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Discussion in 'General Chat' started by king karl, Feb 15, 2020.

  1. Bronco

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    As you say the economy is in dire straights and this is a request from the Durham Constabulary, you couldn't make it up !!.

    https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/25/durham-police-chief-calls-for-investigation-into-dominic-cummings?amp_js_v=a3&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=15904087654775&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fpolitics%2F2020%2Fmay%2F25%2Fdurham-police-chief-calls-for-investigation-into-dominic-cummings
     
  2. king karl

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    French kids back at school today , break time

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    Little shit on the far right needs to get back in her ‘box’!
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    There's always 1.
     
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  5. Bronco

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    Great to see Karl, the French teachers & parents obviously have faith in what the government and schools are doing.
    Where as many British parents are saying they wont risk their children going back, and the teachers unions are saying the conditions are not right for their members to go back, sadly it looks like an up hill battle over here.
     
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    Been saying this to Julia Hartley-Brewer for some time now.
     
  7. Dionysus

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    Once the Mail and the Guardian agree on a front page, you’ve lost control of the news.

    This press conference later on today is highly unusual. I can’t imagine he’s resigning with a Q&A segment at the end, but then what is he going to say?
     
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  8. How

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    Abysmal. Not even close to 100k tests a day. We best hope the virus fizzles out as it seems to be doing naturally. This government cannot cope or meet any targets they set themselves.
     
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    As the virus has gone on their handling of it has got worse to a point where they've just given up, hoping if they pull the duvet ovet their heads it will miraculously go away on its own. Reminds me of watching Bowyers tenure as City manager.
     
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    Wonder if Durham police investigate every complaint about the rules so much.
    Seems over kill for a £60 fine
     
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  11. Storck

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    On a Sunday?
     
  12. How

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    Its Monday
     
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  13. How

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    Agree. They’ve had enough now. Shame we’ve no Parliament now due to recess. I think they did say they would get to 250k by June? Only if they continue to double count
     
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    feels like Sunday
     
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    There was a programme on Radio 4 a couple of weeks ago which spilled the beans on this aspect on the testing regime. The statistician took the data from the Govt and reduced it for the known double counting and other 'idiosyncracies' as I'll call them. Others night call it fudging the numbers or cheating! She derived a very number from the Government's testing number.

    First there were the tests which weren't really tests but were simply Amazon dispatching testing kits to those who wanted them. There was no control on which testing kits were returned to the labs for analysis. and further investigation showed there was a big gap between testing kits sent out and samples being returned. Next were the things which the Telegraph picked up that people who had the usual nasal and throat swabs were being counted as two tests despite them being for the same person. And the third area was that tests were being done on the same person more than once to confirm the results or to understand how things changed from one day to the next. I foget the precise numbers but she started with the Govt's own figure for one day of around 100,000. By the time the statistician had made the changes for the three things she'd identified - tests which weren't really tests; for the double counting of nasal and throat swabs and for the multiple tests on the same person - the bona fide number of people tested were around half of the Govt's headline number!

    It does the Govt no service to lie or mislead the population on how well testing is really going. I am surprised that nobody has picked up on the work done by the statistican used by the Beeb but what she spoke about should have opened Pandora's box on the way the Govt is managing the tresting regime. I don't believe it's getting any worse; it's just that the light is being shined on what the Govt is really doing.

    Edit - The programme is called More or Less .. I think
     
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    If you promise the earth then don't deliver you're gonna look way more of a fool than if you'd just admit in the first place that you couldn't do it. But then the organisation of this whole saga from start to where we are now has has been utterly farcical. To a point where how can we trust them anymore. And this isn't the fault of the electorate who voted them in, they didn't vote for this level of feckwittery.

    This is the fault of men and women incapable of doing the jobs they are employed to do, serving the people of this country to an effective level, yet seemingly untouchable and unaccountable for their actions. I know this country has been going down the pan for decades but every year we seem to be able to drop the bar lower than what the previous incumbents had set it.

    What a shambles.
     
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    reminder - it was 100k people tested per day, not just simply 100k tests done.

    also - there is currently no evidence to show how if the test is a postal test, the testing site which receives it after completion knows that it has already been counted (as postal tests are counted when sent out and not received back) and they are not counting it again.
     
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    Meanwhile, away from the media circus that is the corona virus, crazy scenes in Barrow right now with hundreds of car horns being sounded in support of the young girl involved with the latest grooming gang scandal.
     
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    Think you may need to consider deleting your post for the sake of diversity.
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  20. How

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    If you are not testing people for the 100k tests, who are you testing?
     

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