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 Orange1290  30 Apr 21 7.54pm |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
Something about these numbers doesn’t add up. Why doesn't it 'add up'? Other countries can have better health systems, more critical bed capacity, better treatments, more resources etc to handle those seriously infected and so keep death rates down while having higher infection rates. The health of the general population is also a large factor in the potential death rates. Germany is a very good example. It has a population 20% more than that of the UK . The UK has around 150,000 hospital beds, while Germany has a whopping 500,000, more than 200% more plus the 200% more (at least but probably more) professional staff to service those beds. Edited by Orange1290 (30 Apr 2021 8.14pm)
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Teddy Eagle  30 Apr 21 8.54pm |
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Originally posted by Orange1290
Why doesn't it 'add up'? Other countries can have better health systems, more critical bed capacity, better treatments, more resources etc to handle those seriously infected and so keep death rates down while having higher infection rates. The health of the general population is also a large factor in the potential death rates. Germany is a very good example. It has a population 20% more than that of the UK . The UK has around 150,000 hospital beds, while Germany has a whopping 500,000, more than 200% more plus the 200% more (at least but probably more) professional staff to service those beds. Edited by Orange1290 (30 Apr 2021 8.14pm) The Turkish healthcare system should be the envy of the world rather than the NHS. Ireland has had x2.5 the cases of China - a country with 20 cities whose population is greater than Ireland’s total.
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Badger11  Beckenham 01 May 21 7.58am |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
The Turkish healthcare system should be the envy of the world rather than the NHS. Ireland has had x2.5 the cases of China - a country with 20 cities whose population is greater than Ireland’s total. Interesting. A friend had a major accident (lots of broken bones) when we were on holiday in Turkey luckily he had insurance and was sent to a private hospital. All the locals I spoke to said that he was lucky he could afford that as the "NHS" type hospitals were not very good.
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| Teddy Eagle 01 May 21 8.03am |
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Originally posted by Badger11
Interesting. A friend had a major accident (lots of broken bones) when we were on holiday in Turkey luckily he had insurance and was sent to a private hospital. All the locals I spoke to said that he was lucky he could afford that as the "NHS" type hospitals were not very good.
I have no experience of the Turkish system - only meant that if the figures are true they’ve been spectacularly more successful than us.
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| Badger11 Beckenham 01 May 21 8.18am |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
I have no experience of the Turkish system - only meant that if the figures are true they’ve been spectacularly more successful than us. Yup and my comments are purely that not evidence based. I think the Turks did well by locking everyone down but then like India they took their foot of the break and now they are back in lock down.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 02 May 21 10.22am |
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Originally posted by Badger11
Yup and my comments are purely that not evidence based. I think the Turks did well by locking everyone down but then like India they took their foot of the break and now they are back in lock down. It’s as if the virus will circulate everywhere unless you lock everyone away, or close the country off while being thousands of miles from anyone else.
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| DANGERCLOSE London 02 May 21 1.29pm |
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It's a good job we left the EU they seem a bit slow giving out the vaccine's
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| Badger11 Beckenham 02 May 21 1.31pm |
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Originally posted by DANGERCLOSE
It's a good job we left the EU they seem a bit slow giving out the vaccine's "Your vaccine is dangerous why haven''t you delivered more."
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 25 May 21 9.01am |
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Going to be an experience if MMT goes wrong [Tweet Link]
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| Badger11 Beckenham 26 May 21 7.37am |
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So even a broken clock...
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| Orange1290 26 May 21 7.49pm |
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"France has become the latest European country to introduce restrictions on UK travellers due to the spread of the Indian coronavirus variant."
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| Spiderman Horsham 26 May 21 8.52pm |
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Originally posted by Orange1290
"France has become the latest European country to introduce restrictions on UK travellers due to the spread of the Indian coronavirus variant." Yep we should not have allowed anyone to travel in or out of the UK during the pandemic, asI have said all along. Hands up who has travelled
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