Dido says that no-one prediced the rise in requests for testing. Really?

Urmstongran

Many Turkeys are being killed now MOnica before they grow too big. They’re being frozen. Suppliers are aware that restaurants won’t be ordering as many this year with the Covid restrictions.

At least one industry has got its ducks in a row.

Boom boom. urmston

As you were.

That flaming woman ! A former exec. of the phone company I'm doing battle with right now. How DO these useless people get their positions ??

M0nica

Urmston perhaps the turkey breeders could stand for Parliament and we could elect them to run this country. They could certainly do better than the current lot, then that is not really that difficult.

Well the current lot are certainly getting the stuffing knocked out of them on GN!

Some of the things that politicians are coming out with are truly laughable.
The lack of forward planning is atrocious!
It has long been a theory of mine that a) there have been a lot of people walking around unknowingly spreading and b) that younger people may well have suffered it from dayone, but because the emphasis was on the elderly and those with health conditions that nobody much seems to have wondered why , when everyone else was under lockdown that many teens seemed to think didn't include them, why the numbers weren't dropping quicker?
So , without any planning in advance,as far as testing is concerned, the schools were reopened. They are now all paranoid and any child that has so much as a sniffle is banned from school until they have a test!

these things are a mystery to us all.

To be scrupulously fair, varian they are only a mystery to some.
But not to all of us!

If this was a comedy show we would all be in fits of laughter while screaming out "No! That wouldn't really happen!" Unfortunately it's real life and you wonder how many more gaffs can one government make?

MOnica ?

Tom Peck writes in The Independent-

January 2020 – deadly pandemic breaks out.

February 2020 – World Health Organisation issues three word advice: “Test. Test. Test.” UK’s deputy chief medical offer Jenny Harries responds by saying: “There comes a stage in a pandemic where testing is not an appropriate intervention.”

March 2020 – Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer, advises people with coronavirus symptoms to self-isolate at home and don’t get tested.

April 2020 – Matt Hancock decides testing is in fact important. Launches drive to “100,000-tests-a-day” target.

May 2020 – Matt Hancock announces his own success in reaching his 100,000-a-day target, which turns out to have been through putting 35,000 tests in the post the previous day. Dido Harding is put in charge of test and trace programme. Boris Johnson promises it will be “world-beating”.

July 2020 – government starts bribing people to go to pubs and restaurants, and threatening people with redundancy if they don’t go back to the office.

August 2020 – infection rate begins to soar. People going to pubs are blamed.

September 2020 – schools reopen. Infection rates rise to more than 4,000 a day. The “world-beating” test and trace system is running at full capacity. Parents in London with coughing children are advised to drive them to Inverness if they want a test. If they don’t get a test the child can’t go to school and the parents can’t go to work.

Dido Harding tells a House of Commons select committee: “I don't think anybody was expecting to see the really sizeable increase in demand that we've seen over the course of the last few weeks.”

In fairness, did anyone foresee schools going back? Does anyone really know what time of year it happens? Just like A-level results, these things are a mystery to us all.

www.independent.co.uk/voices/dido-harding-coronavirus-test-covid-19-glastonbury-b470500.html

Not surging! suing!

The other quite frightening thing is on the BBC news. The i is reporting that the government is using its powers to give unlicensed covid vaccine to the public.

The also intend to use their powers to prevent anyone from surging the government if they fall sick as a result.

I’m not sure I’d be willing to have that injection. I must look more into this.

The only turkeys relevant to this issue are those who carry on supporting Johnson no matter which of his useless chums he appoints to whatever job.

I see Servo has been awarded another £45million contract for the failing test and trace scheme.

t.co/UgaX4efgXv?amp=1

Urmston perhaps the turkey breeders could stand for Parliament and we could elect them to run this country. They could certainly do better than the current lot, then that is not really that difficult.

Many Turkeys are being killed now MOnica before they grow too big. They’re being frozen. Suppliers are aware that restaurants won’t be ordering as many this year with the Covid restrictions.

At least one industry has got its ducks in a row.

I honestly thought she’d be toast yesterday in front of that committee. I’d like to be a fly on the wall when she next sits down with SAGE members!

Indeed, there are those who think we should all shut and and rather than complaining when the government got things wrong, we should be congratulating Boris for not having killed even more people.

Christmas will no doubt take them by surprise as well. They know other countries have it, but they didn't realise that people in the UK celebrated it. The sudden surge of turkeys in the shops and only being able to get turkey sandwiches in M&S will be blamed on the population of this country, whose unwarranted demand for poultry at this time of year was unexpected and unwarranted.

All those who say “no one could do it any better- stop carping” as a defence of the government should stop their deluded thinking. They could have done it better by not handing out jobs and money to their untalented chums. Whatever you think of Angela Merkel’s politics, she seems to have earned respect, unlike our shower of buffoons.

I know I can be dense at times but re the new restrictions in the North east... how does “residents in the northeast have been banned from meeting people outside their own households” match up with the pubs and restaurants staying open ? Is everyone going to said pubs alone ?

Surely not? What matters, the only thing that matters, is that less people die.

I wonder if Oops cares about countries that are getting it right - or at least more right, than us. Doesn’t quite fit the Johnson-as-God narrative- English exceptionalism narrative does it ?

I suspect that they are all, once again, gung-ho on what Donald Trump called herd mentality, although, of course, he should have said herd immunity. If that is the plan in the UK, then lots of Brits are going to die before their time. Their attitude is suck it up buttercup.

30 minute testing

Only slightly less accurate, but results in 30 minutes being used at airports and drive in (no appointment needed) centres.

Oops looks like Italy has a grip on it though.

And your point is Oops ? FGS . We get it - JRM is right.?????????