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Contagion 2020
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Jeff Resnick
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06-05-2020, 01:41 PM -
Majority of English regions hovering around R1 with some above it:

https://twitter.com/JenWilliamsMEN/statu...03297?s=20
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06-05-2020, 02:29 PM -
Dat sweet, sweet herd immunity GodIsGod
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06-05-2020, 02:30 PM -
It's about to go up a lot further than that in some English cities Monty But
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06-05-2020, 02:32 PM -
(06-05-2020, 02:30 PM)Mikey Wrote: It's about to go up a lot further than that in some English cities  Monty But

Yip. Couple of weeks after these protests etc we’ll be right back to square one. Probably even worse and we will all be grounded harder than before Fat Cunt
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06-05-2020, 02:49 PM -
Government apparently saying 'no need to worry. This was to be expected'.
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06-05-2020, 03:01 PM -
Also Government - if it goes above 1, we're back to lockdown.
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06-05-2020, 03:10 PM -
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06-05-2020, 04:52 PM -
Earlier reports regarding us baldies, appear to be 'problematic':

https://twitter.com/lee_georgina/status/...99685?s=19
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06-05-2020, 04:55 PM -
Damn i just told my da with a big greggy on that he's fucked Woy
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06-05-2020, 05:14 PM -
Tempted to neggy Jeff for calling something problematic without my permission. Might just cancel him instead, Jeff you are cancelled.
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06-05-2020, 05:20 PM -
(06-05-2020, 05:14 PM)Makween Wrote: Tempted to neggy Jeff for calling something problematic without my permission. Might just cancel him instead, Jeff you are cancelled.

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06-05-2020, 05:56 PM -
The difference between what a proper country are doing and what we are doing is absolutely incredible Dismay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJs4BoEF1o
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06-07-2020, 12:33 AM -
Feel like pure shit just want to play football again. Sob
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06-07-2020, 08:05 AM -
Clocked a few folk on Facebook/Instagram having garden/house parties this weekend. I do think people have started to get even more complacent. Couple friends also start back at work on Monday so that feeling of 'back to normal' will be creeping in.
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06-07-2020, 08:38 AM -
Boris "Britain Open for Business" Johnson is going to preside over the longest lockdown in the world Warnock
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06-07-2020, 08:45 AM -
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/end-t...-d9nr9d0ll

More on the English student caps for Scottish unis.

Seems like a subtle play to claw back some power from devolution tbh. I don’t know why any of this concerns them at all.
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06-07-2020, 09:20 AM -
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/108m-...-7vw0295rr

Quote:A small family-run pest control company was handed a contract worth £108 million to procure personal protective equipment for frontline health staff at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

PestFix, which has only 16 employees and net assets of £18,000, was turned overnight into one of the government’s largest suppliers of PPE last month.

It is one of a number of companies to have been awarded multimillion-pound contracts to provide facemasks, gowns and visors despite lacking experience in the field.

The contracts were signed in early April when ministers were under huge public pressure to improve the supply of PPE to hospitals and care homes amid global shortages. The flurry of offers to help was so overwhelming that in late April the government paid £200,000 to a call centre supplier to clear a backlog of about 5,000 offers.

Last night the chairman of parliament’s public accounts committee said it and the National Audit Office would be scrutinising the contracts awarded to ensure that they represented value for money. “The need for PPE for frontline staff is urgent and critical but tendering outside the normal rules can be risky,” Meg Hillier said.

One of the companies to be commissioned was Double Dragon International Ltd, which was given a £2.15 million contract to supply medical and surgical facemasks to the NHS.

Company records show that Double Dragon had net assets of £24,000 last year and describes itself as a wholesaler of coffee, tea, cocoa and spices. It has a website advertising its “new 2020 collection of surgical facemasks” and describes itself as a certified supplier to the NHS of medical-grade equipment.

However, much of the website includes dummy text, the phone number does not work and the company’s business premises are on a residential street in Ilford, Essex. The company could not be reached for comment.

According to government records PestFix, which sells supplies for pest control, secured a £108 million contract after answering the call for help from British companies. Dan England, the co-founder of the business, said that although the company had not previously sold PPE, he had “very good connections in the supply chain” in the Far East and had “tried to help the NHS in their hour of need”.

He said he had filled in a form on the website of the Department of Health with details of the factories from which he could source PPE and heard back a week later. “Some of the bigger players that would normally be supplying this were perhaps not as quick to react or as dynamic,” he said. The contract covers 12 months and although Mr England disputed the published £108 million value, he declined to say whether it was too high or too low.

Overall £340 million has been committed to procure PPE for health and social care workers. The data was collected by Tussell, a research company that tracks government contracts. The majority of the deals were agreed without a competitive tender process under emergency procurement rules put in place in March.

A Department of Health spokesman said: “The Times repeatedly criticised our efforts to get PPE to the front line, yet is now claiming that it is costing too much to do so. Our priority is to protect health and social care staff, including making sure they have the equipment they need to do their job safely.”
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06-07-2020, 09:26 AM -
Wonder which Tory MP's wife's brother in law, cousin or half-sister owns that particular company.
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06-07-2020, 09:45 AM -
Same old, same old. Spivs in taking govt to cleaners in times of need shocker!

At the end of the day, if they can source the specs and deliver within the timeframe then it's mission accomplished for the procurement team. Of course, you'll get competitors moaning and elements of the public bitching. Way it's always been.
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06-07-2020, 09:51 AM -
(06-07-2020, 09:45 AM)pondlife Wrote: Same old, same old.  Spivs in taking govt to cleaners in times of need shocker!

At the end of the day, if they can source the specs and deliver within the timeframe then it's mission accomplished for the procurement team.  Of course, you'll get competitors moaning and elements of the public bitching.  Way it's always been.
Aye I wonder why the public would be seething at a pest control company worth 18 grand with no experience at all in procurement of PPE for the health sector was given ONE HUNDRED MILLION POUND, a third of the total budget to source PPE during a crisis.

Just the public bitching over nothing tho pondy, nout to do with the fact our response has been absolutely piss poor and specifically PPE has been in dire shortages at critical times.  

Feels like if we had a good stockpile that hadn’t been defunded years prior and a competent sensible procurement system that doesn’t rely on hoping someone with a one man band pest control service knows somebody in China then we wouldn’t be in this mess with PPE.  Probably just me bitching tho

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