BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[C R]

I think we should deport him back to where he came from, and anyone else with a name that sounds like his.

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Are we sure Wiltshire is now safe to receive deportees? Could his solicitor construe sending him to Wiltshire as cruel and unusual punishment?

 

[Ian H]

Are we sure Wiltshire is now safe to receive deportees? Could his solicitor construe sending him to Wiltshire as cruel and unusual punishment?

Useless fact: both major rivers in Wilts are called Avon (which of course just means river).

 

[C R]

Useless fact: both major rivers in Wilts are called Avon (which of course just means river).

See, I was right. You can't trust a place that uses foreign words for every day things.

 

[briantrumpet]

As was posited over on BR a lot, Johnson was too slow on just about every decision — preventative measures, then eventual lockdowns — making the waves of infection worse than they might have been.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm27m300p2yt

We're hearing from Baroness Hallett's statement about how the UK's four governments responded when signs of Covid first emerged in China.

Her report heavily criticises a "lack of urgency" at this time, saying that governments in all four UK nations "did not take the pandemic seriously enough until it was too late”.

By the end of January 2020, it should have been clear that the virus posed a "serious and immediate threat" and "urgent planning" should have started, it says. Instead, February 2020 is described as a “lost month” with life continuing almost as normal across the country.

Boris Johnson "should have appreciated sooner" that this was a crisis that needed "prime ministerial leadership to inject urgency into the response", the report says.

Part of the problem was that UK surveillance systems did not spot early enough that the virus was spreading, something it says was compounded by "misleading assurances" coming from the Department of Health that the country was well prepared for this kind of emergency.

 

[briantrumpet]

Seeing this picture of the US UPS plane crash site makes the death toll of 14 seem "could have been much worse". Apparently they had seen cracks in the mounting of the engine that simply fell off. Dunno, but maybe seeing cracks in an engine mounting should have grounded the plane?

 

[First Aspect]

I think it is notable that Boeing only issued a no fly warning to two carriers, neither of which is a commercial passenger carrier.

I should see what my preferred aviation YouTuber has to say (Mentour Pilot), but were I to guess, I would guess a common maintenance contractor.

 

[Pblakeney]

As was posited over on BR a lot, Johnson was too slow on just about every decision — preventative measures, then eventual lockdowns — making the waves of infection worse than they might have been.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm27m300p2yt

Old news now but the company I worked for, and the vast majority of competitors, had us all working from home before the lockdowns were announced. The government were like deer in the headlights. Covid scared them and the solutions scared them more.

 

[briantrumpet]

Old news now but the company I worked for, and the vast majority of competitors, had us all working from home before the lockdowns were announced. The government were like deer in the headlights. Covid scared them and the solutions scared them more.

And Johnson didn't want to make hard decisions, so he put them off until there was no avoiding them. The only things he did on time were parties.

 

[Dorset Boy]

No one seems to come out of the Covid enquiry with much, if any credit, including the CMO and CSO, who were they most important advisers to the Government.

 

[First Aspect]

Sherlock Holmes has been at the COVID enquiry. After hearing all the evidence, and with help from his bumbling companion, he has concluded that bears do shït in the woods.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Old news now but the company I worked for, and the vast majority of competitors, had us all working from home before the lockdowns were announced. The government were like deer in the headlights. Covid scared them and the solutions scared them more.

Pretty much every epidemeologist and related specialist across social media were spelling it out from January onwards. I stopped going out a few weeks before lockdown and advised my family to do the same. Like you say, it was literally fear of public reaction to any potential lockdown and the economic ramifications that stopped them and those delays cost many people their lives.

 

[BoldonLad]

No one seems to come out of the Covid enquiry with much, if any credit, including the CMO and CSO, who were they most important advisers to the Government.

Hindsight is a wonderful skill

 

[briantrumpet]

Hindsight is a wonderful skill

If you'd been in Cake Stop, you'd have seen it was pretty much live commentary which this enquiry is merely echoing, five years later.

 

[briantrumpet]

Now, where have I heard that pitch before?

Hmm, escapes me...

 

[First Aspect]

Cake for us today. Cake for you tomorrow. Or at some point.