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Originally posted by Eden Eagle
Your comment about the success of the “vaccination” is just a guess as well. No condemnation from you Wisbech about the Government wasting £1.4 billion on a single contract? What a surprise! The success of the vaccination program is no guess. It’s an obvious fact. My speculation was about whether the decision to write off so much was connected it it. No government does that deliberately!
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Originally posted by Forest Hillbilly
The expiry date for most PPE-type supplies is 12 months. My local Council started binning many £10k's of stock in 2022. A small percentage was used, but the vast majority over-ordered and are still binning it today (as we can see from the news story). Never mind the stuff that didn't meet standard, or was never delivered. The incompetence and gluttony is difficult to comprehend the scale of. Back to the cost of living crisis,..... When faced with a threat which is new and lacking any known cure, the potential scale of which has the potential to overwhelm your health services, and your stock of PPE is low and international demand exploding, over ordering to ensure any eventuality is met, isn’t so surprising.
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
When faced with a threat which is new and lacking any known cure, the potential scale of which has the potential to overwhelm your health services, and your stock of PPE is low and international demand exploding, over ordering to ensure any eventuality is met, isn’t so surprising. Just put it on the bill. To paraphrase Stalin - 400 billion is a lot of money. 401 billion is a statistic.
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
Just put it on the bill. To paraphrase Stalin - 400 billion is a lot of money. 401 billion is a statistic. Even £1 wasted is a lot of money. Waste is never desirable but is sometimes unavoidable. Reviewing what, when and how things were done is what the enquiry is for, so we can avoid more next time.
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
Even £1 wasted is a lot of money. Waste is never desirable but is sometimes unavoidable. Reviewing what, when and how things were done is what the enquiry is for, so we can avoid more next time. Is it? If the enquiry finds we could have saved £1 overall it won't seem like a lot.
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
When faced with a threat which is new and lacking any known cure, the potential scale of which has the potential to overwhelm your health services, and your stock of PPE is low and international demand exploding, over ordering to ensure any eventuality is met, isn’t so surprising. “Lacking any known cure” - more nonsense from you Wisbech - with a survival rate of 99.90% a glass of honey and lemon worked for most people. Just as well the NHS effectively shut down for 2 years so as to not be overwhelmed with tens of thousands of undiagnosed cancers leading to so many avoidable early deaths. The Government panicked and completely over ordered the stocks of PPE and paid through the nose for it as well.
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
Is it? If the enquiry finds we could have saved £1 overall it won't seem like a lot. No but finding a million of them will. The point being that anything wasted is unacceptable. I hate waste, to the point of being almost obsessional about it. It comes from being a war baby and facing a childhood with rationing when nothing was wasted. These days, having seen real poverty elsewhere, it distresses me to see so much thrown away when there is so much need elsewhere.
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Originally posted by Eden Eagle
“Lacking any known cure” - more nonsense from you Wisbech - with a survival rate of 99.90% a glass of honey and lemon worked for most people. Just as well the NHS effectively shut down for 2 years so as to not be overwhelmed with tens of thousands of undiagnosed cancers leading to so many avoidable early deaths. The Government panicked and completely over ordered the stocks of PPE and paid through the nose for it as well. Personally I suspect that most of the people who were going to die of covid died of it whether they took the vaccine or not. If anything it may have delayed the death somewhat. I also suspect that the vaccines....aside from having a significantly higher than normal complication and damage issue....have reduced immune systems. That's my layman's opinion from having experienced this like everybody else. However, in time, the truth about this insane and generationally expensive time period will come out. We spent a huge amount of money for hardly anything other than covering the arses of politicians from our weak wristed media.
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
No but finding a million of them will. The point being that anything wasted is unacceptable. I hate waste, to the point of being almost obsessional about it. It comes from being a war baby and facing a childhood with rationing when nothing was wasted. These days, having seen real poverty elsewhere, it distresses me to see so much thrown away when there is so much need elsewhere. You think? A million out of £400 bn? O.00025%. Still doesn't seem a lot in context.
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Originally posted by Eden Eagle
“Lacking any known cure” - more nonsense from you Wisbech - with a survival rate of 99.90% a glass of honey and lemon worked for most people. Just as well the NHS effectively shut down for 2 years so as to not be overwhelmed with tens of thousands of undiagnosed cancers leading to so many avoidable early deaths. The Government panicked and completely over ordered the stocks of PPE and paid through the nose for it as well. OMG this nonsensical drum is being banged again? Those determined to never understand will remain in a bubble of ignorance. It’s not the survival rate we achieved that matters. It’s the death rate we would have seen without taking the measures we did, plus the impact on our health services, which would have resulted in many more deaths. The impact was bad enough, as we have seen, but it could have been much, much, worse:-
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
You think? A million out of £400 bn? O.00025%. Still doesn't seem a lot in context. £400 bn? Are you sure? That’s about 12.5% of our GDP! I think you might mean £4bn! Still stupid money to waste though.
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
£400 bn? Are you sure? That’s about 12.5% of our GDP! I think you might mean £4bn! Still stupid money to waste though. Unless the House of Commons library is out by a factor 100 which is possible but unlikely.
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