Covid-19 and Politics

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Captain_Swoop said:
The Govt have quietly announced they are terminating student nurse 6 month contracts out of the blue, after paying them for only one month of Covid-19 work, leaving them without income as a good number gave up other work to take the contracts.
Why is no one talking about this?
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It’s been in my Facebook feed for a few days now.
 
so the world beating CrapApp has cost us £250,000,000 paid to Serco and it's now in the bin.
well played, they deserve to be in prison.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
The Govt have quietly announced they are terminating student nurse 6 month contracts out of the blue, after paying them for only one month of Covid-19 work, leaving them without income as a good number gave up other work to take the contracts.
Why is no one talking about this?
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Because people are buying your government's bollocks about the Covid pandemic being basically over?
 
The Don said:
Meanwhile a pub chain owner is threatening the government:



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53094134

"Our profits are more important than your life" :rolleyes:
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You expected different? How over here he's be roundly condemned and reminded that to be a licensee one must "be of good character" and his criminality would be brought to the judge's attention at the Licensing Sessions.
In post-Cummings era UK the government will cave.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
so the world beating CrapApp has cost us £250,000,000 paid to Serco and it's now in the bin.
well played, they deserve to be in prison.
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Meh, probably not in the top thirty worst UKGov IT projects. No-one got wrongly locked up...
 
US is headed for disaster.
And I blame the anti science arttitude on the right, for which the Christian Fundies are largely responsbile. Fact is the Fundies hate science because it conflicts with their book of Fairy Tales.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
so the world beating CrapApp has cost us £250,000,000 paid to Serco and it's now in the bin.
well played, they deserve to be in prison.
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£250,000,000?? For a bloody Android and iPhone app? I've heard of "sunk cost," but this is ridiculous! 2.5 million, maybe. But 250 million? Let me guess: one million went to the analysts and programmers, and 249 went to "consulting fees."

Also, is there a source for the 250 million number?
 
Blue Mountain said:
£250,000,000?? For a bloody Android and iPhone app? I've heard of "sunk cost," but this is ridiculous! 2.5 million, maybe. But 250 million? Let me guess: one million went to the analysts and programmers, and 249 went to "consulting fees."

Also, is there a source for the 250 million number?
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I think this is for the whole programme including the 25,000 human tracers, not just the app.
 
dudalb said:
US is headed for disaster.
And I blame the anti science arttitude on the right, for which the Christian Fundies are largely responsbile. Fact is the Fundies hate science because it conflicts with their book of Fairy Tales.
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You do know this is the non-USA politics section, right? There's a covid and US politics thread in the US politics section.
 
catsmate said:
Because people are buying your government's bollocks about the Covid pandemic being basically over?
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Only numpties like my next-door neighbour, who thinks Johnson is doing a good job.

A lot of the rest of us know better than to believe anything thhis shower say about pretty much anything: they aren't The Government of the No Talents for nothing.
 
No Other said:
Found this article interesting:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid
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From that:
Status of COVID-19
As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) in the UK.

The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.

The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID.

The need to have a national, coordinated response remains, but this is being met by the government’s COVID-19 response.

Cases of COVID-19 are no longer managed by HCID treatment centres only. All healthcare workers managing possible and confirmed cases should follow the updated national infection and prevention (IPC) guidance for COVID-19, which supersedes all previous IPC guidance for COVID-19. This guidance includes instructions about different personal protective equipment (PPE) ensembles that are appropriate for different clinical scenarios.
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Yes the reasoning seems a little suspect.


Definition of HCID
In the UK, a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) is defined according to the following criteria:

acute infectious disease
typically has a high case-fatality rate may not have effective prophylaxis or treatment
often difficult to recognise and detect rapidly
ability to spread in the community and within healthcare settings
requires an enhanced individual, population and system response to ensure it is managed effectively, efficiently and safely
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The highlighted is the only thing that is debatable. And with something like a 1% fatality rate and a high chance of infection, coupled with many more suffering long-term effects, this looks more like a political decision. And because of the behaviour of this government - they've lost the right to the benefit of the doubt.

At the time there was a fuss. Now it looks even worse.
 
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CB/Dyson ventilators
Serco/Deloitte CV19 testing
Pestco
CummingsRelativeApp

Makes you think.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
CB/Dyson ventilators
Serco/Deloitte CV19 testing
Pestco
CummingsRelativeApp

Makes you think.
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And not COVID-19 related, but in the "let's reinvent the log roller when everyone else is discussing pneumatic tyres" game - the idea that the UK could be able to create an alternative to the Galileo/Glonass/GPS system. Obviously it could, because the UK is *still* richer than Russia, but it would be utterly stupid.

Or, the strong rumours about leaving the Erasmus scheme and trying to start it's own one.
 
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