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17-04-2020, 12:32 PM | #1 | |||
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17-04-2020, 12:34 PM | #2 | |||
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17-04-2020, 12:56 PM | #3 | ||
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20 million is pocket change in terms of government budgets though. It sounds like a lot of money, but it really isn't.
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17-04-2020, 01:43 PM | #4 | |||
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17-04-2020, 01:56 PM | #5 | |||
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How many ventilators would that have bought, how many peices of PPE? Sorry to make an issue of your comment but excusing the govt of a gaffe like that is honestly Priti Patel level explanation.
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17-04-2020, 02:35 PM | #6 | ||
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Again, the problem with ventilators and PPE is not the cost, it's how quickly it can be produced and distributed. I know there are celebrities throwing money at it and expecting that to solve the problem, because people are used to money solving problems, but in this case it really isn't about how much is being spent. I'm obviously not mr-defend-the-government... They should have had stockpiles of things like PPE ready to go in an emergency... But they didn't, and now the problem is not how much they're willing to spend on it. It isn't there to buy. |
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17-04-2020, 02:48 PM | #7 | |||
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There is PPE to buy TS, i dont agree sorry how that detracts from the useless tests I don't know, it's like sending a kid to a shop for stock cubes for gran and they come back with durex!
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17-04-2020, 02:30 PM | #8 | |||
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17-04-2020, 02:35 PM | #9 | ||
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17-04-2020, 02:52 PM | #10 | |||
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It would, ask the carers in homes where there have been up to 15 deaths if they would appreciate a proportion of that to protect themselves.
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17-04-2020, 03:27 PM | #11 | |||
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So, would spending money paying for researching a vaccine also be a complete waste of money if it didn't pan out with a result?
We invested in several anti body tests, it turns out that none of them work. Every country around the world has been buying the same or similar tests, none of them work, so i guess they are all bad guys too |
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17-04-2020, 03:24 PM | #12 | |||
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17-04-2020, 03:41 PM | #13 | |||
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The point TS is making is that its not a lack of money, its a lack of the equipment, bit like you heading out for Toilet roll a few weeks ago, you had the cash but there was none to be found, hence the need to include companies like Burberry in the making of gowns and masks
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17-04-2020, 05:03 PM | #14 | ||
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Cherie has given the best allegory really. A month ago you could have gone to Tesco with £1000 in your pocket - you still weren't leaving with a 9 pack of Andrex, because they didn't have any. You could have gone with a million pounds. The problem is supply. Like I said I think people are just very used to being able to solve all sorts of things by throwing money at the problem... We're used to living in a world of abundant supply. We're not used to scarcity and what that means. It sort of reminds me of the scene in Titanic where Cal tries to buy his way onto a lifeboat and can't understand when his money suddenly doesn't mean anything. |
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17-04-2020, 12:58 PM | #15 | |||
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Who, Douglas?
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It’s a new virus and a pandemic. Had they not taken the risk/opportunity the exact same people would say they were stupid/careless and endangering people’s lives by not acting
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17-04-2020, 04:56 PM | #16 | |||
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Exactly Douglas,they cant do right for doing wrong.
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17-04-2020, 01:01 PM | #17 | |||
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*UK spent $20 million on corona test that didn’t work.
*Trump halts WHO funding over handling of corona *Figures now predict UK will pass Italy in total covid deaths *Government DELIBERATELY did not take part in EU Coronavirus scheme *Government ignored advice to set up emergency alert system I'm going to guess that Smithy is a glass half empty kinda guy. Last edited by Livia; 17-04-2020 at 01:01 PM. |
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17-04-2020, 01:45 PM | #18 | |||
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17-04-2020, 01:58 PM | #19 | |||
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17-04-2020, 02:28 PM | #20 | |||
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18-04-2020, 01:41 PM | #21 | |||
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18-04-2020, 01:55 PM | #22 | |||
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17-04-2020, 01:02 PM | #23 | |||
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People are still moaning about the testing abilities.
It would be far worse if no risks were taken in finding them. |
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17-04-2020, 05:43 PM | #24 | |||
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we did not buy it...
smithy "Tories fail to buy important testing kit" " it was only 20 million, ffs this government are WORSE than the Third Reich and are responsible for everyone who died in the world since Jesus" |
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18-04-2020, 08:32 AM | #25 | ||
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Honestly I would understand being annoyed about it if it was 2 billion, even 200 million, but 20 million is such a small amount in terms of government spending its just not worth getting wound up about. Its like being annoyed at your partner for "wasting" 50p on a new flavour of crisps and binning them because they tasted like crap.
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