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Trying to explain what's going on in Britain to a friend abroad: we have a fake lockdown where everyone still goes out and half the country are still going to work; we had a silent triage where they let the vulnerable die without taking them to hospitals; they built fake new
hospitals which only had gear for respiratory health and didn't realise COVID-19 affects other parts of the body like renal system so the new hospitals couldn't be used; they are letting people back to work on the basis of negative test results even though the tests have a 30%
false negative rate. They are only testing symptomatic cases even they know pre-symptomatic people are most infectious, and they could get to them if they traced contacts; the infection rate is pretty much stable. About 700 people die every day (according to government stats
which routinely underreport by 50-100%.) They keep going on about "keeping the R below 1" even though the R needs to fall significantly below 1 for sickness and death rate to decline any time soon, or it will carry on with hundreds and hundreds of deaths a day. There is zero
advice about how to quarantine within a home, or how to treat people at home. They are yet to even tell the population to watch out for blood clotting issues/thrombosis symptoms if you had the virus. And yet despite having the highest number of deaths in Europe as a result of the
Most lax lockdown (and no shutdown of all non-essential businesses) everyone is behaving like we have the most hardcore lockdown, nobody understands why there are so many deaths, and lots of people think the government is doing an amazing job, or that positive thinking and blitz
spirit will solve everything. Nobody seems to understand that the reason lockdowns are lifting elsewhere is because other places have the disease under control, with few new infections, while we still have huge community spread and effectively no knowledge of where the virus is
spreading and how. It is absolutely insane. I tried to describe this, and remain in total disbelief of how awful it is.
Wow this blew up. To add, as a minimum the UK must follow WHO advice on treating COVID. That means “test, trace, and isolate” at speed and not the “test, track and trace” the government has proposed; and follow WHO’s 6 recommendations on lifting lockdowns, not the government’s 5.
This new interview by @mayday_audio is the most scandalous and extraordinary exposé of the failure and closure of the Nightingale Hospital in London. https://soundcloud.com/maydayradionotes/nightingale-chronicals-part-2-the-closure
