Corona Virus

[Margaret Pilkington]

The LBC report says the equipment was manufactured here, but other reports do not indicate this.

[Exile on Spencer St]

Article you link to clearly states:
But UK wholesalers have told the newspaper their warehouses are full of vital equipment purchased from China,

Not defending anyone but maybe it was the same PPE from China that’s reportedly been rejected?
Other than languishing in a warehouse, what else would happen to equipment that has been bought from abroad but was rejected by the NHS?

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

It is covered in other publications Cashy...both in print and online.
I think this online source is subscription so my guess is that you will be unable to acces it unless you pay to do so.
I will look for something free that gives the story. It was just to underline that there are producers of the equipment here...producers who are willing and able, but are tied up by bureaucratic red tape.
Watch this space.

yeh but yeh never know whats correct and what aint, i read a story were the quality of the british stuff was not of medical standard so what to think is up in the air.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Cashy, we only know what we are told....and we know that some publications will catastrophise events to make either political points or to sensationalise.
That is why I took two sources from publications/media less likely to be sneered at as 'not worth wiping your Btm on'.

You have to wonder though about the bureaucracy...and if this equipment is good enough to be bought by countries in the EU then I would suggest that it is fit for purpose and safe to use...or they would not be buying it.
It must meet the right specs.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Exile on Spencer St

Article you link to clearly states:
But UK wholesalers have told the newspaper their warehouses are full of vital equipment purchased from China,

Not defending anyone but maybe it was the same PPE from China that’s reportedly been rejected?
Other than languishing in a warehouse, what else would happen to equipment that has been bought from abroad but was rejected by the NHS?

Yes, I did note that in the newspaper article about the supplier being just that...a supplier.
As for it having been rejected....I am not sure that is right.
If that were the case then why would EU countries be stumping up the money?

I did read that the NHS had spent 16 million on PPE that was unserviceable, but that was a different story....unrelated to the supplier that tried to sell her stock to the NHS....unless, you have read something elsewhere that indicates it was the same set of kit.

[DaveinGermany]

I do realise this is a serious topic, but during "The lockdown that's not a lockdown" folks have to some extent been more inclined to contact family & friends. Admittedly via mails, phone, bookface & the likes, also the "Funnies" have been doing the rounds, that being the case I'd like to share some that I've received from some dubious characters, (who claim to know me?) with the goodly folks posting here, therefore, please enjoy the following!

[Margaret Pilkington]

Oh son....I find it really hard to decide which of these I like the best.
They made the tears run down my legs

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Oh son....I find it really hard to decide which of these I like the best.
They made the tears run down my legs

Ah, a puddle of merriment! Just blame the moggies

[Margaret Pilkington]

Oh No I take full responsibility...after all ladies of a certain age are expected to dribble from one end or the other.

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Oh No I take full responsibility...after all ladies of a certain age are expected to dribble from one end or the other.

Whoa way to much information!!!

[Margaret Pilkington]

as the advert says(over here anyway)
'What's a bit of wee?'

[DaveinGermany]

So much for advertising standards then.

[Margaret Pilkington]

if you want the answer to that son...head over to the worst advert thread...there are some real shockers on there.

[Exile on Spencer St]

Becoming clearer by the day that the virus that is the main stream media (stay scared, keep watching/listening/reading your daily dose) is as big a threat to our country than any medical virus.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/0...is-even-worse/

Here’s just one more example of statistics being misrepresented, either through ignorance or deliberately, by the MSM.

https://facts4eu.org/news/2020_apr_corona_latest

[Margaret Pilkington]

what escapes peoples notice is that every single day in this country there is an average of 1400 deaths.
These figures are never published, because there is no political motive behind these deaths.


Any death is regrettable...it means some family has lost a loved member...and their lives will be forever changed,

This current crisis haskilled fewer people, but created a colossal amount of misery.
This misery is not going to go away in the next month, the next year or the next decade.

It's effects are going to be felt by societies in the civilised world for decades...with great difficulties experienced in trying to get life back on an even keel.
Its effects will be crippling in both global and personal debt...well unless there is some move to cancel out the debts and start again from scratch( I cannot see it happening myself).

China has trashed every economy except its own...now do you think this was accidental?
Especially when you consider the ambitions of china to be a world superpower.