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[wllmherk] 01/5/2020 12:58

Minerve,
I work in a local acute hospital and it's never been so quiet. Wards at 50% capacity and the hospital overall is operating at 62%. In normal circumstances, it operates at 95% to 105%. If you do some basic research more people die each year in the UK from heart disease, diabetic-related conditions and respiratory disease.

The lockdown is economic madness and should be relaxed immediately with some shielding measures left in place for care homes and the most at risk IMO.

wllm

[minerve 2] 01/5/2020 12:56

Vauch

Do you know where the majority of EU law originated from?

Probably not, judging by your comments.

The laws are there to protect all of us. Sometimes they seem to be counter-productive but that doesn't mean you leave a club all because the club T-shirt is the wrong colour. You should turn-up and make a just case for changing the colour. Of course, many Tory MPs and the majority of Tory sponsors have always wanted Brexit. The EU was becoming too powerful for the plutocrats to continue to work freely.

What EU law has damaged you personally?

[poikka] 01/5/2020 12:56

Blimey, even filtered, Minnie fills a page!

[vauch] 01/5/2020 12:51

Min, not at all we also look at the European countries that are not in Europe EG Grease, Turkey, and the disaster the EU has become trying to regulate all we do in our lives.
According to EU law we cant even get rid of dangerous radical preachers.
We have no real control over the laws in the UK.
You need to open your eyes to the bigger picture and not make it all about immigration.

[minerve 2] 01/5/2020 12:50

JOHN DEADWOOD!

ROFLMAO!

There are some really STUPID people on this thread.

Fantastic entertainment, and free as well!

LOL

[utrickytrees] 01/5/2020 12:48

Doesnt Keir Starmer realise that he supposed to be leader of the opposition. Boris has got a hat full of better qualified blues to tell him what to do...our very own John Redwood being top of the list.
Perhaps Starmer should be leader of what the government should do next.

[minerve 2] 01/5/2020 12:25

Desperation all around because the NHS has been neglected for ages and the snouts have been in the trough for too long.

The Tories have been caught with their pants down - how embarrassing when the world is watching.

[minerve 2] 01/5/2020 12:23

ken

I think there is a clue in your feeble excuse - it might come in the word "retired".

The NHS was already short of something like 50,000 nurses before Covid-19 struck.

Relying on retired nurses and doctors to come out of retirement isn't a thing to be proud of at all.

Who knows, if we do have a war, maybe there will be a "Dad's Army".

ROFLMAO!

[xxxxxy] 01/5/2020 12:20

OFFICIAL : COVID-19 lockdowns cause EU27 economies to fall off a cliff"The sharpest declines since records began," says EU?© Brexit Facts4EU.OrgGDP down by 3.8% in the euro area and by 3.5% in the EU – and this is just the beginningYesterday in Brussels the EU Commission's official statistics agency released the preliminary flash estimate of GDP across the EU27 in the first quarter of this year.Below we show the dramatic impact so far of the COVID-19 lockdowns across the EU on the economy. With the majority of Q1 of the year not even being affected by lockdowns, it is clear that Q2 2020 is going to be a great deal worse.The results show that an economic tsunami is coming towards us at speedFrom January to March this year, seasonally adjusted GDP decreased by 3.8% in the euro area and by 3.5% in the EU27 as a whole. These figures exclude the UK which left the EU in technical terms at the end of January. The UK's Office for National Statistics will not be reporting its provisional GDP figures for Q1 until 13 May.BREXIT FACTS4EU.ORG SUMMARYEU27 Q1 2020 preliminary GDP resultsGDP in the EU27 contracted by -3.5%GDP in the Euro Zone contracted by -3.8%These figures are the highest quarterly falls since these records began in 1995The annualised fall in GDP for the EU27 is -13.2%?© Brexit Facts4EU.Org - click to enlargeHuge impact on Q1 results, yet lockdowns only started affecting things at the end of the QuarterIt is important to recognise that the above are figures covering the whole of Q1 2020: from 01 January until 31 March. For the first two months of the quarter, there were no lockdowns anywhere in the EU, with the sole exception of a local lockdown in northern Italy.It was only in mid-March - in the last two weeks of a 13 week quarter - that lockdowns were introduced in most EU countries, as well as in the UK. Despite this, the economy of the EU27 for the entire quarter has already been hit by a fall sharper than any seen since the EU started keeping these records."These were the sharpest declines observed since the time series started in 1995."- EU Commission Statistics Agency, 30 Apr 2020OBSERVATIONSIn effect, the catastrophic falls in the EU27's Q1 GDP took place in the last few weeks of the quarter – in March.Readers might like to imagine just how much worse the numbers are going to be for the current quarter, when so much more of the period will be subject to the Coronavirus lockdowns. This is not going to be pretty.In the approaching maelstrom, the EU really will need the UK's massive market for its goods, as well as the UK's dominant financial services sector in the City of London.Do people know what's coming?We believe that ordinary people have not been fully warned of what is coming by either the Government or the broadcast media. This is as true in the EU27 as it is in the United Kingdom.Economies are tumbling over the cliff and a financial tsunami of epic proportions is heading for the coast at increasing speed and strength. The impact is going to be massive.Sooner or later people will become aware of the increase in deaths wholly unrelated to COVID-19. If this coincides with catastrophic news for our economy and for the livelihoods of millions, then the 'experts' had better be ready with a plan to deal with the outrage.The alternative would be to act now, which is what we would do.As ever, may we appeal to you to support free speech and a reliable source of hard facts, distilled into punchy and widely-read articles? You don't have to like every word we write, but we hope you appreciate the serious research we carry out.We do not have corporate sponsorship and rely solely on the generosity of you, dear reader. Please help to keep us going with a donation – quick and secure methods are below. You will receive a nice email from a member of our team, thanking you, and your donation will be strictly confidential unless you tell us otherwise.[ Sources: EU Commission Statistics Agency | Oxford University COVID-19 Government Response Tracker ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Fri 01 May 2020

[kenbachelor] 01/5/2020 12:19

Minerve - Our son's partner (a retired nursing sister) put her name forward to be called on if required. She's been told that they've got wards of empty beds and staff that they've been holding back in case they're needed for Coronavirus patients.

[minerve 2] 01/5/2020 11:59

The only reason they went to care homes was to avoid the media bashing that would have happened if they were all accepted into the hospitals. It would have been a repeat of what happened in Italy. A worse catastrophe than it currently is. Paramedics had to refuse admittance in many instances to avoid this disastrous PR for the government. They haven't got away with it and we shouldn't let them.

[seagreen] 01/5/2020 11:54

hernando its bleeding unethical .... they fought in the world war etc ....watch out the next to go will be the 50 year olds etc.......

More to the point if you want to be ruthless they put them (without testing) in rural homes where the virus had hardly started to be looked after by young carers with no ppe who then spread it further.......

One is ruthless the other is an error of judgement

I suspect everyone knows they just realise the whole situation was so ghastly there would be colateral damage

Bit like lifting the lock down too early...twits

[minerve 2] 01/5/2020 11:46

How many deaths?

Worst in Europe when finished.

Oh dear, gammon FAIL!

[minerve 2] 01/5/2020 11:46

Happy with your choice of PM?

ROFLMAO!

[aljm] 01/5/2020 11:32

does anyone not have Min filtered ?

[minerve 2] 01/5/2020 11:31

Where is the Yorkshire DUNCE today (mm2), haven't seen him post yet.