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Fairy In Boots

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  1. 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
  2. They lied to protect their economy the world needs to wean itself off the Chinese teat after this
  3. Just seen the spectator report that the US now has over 200,000 cases
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  10. Indeed it is. Lots of Smiths in hospitals to tbh
  11. 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.
  12. 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?
  13. Hanging outside chicken shops good grief what a shithole it has become Tbh if it was 1-2% of pensioners you would take that now, harsh as it sounds. We’re easily in the most testing time since WW2 now and it’s not even got running yet, desperate times will mean brutal decisions sadly. They are though to some degree, I know loads isolating, I didn’t visit my mom today, last night me and the lads got pushed via house party app. It will slow down as we get deeper into it Ice cream men up here are delivering bread and milk etc.
  14. My mate is a operating theatre technician for a specialist service hospital and they’ve allocated their role by covid response teams. Basically all special service hospitals will be where co morbidity (an existing illness that is potentially fatal) patients are transferred at a certain point to these hospitals out of general. The aneathetists have been told their role is to preside over them while their immune system helps them or they die. Prioritising like Italy will be for ventilators and icu to go to others based on criteria. to quote the Him “theres fuck all we’re going to be able to do except watch them die, it causes sepsis of the lungs and at that point there’s fuck all they can do for you” I think we will be at 1000 by next Friday
  15. We’re socially distancing I was told not to take my boy for a hair cut today by the mrs. also the Mrs 10 mins later “go to B&Q and finish that job” I didn’t go lol
  16. The harsh reality is because our economy is so service dependent they will attempt to ride it with ventilators and excess staff to get us operational ASAP. Our shutdown coincides with Easter holiday and they’re trying to get ahead of it to get most of us infected cured then back out again on ventilators pitch’s go into NHS back end of next week, 70,000 to be built ASAP it is happening I’m just personally dubious we won’t be ready by the start of the peak which is estimated 2 weeks away. I was I’ll start if feb I had 72 hours of fever and weak and a dry hacking none productive cough for 2 weeks after. I reckon it was this tbh but who knows I’m 34 fairly fit run approx 12miles a week none smoker but this took me out for a good 3-4 days
  17. I used to buy from a company called isis they had a similar issue a few years back
  18. It’s now 60+ they’re not treating imagine that it’s working age We are a less tactile culture than Italy and the hope is our health system will cope. Personally the ventilators won’t be ready in time and we will suffer death due to not having equipment.
  19. This is going to kill more in the states than the standard mortality rate, the reason obesity if your diaphragm struggles anyway you’re fucked. saw today 3 out of a family of 11 are dead imagine that
  20. I don’t think people truly appreciate the travesty that is unfolding in Italy. Basically their ICU Is overrun so they don’t have ventilators or beds to accommodate the Numbers requiring critical care. Because of this they’re going with below 70 years old and letting the 70+ die. its inflating the death rate because if beds and ventilators were available many of these people would be ok instead they’re dying in makeshift hospitals, literally drowning in their own lung fluid. Horrible situation and I feel for the Italians
  21. I think it’s inevitable now China is going to come under quite a bit of international pressure to improve its sanitary standards because this isn’t the first time a flu pandemics have come out of their markets. I think it will also be used to justify trade wars and protectionism by all. This will wake countries up to the importance of supply chains for important resources. bizarre choice of words you were the coronavirus in WW2
  22. perfectly timed so interesting given what’s going on
  23. I saw plans to build 10,000 ventilators urgently by the government who are prepared to wave a lot of red tape to get it done ASAP then they want 10,000 drops each month to build us up to 100,000 by year end. They need 14,000 quickly though as they want 20,000 to cope with the first peak they expect in early April and have gone to medical specialist manufacturers not JCB. can’t put anymore as I shouldn’t really say all this it was all hush hush under NDA’s etc In engineering terms though they haven’t fucked about it’s like when we went to Iraq it’s big money being spent quickly to get shit done in fairness they have legitimate drawings and specifications and they aren’t worried about price, it’s about speed and quality
  24. I won’t name companies etc but I know medical ventilator companies in the U.K. and have worked with them on ventilators in the past. this idea that JCB could bang out medical ventilators in a week is madness, there’s rigorous testing and accreditation’s that need to be adhered to. It’s a PR stunt nothing more, bluntly we won’t be able to meet demand it’s too late
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