love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

it's amazing what can be achieved when you learn from other countries mistakes rather than imprudently repeating them.

But...we had an empire!

even the biggest mental health hospitals/facilities are not set up in a way which can cope with this, not sure what you can do really beyond use it as another argument against institutionalising people

Just checking the statistics on the NRScotland website now (as ONS only covers England and Wales).

For w/c Mar 30:
Typical number of deaths for corresponding week, 2013-19: 1000-1100
For 2020: 1741
Where Covid-19 mentioned on cert: 282

So, in line with England and Wales, direct/indirect effect of C-19 on death statistics is 2-2.5x greater than the daily headline number we're seeing coming out of the hospital figures.

jesus I can't imagine the stress and fear you'd have to cope with if one of your kids or family were in one of these institutions right now.

New Zealand's line is that their strategy is elimination rather than mitigation

good strategy imo

It's not often that I am happy when numbers escape.

And active cases are now less than half of total cases!#Covid_19nz #COVID19nz pic.twitter.com/GV1IfZfEsI

— Chris Knox (@vizowl) April 15, 2020

NZ started testing people way before it registered its first case and was quarantining new arrivals very early on as well, whereas the UK was still not conducting proper health or temperature checks on new arrivals even when planes stopped flying. Yeah it's a small and remote country and isn't exactly renowned for its population density but it still appears to have been highly successful.

UK MPs: IPSA awards them a potential extra £10k work-from-home allowance

New Zealand: They all take a 20% paycut.

Piers Morgan tho - wish he was onside all the time!

Maybe its good that he isn't so that when he is its more effective idk

UK still isn't conducting any sort of border checks. You really would think they'd jump at the chance, this lot

Your first article as leader was paywalled for The Times, who share an owner with The Sun, who smeared the Hillsborough dead. The audacity. https://t.co/vpRj1pxxaB

— Your Mum (@judeinlondon2) April 15, 2020

re: Piers the Stormer! It doesn't take a lot to be more of an impressive fist of an opposition leader than this wet lettuce tbf!

UK still isn't conducting any sort of border checks. You really would think they'd jump at the chance, this lot

Can't get the staff. They'll need to import.

case in point

NEW: 6 charter flights from Romania to bring in 450 workers for British farms tomorrow - BBC WATO news reporting

— lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) April 15, 2020

what could possibly go wrong

How dare they come over here and take the vital jobs we have too much of a superiority complex to do!

govt now apparently saying they might not fund beds for rough sleepers who "do not have recourse to public funds" having previously told local govt to find temporary accommodation for everyone

Someone must have been losing sleep at the prospect of people not sleeping rough under their watch. B b but we don't usually help the homeless!

Uhhhh excuse you Bobby Pesto says housing the homeless is an excuse not to try to find work

I'm gonna write a piece for The Spectator saying without a wholly inadequate state social security system that let's thousands of people fall through the cracks and end up homeless, then surely that would be evil communism.

apols if posted already, this kinda got me today

#YouClapForMeNow pic.twitter.com/1Dm2hZb6kc

— Tez (@tezilyas) April 14, 2020

gonna write a piece about how political journalism is a non-essential job that should be furloughed indefinitely

if we vaccinate people we will not incentivize being tough as old boots and just battling on through with a winning mentality

that video tracer posted kinda got be too tbh :(

love tez ilyas

Racist comments not buried deep in that video, though

got me too TH

Critics take note. Keir Starmer keeps talking about an "Exit Strategy" rather than anything actually important because it's the same name as the daytime quiz show he will star in. pic.twitter.com/TP6F6KYo2K

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) April 15, 2020

Hedges so annoyed he's dropped character

he occasionally does and i like it!

I think he's only done it a few times though.

Hancock says he is proud of the fact that people support carers and NHS staff. It is not clap for the NHS. It is clap for our carers, he says.

He says he wants to introduce a single brand for social care. He wants to ensure that carers get the same sort of priority treatment that NHS staff do in some settings.

He says we all know good examples of social care.

The job isn’t easy, he says.

But he says he knows what a fulfilling profession it is.

wow, amazing heartfelt stuff from mancock here

how about you do more to keep those precious carers from dying on the job then you smarmy cunt

CLAP HARDER, PEOPLE OF BRITAIN, SOMEHOW THEY KEEP DYING DESPITE YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT

unite taking action on leaked report including banning those involved from future service in the union, meanwhile dave prentis guarantees the unison employees involved can keep their jobs

NEW: Unite Labour staff branch had emergency meeting today on leaked report. Motions 1, 2 + 5 pass calling for:

-compulsory diversity training for staff + Unite rep to be on internal probe

-mental health support for staff

- those guilty of misconduct banned frm future service pic.twitter.com/IHvWgrykhE

— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) April 15, 2020

phew, that should sort things out good and proper, thanks unite

That's just the one Unite branch most closely involved with this rather than national union policy though?

Len's twitter for the past few days is 80% PPE and one tweet saying stay in the party and get behind the new leadership

I'll get right behind the new leadership alright.. as soon as I see any of them stood at the top of a huge unguarded drop into a chasm of death!

Had me in the first half

some say I'm quite unpredictable!

Keir Starmer for PM...post mortem

101 uses for a dead Kiert

from keir to obscurity

the unite labour staff branch is the relevant one, I assume unison have an equivalent.

everyone ripping the piss out of Hancock's bullshit badge scheme for carers (some of whom are on 8.50 to 9.50 ph). But it is just as fucking condescending + risible as when Kier said nurses should get medals tbf!

my experience working in social care sector definitely contributed to the most serious bout of depression i've ever had but maybe a badge would've made it better

mind you 9.50 p/h might've made it better

https://cdn.thedailymash.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/20190309171918/jimbadge250.jpg

Xp
I think when my partner did it in the early 90s she was getting half them contemporary payrates I quoted above!

Just been hearing from a mental health nurse that “the government has really failed us. We have been told to reuse face masks”, “staff will get the virus”, “I feel like giving up every day.” @NHSuk @MattHancock #CoronaCrisisuk

— Douglas Beattie (@DouglasBeattie4) April 15, 2020