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Well let's look at the latest about this: Good He said a significant consignment of PPE is due to arrive in the UK from Turkey tomorrow, which will contain 400,000 gowns. Bad It will take three weeks to distribute them. Lest anyone suggest this is unfair, Hancock has so many times told us...

Timing, just before today's government briefing: An NHS nurse has criticised Matt Hancock after her eight-year-old daughter begged her not to continue working in A&E during the coronavirus pandemic. Kate, who did not want her surname published, has worked in the NHS for 25 years and in...

Does he hold down an important job? Or does he just hold it?

Someone has been to Melton Mowbray and put in a huge order. Probably the government: Care England, Britain’s largest representative body for care homes, told the Daily Telegraph that up to 7,500 care home residents may have died of the virus. This is significantly higher than the figure of...

I am in touch will all too many who were already living with chronic fatigue, reduced lung and kidney functions. All can be associated with thyroid issues. (And there has long been speculation that a significant amount of the extant thyroid disease was caused by various viruses such as Epstein...

A government which could actually be believed and was trusted could have argued its case and explained the options. They didn't. They are not believable. They are not trusted. (Not at all sure it is quite as you have said, possibly closer to 1,000 deaths a day AND economy in lockdown versus...

Some snippets from BBC news pages about recovery from covid-19. Suspicious it was published today given the other Johnson comment(s). There have been reports from China and Italy of whole-body weakness, shortness of breath after any level of exertion, persistent coughing and irregular...

Added Dislike - nothing personal - but the message you posted is despicable. Afraid How is Boris? should count alongside Where's Wally as a flippant, lightweight, crass choice of words. (Nothing wrong with the original cartoons!) Did the Royal Navy sink and disappear when Nelson died? Did...

Sort this out, Hancock. I don't think we have ever intended to have kamikaze medical staff. And I mean that strictly in the sense of sacrifice. NHS frontline workers may walk over lack of PPE, says union Molly Blackall...

It concerns me that things like excessive IL-6 (as in the much talked about cytokine storm) could occur in a second infection - with the first having primed the systems for that to happen. If we simply cannot achieve immunity (for whatever reasons) from a single infection episode, I fear that a...

There are so many issues in collection of the statistics we can only see a part of the picture. If, despite us not having immunity, a reasonable proportion of us are not going to have serious symptoms, that could swing everything, dramatically. As could failure to develop immunity. Consider the...

Watched the first lockdown version two weeks ago and it was intolerable - but they have really improved the sound quality. Yes - much needed.

I don't half hate myself for some of the thoughts this whole thing makes me go through. Part of me wants them to socially contact and suffer the results. Leaving those others who are left to, umm, inherit the earth, or whatever. If anyone else said it, that would be unacceptably nasty.

In WW2, for example, lies were a necessary part of the propaganda - after all, Germany was listening in and all too well aware. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is not sentient. You don't need to mislead and misdirect it. Just why is the government unable to open its mouth without a torrent of trite...

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla · 10h The point is we, the press, failed the public. There was a 2 week critical window in which if govt had acted sooner, far far fewer people would have died. We failed to hold govt to account. And we are failing again now. There’s still no plan to test. NHS...

Right or wrong, I very much get the feeling that he is trying the best he can. That he really wants to do the right things and will push as hard as he is able to do them. Feelings that are utterly absent from the government.

Looks like they have found the verb "project", as in cinema. And are projecting fear with gusto.

Yesterday, I posted crude death rates based on government numbers. I have just recalculated using today's numbers. They are worse. Thursday 16/04/2020 Country 2018 population Total cases Deaths % deaths Cases / pop England 55,977,178 76,371 11,656 15.3% 0.14% Northern...

Have you seen the Johnson fairytale? Boris Johnson and coronavirus: the inside story of his illness https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/boris-johnson-and-coronavirus-inside-story-illness We discussed how they were lying to us. Ludicrous, in my view, that we seemed to understand much...

Do you think that Boris sycophants would be able to self-identify and self-isolate? I suspect some have a hard job understanding the word "Boris" , let alone "syco..."