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I'm not sure this side of the crisis is the right time to be digging into the politics. This is the time for the whole country getting ready to ride out the biggest crisis since the War.Once it's over, THEN it's time to look into whether our political decisions over the past 50 years have undermined our resilience to this sort of crisis.
Forgive me, I'll take the opinion of the medical director of one of the largest NHS trusts in the country over you at this stage mate
Quote from: Ldr on March 06, 2020, 10:54:30 amForgive me, I'll take the opinion of the medical director of one of the largest NHS trusts in the country over you at this stage mateMaybe you're right Ldr. Maybe he's been planning for this and they've got a pop up hospital oven ready, with a million ICU beds and 5 million staff. If so, I'm going to look a right idiot in a few weeks time.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 06, 2020, 10:36:18 amI'm not sure this side of the crisis is the right time to be digging into the politics. This is the time for the whole country getting ready to ride out the biggest crisis since the War.Once it's over, THEN it's time to look into whether our political decisions over the past 50 years have undermined our resilience to this sort of crisis.fair comment
Quote from: SydneyRover on March 06, 2020, 11:14:03 amQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 06, 2020, 10:36:18 amI'm not sure this side of the crisis is the right time to be digging into the politics. This is the time for the whole country getting ready to ride out the biggest crisis since the War.Once it's over, THEN it's time to look into whether our political decisions over the past 50 years have undermined our resilience to this sort of crisis.fair commentSaying that, when the key minister is simply lying about Govt preparedness, it doesn't help does it?https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-51769184Politics has become too much about managing public opinion. That sounded like what Hancock was doing last night. If that's the best he can do, he needs removing while we still have time, and replacing with someone with a track record of crisis management, even if they are not an MP.
Nudga mate. That's dangerous b*llocks. This is real and it's very serious. We haven't had a threat like this since the days of the Luftwaffe. If folk don't pay attention,they are going to cause 10s maybe 100s of thousands of unnecessary deaths.
OK, no problem with your view at all Billy.Watch this space though, the world's police and saviours (the USA) will find a miracle vaccination Big Pharma will make billions, oh, and that NHS back door for the USofA has just opened a little bit more. Yes, I am very, very cynical with this world.Power, greed, money, propaganda, control.
Quote from: Nudga on March 06, 2020, 04:58:55 pmOK, no problem with your view at all Billy.Watch this space though, the world's police and saviours (the USA) will find a miracle vaccination Big Pharma will make billions, oh, and that NHS back door for the USofA has just opened a little bit more. Yes, I am very, very cynical with this world.Power, greed, money, propaganda, control. Nudga. There is no possibility whatsoever of anyone developing a vaccine quickly enough to get control of this. The vaccine is going to be there to give people immunity for later waves of Covid19. But it won't be ready for a year at least.The carnage this thing is going to do will be played out round the world sometime between April and Xmas, depending on how quickly it spreads. The way it's spreading in the UK at the moment, the peak would hit us in about 5-6 weeks. I suspect it will slow down, but it will still be sometime in the next 3-4 months. So there ain't going to be a vaccine to save people. The one and only chance we've got to control this bas**rd is all of us listening to expert advice and doing what they tell us to do.
BFYP.Yes. Calming down panic buying is a sensible thing to do.But lying to do that is bleeding stupid. That doesn't calm anyone down. That gives the impression of a Govt that is out of its depth.
This feels to me like a Very Bad Sign.https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3074050/coronavirus-us-secretary-state-mike-pompeos-wuhan-virusThere are all sorts of indications that the Trump administration is botching the handling of the virus outbreak.The fact that they are now calling it Wuhan Virus feels like they are already into Blame Mode.