COVID-19

have there been any polls about what the general public think of the response by the government here?

 

True but they're losing people mate.

The lockdown is hard for everyone but extending it without a plan being voiced is a mistake. People will think sack this off.

Testing, testing, testing - lack it though and until that changes we will be in lockdown but the morons will be more out going now.

 

In March the polls were up. I feel now Labour have a leader, we lack testing, Hancock & Patel acting like pricks, no Boris and don't seem to be moving forward that they have lowered.

 

Alternatively the infection rates could go back up in those countries and they end up closing down again

 

will be interesting to see next ones

 

NHS testing station in Leeds has now opened for NHS staff

 

I think it just boils down to testing mate!

Other countries have vast amounts of testing than us. We are doing something like 15k a day only.

Until we vastly increase or testing then we can't move forward. As I have said before we are still talking about testing NHS and haven't got to the general public as yet.

Yes, we will be watching other countries but come 3 weeks if we are not at 100k testing per day then @Faithful Bantam could be right this could go on until June or even July.

It's all about the testing or lack of it mate. Don't be fooled.

 

Hancock just been on TV saying he wished he could get PPE to fall from the sky but he can't. nope we don't expect miracles, we expect competency, we expect proper funding for our NHS so we don't have to pray for miracles.

Revealed: value of UK pandemic stockpile fell by 40% in six years

£325m wiped off value of health department’s emergency stockpile including PPE

UK government stockpiles containing protective equipment for healthcare workers in the event of a pandemic fell in value by almost 40% over the past six years, the Guardian has found.

Analysis of official financial data suggests £325m was wiped off the value of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) emergency stockpile, reducing it from £831m in 2013 under the Conservative-led coalition government to £506m by March last year.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/12/revealed-value-of-uk-pandemic-stockpile-fell-by-40-in-six-years

just one example of the cuts and chronic underfunding.......despite warnings from the scientists of potential pandemics.


But yeah we follow the science! No, you hide behind science when you fail.

 

Glad to be able to help.

 

So do we listen to the scientists or not?

 

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/government-approval

 

There was capacity for 36 thousand yesterday

 

not really changed much then

 

Sorry, what does that mean?

 

Germany has completed around 1.7 million tests and seems to have it under control. We have completed just shy of 400,000. Call it what you want but that’s a failing of our government

 

Germany are in a lot better position than the rest of the world they have the best diagnosis organisation than any where in the world yes like everything else the Germans were ahead of the game in preparations

 

How about Denmark?
How about Sweden?

People are dying! Really isn't the time to make excuses!

 

Furlough scheme extended until end of June.

 

LINK??

 

You’ll have to wait an hour or so - maybe you’re not as connected as you’d like to think