Fairy In Boots

You need Vitamin D, there’s mounting evidence that vitamin D deficiency is a serious problem with this disease. Plus we need food and it’s a way to rescue the harvest and ensure we’re fed. I’m lucky enough to have worked continuously throughout but if I was furloughed and had mouths to feed I’d be harvesting. Did anybody see the BBC Horizon coronavirus special last night? I thought it was very good it went into detail about the vast majority of the talking points that have dominated the narrative over the last few weeks. The London Institute of tropical diseases basically telling them that mast testing is a bit of a white elephant was fucking hilarious considering how utterly rapid sections of our media have been for weeks. What was really interesting was when they broke down and ethnicity and how this had affected mortality rates, for example black people were four times more likely to die than white people. Pakistani and Bangladeshi people where approximately three times. What they did was they looked at this and they correlated with areas of lower Income which is more likely to have higher mortality rates because those areas tend to have higher proportions of pre-existing health conditions. They took this into account when they were doing their research and they still found that even if you account for this, BAME as they’re now being called were still more likely to be affected that white or Chinese (although Chinese are also slightly more at risk than white). My opinion is that vitamin D if shown to be a big factor also explains this, skin pigmentation does effect vitamin d absorption so it goes some way to explaining why vitamin D is all of a sudden a big factor here. Another thing they addressed was that Chinese New Year is now the biggest movement of people on the planet and that this pandemic hit just in time for it has played a massive part in its spread compared with SARS as the Chinese infrastructure of 2003 is 1/10th the size of its current state allowing for a rapid spread. Another thing that was pointed out this morning on BBC was that approximately one third of all deaths in the UK are Type II diabetes so that’s our national obesity & that’s why we are more affected than places like Italy. Make no mistake we’re going to have to change as a society after this, we have to start living healthy lives and our government is going to have to address the time bomb that is our obesity crisis

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsinvolvingcovid19englandandwales/deathsoccurringinmarch2020 anybody thats wants some accurate data on Uk, there’s figures for March, where we got to about 3.3k deaths. Interestingly it appears pre existing health conditions in 91% of cases

I personally don’t think we locked down too early, the fatigue is showing now and people are breaking the rules at an increasing rate. Car traffic is much heavier and as they say we’re now past the peak it’s been timed right, if we’d have gone a fortnight earlier we’d have probably started breaking lockdown earlier and prolonged it in my opinion. I’ve been lucky enough to be a key worker working nationwide so I’ve worked throughout even had holidays cancelled for it. Motorways were fun the first couple of weeks did Scotland in record time. I’ve also stopped watching the questions part of the briefing and mainstream media analysis in general as it’s descended into ideological shit slinging now. One of the companies I’ve been supporting on the ventilator project is a team made up of virologist, medical scientists etc and they’re all pretty much saying comparison data at present from the media is just shite. Population density, ethnicity, temperature, obesity, age, health care system & recording system all are varying factors from country to country so it’s utter horse shit. They will direct from official papers and reports and that will take months. The death toll will be much higher than predicted however from not direct covid-19 but more the effect it has had on society. what I mean by that is that our success rates with cancer and other disease will be worse, I was talking to a senior consultant for A&E in London and she said that “where are they all? People aren’t visiting hospital” this will have a knock on effect as we have effectively had a 2 month holiday and this is life or death in diagnosing life threatening illness. Also finally James Dyson what a cunt, he didn’t get his ventilators because he’s a petulant little child, a real life bell end. The cunt spent the best part of a week delayed his whole project which was sound and had been worked out by proper medical scientist to try and get his “patented cyclone technology” intergrated. It’s cost him massively the silly cunt. It’s not lost on me that people most effected from this virus 50+ remember the tales told by their folks about the war and the “blitz spirit” is most embodied by them.

When we were just starting out smoking we could get Nepalese black & Hindu Kush. Now it’s all cheese skunk

The question have become meaningless so I turn off after the officials have finished

It’s a politics & media issue throughout the western world, I’ve had “press training.” it started where I played the Government minister responsible for transport. I was given facts & figures and told pros & cons and ideals etc and told to be interviewed. The interviewer was acting as the press. I went to my facts, I was twisted like a pretzel, leading questions, twisting of statements it was a complete car crash. They didn’t care they were hunting sound bites or headlines they could drive clicks or sales through. So for the second run the guy running the course taught me how to do the same again but ignore each question and reiterate my “statement” it worked, I never answered any question but the reporter never got the headline. those watching felt that first time I’d been lying, second time 65% overriding feeling was my “statement” . that’s essentially what our politics/ press has become, neither are interested in what’s said, it’s more a case of being perceived to not be a disaster by politicians and seen to hold them to the fire by the press. Only losers is us really Tbh I’ve been thinking about it and how can anyone tell? So many different factors that a lot of facts figures are meaningless. You have apparently different strains, ethnicity , population density, ICU capacity are all contributing factors.

Yeah she’s said thousand twice, didn’t realise id still fuck her though

Lol Italy lock down once a year for summer Genuine question are you & @Stan slow? as of the 8th we had done 220k and 3 days later we’re 110k higher that’s fairly consistent with the stats they’ve put out and their targets. testing matters not anyway aside from projection data as we’ve predominantly tested incoming traffic to hospitals. Look at how man America have tested and where they are, it’s far more about managing capacity of ICU’s tests is something Journalist ask aggressive questions over, a complete red herring. far more pertinent question is should be asked about ventilator availability

No peak rate of infection is different from peak in number of deaths, I was talking to my paramedic pal today down in south west (Brummie in exile) and he said they are working towards a peak of 19th of May that’s when they get the most cases through their hospital, infection peaks as 2 weeks before that is the peak for hospital admission. he said they’re behind there compared to major urban Centers as it’s spread more quickly but initially covid has wiped out the sick, the type that would have been gone next infection anyway. Now they’re starting to see those genuine cases who’ve suffered at home for 7-10 days and now have sepsis coming in, this will be lower death rate but still high. So we will have 6-700 dead for a consistent period but now it’s high because it’s (Covid-19) already picked off the low hanging fruit (horrible expression I know but can’t think of another) it will slow as it gets stronger hosts to battle it. Lol awe bless sounds like you’ve really got to sacrifice As Harv has indicated in his post, it’s about national morale, this is going into the months

If it’s per annum then presumably it’s not that bad, assumptions here but. Locally Neena Gil (Lab) office is just outside our city centre, rent is going to be roughly £1k p/m I’m assuming rent and bills come out that budget. if she has staff then she may need to buy them printers, laptops etc, the IT support required to set that up so they can work remotely. Couriers for case files etc. £36k p/a for that sort of thing isn’t that bad tbh

Won’t justify it but I’ll correct it, they’re allowed to claim up to an extra £10k office expenses for setting up home offices and supporting constituents remotely. Most work from Westminster or constituency offices, This allows them to set up from home with desks, printers etc, also if they employ staff, any additional costs for their requirements are included in this allowance. They will have to produce receipts etc

Think I mentioned it a few days ago in my post, my colleague heading up ventilator component production for us was on a conference call 11pm at night and Boris was chairing it, about 50 people on the meeting, senior doctors, Dyson etc, this wafter Boris was self isolating. He should have rested but he’s tried to carry on and now he’s suffering obviously, tbh he’s gone up in my estimation massively with all this, really got stuck in, I wish him good health

It’s media pressure that’s effecting testing, the plan to test incoming patients is what Germany are switching to. what we need to do is test NHS staff that are isolating to get them back on the front line.

I don’t know anything about our testing strategy at all, but I do know there is a global shortage of reagents and out assay production is tiny compared to Korea. To ramp up production you would need capital equipment for assay production and virtually all that sort of equipment is made in a Germany in my experience. Plus we’re dealing with piracy now, gone is the world of international Collaboration https://t.co/Z6gqRiVddc?amp=1

They lied to protect their economy the world needs to wean itself off the Chinese teat after this

Just seen the spectator report that the US now has over 200,000 cases

I just don’t know how feasible testing in tracing is we don’t have the manpower to do that and we are already full blown pandemic mode I will probably say we’ve got within the region of 100-250,000 suspected cases we just can’t test on track that. We can’t fucking test & track 10,000 fucking terrorists let alone 100,000 people with flu like symptoms.

The body that acts as spokesperson said they hadn’t spoken to them not the retailers themselves. We’ve got a body for our industry, they came straight past and spoke direct to us to save time. regulatory bodies that are basically an index and an annual exhibition with a bit of governmental lobbying aren’t the industry. food supply can recover, the problem is that it’s not getting chance it needs a week to recover. toilet paper for example we’re actually a net exporter of we have 10 years supply. globally their is a reagents shortage, the CDC’s trial fucked it and the US brought millions. Ireland has the same problem. We probably fucked it by not testing and initially trying to slow the epidemic based on that WHO report out of Wuhan, Italy showed the Chinese have lied so we reversed strategy but by that point the suppression horse had bolted so it’s testing when coming in with symptoms. I reckon we probably have 150,000 cases now

There’s a global shortage of chemical components for of the kits, because some countries have brought them all. The NHS are hard pressed as we’re climbing into our peak so now we test incoming traffic to hospitals rather than just randomly stopping people in the street or setting up testing points like the states. If you have symptoms we test as an incoming patient. Drive is to start testing isolating nhs staff to get them back to work first but you need NHS staff to do this. Army are in from tomorrow to relieve NHS by managing logistics into hospitals of PPE etc so that NHS staff are freed up to concentrate on front line care and testing. Huge logistical operation is afoot Some are blatantly trying to grind their brexit axes now, I turned off QT the other night was complete horseshit They’ve built 3 makeshift hospitals in 3 weeks, remortgaged the country and its blatantly obvious at this point that China have lied about the severity of this pandemic. I just don’t know what your on about here, they’ve been remarkably open and honest about it we get unfiltered access to the science I think based on a conference call we were apart of discussing supply chain for ventilators with some of these Sage guys, NHS managers, Government officials and manufacturers that a lot of decisions we’re based on initial WHO report out of Wuhan which they increasingly feel is utter bullshit. Germany are taking French & Italian patients specifically to test as they don’t trust that initial WHO report. Also credit to Johnson he was in a conference call gone 11pm while he’s got it and his words to my colleague (I wasn’t on it sadly) we’re “do whatever it takes, cash is available now, we have no time to waste here” they’ve paid cash for everything to speed it up supply. They don’t want days while cheques clear money is there. we had an account opened and an order in excess of £700k placed and paid same day. We were cutting metal within 1 hour of the account being opened read below re ventilators Dyson We now switched to a policy of “save what you can, don’t attempt the impossible and send them to smaller hospitals to die“. As they do in Italy and Spain, we have to last the month now it’s going to be attritional for NHS frontline staff. All outpatient specialist hospitals have cancelled scheduled operations. The beds have been repurposed as makeshift ICU units without ventilators as this will be where elder patients with comorbidities are sent to die on morphine drops as they won’t be given ventilators as we really focus our ICU efforts on those more likely to survive in General hospitals & the surge hospitals. These outpatient staff from these specialist hospitals are being retrained and reallocated to the Nightingale, NEC & Manchester to work ventilators. My mate was a battlefield medic in Iraq he was infantry that fell into it treating a colleague, specialised as an anaesthetist for hip operations when he left the army after his service. He’s been reallocated to the NEC 5,000 bed hospital to work ventilators. The local ice rink is preparing to store bodies. we will be around about 40-50k dead by the end of April guys theirs no getting away from it. It’s been apparent that it’s damage limitation now for the foreseeable future. they’re will be a long standing mental toll to this, PTSD for doctors & nurses. loads of my works kit in on all these ventilator projects so I’ll tell you all in detail who’s doing what in a couple of days once contracts are all signed and it’s made public knowledge but the ventilators are on the way we’ve (UK Government) spent millions and we’ve sorted out the commonwealth in the deal. It’s about a million ventilators by year end from several teams, some specifically designed to be made affordably and mass produced quickly so can be placed in small field hospitals in poorer countries like the Sub continent and Africa. No ip has been protected on some I know we shared spec with Australia & New Zealand as they’re about a fortnight behind us in terms of RO to give them a head start with their own builds. We won’t make the start of our own peak in significant numbers but we’ll have them coming through to get mid peak going into nightingale type hospitals. from a supply chain point of view there’s been a few mistakes from the government but it’s down to ignorance of the technicalities of manufacturing rather than design they’ve literally moved mountains it’s a staggering effort, from them I’m genuinely impressed. I see lots of comments online about where’s the equipment etc, people just don’t understand supply chain in our country, for our manufacturing infrastructure we’ve gone faster than I believed possible. No government will ever admit it but we just don’t have the manufacturing capacity of Germany, China, US, Japan or Korea to dig us out the shit quickly, as we once had. What we have done though is innovate, We’ve got some brilliant engineers in this country. regarding the cheap solution it’s here, it’s brilliant for what it is, it genuinely looks like it will save hundred of thousands if not millions of people worldwide. It’s been designed by oxford uni and doctors from king’s college London https://oxvent.org Dyson are building to print for a medical professional outfit that have designed it. It’s a full ventilators not like what I’ve just linked. automobile manufacturing companies are mass producing ventilators for existing ventilator manufacturers who aren’t set up to produce hundreds of ventilators a month. One I know made 100 a month, they’re putting out 25,000 this month by subbing manufacturing to a car company that is building to print. There’s physically no way they could have done this without government pairing them up and providing the capital to get it moving. it’s monstrous we have Europe’s largest bank of a specific type of manufacturing machinery and it’s now running 24/7 for the next month to meet demand. This is a monstrous ramping up for us. there’s literally nothing that can be done that isn’t, being done I predicted end of May originally 2 weeks back and they’ve done it by the 4-5th of April they’ve probably saved tens of it not hundreds of thousands of lives now it’s a huge effort. globally it will be millions, I know they worked 20 hour days not just the government but senior civil servants in the NHS and Sage to, tbh fuck the BBC journalists I think they’ve done brilliantly

He’s active just maybe doesn’t want to chat. I spoke to an Italian colleague based just outside Milan on Thursday who described it as “a bit of a drama’ I left it thinking translation issues but it’s only really a massive problem if your wrapped up in it. Otherwise it’s a faff at the shops I suppose Virus load to will do for them disproportions also. on equipment I’d bet a lot of it comes from China the west needs a rethink in outsourcing all manufacturing The WHO also fucked up and we’re too slow to designate it was a pandemic when it was obvious and had been for at least 2-3 weeks This will kill quite a few NHS staff, look into virus load

I think I’m right in saying that Germany don’t record covid as the cause of death they record the underlying issue to the figures are skewed.

Testing extensively is why I would say that Italy and Spain have over 100,000 cases easily. China I’d put money on 250,000 cases

Indeed it is. Lots of Smiths in hospitals to tbh

I saw they fined italy for state intervention and they plan to fine us for our state aid to prop up businesses, if true they can fuck off! I posted this a few days back, it’s going to be harsh brutal decisions I’m afraid.

Surely it’s testing also Europe is geographically small I expect it to spread quickly throughout Africa will be badly hit, they just don’t know it yet So I saw this Yesterday, I’m dubious about that stat as nothing in the article and nothing I can find online confirms it. But reading the article wouldn’t it be the same in none Muslim asian households where you have multiple generations in the same house? Because in the UK it is quite common for 3-4 generations of the same house among the asian demographic so isolation won’t work as they literally have all their eggs in one basket. Is this the same in India?