Johnson U-turns on herd policy

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It happens. The govt. just told Flybe no to a bail out didn’t they?
Yeah, not really any equivalence is there?

1 x travel compant with a history of being on edge of collapse Vs many thousands of small businesses that were doing fine until the country shut down.
 
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Yeah, not really any equivalence is there?

1 x travel compant with a history of being on edge of collapse Vs many thousands of small businesses that were doing fine until the country shut down.
Coronavirus dealt the final blow though, didn’t it.
 
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I wasnt aware of anybody working for flybe that had the virus.
Neither was I.

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"... it should be business as usual for the overwhelming majority of people in this country, for the simple reason this is a great country, massively strong economy,...

Boris First speech about corona whilst other countries were in lockdown.
 
The science didn't change. UK Government just started paying attention to it. Later than they should have done.

Can you control a disease when you don't know who's got it?



The importance of testing:


"An infection control experiment that was rolled out in a small Italian community at the start of Europe’s coronavirus crisis has stopped all new infections in the town that was at the centre of the country’s outbreak.

Through testing and retesting of all 3,300 inhabitants of the town of Vò, near Venice, regardless of whether they were exhibiting symptoms, and rigorous quarantining of their contacts once infection was confirmed, health authorities have been able to completely stop the spread of the illness there."

"Andrea Crisanti, an infections expert at Imperial College London who is taking part in the Vò project while on sabbatical at the University of Padua, urged countries that have been limiting virus testing, which includes the UK and US, to learn lessons and ramp up the numbers of people being screened.

“In the UK, there are a whole lot of infections that are completely ignored,” Prof Crisanti told the Financial Times. “We were able to contain the outbreak here because we identified and eliminated the ‘submerged’ infections and isolated them,” he said of the Vò approach. “That is what makes the difference.”



https://www.ft.com/content/0dba7ea8-6713-11ea-800d-da70cff6e4d3
 
I heard last night that UK government are asking industry to start producing ventilators, for critical care extra capacity.

Seeing as the airliners won't be flying anywhere soon, could they be repurposed as emergency treatment centres, and the "oxygen masks from the ceiling" be adapted to ventilators?


That's a really good idea... :idea:
 
That's a really good idea... :idea:

no it isn't.

they don't have cylinders of oxygen. They contain small individual packs of a chemical that heats up (very hot) and for a short time gives off oxygen as it degrades. Then it runs down and stops. They occasionally start serious fires if badly stored or handled.

They are intended to keep a person alive and conscious while the pilot descends (at an emergency rate) to an altitude with adequate air pressure.
 
no it isn't.

they don't have cylinders of oxygen. They contain small individual packs of a chemical that heats up (very hot) and for a short time gives off oxygen as it degrades. Then it runs down and stops. They occasionally start serious fires if badly stored or handled.

They are intended to keep a person alive and conscious while the pilot descends (at an emergency rate) to an altitude with adequate air pressure.


It was a fantastic idea. OK may not work but problems don't get solved by negatives.

John

Negatives.....
 
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