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- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Apocalypse now?
Respect to the coach driver, Mr Ronnie Soak:
'The coach company which transported the evacuees to the Wirral said health officials advised its drivers did not need to wear protective clothing for the journey.
Horseman Coaches said five drivers will nonetheless enter a two-week period of isolation at home as a precaution.
The vehicles used will also be subject to a "military-grade cleansing process"* the company added.'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51337400
[* ie. painting.]
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Such a shame that so many, especially those with children, could not come back because the Chinese would not allow them to leave.
A two week paid holiday for those drivers even if they are not free to go anywhere.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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For Heaven's sake, why repatriate people who may be carriers, just because they have a UK passport.
In utilitarian terms that's stupid.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyam"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,298
It's a strange one. Repatriation is the polar opposite of what is supposed to be happening - i.e. lock-down. Diseases don't discriminate on the basis of passport!
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Bob Whysman
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
is there a isolation ward at the polyclinlc / healthcenter
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Just read the following on D4D, someone must be wrong.....
"Concerning the earlier post about Buckland Hospital having a case of corona virus.
This has been confirmed as a hoax (one of our admins has phoned the hospital, although they appear to be telling people different stories!) and the post removed from the group."
Edit. Still on Kentlive News at 15.57
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Guest 1819- Registered: 22 Aug 2016
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Yes Brian there is an isolation room at Buckland and to the best of my knowledge it has not been used yet.
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So as per usual the rags have gone for a non story and possibly scared the more gullible who believe what the media decide tell them.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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I am no more worried about this virus than I am about getting a dose of the flu or a stinking cold.
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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I have just had such a stinker of a cold that Coronavirus could not have been much worse.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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If only there was this amount of "hysteria" over other health problems like heart disease and cancer to mention just two. I know this sounds harsh but we all have to die at sometime it is quite normal for those with existing health problems to be hit the hardest.
We had our regular treat of a Chinese takeaway last night and they were so happy to have our order. They have been hit financially with many of their regular customers staying away, completely daft as they live in Folkestone had not even been to China for a long time.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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A modest proposal.
The charity commission lists 620 cancer charities alone (and more than 200 charities working with homeless people just in London, roughly one for every 15 rough sleepers!)
The problem is not the amount of effort put in to combatting cancer (or heart disease) but the incredible inefficiency of well meaning peoples efforts to 'do something'.
Each of these charities will have a CEO, board of trustees, advertising budget etc (CEO Cancer Research UK £240,000 pa, Macmillan Cancer Support £170,000 pa) using up between 30/40% of donations as well as wasting countless hours of nice people standing behind counters all afternoon when they could be out actually enjoying their short time on the planet.
There is only one RNLI tasked with 'saving lives at sea' which somehow manages to cover offshore, inshore, beaches and even the River Thames, and for all its faults seems to have almost universal support.
Why the Hell don't all the Cancer charities merge with one CEO, Board of Trustees, set of accounts, outlet in each High Street.
Let's call it THE BIG 'C'.
Money could be allocated to all the usual suspects Breast and Prostate, 'Kiddies', palliative care, research and so on and I would suggest there would actually be a lot more money then available for charitable purposes and we might actually get closer to a 'cure for cancer'.
As it is the main function of most of these charities seems to be giving middle class women something to do during the day as 1) they can feel suitably worthy and 2)they realised they were hitting the bottle a bit too much during the daytime.
Serious proposal.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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From the Guardian letters page!
'While there are undoubtedly many unsavoury aspects to their authoritarian rule ...................'
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
