I've lost track of these statistics they keep serving up to us every day.
I naively thought they were figures for all deaths attributed to the virus for that 24 hours. Now, we're told that they're only hospital deaths and don't include deaths in Care Homes or in family homes. So what on earth is the point in comparing these figures to those from other countries?
The point is many other countries use the same figures when recording pandemic deaths, though not all do.
There is also another reason and that is the way death is recorded in England and Wales, there is no requirement to register a death immediately there is a period of up to five days in which to register a death which means an accurate daily figure cannot be given
Are we to understand from this that elderly people's deaths don't matter because - hey - they would have gone soon anyway!
No, but some try to score political points that way. The problem is Care Homes and individuals use a paper based system to record a death and it may take two days for an appointment at the register office.
As for Tigger Hancock's promise of a Blue Peter badge for all NHS frontline workers - words fail me!!
The badges are more to make it easier for NHS & Care Workers to access supermarkets easily instead of being challenged, but I do agree it is rather lame.
I haven't been fooled into standing outside my front door and clapping every Thursday either. Talking of conspiracies, this is a smoke screen concocted by the government to conceal the fact that they couldn't give NHS staff the right protective equipment from the off.
You obviously have not been in the transport industry, it is not uncommon for transport companies to have to collect delivered parcels as the wrong item has been dispatched from the suppliers. It is very common for transport companies who deliver to Council run warehouses to get complaints that goods have not been delivered only to produce proof of delivery document proving the items have been delivered. When there is time for a proper investigation I would not be surprised to learn the many of the missing items are lying in Council waiting forward delivery.
That is one of the reasons the army is delivering from the bilk warehouse to the hospitals direct.
In a similar way many Care Homes were responsible for ordering their own supplies from private suppliers, this vast “customer base” has now been added to the NHS supply chain.
PPE requirements are very different depending on the needs of each individual location it is not a one size fits all arrangement that many seem to think it is, some care homes do not even have enough room to accept 2 weeks supply if it was delivered.
Cheers
Guy