Sunday Times - 38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster

[joey13]

Excuse my ignorance ..but wasnt the first plane load of passengers from wuhan China tested and quarantined somewhere in Liverpool.....thereafter there were incoming and outgoing flights to various destinations.

Think those were off the Diamond Princess mate the cruise ship that was in Japan

[aggi]

You are scrapping the barrel there!

Test - a procedure intended to establish the quality, performance or reliability of something.
Check - examine in order to determine its accuracy, quality or condition or to detect the presence of something.

How do you check something without a test?

What is the point of introducing tests at the point of arrival? How would it be done?

Peronally I don't think there is much point in putting in places checks or tests now, that horse has bolted.

However, I would take tests to be actual swab tests, etc and checks to be things such as questioning where they've been, who they've been in contact with, etc

[NewClaret]

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It would be hilarious if it weren’t my tax money they’re spaffing up the wall. Diane Abbott is more competent than the entire useless lot of this government.
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Now I know you’re a wind up merchant

[martin_p]

Excuse my ignorance ..but wasnt the first plane load of passengers from wuhan China tested and quarantined somewhere in Liverpool.....thereafter there were incoming and outgoing flights to various destinations.

The first lot of British people evacuated from Wuhan were quarantined for two weeks at Arrowe Park hospital on the Wirral, about 2 miles from my front door.

[dsr]

It would be hilarious if it weren’t my tax money they’re spaffing up the wall. Diane Abbott is more competent than the entire useless lot of this government.

You think the government should be more cautious about spending money and nothing should be spent unless it has a proven benefit? That certainly makes it easy to criticise. One pair of gloves to few in the stockpile and they have wasted lives; one pair of gloves too many and they have wasted money. You've got them either way.

[martin_p]

You think the government should be more cautious about spending money and nothing should be spent unless it has a proven benefit? That certainly makes it easy to criticise. One pair of gloves to few in the stockpile and they have wasted lives; one pair of gloves too many and they have wasted money. You've got them either way.

That should be two gloves not a single pair, the government count single gloves as individual items of PPE.

[joey13]

The first lot of British people evacuated from Wuhan were quarantined for two weeks at Arrowe Park hospital on the Wirral, about 2 miles from my front door.

Is this place still being used Martin , seems to be a lot of people have been sent there

[martin_p]

Is this place still being used Martin , seems to be a lot of people have been sent there

I don’t think they’re quarantining people there anymore, the Covid patients will be treated in ITU like other hospitals. It was only used twice for quarantine as far as I’m aware, once for those from Wuhan when everyone went home Covid free after the two weeks and once of the cruise ship when 4 did develop the infection.