It's the drainage ditch at the bottom of the garden.
It's the drainage ditch at the bottom of the garden.
In an extraordinary attack on the government, Cummings said: “The Department of Health had a total disaster in how it buys and how it procures.”
Cummings said that because of Hancock’s department’s handling of PPE, the decision was made by himself, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance and former head of the Civil Service, Mark Sedwill, to take responsibility of the vaccine programme away from it.
The former Vote Leave director said it was therefore "not coincidental" that the vaccine programme in the UK has been successful.
He said that the creation of a vaccine taskforce had “stripped away all the usual nonsense” of the bureaucracy surrounding decisions.
Matt Hancock shit.
Needless bureaucracy bad.
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From MD in this week's Private Eye
High threat pathogens (including SARS) were just one item on the top 10 watch list. And there are seven statements that were always predictable about this pandemic and the next:
Likely to be a virus - very small, very transmissible, not always easy to detect and the little buggers mutate all the time.
Likely to come from animals they harbour millions of viruses we've never seen before, and humans breed, transport, slaughter and eat all manner of animals in very insanitary mstances. We also destroy their natural habitats (eg forests) and displace them closer to us.
Likely to spread human to human, and in the air. Having jumped from animals, mutations that learn to spread quickly between humans are likely to be selected to thrive.
Likely to start in a country where public health surveillance is rudimentary, where poverty, hunger and economics demand that natural resources are exploited to the full, leading to gross changes in local ecology. Other persistent risks are over-crowding, insanitary cultural practices and a culture of political cover-up. Not just China.
Likely to travel by plane and to be all over our hyper-connected world before the country of origin owns up.
Likely to kill the poorest, most marginalised and least healthy in the greatest numbers.
Likely to be better managed in countries with less inequality, better population health and better public health services.
Sounds like Ursula's properly losing the plot now. Seize the means of production!
She's not on good ground when the major countries won't use them.
BBC reporting a huge slowdown in vaccine availability from end of March for 4 weeks.
Yay.
Unless a load of under 50s are going to head to A&E for loss of sense of taste and smell, I would suggest not a single fuck be given to such developments. Keep calm and open the saunas.
The signer on this is brilliant. <mime's jab, two thumbs up>
We want our vaccines so we can go on holiday. Fucks are given. Fuck the Saunas.Originally Posted by Don
Boom. Van Tam Nistelrooy with another football analogy.
Very much this.
Wait, are we meant to still be carrying hopes of foreign travel this summer? I thought better of it, even in the face of the relentless advertisement of package holidays, but if you're telling me it's on, I can get behind a cheeky European trip in August.
What was Rob Van Tam talking about there, he mentioned a vaccine programme in the autumn. A booster programme maybe?
The Phase stuff? I took it to mean he was on about the priority groups being covered. Phase 2 being the rest of us.
No he said about further vaccines in the autumn and an enquiry being an unwelcome distraction.
Any delay in the vaccine rollout will be a body blow for forrin travel. Healthy and under 30, I've no chance.
As of today we've vaccinated 25 million people. In two weeks we'll have vaccinated 28/29 million at worst. Second jabs ramping up too. The hard work is done.
If this drags lockdown any longer it'll be a complete joke.
I genuinely must have glossed over that. Was that when he was talking about tracking back and bollocks?
Why don't you just get it done privately?
You can't, can you?
You can't.
But I do know a fair few people below 40 who've had their first jab. All because a family member works in the NHS.
It's a huge con. I was offered the vaccine by my friend, I just had to rock up with a letter he'd print off for me and say I worked for a certain NHS Trust. I reckon it's rife.
And it ultimately doesn't matter at all, as long as that jab gets in an arm.
Fooling people to think it's something worth such deception is the real hustle.
When I had my jab I booked it through a website for NHS vaccine bookings.
I showed my passport when I got there and was shown a list of various jobs and asked if I worked as one of those which I replied "Yes".
Carer was on the list so I was good and could have proved it but anyone could have booked and turned up.
Stopped calling for the clubs to be opened since that plainclothes police officers announcement.
They wouldn't be able to see him over the crowd.
It’s basically been confirmed that the low amount of vaccines we have is specifically our for profit private health insurance that you’re legally obligated to purchase has repeatedly attempted to low ball the producers. I’ve never seen a better argument against both capitalist health systems and pharmaceutical patents. A plague on both their houses.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56437852
Tanzania's President John Magufuli has died aged 61, the country's vice-president has announced.
He died on Wednesday from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Samia Suluhu Hassan said in an address on state television.
Magufuli had not been seen in public for more than two weeks, and rumours have been circulating about his health.
Opposition politicians said last week that he had contracted Covid-19, but this has not been confirmed.
Magufuli was one of Africa's most prominent coronavirus sceptics, and called for prayers and herbal-infused steam therapy to counter the virus.
Sounds like it serves him right.
I'm a twit
Vaccine rollout is going well.
Flights from PNG to Cairns have been stopped because we have 50 of them in hospital with covid. PNG should re-join the Peoples Republic of QLD.
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I assume you only have to show ID when you book independantly, I was GP referred and I was just ticked off a clipboard on arrival and that was it.
But yes there is a lot of jab fraud going on. In the long run it doesn't matter I suppose as Jimmy says but just shows the level of shithousery the general public have, not unlike panic buying at the start of this when the likes of Farage and Gove had been banging on about Britain's 'Blitz Spirit' seeing us through any negative Brexit effects.
And what's the early jab really getting them? They still can't go anywhere. They can't rock up at Heathrow and say, "Mate, here's my permission!" and slap the card in front of them.
Yet.
We'll not go down that route. We won't need to with the EU effectively doing that for travel. And several US states. Like how every country around us closed borders.
P&O announced the same yesterday.
The Vaccinated will be allowed to travel where the unvaccinated can't, no matter who puts the rules in place. It doesn't really matter if it's our government or not.
If you’re deceiving the system to get a jab early you are a wanker. We are not at the point yet where ‘any jab is a good jab’. The 50+ category is where we start to see rises in mortality, so healthy people in their 20s and 30s are putting people at risk jumping the queue. Don’t do it.
I had 3 this morning. Fuck you.
Only by a really tiny margin. A jabbed person won't transmit either.
I wouldn’t say tiny. One study says over 55s are eight times more at risk of dying than under 55s. That’s enough for me to say people should not be jumping the queue.
They 'shouldn't' be, no, but in practice the effect of that queue-jumper getting jabbed is going to be more positive for the cause than it would be to waste time faffing around trying to stop them.
True, it's probably impossible to police. I just hope people have a conscience over it.
Queue jumping is scummy behaviour, no matter which queue it is.
Wonder if the jab hurts, especially when the microchip goes in.
I'm not sure I'd call this a queue exactly. It's a staggered hostage release.
The microchip overdose from Spikey's 3 vaccines are wreaking havoc on his cognition.
Looking at the jab numbers across the pond is encouraging for transatlantic travel. 32 million shots in a fortnight. Whoosh.
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