Diagnostics is a major private medicine cash cow down here you can’t leave the doctors without having blood drawn or an x-ray done. Most doctors seem to have private pathology collection centres embedded in them. There is nothing medical that can’t be turned into a profit centre.
It does seem to help when there is a crisis, but it’s only this week that private labs have come online for corona testing because none of them had invested in the bio security to do testing this dangerous, until the government gave them a bung to do it.
As ever private medicine creams off the cheap profitable stuff.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 10:52 (four years ago) link
yes reuters piece is good. Tbf on Rentoul in his formative years you got impaled on a spike for the merest criticism of Vlad.
LOL
― Did somebody just say eat? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 11:14 (four years ago) link
Friends in Cornwall reporting the arrival of second home owners for the Easter break. Like angels of death riding Chelsea tractors.— Linda Grant (@lindasgrant) April 8, 2020
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 11:16 (four years ago) link
Researchers believe the coronavirus lockdown is working as data from a tracker app suggests that the number of people aged 20-69 who are reporting Covid-19 symptoms has fallen from 1.9 million to 1.4 million across the UK.The drop, by around 500,000 people since 1 April, is indicated in analysis of data from the Covid Symptom Tracker app, which is used by more than two million people.
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 11:19 (four years ago) link
nobody's shared this one yet? uplifting stuff
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/07/uk-will-be-europes-worst-hit-by-coronavirus-study-predicts
― a slobbering sombrero moment (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 11:24 (four years ago) link
football's coming home!
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 11:25 (four years ago) link
hey look now, most of those people would've died of austerity anyway
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link
good job everyone the tories definitely won’t dismantle the bbc now
The World at One have just played @BorisJohnson’s favourite song, Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles, “in the hope that it might reach him”. A simple yet very moving moment of radio. #wato— Stop socialising = save lives (@janemerrick23) April 7, 2020
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 11:40 (four years ago) link
So how'd that clap for boris thing go? Obviously zero interest in Stoke Newington, but I'd be delighted to hear it failed in less politically obvious places, too.
this is a sick country pic.twitter.com/jX8YbP5obC— boomsday prepper (@AliceAvizandum) April 8, 2020
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 11:42 (four years ago) link
Jane Merrick:
This line that’s being peddled here - and by Richard Burgon yesterday - that media portrayals of Corbyn lost Labour support is incredibly patronising to voters - particularly when you think about who switched from Labour to Tory in the north https://t.co/bTuUKa26bj— Stop socialising = save lives (@janemerrick23) December 14, 2019
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 11:43 (four years ago) link
she should stop socialising her tweets
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 11:46 (four years ago) link
Can we not link to fringe channels
― anvil, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 11:47 (four years ago) link
Yes!!!
A great Prime Minister died seven years ago today.A handful sang.Decent people didn't. Today a handful wish death upon a very sick Boris Johnson, somebody with the potential to become another great Prime Minister. But once again, decent people don't. #GetWellBoris— Rob Roberts MP (@RobDelyn) April 8, 2020
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 11:48 (four years ago) link
What's his position in the Shadow Cabinet?
― Did somebody just say eat? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
Keir's best friend without portfolio!
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
936 people who are not Boris Johnson dead in the last 24hrs.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 13:52 (four years ago) link
and if one green bottle should accidentally fall...
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 13:57 (four years ago) link
Bastards.
If you visit our Parks, you'll notice we've taped off benches 🚧 to protect people & make sure they keep safe & know how to prevent catching & spreading #coronavirus (Covid-19). Parks should only be used for daily exercise. #StayAtHomeSaveLives#LondonTogether #BrockwellPark pic.twitter.com/CajowdMMHN— Lambeth Council (@lambeth_council) April 8, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
They taped up the benches in Lisbon last week
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
lol there was some hazard tape "blocking" the exit of a ginnel leading out on to the tops the other day. I just tore it down presuming it was probably just kids pissing about!
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
As I said no-one was sitting on the untaped benches when I saw there on Saturday. But it seems like they never explicitly say 'do not sit down' in their guidelines (the bastardish part is this abdication of responsibility in its persistent vagueness).
I think they are hedging on situations where somebody is in the park but might need to sit for health reasons as being edge cases for some sort of crowdsourced adjudication. Or just hoping that anyone who feels like they might need to sit between walking will just have to avoid the park.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
hey guess what going outside for a sit down in the sun is also good for people's health
― a slobbering sombrero moment (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 14:56 (four years ago) link
yeah i saw the taped up benches on brockwell park at lunch (not all of them, mind). i just think there is no reason why “your daily exercise” doesn’t need to be “going out for some fresh air”. i mean i’ll use the “weak argument” that older people may want to rest, but i really mean anyone. speaking of which an older lady went past a yong man reading on one of the untaped benches and i thought she was going to finger wag but she just said she was pleased to see him taking it easy on one of the free benches <3
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:01 (four years ago) link
congrats to lambeth council on finding shelter for local homeless people before taping off their benches, they deserve full credit for their humanityunless...
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
it's almost as if as a society we have a stupidly normative and ablist idea of what constitutes fitness, health and exercise.
― a slobbering sombrero moment (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
Just working class people being killed by bosses.
Fuck capitalism. Bus driver killed by coronavirus 'told his pay would be cut if he missed work' https://t.co/snrLaVeeuw— Charles Britton 🏳️🌈 (@LUBOttom) April 8, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
Fucking scumSome bus companies also intervened cause drivers were not charging fares - saving themselves too much contact with potentially infectious passengers and also helping out presumably essential workers heading to their jobs
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
Hope bad things happen to the people behind these decisions obv
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
that's awful, they are probably children and mothers and fathers and lovers and human beings
― a slobbering sombrero moment (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
Rishi Sunak saying that Boris is sitting up in bed and 'engaging positively' with the nursing staff
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
first time for everything
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
Can’t believe our nhs has become so overstretched that nurses don’t even have time to hold a pillow down for 2 minutes
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link
Suggests that prior to today he wasn’t sitting upright or able to engage with staff, despite ‘being in good spirits’.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
tbf if he had been he probably wouldn't have been in ICU
― la légende d'beer (Matt #2), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
Code for leching.
― Did somebody just say eat? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
possibly code for unable to speak
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
gurgling positively
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
He looks like he’s going to gorge himself with toblerone and drive to Dundee in his bare feet pic.twitter.com/3AKYqFJjua— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) April 8, 2020
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link
Need to bring back hanging for landlords only:
3 junior doctors working at St George’s Hospital in Tooting. Landlord not happy to let us stay and tenancy runs out start of May. Does anyone know of any 3 beds in the tooting area to rent? #nhs #tooting @piersmorgan @Carra23 @GNev2— Alexander Cairns (@AlexanderCairn6) April 8, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
scum of the earth.
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
"woke maitlis"
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 9 April 2020 07:45 (four years ago) link
emily maitlis,,,, welcome to the #resistance
Emily @maitlis summing up our current situation perfectly pic.twitter.com/6MzcSAAsuo— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) April 9, 2020
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 April 2020 07:49 (four years ago) link
more like stirred in her sleep Maitlis
― a slobbering sombrero moment (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 April 2020 07:50 (four years ago) link
― ShariVari, Thursday, 9 April 2020 08:06 (four years ago) link
Maitlis hasn't been sleeping, she's been aggressively pushing back against the only elements within British politics willing to seriously address any of these issues. Now that they've been neutralised, she needs someone else to sneer at.
― ShariVari, Thursday, 9 April 2020 08:08 (four years ago) link
Yeah but there's no play on "woke" there 😂
― a slobbering sombrero moment (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 April 2020 08:56 (four years ago) link
lol, sorry, blinded by my loathing of her and Newsnight in general.
― ShariVari, Thursday, 9 April 2020 08:58 (four years ago) link
It's an introduction to a wider discussion that would have been determined by a broader editorial group and while it's factually largely accurate it's not as if it represents Maitlis going daringly off-script at some people on social media seem to be suggesting. Do Newsnight presenters write their own links/introductions?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 April 2020 08:59 (four years ago) link
Jason Harewood, 27, pleaded guilty to contravening the requirement as to the restriction of movement during the emergency period and drug related offences, after he was caught distributing drugs on his pedal bike in Islington with no reason to be outside.
I mean.... the reason's right there...
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Thursday, 9 April 2020 08:59 (four years ago) link
the man’s an essential frontline worker ffs
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 April 2020 09:06 (four years ago) link