Coronavirus .... just in case anybody has any doubts that this is serious - Page 3

Highlander wrote on Sun May 3, 2020 3:56pm:

This is from a woman called Jennie Spence who flew back into uk 

I am so angry and pained this morning... arrived into Heathrow yesterday and heartbroken to see absolutely ZERO checks being done to arriving passengers who have travelled right around the globe.  No masks or Protection on airport workers/emigration, no questions asked on health, no informat...

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...ion given on Covid-19, no temperatures taken and absolutely no social distancing measurements enforced. Not even a presence of virus protection anywhere - you would think nothing was happening. People everywhere. No self quarantine advised or enforced quarantine to non uk citizens, no matter what nationality and where they have been travelling.

We had flown into Melbourne from probably one of the safest islands to be right now, kept on the aircraft and given a 20 minute brief on covid by the Australian health authority. All passengers who were not onward travelling out of Oz would be escorted to a government facility and quarantined for 14 days. We were then escorted off the plane family by family, one by one taken away, temperatures taken and questioned about our health, given masks, hand sanitised, explanation of the virus again, signed a health declaration then escorted into a quarantined departure area, told to social distance from every other family and to sit for 8 hours to wait for our connecting flight with only a vending machine.

Driving home from Heathrow to Manchester, not one police stop to check what we were doing out and traffic everywhere with numerous people sharing vehicles. People out walking in groups, children playing outside with no supervision... the list continues.

I’ve turned on the TV this morning and yet again there is so much news on key workers, nhs, nurses, doctors, carers working their butts off and risking their own health - I am so saddened and angry and feel that the UK government is massively failing in protecting the Uk people. Our fellow Europeans have been locked in their homes, living solitary for weeks on end and airport boarders around the world are closed and we are here “welcoming” everyone in with absolutely no checks and no questions asked. So sad. So sorry. Heart broken.

Any negative comments welcome as no words can change how disgusted I am with the care of this country and it’s people.

Flossie88 wrote on Sun May 3, 2020 5:18pm:

Actually New Zealand has come out with clean hands. We have just returned after 2 months and the government and the people have been exemplary. Yes a small. Country 5 million people, but only 21 deaths ,15 hospitalisations 3500 confirmed cases.Why because as soon as it was recognised they shut th...

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...e airports only NZ national allowed in, 2 weeks quarantine on arrival ,ban on travel,all shops closed. Contact tracing and 99% of people complying to the rules.30 days later no covid 19. 

Sarge wrote on Sun May 3, 2020 5:11pm:

Totally agree Ray. I’m fed up of people bashing UK. Funny how they need the UK after 9-11 when we went into Afghanistan. What did Germany supply - a few non frontline staff. The Spanish immediately surrendered following the Madrid bombings and withdrew the few troops they had in theatre. As for...

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... the rest of the EU countries enough said! I think people will be eating their own words in a few years after we leave the EU

Despegue wrote on Sun May 3, 2020 7:48pm:

Complete and utter BULLOCKS.

As someone from Continental Europe who has frontline experience in Afghanistan, I resent your claim that only the UK went into the heat. 

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Enjoy your Brexit, don’t come back please.

Ray wrote on Sun May 3, 2020 8:22pm:

Congratulations on fighting for freedom you are to be congratulated.but who was you representing,I am not sure who or what was Continental Europe.never heard that before.

Despegue wrote on Sun May 3, 2020 9:06pm:

Belgian Air Component under ISAF ( NATO). 

Been in Kandahar again recently. Still looks the same...

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By the way, for the record, 102 Spanish soldiers were killed under ISAF in Afghanistan. This “ Sarge” poster is talking from his behind.

Cookep1 wrote on Mon May 4, 2020 5:02pm:

I've been having a read of some the supposedly "British" / "anti-British" comments so I thought I'd post this link to the official UK Government web site from which the daily testing figures are taken.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public

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Couple of interesting points to note: 

1. No of tests carried out includes people tested twice and postal tests issued but not returned 

2. The number of deaths only included those that have tested positive in an NHS or PHE lab. Anyone displaying symptoms but untested and anyone tested positive in a 3rd party lab is excluded

3. A better indication of the impact of Covid-19 is the ONS data on ALL deaths (link below). There is a lag in dates, but this data shows the total number of deaths per week compared to a rolling 5yr average. This data shows the overall increase is significantly higher than that published by DHSC

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths

I leave you to draw your own conclusions, but as I say these are the Governments own web sites

Terryoneone wrote on Thu Apr 9, 2020 12:58pm:

Hi ray,

I didn’t take any offence, I just wanted people to understand what’s really going on here.

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The uk govt have done some fantastic work, paying people’s wages up 80% offering loans to companies , suspended all sorts of  taxes etc, mortgage payments suspended and now I believe loans suspended.

They built that hospital in 9 days, building more as we speak and investing heavily in 

Tests for COVID -19, these are unprecedented times and I think the good news should be spread..

Regards

Terry