remember
- Location
- Living in the slow lane
The leaders of the constituent countries of the UK say they are following the advice of their scientists.
Wales has a different approach to testing than England. Whose scientists should I trust more, not that I have any choice in the matter?
I believe the leaders temper their following of the advice after they have balanced it against the resources and capabilities they have.
Wales has a different approach to testing than England. Whose scientists should I trust more, not that I have any choice in the matter?
I believe the leaders temper their following of the advice after they have balanced it against the resources and capabilities they have.
randynewmanscat
Veteran
- Location
- Vienne, Poitou-Chrentes
No, the pharmacy just said we have these, we don't know when the cheap ones are back in, our branches in the north are taking them all would you like to order some of these.
randynewmanscat
Veteran
- Location
- Vienne, Poitou-Chrentes
Some light for me, unless things change drastically my playpen is to be expanded on the 11th of May. The detail is to be fleshed out in the days before the 11th but I will have to stay in my department and the bars, cafes and restaurants that make life social will not be considered until June. I personally doubt they will be allowed to open in June. The south west has largely dodged the horror that was visited on the north east, Paris, Grand Est.
