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What else could go wrong, right?

Her husband just happens to be an MP and had called for the NHS to be replaced by insurance, and for PHE to be scrapped. Stage 1 complete?

Not entirely sure what Penrose's new NHS would be given it's already (part) funded by National Insurance. Somehow, I suspect it'd be modelled on the US system, with many of the same players. And of course problems..

She could appoint Chris Grayling as Head of Strategy, or maybe Purchasing.

From Putin's perspective, everything is going along spiffingly.

I would have said the sharks that swim int he Tory pond, and who are already enriching themselves with no-bid contracts, and who have many warm ties with financial interests in the USA, who want nothing better than the door held open for them (for a small fee) in order to ransack the UK. Although I suspect that the Tory sharks will end up being eaten, as compared to a corrupt and greedy Tory, American 'business leaders' are megalodons.

Just as many warm ties with Russian oligarchs these days... just sayin'

Ave! Duci Novo, similis duci seneca!

Was ever thus it seems........

Local Authority public health teams have done a far better job than the outsourced Tory backers on test and trace, primarily because they have extensive experience and local knowledge.

Harding's husband believes the NHS should be insurance based and not for the masses so inserting a completely unqualified amateur with no recruitment process is not unsurprising in Cummings brave new world.

The usual way a government to privatizes a previously public service is to run it into the ground and then act as if they have no option but to sell it off.

PHE is being scrapped in favour of more local support for these types of things.

Yet more Tory cronyism. Contract your mates to do a job ( badly) Appoint the least qualified with no recruitment process. Give those who have fscked up the most a job at the top table. Seat in the Lords - yours for a bung. The list of Tories and their corrupt, sycophantic or idiotic pals who will be first against the wall when the revolution comes is now getting so long we'll need some sort of algorithm to sort it out

I think Ofqual might have an algorithm or two going spare ...

Depends if they get shut down over A-Levels before PHE does over Coronavirus.

No need for any investigation once you've blamed an arm's length body for your own failiures and shut it down, you see.

And a mobius strip for a wall

That thinks "Dildo" whenever I hear her name?

Who? You mean Dildo Hardon?

Ah, the old joke from the turn of the century.

Di's dead, Dodi's dead, Dando's dead. Dido's shitting herself. --->

Yes, but quite different.

A dildo will satisfy (at least) one person. A Dido is totally unsatisfactory.

A dildo will satisfy (at least) one person.

But at the same time, someone and/or something is going to end up getting totally fucked ...

Cho! Its spelt Dee Eye Dee Zero.

She does seem to be popular with c**ts

Total loss of service for a lot of Talk Talk business (not residential) customers today, been going on for about 8 hours so far

Anything to do with the Gamma outage here: https://www.gamma.co.uk/support/service-status/

One of our sites has had it's primary link down since 0430 this morning.

That would be Equinix at LD8 having problems

https://status.exn.uk/

I do get the impression your government wants to see you dead.

The dead don't vote. I suspect that fact has occurred to Trump - no point counting the number of dead if they won't vote for him.

Nah, maybe that's too subtle for him.

"The dead don't vote."

They do in Chicago. And Baltimore. And Kansas City. As long as they were white when alive, that is.

For those who doubt, look up Mayor Daley in Chicago (there were two of them; one got helped LBJ out steal Tricky Dick Nixon and get JFK elected; the Trickster couldn't, quite, overcome Landslide Lyndon an Boss Daley at the same time) and how Truman got elected to Congress, before he was picked as FDR's VP, and how Nancy Pelosi's father got to be the God-King of Baltimore.

I believe that Obama was well in with the Chicago set too?

You are a assuming there will be another free election. I somehow feel with the electoral services privatised the chances of a fair election are long gone,

Has DH taken Arcuri's place? I can think of literally no other reason why she is in charge.

She's in pole position for the job.

Arcuri. Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. Wasn’t there supposed to be an inquiry? Maybe Dido can run that too

This is Florida, the blue line is testing and the red line is daily cases.

https://public.tableau.com/shared/KJPZ38MP7?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link&::showVizHome=no

They've cut testing to make the case numbers look lower. If you test less, you get fewer positives, says Trump, and Florida is doing exactly that.

The change corresponds with the switch from CDC receiving the States data to the HHS receiving the data. Presumably they didn't want Fauci pointing out that they were cutting testing to bring the numbers down. Their deception intentionally kills people, infected people go undetected and spread the virus killing others. That's Ron DeSantis killing those people, but its not just a single Republican. It's an organized strategy.

It's not just Florida, its all the way through Republican states:

Utah, Republican, again see the correlation

https://public.tableau.com/shared/59BP67QM9?:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link&:embed=y

Mississippi, Republican, see the correlation:

https://public.tableau.com/shared/73M73HJH7?:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link&:embed=y

Texas Republican, see the correlation:

https://public.tableau.com/shared/YQQ8CWP2J?:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link&:embed=y

Ohio Republican, see the correlation:

https://public.tableau.com/shared/3YNHB9XF5?:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link&:embed=y

Vermont, Democrat for comparison. In Vermont they *increase* the testing even as the cases fall.

https://public.tableau.com/shared/BBG95KB72?:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link&:embed=y

This is why the apparent fall in daily cases was dramatically more in red states than blue states. It's not real, its a Republican political dirty trick. Who cares if Red state voters die, as long as the numbers look better in red states! They think.

The 'Wave 2' USA peak is a fake, it's still rising. Let's suppose that the peak was actually real, at 70,000 cases a day, it would be approximately 2x the wave 1 peak. There were 140,000 deaths from Wave 1, which implies 280,000 deaths minimum from wave 2. i.e. a total of 420,000 deaths, but it will be more, because they're hiding the infections.

So what about the dead? With all the bodies piling up, how will they hide the dead?

Well Florida again, they're undercounting Covid 19 deaths and classifying them as Pneumonia, heart attack or other symptom.

https://www.abcactionnews.com/rebound/excess-deaths-raise-concerns-about-pandemics-death-toll-in-florida

The current outcomes for Corona virus are 6% dead and 5.6 million cases.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

If you let them intentionally spread it, through schools to families, spread it through churches to worshippers, spread it through stadiums to sports fans, then you can potentially infect 50 or 100 million Americans, 3 million to 6 million dead Americans.

So turn off Fox News, and its quacks, and liars and anti-vaxxers, unsubscribe from your Russian propaganda Facebook Karen groups, wear your masks, sanitize your hands, and hope these Republicans don't try to profiteer from the vaccine.

Republicans not profiteering from th vaccine? You say that at the end? Did you not just now live through your own post?

Once again, COVID-19 MASSIVELY and disproportional affects the over 60s, er, you know, the vast majority of Republican voters! So of course it's just the thing Republicans would want to introduce/not suppress.

And once again, children are unaffected and have been proven to NOT transmit the virus to members of the same household.

Christ on a ruddy bike, it really isn't rocket science.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending7august2020#deaths-registered-by-age-group

Down vote away, cos the facts are obviously so very different in the US, and it's really killing children there. I'm reminded of another post somewhere here on el reg, paraphrasing, "imagine how stupid the average person is, now remember, half the population are more stupid then them"

Immortal words of George Carlin

*than*

"children are unaffected and have been proven to NOT transmit the virus to members of the same household."

I can't find any PROOF of that, the most generous statements I can find are that there's just not enough evidence yet.

You don't know any teachers, do you.

Actually, the not enough evidence statement seems to be the current consensus. According to a recent news article on the Science magazine website, there are conflicting results from small studies, and more definitive studies are still in progress. They know children can transmit SAR-COV-2, but whether it is common enough to be significant in the spread of COVID-19 is uncertain.

Please note that this does NOT mean you should not isolate a child with COVID-19. This is more concerned with the question of the relative significance of the spread by children and whether schools can safely be reopened with appropriate safety measures.

3 weeks ago, Florida was posting every test from 450 of their testing centres as a positive...

https://www.wcjb.com/2020/07/15/questions-remain-over-labs-reporting-100-percent-positive-cases/

'a bug in uploading the data', it was claimed..... The actual rate of positive tests are around 5%

You can still get a test in Florida - fewer people are going for them - the queues have basically disappeared, and most nursing homes are done now. The actual testing centers have not gone away.

You can twist stats any way you like - but so can anyone. Its not always some Trumpian campaign, and not everything is red or blue (or red or yellow)

Don't be fooled. P.H.E. is not just about Covid it is the part of the NHS that covers many other preventative measures to keep everyone healthy. Stop smoking services, weight loss, cancer screening etc... This shitty government is just cutting costs by removing it ready for the great privatisation. Private healthcare does not want you to be healthy they want you to spend money on treatment.

The older ones here should get [1]this lame joke I guess

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLdvpFIPReA

Oh my foolish friend, the poor dumb dumb girl.

Icon - Now which pocket did I leave my knitted hat in?

Just like all the decisions of this Johnson government, and everything since and including Cameron's resignation.

If this is suposed to rival the german or any other set-up, it needs to be run by emenent Scientists and or public health experts.

Germany's Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is run by Prof. Dr. Lothar H. Wieler one of the worlds foremost experts on zoonotic diseases (infections that are passed between animals and humans, like SARS-CoV-2) and Prof. Dr. med. Lars Schaade and expert in microbiology and epidemiology

Korea's CDCP is run by Dr. Jung Eun-kyeong who is qualifed in both preventative medicine and Public Health

Taiwan;s CDC is run Dr. JIH-HAW CHOU who is qualified in Public health and Epidemiolgy (and also a dentist)

Danemark's Statens Serum Institut (SSI) is run by a board of highly qualified Scientists and Public Health professionals

Putting Dame Dido Of CantTalk in charge and expecting similar results is ludacrus

Dido fucking Harding. What a perfect example of success by failure. Shit truly does float to the top.

I couldn't possibly comment.

A lot of people could die before then. Wonder if Dido even cares.

"Typhoid Dido", as she is known elsewhere. No care, no clue.