Top Scientists Issue Severe Warnings

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We finally know more about Boris Johnson’s coronavirus response after important scientific documents were exposed to the country with more than a dozen papers being published that show precisely how the government’s scientific advice during the pandemic unfolded.

The documents from SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) show Boris Johnson eventually imposed the lockdown after he was warned intensive care would fill up inside a fortnight.

And he claimed he was shaking hands with everyone, on the same day experts said he should tell the public to quit shaking hands and the papers are a crucial discovery because the Prime Minister has always said he was guided by the science.

They show this is more or less true, but the documents also show the science is never one clear piece of advice and in several cases, the government’s response did not match up with what the documents stated.

For instance, scientists appeared to say they were satisfied with a London only shutdown of bars and restaurants rather than a UK wide cessation, but the government, following days of deliberation, went with a UK wide shutdown instead.

Meanwhile, the documents spell out the dangers in the next phase when lockdown starts to relax and they warn any easing of lockdown must be extremely gradual, and give people back some of their leisure pursuits, not just restart the economy.

And the scientists warn that rogue bosses could use any method of immunity passport to hand more hazardous employment to those who’ve previously had COVID 19.

Boris Johnson took his lockdown decision after being informed intensive care beds would fill up in 11 days and a consensus view on March 20, from the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, warned the virus was increasing every three to five days.

It stated it was extremely probable that we would see ICU capacity in London breached by the end of the month, even if extra steps were put in position with the rest of the United Kingdom being 1-2 weeks behind London.

And in the absence of additional measures being put into position, it was possible that ICU capacity would be breached in other areas.

The Prime Minister, who had stopped short of a complete lockdown, then announced one on March 23 and SAGE warned even a lockdown wouldn’t stop capacity being breached, because it would take two to three weeks to take effect.

Glory to our leader Boris Johnson that has fought the coronavirus on the beaches, fought it on our streets, defended our island from the virus, whatever the human sacrifice, perhaps 50,000 and still climbing.

We shall forget to fight it on the landing grounds and our airports are gloriously fighting it in our hospitals without PPE.

We fight it in our fields and we shall fight it on our hills, we shall never quit, and glory to our leader Boris Johnson that fuels our hearts with love, our tables with food, brings hope to the needy, fills our hearts with happiness but doesn’t bring PPE to our NHS.

Our glorious leader fills our mortuaries with our old and labels them “Do Not Resuscitate”. He shook hands with pride and wants to do more testing that should have been done three months ago.

The death rate is indicative of Torie’s constant chipping away at the health service for decades. It was reversed somewhat under Labour but then David Cameron and his other Eton cohorts have, despite all their protestations have carried on the practice.

The Tories at the top have an inbuilt hatred of the NHS because it will always there to act as a reminder of how much better Labour was and there will be people reading this who voted Tory and Brexit, well, now you can see what the top people have done.

We’re always boasting in this country how we have the 5th/6th biggest economy in the world but that means nothing when we have to go begging to China and Turkey for PPE and now our death rate, with this virus, is among the world’s worst.

Our government, led by Boris Johnson, is criminally guilty of neglect. We had all the signs shown early on of what was coming and our government didn’t respond respectively, and Boris Johnson has shown that his judgement is as inadequate as his two forerunners.

Exercise Cygnus, a three-day training on how to deal with a pandemic, is carried out, involving all major government agencies, the NHS and local authorities. It showed gaping holes in Britain’s Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response plan.

These exercises were supposed to prepare the government for something like this, but it seems they were knowledgeable of the problem but didn’t do much about it.

How to catch a virus, just book yourself into a care home, enjoy your retirement, which is sad considering the older generation are the ones that gave the Tories their support on Brexit and now the government are stabbing them in the back.

This government is irresponsible, incompetent and inadequate from the top to the bottom, they’re slow to respond and slow to support the elderly, in fact, old people are the last in the Tory food chain.

And it seems to be an out of sight, out of mind policy which appears to work for Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock and the United Kingdom has lost faith in the way this slow sleaze Tory Party has operated on the vital heartland of Great Britain.

The government didn’t close borders when the pandemic began to spread and there should have been no travel to the United Kingdom, period and any returning nationals should have gone into quarantine for 2 weeks.

The government, so we were told, was aware of this impending situation back in January this year but following a COBRA meeting, Matt Hancock told us there was low risk for the United Kingdom and their casual and almost superior attitude toward the unfolding drama was almost felonious.

Had we read this chain of events had unfolded in some country other than our own we would have been shocked and full of scepticism and naivety.

The idea is that, soon, lockdowns around the world will be lifted but only for those resistant to the coronavirus.

You will have to be tested to see if you’ve had the disease or be given a vaccine. Once that’s happened, you’ll be issued a document, identity card or tattoo.

To travel and work freely, you’ll have to show evidence that you’re not contagious and in this way, millions will be fooled into getting some variety of mark.

But this is Orwellian and authoritarian and it’s a way of controlling people and in this day and age, there’s no justice.

You can find out if your neighbour’s car has tax and MOT but not if your next-door-neighbour is a rapist. You can take your children to the seaside but the council can hide the signs warning that the water is contaminated.

You can go to a restaurant rated zero for all food safety, or the restaurants don’t display their ratings or display out of date ones.

And you can bypass all taxes by selling on Amazon, Facebook, eBay and boot sales and now you can rob and stab people if you want and still walk free and you can go fox hunting even though it’s forbidden because law and order is fiction in this country.

 

Boris Johnson Feared He Wouldn’t Live To See His Son Born

Boris Johnson said he feared he wouldn’t live to see his baby son born, as he battled coronavirus in intensive care and he stated that we’ve all got a lot to live for, a lot to do and that he wouldn’t hide from it.

Boris Johnson, 55, said he was genuinely frustrated that he couldn’t see the path or the way out of the skip as he struggled for his life at St Thomas’s Hospital in central London and he said that there was some disturbing physical resilience or unwillingness to give in or entertain negative thoughts and that he never actually thought that he wouldn’t come back from it.

Boris Johnson said he’s seen the NHS save life and also bring new life into the world in the last month and spoke of his appreciation and love for the health service.

He said that when he left ICU and went back to a general ward at St Thomas’s Hospital it was a Thursday and he clapped like crazy for the NHS while still in his boxers on his hospital bed.

More than 130 front line workers have died since the crisis started and the Government has continually met with questions about staff having inadequate PPE and last month the Mirror was informed about some NHS workers having to buy their own protective kit from DIY stores as the supply scandal disgracing the Government increased.

And frontline health workers lost out on millions of PPE from China because the government’s procurement policy is a mess. But the government who are being challenged almost every day about the shortage of PPE during press conferences, still maintains they’re increasing the supply, with Michael Gove stating that on personal protective equipment for key workers, that they’re increasing the range of delivery and supply.

He stated that from February 25 to May 2 they’d delivered over 1.08 billion items of PPE across the health and social care system within England but he acknowledged there was much more to do.

This comes as Boris Johnson, in a revealing interview, stated his appreciation and respect for the NHS was boundless.

Over the weekend proud mum, Carrie Symonds posted a photograph of their infant enveloped in a blanket, who is already sporting a full head of brown hair, on Instagram as the Prime Minister said he was thrilled about his new offspring.

The infant, who is called Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson after Dr Nick Price and Dr Nick Hart, the doctors that cared for Boris Johnson while he was recovering from the coronavirus.

The post on Carrie Symonds Instagram page read: “Introducing Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson born on 29.04.20 at 9 am.

The baby was named Wilfred after Boris Johnson’s grandfather and Lawrie after Carrie Symonds grandfather and Nicolas after Dr Nick Price and Dr Nick Hart, the two doctors that saved Boris Johnson’s life last month, and Carrie Symonds thanked the incredible NHS maternity team at UCLH that looked after them so well.

She stated that she couldn’t be any happier and that her heart was full but Carrie Symonds, 32, had previously stated that the infant was expected in the early summer, leading to the belief that the due date was in June.

The Prime Minister was hospitalised with coronavirus and spent three days in intensive care in April. He stated that he would take a brief duration of paternity leave later in the year and Boris Johnson had further revealed that doctors were planning to announce his death as he battled the coronavirus.

He said he received litres and litres of oxygen to help him fight the dangerous virus, explaining how a “death of Stalin” style scenario was prepared in the event he passed away and he admitted his doctors forced him to go to the hospital as he was hesitant to leave Downing Street.

Boris Johnson added that his time in the hospital was a tough old time and talked of his relief when he left intensive care on April 9 and back on to a general ward were staff clapped for him but he felt it was the astounding doctors and nurses that deserved to be clapped for.

Boris Johnson is now urging nations to pull together and share their expertise as he co-hosts an international conference to drive the race for coronavirus treatments, tests and vaccines, illustrating the challenge confronting humanity as the most important shared endeavour of our lifetime.

He added that we’re all in this together and together we will prevail.

Monday’s online pledging conference, co-hosted by the UK and eight other nations and organisations, strives to bring in more than £6.6 billion in funding to support the global response to the pandemic.

But anyone that’s put in intensive care doesn’t simply get up and walk after a short period, there has to be a decent period of rest and recuperation, especially for an overweight and unfit person as presented by the Prime Minister.

And many people believe that he wasn’t sick. He wasn’t on a ventilator and exaggeration is good for a climactic effect and it certainly won’t make people more sympathetic to his and his government’s failures in dealing with the pandemic and being at death’s door, like it was proposed, it takes a particularly long period of rest and recuperation, which was hardly ideal for a Prime Minister.

There’s nothing like the government milking it to death with a miracle comeback and then we have the wonder child but it doesn’t mention those tens of thousands of people that have died, or failing to provide PPE, equipment, medicines, guidelines or testing.

If earlier testing had been done in care homes, so many deaths could have been prevented and they didn’t close the airports or quarantine like other countries, yet they want the sympathy and when this is all over they’ll forget the mess they made of this crisis, and the media will simply lap it up.

Can you imagine any serious Prime Minister such as Attlee, Churchill, Wilson or Thatcher giving us daily updates on their mindset during their illness?

But now we don’t have a Prime Minister, we have a Love Island contestant, who, like the gaudy chat magazine, takes us through every excruciating moment.

If Boris had been Mr Joe Bloggs would he have made it to ICU or was this merely a publicity stunt to get his reputation out of the gutter?

The really sad story is the ones that failed to make it out of the hospital due to his not locking down and giving us a “take it on the chin” attitude and perhaps when he concludes his no deal, and all Brexiteers are paying three times as much for their groceries and the NHS is sold off, then the penny may drop that people voted for another Trump.

And Boris Johnson said that he was clapping while still in his boxers on his hospital bed, what, didn’t they provide him with a hospital gown?

And if this is all true with Boris Johnson is now praising the NHS, doctors and nurses, then he won’t mind giving them all a pay rise, that would show a sign of solidarity. Of course, there’s zero chance of that happening because it’s simply all talk like good old Boris Johnson always does.

And it appears as if our British government’s handling of all this is amongst the worst in the world, with third world countries having handled this considerably better than the United Kingdom and this is a serious embarrassment for us and serious investigation with severe outcomes should be launched for their complete and utter ineptitude.

And Boris Johnson pledged to make the United Kingdom a world-leading nation, but we’re not, we’re falling apart and people are dying by tens of thousands when other countries are not, yet his PR team keep releasing his miracle comeback and the Chosen Child.

Can you imagine Winston Churchill telling the people every day about how many bombs he escaped, I don’t think so.

It was stated that Boris Johnson could be given up to four litres of oxygen, however, the average COVID 19 patient can be given up to 14 litres on average which suggests that the Prime Minister’s doctors were simply playing it safe because pneumonia can take hold pretty quickly.

And it appears that the government were precariously stacking deckchairs on the Titanic in desperation to rescue this depressed Government because the Honey Monster dropped the ball and blamed it on scientific opinion.

And maybe if he’d followed sound advise from the outset he wouldn’t have put himself in that position with his herd nonsense, and what will it take for some people to see what’s staring them in the face.

This government is clueless and they’re making it up as they go along, yet people believe this dupe is doing a magnificent job, but you’ve got to chuckle because Boris should have been an actor, not a Prime Minister, and sometimes even actors do a better job.

And Boris Johnson should think of himself as being remarkably blessed because they’ll be some men who won’t get to see their children being born and there are 28 thousand brits who won’t see their families anymore, what does he think that he’s more significant than the other 28 thousand who didn’t make it?

But he didn’t appear to have a problem with the thought of a whole load of other people dying when he and his comrades were pondering over the idea of herd immunity.

Boris Johnson is purportedly the biggest fibber, cheat and groper of women to ever grace the corridors of Westminster, yet the majority still voted for him because they believed his strategy on leaving the EU, which we still have not heard anything of.

And it seems like the great British public is quite easily convinced if there’s a drama included in the election, after all, we all wanted it aired on television just to add to the excitement and it now seems that we’re being misled again.

Yes, we’re in an age and the grip of government ministers who are lying and cheating. Yet Boris Johnson has made a new rule and he can get away with it and his ever-supportive ring-wing protagonists who will support him whatever happens, and those on the receiving end of it, you know, those 50,000 deaths, including countless innocent doctors and nurses on the frontline, well, they can take it up the tailpipe.

Yes, death pays well amongst the zealous elite classes because all they have to do is offer us a good deal of cash and we go down on bended knees and say, thank you, boss man, I believe you, and some British lickspittles, well, they’ll accept any lies and deception as long as it’s delivered in a fine public school twang.

I’m truly happy that Boris Johnson is okay, but we keep getting told lies. We were told he was going into ICU, then he was in high spirits and bantering with nurses. Now he’s saying he used litres and litres of oxygen and he was near to death and that plans were made for his death – this story keeps evolving, so it’s no surprise people think that they’re being lied to.

Supermarkets Could Stay Open Longer On Sundays

Supermarkets could stay open for longer on Sundays as part of a government strategy to deal with coronavirus with Boris Johnson confirming that he’s looking at easing stringent laws which dictate how long shops can open for on the weekend.

The Prime Minister said things could be done differently and better, adding, “Why not start being flexible?” However, no details of any review, including when and how any changes could happen, have been established.

However, a senior bishop has signalled that the Church of England could swing behind a temporary relaxation of the rules.

Large shops such as supermarkets are forbidden from opening for longer than six hours on Sundays between 10 am and 6 pm.

Longer hours have long been rejected by Tory MPs and religious organisations, who state Sunday must be special for low wage staff and small stores attempting to compete, but the coronavirus crisis has led to unusual demand at supermarkets, with lengthy queues outside as fewer people are allowed in owing to social distancing.

And now there are indications the Church of England could accept a temporary easing of Sunday trading laws to boost the economy because we must all think about innovative and flexible ways to preserve our local economies.

We must additionally think of ways to protect worker’s mental well being and it’s clear that having a day off in common with the rest of our communities is key to those protections and to spend time with loved ones is a fundamental right.

And retail workers have enough to deal with and get precious little in return for it and many of them in supermarkets and other essential stores have spent all their time during the coronavirus working and endangering their well-being, and now the government wants to compensate them by telling them they have to work longer hours.

And anyone who believes that opening shops longer has never worked in retail and this entire concept is simply driven by nothing but greed. Let the government work in them on these longer hours so they can get a taster.

And I can’t help but think that the call to socially distance has been translated by the nanny state into virtually complete segregation at home superintended by a police force that’s so profoundly politicised that it can’t separate one idea from the other.

If supermarkets can organise socially separated shopping, then why should the same not apply to garden centres and parks and other small businesses?

Mind you, anyone making visits to supermarkets during this pandemic must have a lot of endurance and patience. Queuing for ages with the slow shuffle around the shop, following the footprints or arrows, only being permitted to go one way, then queuing for the till, after failing to find half the stuff one needs is about as stressful and bothersome as shopping gets.

Supermarkets have been making virtuous announcements about prioritising the elderly during these unpredictable times but never implement it correctly and it appears that no one has benefited from these prioritised periods, with the elderly not being able to go out because they’re on total lockdown, yet they’re not victorious in getting a delivery of groceries, while far younger people are getting their deliveries regularly.

The NHS appears to have privileged times but not particularly long ones, although that is a move in the right direction, otherwise it would be every man and woman for themselves.

Thank goodness the local Chinese is open and doing deliveries, apparently, they do a nice Snake and Kidney pie, or possibly a Bat Wing soup but joking aside, I sit here day after day following the news and reading online and I’m completely astounded by the persistence of collective ignorance because why on earth does any person with half a brain need a law before they will apply good old fashioned common sense?

DWP Faces A High Court Challenge From Family

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The family of a man who starved to death after his benefits were suspended have started a High Court action against the DWP.

Errol Graham weighed less than five stone when bailiffs found his body in June 2018, eight months after his ESA disabled benefit was suspended for missing an appointment.

The 57-year-old, who had severe mental health difficulties, had just a couple of five-year-old tins of fish in his cupboard and now his daughter in law Alison Turner will argue it was unlawful to stop his benefits because it failed to have regard for his disability under the Equality Act.

She will further argue it breached the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects the right to life and the right against inhuman or degrading treatment.

A claim has been issued for judicial review and Alison Turner faces a wait to see if it will proceed.

She said that she saw disturbing things when she attended Errol’s flat following his death which would always stay with her and it was apparent that he was in extreme mental distress and pain and that it was impossible to see how the policy could be lawful.

A harrowing witness statement from Alison Turner said that she found a cardboard box containing two of her father in law’s teeth and a pair of pliers.

She said that she looked at it and then realised that Errol must have pulled out his teeth and she said that when she found the teeth she felt ill and that it made her feel sick and that she couldn’t begin to picture how much agony he must have been in, and to her, that was an indicator of how critical his mental health problems were at the time and that he couldn’t have been in the right frame of mind.

Errol Graham’s death has been referred to a Serious Case Panel but its membership is unknown and the DWP has declined to say if Alison Turner will be permitted to see the findings.

The family’s solicitor Tessa Gregory, of Leigh Day, said: “Our client is being forced to pursue legal action because the DWP has so far refused to make any real changes to the safeguarding policies which allowed her loved one, Errol, to fall through the safety net with such devastating consequences.

“Like so many other families affected by benefit-related deaths, the conduct of the DWP following Errol’s death has had a profound impact on our client and her family.

“She has been appalled by the lack of engagement and transparency.

“She hopes this case will make the Government realise that it can no longer ignore bereaved families and it must urgently address their concerns to ensure that the vulnerable are protected.”

Errol Graham’s death has sparked renewed calls for an independent inquiry into benefit claimant’s deaths.

His family said he was outgoing before his depression worsened following his dad’s passing in 2005. After he was sectioned in 2015 and Alison Turner said he simply shut her out and that she last saw him in 2016, despite repeated efforts to make contact.

The spiral towards losing his benefits started on 31 August 2017, when he failed to attend a fit for work examination for his ESA. The DWP sent Errol Graham reminders in September and October 2017 asking why he didn’t attend but had no response.

Benefit officers then carried out two safeguarding visits at his residence on 16 and 17 October, again with no response but despite the inconclusive visits, his ESA stopped from 10 October, some days earlier.

In a letter discovered following his death, Errol Graham said he dreaded any mail coming through the door and sometimes he couldn’t bear to even hear the washing machine. The letter further added that most days he went to bed starving.

It’s tragic when anyone dies, particularly when it was preventable. What’s even more disturbing is that this likely will be resolved, as so many cases before, with the blaming of an unrelated government body with some rule changes that do nothing to sort things out and the inevitability that it will continue to happen.

This woman is not just fighting for Errol but for the thousands of others who are cast aside by the DWP and who are left with no support and just look at how the safety net has failed them. This is the fault of the Tory government because this man was undoubtedly mentally ill and couldn’t interact with the DWP and it could happen to anyone.

The point is, if the DWP came to Errol Graham’s home on two occasions for safeguarding visits, knowing full well that he had mental health problems and they never got a response, then logic would dictate to phone the police to kick down the door.

Let’s not mince our words now, this was simply another innocent person killed off by Tory policy.

Enraged Paramedic Still Waiting For Coronavirus Test Result

A paramedic who’s supposedly still waiting for his coronavirus result five weeks after taking the test has slammed the Government for abandoning NHS staff from the beginning.

Dan Bradshaw, from Leeds, was one of several health care workers to write into the BBC’s Question Time to reprimand the response to the pandemic and according to figures, Britain could be set to have the highest mortality rate from COVID 19 across all of Europe, even though Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the country is passed the peak, yet the Government is still failing to give PPE and sufficient testing to frontline health care workers.

Dan Bradshaw is a frontline health care worker and was tested around five weeks ago, but still hasn’t had his results and demanded, “When is the Government going to get a grip?”.

It came after leading geneticist Sir Paul Nurse criticised the UK for being unprepared and playing catch up for this whole pandemic and he pointed to the unpublished findings of Exercise Cygnus in 2016, which inferred that Britain could be easily defeated in a health crisis due to absence of preparation and resources.

Was the NHS well enough funded to take that report seriously and lead when the pandemic took place, in actually getting on the front foot? Because we’ve been playing catch up for this entire pandemic and when it’s analysed we’ll see that the government didn’t do particularly well, and it was the government’s lack of preparation which was the source of our trouble.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps stated the point was to have tests available and stated that the United Kingdom was on course to get at least pretty close to the 100,000 tests per day by the end of the month.

He stated that the testing capacity was there but stated that it was a tremendous struggle to build this up and that ideally if they could do this all again, they would have wanted 100,000 testing capacity from the outset.

Nevertheless, he revealed he didn’t know what had happened in the case of Dan Bradshaw’s test results but urged all health care workers to go online and arrange to test and he added that the new tracing app will be ready in the middle of May, describing it as an essential part of taking us forward.

However, Sir Paul Nurse said that the 100,000 mark is simply a figure with a bunch of noughts in it and it appears as if it was a bit of a PR stunt which has gone a tad wrong.

It simply sounds good but we shouldn’t get hung up on that. The real truth is that if we’d had local testing connected to local hospitals we could have made hospitals a safe place but the former Chancellor and now editor of the Evening Standard George Osborne stated that the picture wasn’t necessarily as grim as the one Sir Paul Nurse outlined, implying Britain’s response had been somewhere in the middle.

But these people are Tory party members and activists, and they’re simply sniping and point-scoring which antagonises people, even more so with the pandemic and they offer blank solutions beyond their sniping and point-scoring, which further weakens everything they say.

And why is little snorting George Osborne giving his appraisal? He was hopeless when he was an MP and I suppose his current job is simply a title while proper grown-ups actually run the newspaper.

Don’t Leave Disabled People Behind

The Government has decided to concentrate on new claimants by providing an additional £20 a week for people Claiming Universal Credit. By doing this, they’re discriminating against millions of disabled people on other out of work disability benefits.

Disabled people are experiencing extra expenses and risks as a consequence of COVID 19, but are without the additional support they need to manage these. As a result, people are having to choose between heating their home, or paying for a taxi to go and get their medication because public transport is too unsafe.

And they’re having to put themselves in danger by going to their local store because they can’t afford the minimum spend required to get free food delivery.

Disabled people have been expected to endure on meagre benefit level for years and it’s unacceptable that now, in a time of national crisis they are being left behind.

The Government have, by raising the rate for some, admitted that people require more financial help but they must now provide a more reliable safety net for everyone and not just for some.

MP’s and over 100 disability organisations have now called on the Government to provide parity between the support given to new benefit claimants and the millions of people who were already on disability benefits.

What we need is a fair society for all and if nothing else, this new disease tells us that everyone could and should be valued and that within our fundamental similarities and differences we’re all equal as human beings and that the Government shouldn’t leave the disabled people behind.

And as we face the trials of the pandemic, most people are afraid that it will hit our families or friends. Who will get sick, seriously sick or die? Will we or our loved ones be alone as the disease does its worst, and will we or those we care about, die alone?

And it’s less the social isolation that weighs on us as the dread of being isolated from those we love, in sickness and death.

But you can judge a country by the way it treats its most defenceless citizens and one of the rules by which to gauge a society’s reverence for human rights and to assess its level of maturity and generosity of spirit is the standing it gives to the most defenceless members of society such as disabled people, senior citizens and children, and the idea of a caring society is increased when we acknowledge that disabled people enjoy the same freedoms as everyone else and that their quality of life should be encouraged.

This Man Is Traumatised

There have been loads of people saying that they’re not permitted to see their loved ones who are dying in hospital from terminal cancer, and then there are posts from people who are saying that they’re doing this same thing in care homes, that they’re killing off old people with morphine overdoses, but then I guess it’s more affordable than healing them!

Putting people to sleep, like they’re taking their pet to the vet at the end of their life. The only time that you don’t treat someone is when they have a DNR in place but now it seems it’s down to the doctor’s discretion and if they believe the treatment will cause the patient more harm than good, like suffering, then they won’t.

This is insane because life is a life, however old that person is and no doctor or human being has the right to take another human beings life and euthanasia in the United Kingdom for human beings is not legal.

And it’s a good job this man and his family were there because it’s becoming obvious now why the government won’t allow the family to visit.

Admittedly, this video was from a few years ago, but it explains how hospitals work. My mother was also put on morphine to end her life, but I was extremely fortunate, I’d had numerous discussions with my mother before she even got ill and I knew it was her wish not to suffer or be left in a vegetative state, but it never made me feel any better once she had passed.

Euthanasia should be the voice of the patient, not the doctor treating the patient, that’s why people have DNR’s in place.

Matt Hancock Says Asking Him To Apologise For Care Home Deaths Is Illogical

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Matt Hancock has refused to atone for the Government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak and he refused to apologise to the relative of a frontline NHS worker who fought for more PPE.

Approximately 3,096 people have died from the coronavirus in care homes since the inception of the pandemic and when Matt Hancock was asked if testing was inept or if he planned to apologise, he stated that the Government had not left people unprotected.

And when asked if he would apologise to the families of care home residents who had died because the Government hadn’t properly protected them, he stated that he thought it was an unreasonable question and stated that care homes had been a top priority right from the start.

But he then stated that testing would finally be made available to all care home residents and staff in England, including those with no symptoms. He further stated that the Government would include the number of deaths in care homes and the community in its daily figures, to bring as much clarity as possible to the data.

It came only hours after Matt Hancock was confronted live on air by the son of a doctor who died after begging for PPE.

Dr Abdul Mabud Chowdhury warned the government about the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for NHS staff days before his passing.

The 53-year-old consultant urologist is one of more than 100 NHS and social care workers who have died after getting coronavirus and his son Intisar asked for the Health Secretary to make a public apology during a phone-in on LBC Radio.

Intisar stated that when his father was sick he penned an open letter to the Prime Minister urging for more PPE for NHS frontline workers but it was a request that was disregarded and two weeks later his father passed away from the coronavirus.

Since then, over 100 NHS and social care workers have passed away from getting the virus.

Intisar said, “Do you regret not taking my dad’s concerns, my 11-year-old sister dad’s concerns and my wife’s husband’s concerns seriously enough for my dad that we’ve all lost?”

The Health Secretary seemed momentarily lost for words before he responded: “Intisar, I’m really sorry about your dad’s death.

“I have seen the comments you’ve made and what you’ve said in public and I think it’s very brave of you to be speaking out in public.

“We took it very very seriously what your father said and we’ve been working around the clock to ensure that there’s enough protective equipment and in the case of anybody who works in the NHS or in social care and has died from coronavirus we look into it in each case to find out the reasons where they might have caught it and what lessons we can learn.”

He continued the government was “constantly looking and learning” and it was a “very complicated logistical effort”.

But Intisar said he just wanted the Health Secretary to admit mistakes were made and he told the Health Secretary: “Mr Hancock, the public is not expecting the government to handle this perfectly.

“None of us is expecting perfection – we’re expecting progression.

“We just want you to openly acknowledge that there have been mistakes in handling the virus.

“It’s actually for me and so many families who’ve lost so many loved ones as a result of this virus and probably as a result of the government not handling it seriously.

“Openly acknowledging a mistake is not an admission of guilt. It’s genuinely just making you more human.

“So could you please do that for me, maybe today at the press conference today? Maybe a public apology?”

Matt Hancock faltered temporarily before replying: “I think it is very important that we’re constantly learning about how to do these things better.

“And I think listening to the voices on the frontline is a very very important part of how we improve.”

Matt Hancock was asked by host Nick Ferrari whether he accepted that blunders were made in the preparation of PPE.

He responded: “Well, there are things that we’ve changed as we’ve gone through, both because we’ve learnt more things about the virus, also because things didn’t work out as we expected.”

Matt Hancock gave the example of changing guidance on funeral attendance after seeing 13-year-old Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab buried without his family due to the earlier unclear guidance.

Pressed by Mr Ferrari on whether mistakes were made with PPE, Matt Hancock stated: “A huge amount of people are doing everything they can and have done since the start of this crisis, and of course this is a very, very complicated logistical effort but I don’t want to play down the enormous efforts of many thousands of people.”

The 53-year-old was a locum urologist who worked at Homerton Hospital in East London. He died at Queen’s Hospital in Romford after testing positive for coronavirus. He was survived by his wife and two children.

Taking to Facebook last month, Dr Chowdhury penned: “Dear and Respectable Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

“Please ensure urgently Personal Protective Equipment [PPE] for each and every NHS health worker in the UK.

“Remember we may be doctor/nurse/HCA/allied health workers who are in direct contact with patients but we are also human beings trying to live in this world disease-free with our family and friends.

“People appreciate us and salute us for our rewarding jobs which is very inspirational, but I would like to say we have to protect ourselves and our families in this global disaster.”

The Muslim Doctors Association gave praise to him in a statement, saying: “We are deeply saddened by the death of Dr Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, Consultant Urologist at Homerton Hospital, after fighting for his life from Covid-19.

“He leaves behind his wife and two children. Our thoughts and prayers are with them.

“Two weeks before his admission to hospital he wrote a message to the Prime Minister urging for better PPE.

“May he rest in peace.”

The preponderance of care homes in the United Kingdom are privately run and usually, the care and protection of the elderly people, staff and provision of PPE, cleaning materials et cetera would be the establishment’s responsibility, but in situations like this government should be holding out their hands, providing free provisions because this is a grave pandemic and if one gets sick, we all get sick or die.

Matt Hancock should be getting his finger out of his backside, but then he’s only the monkey but the buck stops with the organ grinder and Boris Johnson should atone for the way his inept government has handled this and then quit his position completely because the buck does stop with him.

The problem is these rich fellows are so superior and misled and who think of themselves as self-entitled and they’re full of disdain for anyone that didn’t go to a public school.

In fact, there’s no point in him trying to apologise because we all know that at best he failed dreadfully, at worst he simply didn’t care because it wasn’t his family dying and it wasn’t his family on the front line.

And how this man Matt Hancock has the temerity to stand and answer interrogatories regards his direct responsibility for many of the deaths simply by allowing infected COVID 19 patients to be released from hospital straight back or into care homes is shameful.

And why has none of the big kahuna’s (journalists) asked Matt Hancock if he’s guilty of gross neglect in office, and he should quit for numerous catastrophic reasons?

 

Royal Mail Scraps Saturday Letter Deliveries

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Royal Mail has scrapped Saturday letter deliveries until further notice due to coronavirus and from this weekend onwards, the group will provisionally no longer deliver letters on a Saturday.

Deliveries already don’t happen on a Sunday, so more people will face waiting into the following week for their letters to arrive. Nevertheless, Royal Mail maintained that most packages, as well as Special Delivery, Tracked and all non-account services, will continue being delivered six days a week.

Saturday collections from businesses, post office branches and post boxes also remain as normal and it’s understood the firm decided to reduce the strain on its workers.

The nature of some posties work has had to shift due to social distancing practices and some are also off sick or self-isolating due to the virus, which means there is less staff to deal with incoming mail.

However, the move was blasted by the Communication Workers Union which stewards posties and warned it could even lead to a walkout, and a CWU spokesperson said: “We will be seeking urgent discussions with the government on this issue. The reduction of the Universal Service Obligation was a key factor in our live national strike ballot.

“The last thing we want to do is call strike action at this point but we will not sit back and see our members’ jobs put at threat and the service to the public worsened.”

The CWU announced in March that household deliveries would be lowered to a three day week because of the COVID 19.

A union spokesperson maintained the service would have still run six days a week under that plan, but that deliveries would have happened on alternate days, rather than being dropped on Saturday.

The CWU stated it has since dropped that request after further adjustments were put in place and it’s believed managers were told the move had been settled on Tuesday afternoon.

In a video for staff, Nick Landon, Royal Mail’s chief customer officer, said posties have been under “incredible pressure” for a month and “need some relief”.

And now it appears they want to reduce the load for deliveries across that weekend making them focus on the packages to clear all of that traffic.

The video said there will be some “temporary changes” to delivery duties from May 11 and that staff would be given more information soon.

Postmen and postwomen are working extremely hard across the United Kingdom particularly in these challenging conditions and of course, there’s bound to be disruption to services because of the coronavirus.

Customers should, of course, continue to post both letters and packages as normal on Saturday because the post office will still be continuing their Saturday collections from businesses, post offices and post boxes as normal.

And we should be giving a thought to our lads and lasses at the Royal Mail because they always do a splendid job all year round and it’s heavy work on the arms, legs and back, trudging up and down garden paths, rapping on people’s doors because their doorbells don’t work.

So, give a big shout for Postman Pat, and I think it’s prudent to restrict our postie’s movements as they’re possibly delivering COVID 19 contaminated packages and letters to our door, going into flats, houses and residential areas emitting spritzes of the virus amongst the general population.

We may even see Sunday Trading laws abolished just to kickstart our economy once this virus has been destroyed.

But Postman Pat won’t be getting rest, they’ll still be delivering packages, special deliveries and so forth, plus Saturday’s letters will be delivered along with Monday’s mail, so two days delivery in one.

Carrie Symonds Gives Birth To A Baby Boy

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Boris Johnson’s fiancée Carrie Symonds has today given birth to a healthy baby boy with compliments flooding in from across the political divide, which happened earlier than was widely expected in Westminster.

The baby arrived only days after Boris Johnson returned to work following an intensive care battle with coronavirus and it’s understood that the 55-year-old Prime Minister was by Carrie Symond’s side during the delivery at a London hospital and both mother and baby are doing extremely well.

It comes weeks after the Prime Minister emerged from intensive care with coronavirus and Boris Johnson will miss PMQs in the Commons today with his deputy Dominic Raab taking his position.

The baby appeared two months to the day after the couple announced she was pregnant and they were engaged and at the time, the couple said the baby, her first and at least his sixth, was expected in early summer, that implies the arrival may have been a few weeks early.

But Carrie Symond’s due date was never openly published, and today’s announcement comes nearly nine months to the day after the couple moved into No 11.

It’s not yet been established whether Boris Johnson will take paternity leave but when questioned in March if he would, he stated that he most certainly would.

But the country has since been overwhelmed by the coronavirus crisis and Boris Johnson has only recently regained the wheel after almost a month off, where he’d recovered from COVID 19.

And it comes three weeks after Boris Johnson was sick in intensive care with coronavirus. Carrie Symonds also experienced symptoms and sent him letters before they were reunited at his country escape Chequers just over two weeks ago.

It’s understood the baby was not born at St Thomas’s Hospital, where the Prime Minister battled coronavirus but which hospital the delivery happened has not been published, nor whether it was an NHS or private hospital.

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists recommends that partners can be present throughout the birth if they don’t have symptoms, but some hospitals have constraints on how long they can stay.

Hospitals also have limitations on birthing partners visiting antenatal or postnatal wards.

The birth also comes weeks after the Prime Minister concluded his divorce from wife of 25 years Marina Wheeler, first announced in September 2018.

The court gave Marina Wheeler, the mother of four of Boris Johnson’s children consent to formally terminate the marriage in February after the pair settled a disagreement over their finances.

The couple, who married in 1993, have four children together. Laura, Milo Arthur, Cassia Peaches, and Theodore Apollo but Boris Johnson has also had many affairs, including the one with Petronella Wyatt which led to a pregnancy that was terminated.

A 2013 court judgment further said the people were entitled to know about allegations that one affair, with art consultant Helen Macintyre, produced a daughter who was Boris Johnson’s.

While they were not romantically associated until early 2019, Carrie Symond’s and Boris Johnson have known each other for some years and as ex-Conservative Party Director of Communications, Carrie Symonds served on the Prime Minister’s triumphant crusade to be re-elected as London mayor in 2012.

She stayed working in politics after, first as a special advisor to then-Culture Secretary John Whittingdale, and then to Sajid Javid. Carrie Symonds ultimately became the Head of Communications for the Conservative Party HQ but left the position in 2018 to work for ocean conservation charity Oceana.

Boris Johnson turned headlines when he attended Carrie Symonds 30th birthday party before they were romantically entangled but the couple scored the headlines again last June when police were called to a domestic disturbance at Carrie Symond’s south London flat where neighbours could hear crashing and yelling from inside the property.

Boris Johnson will be the first Prime Minister in nearly 200 years to get married in office, but certainly not the first to have a baby.

The last Prime Minister to have a baby while in office was David Cameron whose wife Samantha gave birth to their daughter Florence in the summer of 2010, several months after he entered Downing Street.

Tony Blair and his wife Cherie welcomed Leo into the world in May 2000, three years after he became Prime Minister.

Cherie Blair infamously announced that the child was superfetated while they were visiting with the Queen and Prince Philip at Balmoral.

Political associates and rivals hurried to felicitate the Prime Minister. Keir Starmer sent his well-wishings, the congratulations of the Labour Party and everyone in his House to the Prime Minister and Carrie Symonds.

And he stated that whatever disagreements they have in the House, as human beings, it was thought that they should understand the fear the Prime Minister and Carrie Symonds must have gone through in the past few weeks and the unbelievable stress and he hoped that the new baby could bring them unimaginable happiness and pleasure.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock tweeted: “So thrilled for Boris and Carrie. Wonderful to have a moment of unalloyed joy!” Chancellor Rishi Sunak added: “Great to hear Downing Street is getting a new resident.”

Sir Ed Davey, the acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, tweeted: “Many congratulations to the PM & Carrie Symonds on the birth of their son!”

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: “Some good news – sending congratulations to Carrie and the PM. And wishing health and happiness to the wee one.”

The Prime Minister’s father, Stanley Johnson, told the PA news agency that he was delighted and excited by the birth of his grandson.

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said: “Such happy news amid so much uncertainty – 2020 is certainly a year they will never forget.”

The arrival derailed Boris Johnson’s first prospective Commons clash with Labour leader Keir Starmer, so the Prime Minister has opted to send First Secretary Domonic Raab to field Prime Minister’s Questions instead.

However Downing Street left it less than three hours before PMQs to confirmed with the Labour leader’s office that the Prime Minister would not be attending and it was considered No 10 was leaving it late to evaluate Boris Johnson’s well-being ahead of the exhausting 30-minute assembly in the chamber.

Nevertheless, it later became clear the mystery was because of the approaching baby.

Dominic Raab will encounter difficult questions over whether the Government will meet its promise to carry out 100,000 COVID 19 tests a day by Thursday and the tally won’t be known before the weekend but ministers face a tremendous struggle to hit the benchmark, announced by Health Secretary Matt Hancock earlier this month.

Congratulations to Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds, it’s a wonderful thing giving birth to this new bundle of delight, but how many other women are out there giving birth? – the majority of them won’t be born with a silver spoon in their mouth, but let’s touch our tresses, bow and celebrate, there’s another Boris in the world, way to go!

And we have more pressing matters at hand, other than Boris Johnson having another baby with his unwed live-in lover and another reason for him to disappear from scrutiny.

That was one auspicious birth daddy who now doesn’t have to face Prime Minister Question time again. Now he’ll get two weeks off for paternity leave, just in time to be back to give out the news the country has been waiting for, the first stages of lifting lockdown – then he’ll look the hero again.

It only takes one appendage to produce a child, it takes expertise to manage a country.

And this must have been the fastest pregnancy ever, talk about having children haphazardly and how does Boris Johnson expect people to believe that he’s solid in his way of managing the country when he has children all over the place, and if he can’t stay with his wife and partners he unquestionably won’t stay with this country and this will be another overprivileged child who’ll be taught it’s his destiny to rule over us.

Although it’s not the baby’s fault, he didn’t choose his parents but hats off to the Prime Minister and of course, Carrie Symonds. Now there’s a bouncing baby boy to append to the acquisition of children and no doubt he will soon be back in the saddle to add to the merry ensemble.

I guess every parent has the right to bond with their child and work should always come second regardless of whether he’s Prime Minister or not but he is the Prime Minister and his role as Prime Minister must always come first particularly when the country is in crisis.

And no matter how rubbish he is, he should be at the rudder but now it appears as if we will have to deal with the virus with a Prime Minister in name only and please Boris, do us a favour, don’t send your son to Eton, pupil’s there have a history of leaving without any common sense.

To be fair, perhaps we should let Boris Johnson go because he’s been as much use to us as a chocolate fireguard anyhow and I often wonder if he took time off to bond with his other children. Let’s face it, he just loves taking time off and he doesn’t seem to need much of an excuse.

Boris Johnson is the Prime Minister of this country, although God knows how and whilst NHS workers are endangering their lives every day, the very least he could do is do his job.

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