Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
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Radio 5 today
Government Minister, Robert Jenrick
"today 30,000 ICU beds as a result of the work of the private sector........ businesses coming forward to create that capability"
Problem solved then Mr Jenrick I'd like to see how a bunch of furniture and equipment can care of someone who needs them. Unless ikea do flat pack Nurses. or maybe the cabinet are up for some real life work I'm sure a Nurse would happy to show you what you do with a catheter.
Government Minister, Robert Jenrick
"today 30,000 ICU beds as a result of the work of the private sector........ businesses coming forward to create that capability"
Problem solved then Mr Jenrick I'd like to see how a bunch of furniture and equipment can care of someone who needs them. Unless ikea do flat pack Nurses. or maybe the cabinet are up for some real life work I'm sure a Nurse would happy to show you what you do with a catheter.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
How will a Wales lockdown work if England don’t follow suit? There numbers aren’t that high anyway. It needs to be all or nothing or virus will return from across the border.
matticus
Guru
This is the same question that locking down Leicester raised 100 days ago - isn't it?
(or any other localised variations)
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
Yeah it’s the same question. But the local lock downs are to get the Higher numbers down and the restrictions are not that onerous.
The Welsh lockdown is far stricter and the numbers are much lower already.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Maybe Wales will soon build an anti-virus protection barrier along the border? Are there still any English exclaves there to need an air bridge?
They have much less critical care and primary care capacity than we have. Better to go now with lower numbers is better then waiting. It's much harder to bring number down than to keep them down. At least they are doing something and trying to be pro active. Can't see it being the last of these lockdowns either.
Rusty Nails
We remember
- Location
- Living in the slow lane
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
There are at least a couple of places in Scotland also known as "Little England".
I don't know. But bribing councils and citizens with money to provide or act on highly spurious test results on young healthy cannot be justified. There is no genuine second wave (and why would there be?), just a pseudo case wave.
Rusty Nails
We remember
- Location
- Living in the slow lane
We have not got a "circuit-breaker" lockdown in Wales, we have a "firebreak" lockdown 
I thought a firebreak involved setting fire to a sacrificial barrier area to stop the fire spreading beyond it. I am not sure that Mark Drakeford is planning to give Covid to a sacrificial section of the population to stop more people getting it.
Is it just that he doesn't want to be seen copying other politicians of the UK that have been talking of a circuit-break lockdown?
I thought a firebreak involved setting fire to a sacrificial barrier area to stop the fire spreading beyond it. I am not sure that Mark Drakeford is planning to give Covid to a sacrificial section of the population to stop more people getting it.
Is it just that he doesn't want to be seen copying other politicians of the UK that have been talking of a circuit-break lockdown?
classic33
Leg End Member
I've not been bribed!
Three tests, all negative to date.
BRI still have the 24 bed emergency capacity, or is some in use?
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Maybe it's a mistranslation from Welsh, like how we got "forlorn hope" from the Dutch for "lost troop".
Rusty Nails
We remember
- Location
- Living in the slow lane
matticus
Guru
I agree that fire-break is not a great analogy, but circuit breaker is awful!We have not got a "circuit-breaker" lockdown in Wales, we have a "firebreak" lockdown
I thought a firebreak involved setting fire to a sacrificial barrier area to stop the fire spreading beyond it. I am not sure that Mark Drakeford is planning to give Covid to a sacrificial section of the population to stop more people getting it.
