Very Interesting Indeed

[teacake44]

Just finished watching dispatches on TV, the truth to why this government have made such a cock up of covid, like gully has been saying for months now, contracts to companies that have high profile connections, even one company involved with the jockey club. Now we know why they allowed the race meeting to go ahead just before the first lock down. Disgusting!! The cons conning everyone, and feathering their own nests.

[New Judge]

//pretty sure that altho it was a killer it was nothing like corona deaths so a false comparisson?//

Not really.

The 1968 pandemic killed an estimated 30-50,000 people in the UK (Covid 52,000 so far) and between 1m and 4m worldwide (Covid 1.3m so far). The global population in 1968 was less than half that of today; the UK population today is 25% greater than it was in 1968; international movement is far more prevalent today.

So not a direct equivalence, but certainly a very widespread infectious disease that caused a large number of deaths. The contrast is that there was never any consideration given to locking the country down or closing the economy and remember, when it began, there was as much (or as little) known about it and how it was likely to spread as there was about Covid. I remember the outbreak and it hardly got a mention in most places at all. Lots of people contracted it; quite a few (mainly older or with other illnesses) unfortunately succumbed to it. But life went on.

[naomi24]

Peter Pedant, //I was a juror on myra hindley case// [1966 - minimum age required for jury service 21]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Law/Question1728274-3.html

//1968 - yeah taking my a levels//

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Current-Affairs/Question1728611.html

As the OP says, very interesting indeed. Slow learner, were you?

[teacake44]

Keep on stuffing you're head in the sand TTT, Its not just dispatches that are investigating the cowboys behind no 10, very strange that two of them were sent packing just before this was exposed on TV. :0). What we have here is a classic case of, you scratch my back and I will fill you're business account with millions of public money.

[ichkeria]

Just to emphasise what I said earlier, the stuff about the jockey club etc is probably irrelevant.
It's the farcical goings on at one of the major test centres which is the real disgrace. Sheer incompetence. Stuff being dine in a hurry by people who know they don;t have to take ownership of the issue and can just deny what's happening.
The head of Randox should be the one facing scrutiny, at the very least.

[teacake44]

ik @11.28 I may be right, I may be wrong, But Randox could have been in line to lose millions if that race meeting didn't go ahead. It was allowed to go ahead 2/3 days before a total lock down came into force, when everything else had been cancelled. Everyone one at that time was gob smacked as to why it went ahead?