Coronavirus outbreak

[mjr]

Nurses, porters, health cares assistants etc should have been deployed to care homes, right now it has huge labour capacity that could provide a bit of help and professionalism to those poor frontline bods on the minimum wage.

Why haven't we sent the army in to struggling care homes, like other countries?

And why isn't the testing being rolled out through larger pharmacies, who already do other testing? None of this sixty mile journey to a test car park nonsense.

 

[MarkF]

I'd get an application form if it's so great. Unless you're talking about politicians.

Times change, my aunt was a nurse my mother a teacher, respectable and maybe aspirational positions then. Kids nowadays have so many more opportunities, my two youngast are doing things I'd never even heard of when I was 25. Marine biologist! Nursing is not the attractive propostion it once was.

I work in the NHS, I know what nurses do, monthly take home pay has to be considered along with the career package, conditions, holidays, pensions and progressment opportunities. Considerng everything, I think they do ok, but everybody wants more money.........

 

[tom73]

Now 15 million goggles from the 2009 stock pile that’s been sent out don’t meet standards.
In total we've got 26 million of them all pointless no one tested them at the time.
They came in boxers with ce mark on but never past the test.
For once this is not down to Boris.
I hope the posh new ones Mrs 73 just issued with are not these

 

[marinyork]

Times change, my aunt was a nurse my mother a teacher, respectable and maybe aspirational positions then. Kids nowadays have so many more opportunities, my two youngast are doing things I'd never even heard of when I was 25. Marine biologist! Nursing is not the attractive propostion it once was.

Marine biologists have been in the media for decades. James Bond posed as a marine biologist in The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Ring a Ring o' Roses, one hopes.

Food delivery businesses are allowed to continue operating.

If it passes through the cakehole and can be chewed on or mauled by your tongue and later swallowed it is food. Only in my dreams does an ice cream van pass my place.

 

[MarkF]

Marine biologists have been in the media for decades. James Bond posed as a marine biologist in The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977.

Great, it was more of a inkling of what nothern provinicial teenagers want, nursing doesn't fire them up today.

 

[MarkF]

Why haven't we sent the army in to struggling care homes, like other countries?

I don't know. I posted way back my fears were for care home residents. Tbh, I've seen no change on those going to die, care home (alzheimer sufferers) on their way out and v.obese patients, who've not been out of a bed for years, who are now +confirmed and on their way quicker.

Could I suggest that this is a relief for their relatives?

 

[slowmotion]

I don't know. I posted way back my fears were for care home residents. Tbh, I've seen no change on those going to die, care home (alzheimer sufferers) on their way out and v.obese patients, who've not been out of a bed for years, who are now +confirmed and on their way quicker.

Could I suggest that this is a relief for their relatives?

Never mind what the relatives think. I have been with three very elderly relatives in the last three years, some in care homes, some not. All three were quite happy to die. I got the impression that they thought being alive was some kind of prison.

 

[lane]

We’ve had one coming around of and on for weeks. I Checked with the council got told by the head of environmental health they are allowed. Classed as takeaways if People are not social distancing as they wait that’s a matter for the police. A bit of a joke really

It was announced on local Facebook. Ice cream van coming to village. Order in advance and payment in advance by PayPal. Fair enough I guess.

 

[tom73]

It was announced on local Facebook. Ice cream van coming to village. Order in advance and payment in advance by PayPal. Fair enough I guess.

Local made ice cream in tubs delivered to you door maybe. As the dairy industry needs all the help it can get right now. If it's done safely then ok. But queuing up for a 99 just in time to sit down and hear the daily death figure announced is quite another. The more we normalise things the more people start to think it's all over and carry on. We are no way near that point. Environmental health officers at the moment have more than enough to do than check if "Mr Whippy" is up to date with the cleaning.

 

[oldwheels]

There’s a national petition to scrap tuition fees this year for nurses/paramedics and midwives.

https://www.change.org/p/government...ed_by_id=9d14f2a0-9084-11ea-aef8-f56739770e12

Don’t know about paramedics but in Scotland nurses have not paid fees for some time now so I presume by “ national” you mean England.

 

[mjr]

So Boris is expected to announce this evening the abolition of the incomplete, misleading and divisive "stay at home" message and its replacement with the almost-meaningless "stay alert" one. Because, you know, we need more lerts.

What the fark is wrong with the "stay home when you can, keep your distance, wash your hands" message used elsewhere?

 

[mjr]

50'000 UK tests sent to US labs for analysis https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/n...es-to-us-after-problems-in-lab-network/10/05/

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Why haven't we sent the army in to struggling care homes, like other countries?

Unlike the NHS staff, most army personnel aren’t trained for this kind of thing. They may as well give you and me a mask and gloves, a day’s training, and send us in.

 

[Julia9054]

Unlike the NHS staff, most army personnel aren’t trained for this kind of thing. They may as well give you and me a mask and gloves, a day’s training, and send us in.

Often care home staff don't get much more than that tbh.