“The only reason that we are doing better is that we were even more vigilant,” he said.
“We took seriously the news of an epidemic starting in China. We didn’t shrug our shoulders and say, 'this is not going to be anything remarkable.’”
Stefánsson expects the company to test at least 50,000 people – around 13% of the population – before the virus has run its course.
“It is extraordinarily important to know what the distribution in the society in general is because when you’re designing measures to contain the virus,” health officials need to know if the virus is running rampant through the community or circulating among clusters, he said.
Lessons to learn right there.
For a start, Iceland starting testing before they had a single confirmed case.
I see he got stuck into the Beckhams this morning. Victoria wants to furlough 30 of her staff and expects the taxpayer to pick up the bill, even though between them they are worth hundreds of millions. Surely this scheme is designed for smaller businesses with modest turnovers who would be struggling to pay staff, not for entitled greedy multi millionaires to cash in. These cunts are in the tabloids all the time, boasting about their latest mansion, pictures recently of them enjoying a 1,500 dollar bottle of wine with their lunch, bragging that they spunked 100 grand on a birthday party for their workshy wastrel eldest brat. They should be told to GTF.
I have just submitted our furlough claim for this month, and having dreaded what manner of unintelligible shite I was going to be faced with, I have to say it was a dream to use
So for the first time in my career I am going to say “Good job HMRC”
Now don’t fuck it up and make sure you pay on time