Can any one else see the US spiralling out of control with this?
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That implies that you feel they are in control at the moment. 
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No I think they’re out of control, a bit like when you rest your eyes for a few seconds and go over the vibraty bits on the hard shoulder and then have a bit of a panic, spiralling out of control is more like when you’re a cop chasing Jake and Elwood and start flying through the air into a never-ending pile of chaos for what seems like far too long.
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I like to drive along the rumble strips on the hard shoulder, if only because it gives the bird a bit of a froth on 
Summary was that we did an exercise to “wargame” a pandemic scenario to understand the impact in 2016 (I think).
One significant area of unpreparedness was ventilators.
We did nothing about it at the time and subsequently when first reports spread from China of a highly infectious, high morbidity rate, novel Corona virus - the very premise of the exercise, we still waited too long before panicking into buying / building ventilators.
The Tweet author (himself a GP and a minister in the MoJ at the time) concludes that people will have died due to the inaction following the exercise.
God I hate the media.
Weeks of irresponsible public not self isolating. Police need enforce etc etc
Today - over zealous police enforcing lockdown is alarmingly / undermining trust. etc etc
Make your fucking mind up, you useless valueless bastards.
At the start of this we had 500 ventilator which would normally be used to a rate of 95%. It looks like we will end up needing 10x that amount.
Now assuming that the finding of that report for that particular scenario was taking seriously, I m still not sure we would have / be in a position to stockpile 45k ventilators.
Should we do the same for every single potential disease / virus / event which may need a different piece of equipment?
A pandemic like this is seen a a hundred year event - so unlikely. Therefore in the risk matrix it is in the high impact low probability box and therefore given less priority.
I follow all of that logic but to paraphrase your conclusions - we planned for some to die.
And what your logic fails to consider is that we are actually scrambling to build those ventilators now. Oh, and we failed to build them when the virus and its infection rates were first known.
We accepted that even though we have the money, we’ll just let some die.
That’s not a show-stopper for this government, but it’s important that the facts are known behind their actions/inactions.
Anyway, let’s just hope we don’t need those ventilators and they’ve got it right.
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So what is the answer. Stockpile absolutely everything for absolutely every conceivable circumstance?
That is the only way a government can absolve itself from criticism. But then we would have the media and the NAO screaming about the wasted money tied up in warehouses full of shite we might one day never need.
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No the answer is, after all this blows over, stand up and tell relatives of the dead why we keep a nuclear deterrent but couldn’t provide enough ventilators or health professionals to hopefully keep their loved one alive.
Some people will understand and agree with those priorities, others won’t. You and I perhaps.
But let’s not pretend that this is some form of unforeseeable event that no government could have prepared itself for. We have just chosen not to.
Like I say, let’s just hope there are no shortages. We might be lucky.
We should have climbed the mountain of conflict.
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We could also prepare by putting manufacturing processes/supply chains in place ready so that is all good to go. At least that would shorten timescales.
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Proper businesses have what they call a plan.
In this case it might have involved Government signing deals with development partners, discussing crisis-planning, giving them a million quid each to develop and design and having quarterly progress reports, so that one day when you give them THE call, you all understand that they need to be ready to go.
Instead we seem to have adopted the last-minute flick through Yellow Pages approach.
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The Old Bill have been pure twats in certain parts of the country, dyeing a fucking lake black to make it less appealing and putting drones over that well known mass of people known as fell walkers.
The answer is so very simple CBS.
What MORONIC IMBECILE thought it would be a GOOD IDEA to ignore global data, ignore what (almost) all other Nations were doing and after TWO WEEKS of nothing LET THEIR DAD CONTRADICT GOVERNMENT ADVICE AND TELL EVERYONE IT WAS OK TO GO TO THE PUB?
The Virus was known about in February, it is now almost April & NHS still do not have effective PPE?
They fvcked up the response.
They made a mistake that has cost lives.
And yet “they are doing a good job” is all I hear from so many.
It SHOULD have been a Fvck site BETTER Job
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China had come clean by the end of 2019, with a full report lodged to the WHO.
The government had all of January and February to act, only finally getting its arse in gear on 3rd March, while other countries had been gearing up.
Coronavirus was not a surprise. What is perhaps more surprising is how much the government has fucked up.
What is unknown is how many lives will be lost due to this fuck up.
The only hint of an answer we have is “more than was necessary”.
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Lawyer says exercise not restricted to once daily in England
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Video caption: Coronavirus: Restriction of movement rules ‘messy’ says human rights barristerCoronavirus: Restriction of movement rules ‘messy’ says human rights barrister
People in England are allowed to go for as many walks a day as they want, according to a human rights barrister who says the law does not match the government advice.
Adam Wagner of Doughty Street Chambers told BBC News that the law referred to having a “reasonable excuse” to leave your house - rather than the four reasons Boris Johnson gave in last week’s briefing.
“The four reasons is the guidance people are following. In fact that’s the guidance a lot of police are following,” he said.
"But the government guidance doesn’t include a number of very important points - for example if you’re at fear of harm that’s a reasonable excuse [to leave your house].
"I’m not sure the police or government have been very clear with what people can do or what will land them with a fine of up to £960 for repeated offences or even a criminal conviction.
“There are no legal restrictions on going out for more than one walk [or piece of exercise] a day in England.”
The world just needs dick heads like this now.
No, true, there probably aren’t any legal restrictions but surely there are moral ones 
Look, I totally get the human rights concerns, these have been voiced by @Saint-or-sinner before, but I do think that this is an extraordinary situation and the restriction of civil liberties is being done for the good of everyone, not just to turn us into a police state.
In fact I think the restrictions we have in place are somewhat less than in some other countries, Belarus, Sweden (but even they’re rethinking now)
If it was just this country imposing the restrictions then I would be concerned but this shit is being done the world over. Thank the lords this guy doesn’t live in Spain or India…
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And that’s where I specialise, Supply Chain. No-one is hiring in that area atm, that’s for sure.
Lockdown rules tightened here from tomorrow morning.
Shops only to admit 3 people per open till at a time (shit)
Nobody allowed in a shop without gloves
10am to midday ONLY over 65s allowed in any store/post office
No more than 2 people together (unless with kids) when outside. Any couple MUST be 2m apart.
New fines system £6000 for any breach of Regs
Kids under 18 not allowed out without an adult.
Parks Forests all closed anyone in them - fined
Oh, this is a help. Telco has given us couple of weeks free.
Seeing my plan is £5 a month… 
We have extended your account validity until the end of April. If you need to, you can top up at doladowania.play.pl. Take care of yourself and stay at home.
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