UK Lockdown

[Hants_red]

This is quite an ignorant comment.

Actually it was intellectually brilliant.

 

[Grecian2K]

The person who had tested positive with the Brazilian strain has now been found. You'd think we would have a tracing system in place!

Covid-19: Mystery UK person with Brazil variant found

Health officials have also traced the contacts of the person, it is understood.

www.bbc.co.uk

How dare you.

A mere £44 Billion spaffed so far. Cheap at the price (for Dildo, plus Rupert and his insatiable stakeholders.) kerchings all round

 

[tavyred]

According to Matt Hancock thanks to vaccinations the link between COVID and serious illness/deaths is breaking.
Great news.

 

[Grecian2K]

The person who had tested positive with the Brazilian strain has now been found. You'd think we would have a tracing system in place!

Covid-19: Mystery UK person with Brazil variant found

Health officials have also traced the contacts of the person, it is understood.

www.bbc.co.uk

Is it true that they were located at an illegal waxing parlour?

 

[DB9]

Is it true that they were located at an illegal waxing parlour?

Yep, They were torn off a strip!

 

[Grecian2K]

What's in a number?
THEN

AND NOW

Still, let's not quibble about a decimal point (or eight) eh?

 

[Legohead]

I have read that a starting salary for the lowest band nurse is 24k. If this is correct then it's far more than my key worker partner gets for often doing hours of unpaid overtime in animal rescue. My partner is on about 18k a year, works every other weekend plus Christmas every year and does many hours overtime that is unpaid.

Nurses deserve more than 1% which is clearly derisory, but if this is true and they start at 24k then they are lucky to be in such a fortunate position compared to many others in society and if they strike that means more waiting in pain for patients like myself who have been waiting patiently for far longer than is acceptable for treatment.

 

[Grecian2K]

Fair enough Lego but £24k is still well below the UK average wage of £31.5k. And that for a job that requires in most cases, even at entry level, completion of a university degree course.

I sympathise with your partner's position (which is barely the minimum wage for a 40 hour week) but that is also surely something between them and their employer.

"Sweatshop" wages and exploitation - or compulsion - of employees goodwill regards to low pay and excessive hours is and long has been, IMHO, a national scandal but one which (I fear) is not likely to be addressed in this "brave new world" of the gig economy.

 

[RedPaul]

Almost a million tests yesterday alone. No doubt inflated by the school numbers.

 

[Mr Jinx]

Fair enough Lego but £24k is still well below the UK average wage of £31.5k. And that for a job that requires in most cases, even at entry level, completion of a university degree course.

I sympathise with your partner's position (which is barely the minimum wage for a 40 hour week) but that is also surely something between them and their employer.

"Sweatshop" wages and exploitation - or compulsion - of employees goodwill regards to low pay and excessive hours is and long has been, IMHO, a national scandal but one which (I fear) is not likely to be addressed in this "brave new world" of the gig economy.

The average wage of a UK nurse is actually £33.5k.

Here to help.

Besides, if money is your thing I suggest you avoid nursing. Try getting a job in investment banking. Or if that's too cut throat for you, try angling for an executive non-job at the bbc.