72,000 testing capacity yesterday, yet miraculously 81,000 actual tests today. 100,001 tests tomorrow? Dear me there are some gullible souls out there!
It’s no more cringeworthy than the base questions from our so called leading journos. The most poignant question was the one from the public person about suicide support.
I think what they do is think up their questions before the briefing then, regardless of what is said, they trot out those ridiculous questions.
Or cynical souls
Oh I don’t think you need to be a cynic to have raised eyebrows at this bullshit. Yesterday Hancock said 50,000 tests and 72,000 testing capacity. 24 hours later a miraculous leap by 60% to 80,000 actual tests. Jackanory, it’s a story.
Did he specifically say Tests OR Capacity to process test requests on the website?
Yesterday Hancock says testing capacity of 70,000, 50,000 actual tests. Today Johnson says 81,000 actual tests.
Maybe he was talking about the number of paternity tests he’s had to have?
Capacity tends to come on in lumps so it is not unusual to get big step ups. The other thing to consider is they are throwing everything at it
Ultimately if they hit 85k 95k or 105k it will be a hell of an achievement given that they were at 10k 4 wks ago
Now whether they should have started sooner is a different argument
Also I am not sure why I am trying to justify this because ultimately I’m not sure that this lot would be able to get your approval anyway
That’s right, because you being unable to justify the Government’s response to us is OUR fault.
Not really surprising.
Residents in deprived areas have experienced double the death rates of those in affluent areas, new figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal.
Of the 20,283 Covid-19 registered deaths in England and Wales to 17 April an overwhelming proportion of fatalities were of people from the poorest areas. The most deprived area had 55.1 deaths per 100,000 people, more than double (118%) that in the least deprived areas, where the rate was 25.3 deaths.
Easier to self isolate when you live in several acres. Not so much when you live in a tower block
What surprised me is the way that BAME origin people are affected more - do they tend to be affected more by respiratory illnesses in general?
Yeah, although there may well also be an ethnicity link here.
There appears to have been a correlation between ethnicity and a poor outcome.
But perhaps we’re just seeing the correlation between deprivation and ethnicity?
Lady Slowlane and I have had to install higher fences and watch towers.
I’m reliably informed there’s a government grant for that.
That pattern remains consistent even amongst well paid medical professionals.
But I’m not sure whether this should see an increase in the affect that it has on people from ethnic backgrounds.
I would think that we have a situation where low paid key workers have higher than average ethnicity thereby a greater chance of being exposed to the virus. The double whammy comes from the fact that they are low paid and more likely to live in more deprived densely populated areas again increasing their exposure risk.
Mutations. Proper science in the MSM. Good grief.
A long read, interesting but like much research & data, eventually inconclusive.
Implies hope that a 2021 Vaccine may work for a year or more.