Making the news today....

[Khriss]

Can't even screw a nut    🙄  K

 

Poole's Twin Sails Bridge maintenance over budget

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Contractors have been unable to install the new components to allow the bridge to operate normally.

 

[Johnsond]

Higher transmission risk of new Covid variant means schools may have to stay closed

APPLE.NEWS

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The question of whether to delay reopening of schools is one being urgently considered by ministers

Professor Neil Ferguson back in on a high paid gig, track record of massive exaggeration and error and totally ignored the bullshit guidance he helped put in place yet here he is back on the inside, Mandelsonesque ability to slide back repeatedly.   

[sime42]

Higher transmission risk of new Covid variant means schools may have to stay closed

APPLE.NEWS

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The question of whether to delay reopening of schools is one being urgently considered by ministers Professor Neil Ferguson back in on a high paid gig, track record of massive exaggeration and error and totally ignored the bullshit guidance he helped put in place yet here he is back on the inside, Mandelsonesque ability to slide back repeatedly.   

UK is caught in the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic and NHS is 'on the brink of collapse,' say doctors

INEWS.CO.UK

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Trusts in London and the South East are considering the option of setting up tents outside hospitals to triage patients due to staffing problems

[trigger_andy]

Just now, sime42 said:

UK is caught in the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic and NHS is 'on the brink of collapse,' say doctors

INEWS.CO.UK

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Trusts in London and the South East are considering the option of setting up tents outside hospitals to triage patients...

 

Name a year when the hospitals in the UK have not claimed to be on the brink of collapse this time of year? All these Nightingale Hospital's sitting empty as well. I'll take the hyperbole with a pinch of salt when I see them over flooded as well. 

[Mark J]

4 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

Name a year when the hospitals in the UK have not claimed to be on the brink of collapse this time of year? All these Nightingale Hospital's sitting empty as well. I'll take the hyperbole with a pinch of salt when I see them over flooded as well. 

There's no trained staff for the Nightingale hospitals. 
The NHS were struggling massively back in 2017/2018 before this covid thing:

The Conservatives’ underfunding of the NHS made a crisis inevitable

WWW.NEWSTATESMAN.COM

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Since 2010, the health service has endured the longest period of austerity in its history. 

 

Edited December 30, 2020 by Mark J

[trigger_andy]

3 minutes ago, Mark J said:

There's no trained staff for the Nightingale hospitals. 
The NHS were struggling massively back in 2017/2018 before this covid thing:

The Conservatives’ underfunding of the NHS made a crisis inevitable

WWW.NEWSTATESMAN.COM

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Since 2010, the health service has endured the longest period of austerity in its history. 

 

Then they should have been training them up. Im not entirely convinced this is the entire truth either. Why build them if they cant staff them? Im more inclined to believe that they are simply not needed. 

 

What are the logistics of flying over trained staff? Im constantly told how badly the UK is handling the crisis, on that basis other countries must be doing vastly better than us to make that claim. As such there must be a plethora of trained staff all over the western world who we could entice over with fat pay cheques. We've blown so much money on nonsense already whats another billion when we could actually save some lives? 

Edited December 30, 2020 by trigger_andy

[devon TWiG]

I do not think any country has very much spare capacity in it's health service , why would it ?  surely it is tailored to need , no point in having lots of empty beds and staff with nothing to do ..I am surprised that there has been no mention of Belgium ( home of the EU in Brussels ) has the worst infection rate in the WORLD !!

[trigger_andy]

1 hour ago, devon TWiG said:

.I am surprised that there has been no mention of Belgium ( home of the EU in Brussels ) has the worst infection rate in the WORLD !!

We dont talk about the Elephant in the room here. 

[devon TWiG]

1 minute ago, trigger_andy said:

We dont talk about the Elephant in the room here. 

It rattles the lefties  !!😁

[trigger_andy]

Just now, devon TWiG said:

It rattles the lefties  !!😁

Nothing like a bit of Cherry picking for them for them to vent their faux outrage.