Apparently we are in this all together.
In the UK our Test and Trace system is supposed to be World Leading. Sorry time to shake head and mutter. In practice it has collapsed for many. This true story says it all. Schools are struggling to get those showing symptoms tested. In many areas tests are just not available. I know one school where a number of teachers and students are showing symptoms but local tests have not been available for over a week. The only option for those who are sick has been the offer to travel on a road trip to Shropshire for a potential (not guaranteed) test. That’s a round trip of 470 miles. Because test results are not available the school has not been allowed to go into full lockdown measures.
Remember we are all in this together.
Yesterday our loathsome government told us to Stop Carping and celebrate the phenomenal success of the government’s Test and Trace approach.
Ok I will try. I’m a simple person. I’m seeing an approach which has a Test and a Trace system. Most can’t get a Test, there is a massive backlog of test samples (more than 200000), timeframes are missed, sick are having to travel for hours and then queue, results are inaccurate, we don’t have enough kits. Ok. Let’s look at the Trace system. Currently even by the governments own figures the tracing system is contacting way less than 50% of those they urgently need to contact. That’s an awful lot of people who should be shielding who just don’t know. So in our phenomenal Test and Trace system – Testing has failed, Tracing is failing. So ok if we exclude the test and trace elements, then the Test and Trace system might be a phenomenal success.
Remember we are all in this together.
If you to virtually all schools in the country, they have returned without tests. It’s not considered important for those teachers, pupils, support staff and families. Only when someone has symptoms is it then deemed necessary to have a test.
Many of our government went to a very select and expensive private school – Eton. When Eton returned all staff and pupils had covid tests whether they needed them or not. It was deemed essential for them.
We are all in this together.
I totally hear you (minds eye/ear of course). Here I’ve been for a test in a centre and it was difficult to arrange back then, but for the person giving me the heads up as to how, I too might have had to give up on trying. It would have been much worse if my symptoms had been full blown, so I can see people slipping through. I took up some care work to help fill a gap and have available to me a weekly test to make sure the clients and other staff are kept safe, that and full PPE. How staff in care homes coped without it at the start of this plague, well actually they didn’t… We live in times of near tears for some and totally apathy and {{swear words}}} from others. Sorry, this seems to have started a rant in me.
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No it’s what I feel. It shouldn’t be this hard to function. Too much time spent by those at the top lining their own pockets.
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I totally agree, they are educated to be CONvincing masters of the masses and are actually Sneaky Little Hobbitses! Although I personally don’t feel the gold rush draw towards what others consider “Precious” and am more your “Live simply, so others may simply live” type.
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Absolutely. Every time you see our cabinet you realise how messed up our country is.
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I could not even post what I think about our government at the moment. I would be banned! They are SHIT!
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I know what you mean x
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Thanks Gary x
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This elitist attitude needs to go.
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It really does but it won’t with our current government.
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You know the British left this attitude behind when they left info-Pak subcontinent. We have loads of examples of this in our society too.
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It’s staggering that it’s still here today. Sums up what’s rotten with British society.
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It is indeed amazing how people after all this time still think like snobs.
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Its truly awful.
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Yes!
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I honestly think they are trying to lose the next GE, which might be able before Christmas so they don’t have to deal with the shitstorm that is Brexit, that way they can blame COVID for everything
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Sorry I meant Labour for everything, but at the moment they are going to blame Covid for everything
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I know what you mean.
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It seems like they want to line their pockets as much as possible for a reckoning happens.
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I agree, party for the people my arse
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I can’t believe people fall for it time and time again.
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Fell for it big time this time around. Johnson has just come out with it was inevitable that a second wave was going to hit the country, if only we were an island, that had a way of restricting who came in and out
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That’s not what he said 2 weeks ago. He is dreadful.
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He is unbelievable, added to this, the whole struggling to afford a fucking nanny story that has come out
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It’s unbelievable. I see there is a story now floating about of a trip to am Italian palace a few days back to see a super rich Russian friend when he was supposed to be at work.
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Its ok, Downing Street have denied that claim, a bit like they denied Cummings going on his jolly. Also, not sure if you have seen it, but Grant Shapps was interviewed on breakfast tv and said “not as far as I know, but I don’t track him every hour, but it is in the travel corridor”
Of course it is, if the PM wanted a holiday,
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Like the time it was denied that he was stumbling around an airport drunk when he was Foreign Secretary.
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One of the things I heard was the way Downing Street denied it, it could have been the press reported that the flight landed at 2.05, when in fact it landed at 2pm, but I haven’t actually seen what they said
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The thing is that he’s had previous doing this. And they haven’t denied that he was supposed to be at meetings but they either hit cancelled or he quickly dialled in on zoom.
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Now he was mistaken for Tony Blair, its so easy to confuse those two
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Very similar
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All in this together? What utter BS. Protecting lives? PoppyHancock. Making money? Ah yes, the hunt is on. Hancock was pushed about tests on the radio this morning. What an A’hole……… his numbers fluctuated per sentence. They have no clue, but yeah, THEY are all in that together. Keep safe Gary.
It’s up to us to look out for ourselves and our loved ones as our caring government certainly won’t.
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One day I so hope enough people see through the lies.
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I think they’re beginning to Gary
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Most definitely
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SCREAM.
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Very much
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Well, some of us are in this together. I don’t have any breadsticks to juggle. 😀
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Yes some of us are most definitely in this together. Have you tried carrots. 😀
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😂 Carrots are hard to juggle. They’re so bottom heavy.
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That sounds like me…… 😂
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I knew you were going to comment something like that! I knew it! 😂 I have learned your ways…
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Tina, halte dich vom Regen fern. 🤷♂️😀
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😀 I don’t speak German! Stop something? 😁
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You never saw that coming surely. Clue one word was rain…..😀
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. 😂 Then same to you in German.
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In French I think it’s ‘rester hors de la pluie’ 😂
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That doesn’t sound right to me. I think you’rr pulling my leg. I need icecream…. Oh man… this is Andrew’s fault. Icecreaaaaam. 😂
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Maybe not this time. 😀 hope you get some ice cream
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Good points well made! 👍🖤
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What the government means is THEY are all in ON it together… the complete fleecing of what money they can get. And YOU’RE all in it together… the ship sinking into the cow pies.🙄🤦🏼♀️
The whole world has gone mad! The elitists are going to find out that when people have been pushed into a corner and feel they have nothing left to lose, there are more of US than THEM. It might (probably will) get messy, but balance will eventually be reached again. Or they’ll annihilate us all.🤷🏼♀️
All we can do for now, is keep doing the right things for us and keep head-banging!🎶💃🏼 (the music kind, not the self-injury kind🤣🤣🤣)
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Balance will be restored. Someone as equally good will emerge. Until then it’s head banging. Today that was to Shinedown. xxx
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I heard about one couple (a friend of a pastor I know) signed in for a test in Florida, waited for hours in line then got fed up and left. The next day they had an e-mail to tell them they were both positive. How’s that for efficiency? Results without the test. You’ve got to wonder…
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That’s clever.
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I hate that phrase. So not all in this together.
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Yes it’s been rather corrupted recently.
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I saw the speech, and couldn’t believe the callousness of it and the obvious blame shifting. Even down here our Fed politicians are hampering the states (who are doing a brilliant job in spite of). Some of us are starting to shout – put people before money and ego.
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I look over your way and just feel like crying. Two countries in such a mess. Government doing intentional harm to many of its own people.
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Ah, you may have thought is was in the US but I’m down in Australia, we’re doing very well. But our PM is an arse.
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No I did. Sorry said out two countries as we have just appointed one your ex leaders as our trade expert to Europe. Heard him speak. Omg……
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Tony Abbott. He is a tool, cannot believe you took him on, he was a disaster as PM, an ultra conservative, and although highly educated, can’t string a sentence together well. No vision either. Still you’ve got him so we don’t have to worry 🙂
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Apparently he is a trade expert. As trade expert his other questionable views on life apparently don’t matter.
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I laughed at that, many of us are scratching our heads – what expertise in trade does he have? None that we could think of.
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It’s staggering that is as good as we can find.
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Lol, it was conservative mates rates as we say, jobs for insiders. I believe it’s honorary?
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All I can say is ‘it’s just a load of bollocks’. That’s it I’m afraid 😟
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That says it all.
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I read about a couple of people in southwest England who were referred to Wales. The university my son goes to opened its dorms and has (very) random testing. They also have dorms for those who become sick. They don’t have food service or standardized cleaning routines in the quarantined area. I’m very happy my son commutes from home. Collegiate football starts in a couple of weeks. Common sense is not being taught
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The best one I heard was one poor kid offered a 1400 mile round trip for a test. While in Germany you can just stroll into any site and get a test within 5 minutes.
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Amazing. I wonder if Angela Merkel would like to move after she retires
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That would be nice.
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