This would hold water if hundreds of people in the manufacturing industry didn’t come forward saying “my company supplies PPE/can transition into making it over night” who were ignored and put in the slow lane, and yet pub landlords who were on MP’s stag do’s were given contracts worth millions to simply be a middle man between a Chinese company and the government.
Mountain of dumped PPE discovered
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This would hold water if hundreds of people in the manufacturing industry didn’t come forward saying “my company supplies PPE/can transition into making it over night” who were ignored and put in the slow lane, and yet pub landlords who were on MP’s stag do’s were given contracts worth millions to simply be a middle man between a Chinese company and the government.
Soldato
Didn't Hancock have his family benefitting from this?
www.openaccessgovernment.org
www.theguardian.com
Let us not forget Sunak wrote off all this money immediately. No serious attempt was made to get back tax payers money.
Sunak was also out at parties during this time too.
A real laugh a minute for them, while the regular people of this country were living through draconian rules created by these big spenders.
NHS contract given to Health Secretary Matt Hancock's family company
According to HSJ, Health Secretary Matt Hancock's family-owned company were awarded an NHS contract for services - but the Secretary failed to declare this
www.openaccessgovernment.org
Firms handed £1.3bn in Covid contracts claimed £1m in furlough grants
Dozen UK companies given VIP fast-track contracts to supply PPE to NHS paid idled staff at taxpayers’ expense
www.theguardian.com
Let us not forget Sunak wrote off all this money immediately. No serious attempt was made to get back tax payers money.
Sunak was also out at parties during this time too.
A real laugh a minute for them, while the regular people of this country were living through draconian rules created by these big spenders.
A lot of these were not owned by pub landlords or companies which didn't exist - many were companies owned by people with links to the Plymouth Exclusive Brethren who for some reason still have favourable access to the government and media and these companies were given preferential treatment despite in most cases having zero previous experience in this field over companies with proven track records. Some of these companies are owned by my mum's cousins who've basically laughed all the way to the bank with millions of tax payer money while providing maybe 1/100th of that in services.
EDIT: Though just looking at it - at least one case was actually an ex-pub landlord friends with Tory ministers LOL (Hinpack).
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Soldato
It was the disposable gloves reused time after time by customers that annoyed me. Which had more nasties on them than just washed hands.
The care home my grandad was in during 2022 the last time we visited was still making visitors dress up in plastic overalls, gloves and so on as well as masks - despite by March 2021 it was known that spread by fomites accounted for less than 1 in 10,000 cases (although I'd caveat that the early S variants were known to be more readily transmitted via surfaces but were virtually extinct by late 2020) and that in most cases the risk can be managed more effectively by simply thoroughly washing hands and wiping down touchpoints.
Sadly it seems many of the early claims, by professionals, as to surface transmission, were based not on studies of the virus but the stubborn assumption the virus was a mutated version of the original SARS and based on how that would act if it had undergone changes as would have happened for the result to be COVID rather than studies of COVID itself... absolutely horrendously poor science and this was coming from people with acclaim in the field - I assume many of us remember the video by a prominent Japanese virologist.
Masks are absolutely capable of stopping the virus mechanically and if people put best practises into effect. It is empty headed people who'd rather not take actual personal responsibility rather than masks which are the problem in that context. Meanwhile we have scenes of people crammed into theatres for a couple of hours or more but that's "OK" because they are wearing basic surgical masks... *bangs head on wall*
We are truly screwed if the "big one" pandemic wise does break out.
Why we are so resistant to going through the steps of precaution, high quality studies, act appropriately, I have no idea.
EDIT: Something I will repeat again - where I work we had fairly strictly implemented rules, one way system, 2m distancing, masks inside, no packing people into the office even with masks on, routine hands and surface cleaning - nothing went around despite similar companies with a more relaxed approach in the area seeing outbreaks and individuals picking it up outside of work, except in some limited instances where people were in breach of the rules and/or doing ill advised stuff outside of work together. When finally the rules were relaxed we got slammed by it less than 2 weeks later. I'm certain that wasn't coincidence.
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Just something I found on Twitter without knowing much about the background of the Tweeter/information:
But it fits with the bits I do know about.