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Is It Not Time
Boris made an appearance / statement / address to the UK public.? After watching a doctor being interviewed last night on TV, and still having problems breathing, I do wonder now if he's avoiding the flak.
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//If Boris has got time to speak to Trump before his nation, there's something wrong. My IQ is very average compared to you, but I do know the difference between right and wrong.//
Thank you for your respect and it is reciprocated but this is nothing to do with your IQ or mine. Mr Johnson and Mr Trump are good personal friends. A call to confirm he is OK (similar to his statement to everybody when he left hospital) is a little different to “addressing the nation”.
//Almost dying? very ill yes. but we were told that he didn't need a ventilator. those are the ones that are nearly dying, and do.//
He was in intensive care for four or five days for heaven’s sake! They don’t do that to people who are a little under the weather. Do you think he weasled his way in there to gain a few votes? The fact that he did not need a ventilator did not mean he was not seriously ill. Putting someone onto a ventilator is an invasive process and is only done as a last resort. Thankfully he did not need that treatment but that did not lessen the seriousness of his condition. He said that for a couple of days “it could have gone either way.” I have no reason to disbelieve that and I believe that he may well have died. I’m thankful that he didn’t as I would have been had it been anybody else. The last thing this country needs at present is the death of its Prime Minister. There are indications that his insistence in carrying on working may well have made his condition worse. He needs to recover properly now before resuming duty because, whether you like him and his policies or not, he is the Prime Minister and he is needed at the moment probably more than any PM in recent history.
Thank you for your respect and it is reciprocated but this is nothing to do with your IQ or mine. Mr Johnson and Mr Trump are good personal friends. A call to confirm he is OK (similar to his statement to everybody when he left hospital) is a little different to “addressing the nation”.
//Almost dying? very ill yes. but we were told that he didn't need a ventilator. those are the ones that are nearly dying, and do.//
He was in intensive care for four or five days for heaven’s sake! They don’t do that to people who are a little under the weather. Do you think he weasled his way in there to gain a few votes? The fact that he did not need a ventilator did not mean he was not seriously ill. Putting someone onto a ventilator is an invasive process and is only done as a last resort. Thankfully he did not need that treatment but that did not lessen the seriousness of his condition. He said that for a couple of days “it could have gone either way.” I have no reason to disbelieve that and I believe that he may well have died. I’m thankful that he didn’t as I would have been had it been anybody else. The last thing this country needs at present is the death of its Prime Minister. There are indications that his insistence in carrying on working may well have made his condition worse. He needs to recover properly now before resuming duty because, whether you like him and his policies or not, he is the Prime Minister and he is needed at the moment probably more than any PM in recent history.
//has regards to your comment PMs health totally untrue//
I call shenanigans on that reply. If you have a damn, you'd allow him recuperation time rather than demand he makes an unnecessary public appearance.
And yes, you can make.a call when ill. A quick call to the POTUS to thank him for his support (I can't stand Trump, but he was supportive of the PM during his illness) or a thank you video to the NHS staff who helped keep him in the land of the living is far different from a televised public address.to the nation.
I call shenanigans on that reply. If you have a damn, you'd allow him recuperation time rather than demand he makes an unnecessary public appearance.
And yes, you can make.a call when ill. A quick call to the POTUS to thank him for his support (I can't stand Trump, but he was supportive of the PM during his illness) or a thank you video to the NHS staff who helped keep him in the land of the living is far different from a televised public address.to the nation.
>20.25 Many many firms in this country have been offering for weeks now to make PPE, they've been ignored. End of
I think the processing of applications may have been hindered a bit by red tape and failure to return calls but the government has now identified around 160 manufacturers here and abroad that it wants to engage with. We hear stories of people offering masks etc and not hearing anything more or getting a "no thanks" letter. Some may be due to inefficiency of the procurement team but some were because the suppliers were not viable- either they couldn't produce in large enough quantities to be worthwhile, or they had no track record or their prices or service levels were not acceptable. Some supplier on LBC tonight said his oil company had offered 100,000 masks he said he could access but they were turned down, but when pressed on price it transpired it was about 4 times the going rate- so no surprise.
The lists till seems to unwieldy to me- we probably need fewer than 10 reliable companies producing huge quantities. Hopefully now the bloke who organised the Olympics in 2012 will move things forwards speedily and successfully and make up for what seems like some lost time as the existing NHS procurement team and civil servants were a little out of their depth on fast moving tendering and manufacturing
I think the processing of applications may have been hindered a bit by red tape and failure to return calls but the government has now identified around 160 manufacturers here and abroad that it wants to engage with. We hear stories of people offering masks etc and not hearing anything more or getting a "no thanks" letter. Some may be due to inefficiency of the procurement team but some were because the suppliers were not viable- either they couldn't produce in large enough quantities to be worthwhile, or they had no track record or their prices or service levels were not acceptable. Some supplier on LBC tonight said his oil company had offered 100,000 masks he said he could access but they were turned down, but when pressed on price it transpired it was about 4 times the going rate- so no surprise.
The lists till seems to unwieldy to me- we probably need fewer than 10 reliable companies producing huge quantities. Hopefully now the bloke who organised the Olympics in 2012 will move things forwards speedily and successfully and make up for what seems like some lost time as the existing NHS procurement team and civil servants were a little out of their depth on fast moving tendering and manufacturing
Anneasquith and Teacake - I think we just need to accept that we're in a sane minority on this site of Boris-worshippers. That said, there's ever more reason to expose the errors of the current government's ways - not difficult in the current crisis "led" by an absentee PM and his incompetent so-called ministers (excluding Rishi Sunak)
