we're now being told we should masks whenever we go outside. things have been nuts for awhile but this brings it to a creepier level when every person you see on the street will be wearing one. christ.
I really recommend not getting it if you can avoid it. Mild to moderate sounds pretty bad and its really not worth the chances of having a severe case.
Now the bank has gone... it's all shuttered and they've taken away all the signage. Seems weird, I feel a national bank should be able to ride out something like this and keep paying its staff etc given the obscene profits they make. Either way that's another thing disappeared from our high street here.I feel like a vise is slowly closing in on us... two days ago we went to the park and found that had been closed up, yesterday I went to the grocers on our street and bought a couple of bottles of wine (decent stuff for 2 euros) and saw all the perishable stuff had been cleared from the shelves, today it's not open at all. Thought I'd got used to the new normal but that's being chipped away at now too.. that grocers was a real good thing for me. Could be there in one minute and stock up cheaply without having to brave a long journey and then deal with a load of people in a supermarket. Was a Chinese couple who ran it and they were taking everything pretty seriously, had all this plastic hanging from the ceiling separating them from the customers and so on. Hope it's not gone forever. Cafe almost next door to it was still open though bizarrely, with someone sitting inside. Two cafes open on our street!
I really recommend not getting it if you can avoid it. Mild to moderate sounds pretty bad and its really not worth the chances of having a severe case.
The chances of bringing it on your shoes, bags, jacket, packaging etc is very low. The vast majority of infections are from direct droplet spread. If you wear gloves, take them off and bin them when your finished and then wash your hands you're 99% safe.
Less impressive: doctors and nurses still dealing with infectious patients without anything like the proper PPE.
The main causes are political incompetence, lack of preparation, lack of planning, unwillingness to take the correct measures, failure to anticipate, and now, failure to act decisively. Its not confined to the UK, but its more stark there. After Italy, every country should have done more. Advanced economies could easily have repurposed and ramped up manufacturing to provide the necessary equipment. Instead we have individuals making them on 3D printers.
Its a massive political failure.
Not a management failure on the part of procurement teams in the NHS, who are actually paid primarily to ensure there are proper stocks of such things?
It's all too easy to fall into scoring political points in hindsight.
I think it is about ideology because their ideology left them hugely unprepared. I mean in two ways really, for years they have underinvested in the health service and it's not where it should be, but even lately they had advance warning cos of what was happening elsewhere, and (although they could have never made up for the structural issues) they still could have at least been ahead of where they are. Maybe that was just stupidity and ineffectiveness but it was on top of and so compounding a failed ideology.what is the reason for lack of ppe and testing. is it money or logistics or both? this is ultimately what this govt will get judged on i think. this is purely avout how effective they are, no ideology. the evidence they need to do certain things right now is so blatant.
Not a management failure on the part of procurement teams in the NHS, who are actually paid primarily to ensure there are proper stocks of such things?
It's all too easy to fall into scoring political points in hindsight.