I think the anxiety belongs to her parents. Now, as a parent myself, this is completely understandable, they care about her, as you obviously do too. I would support her, if she wants to go, then make it happen. If she misses you, she will want to come home If you complain about her leaving, you will seem like you lack compassion, which I am certain you do not. Go with the flow on this one, there's no easy answers.
He said that if they followed the new guidelines they should have enough, so it is very important that they do. The new guidelines are that some of the same equipment can be used on more than one patient. I'm thinking that there may be some resistance to that on the front line and that was the point that he was making. He didn't actually say that they weren't.
Ok cool, I was happy to be corrected....there’s intimation to his language he needs to be careful with. I’m A political....we need those at the wheel to stay on point and not get sacked for forgetting the audience.
Politico speak for "we haven't got anywhere near enough PPE so I'll distract from that with some coarse political pleb blame attachment for the masses to be appalled by". "Sorry people feel there's not enough". Never admit to anything, ever, or your career is over. Apologising = admitting error. Perhaps if the politicised press/politicians weren't so quick in their race to score points it would help politicians be a little straighter talking.
We could be like ze Germans who lost all those masks to the US? Their problem was their protocols didn't allow them to pay before they were delivered and inspected. Anywhere (like USA) prepared to pay first, argue later got in there first. No doubt it took a week of meetings to slick up our purchasing methods by which time we were too far behind the game. But shirly, we could by now be supplying our own, it's pretty basic stuff, there must be some cross-over type industries here that could adapt. Or maybe not, we don't really do industry in any scale do we?
And there lies something we ought sort out after this catastrophe , Manufacturing ..self sufficiency in hundreds of aspects .I just hope lots of lessons are learnt after all this .
Its the same with the dreaded Brexit. The impact would not be nearly so large if we produced our own stuff and reduced our reliance on imports. Hopefully some of this kind of thinking about resilience etc will filter through to the powers that be, eventually.
We don't even own the major industry we have, we just service them at an ever decreasing level. From water to steel to elec to trains. The French government run the water? Germans the trains? Chinese the steel?
There’s three things you can’t live without . Food water and oxygen . The rest are material or so I was told .
Now then we grow our own int garden and have butts , and orange boxes ta sit on ,I forgot that ! You needed better upbringin our lad
It won't work! Who in this country (UK) is going to work for Chinese wages to make stuff to sell at Chinese prices?
Its about recognising added value. Not just simple cost to purchase goods, but jobs in the country, resilience when the international supply chain fails etc.
We should have contracted out managing the covid response to the Germans. This lot were so good at managing it most of them got it and now it’s your fault for going to the park!
Can't argue with that. @Day started this thread to warn us on 23rd Feb. Things were well under way "Italy is on 'lockdown' due to virus arriving...all schools closed, museums and public spaces... notices to cancel all public events until mid March.... " 3 weeks later on the 16th March at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena the Stereophonics played a huge packed gig. Not picking on the Stereophonics, just an illustration of "us" carrying on as usual when we should have been doing something sensible, not ramming into huge arenas.
