So we do get Operation Moonshot

[SirGalahad]

Everyone in England will be offered twice weekly covid tests.

Get your wallets out someone has to pay for this.

“All in all, the government keeps on seeking quick fixes based on one intervention. What they consistently fail to do is to build a system in which all the parts work together to contain the virus.”

 

[SirGalahad]

Moonshot was £100bn. So about 66.5m people. Thats about £1500 per person per year. With two tests per week. Thats 104 tests at about £14.40 per test. Which is about right.

Would you rather have £1500? In either case you will be paying for it. Your kids will be into their 40s

 

[fillyboy]

Everyone in England will be offered twice weekly covid tests.

Moonshot was £100bn. So about 66.5m people. Thats about £1500 per person per year. With two tests per week. Thats 104 tests at about £14.40 per test. Which is about right.

Would you rather have £1500? In either case you will be paying for it. Your kids will be into their 40s

It's not that long ago you were complaining not enough testing was being carried out.

 

[ellal]

Putting aside the problems with false results and the various problems in user operation...

What about when the 'virus' miraculously 'mutates' yearly?

Of course the 'regulations' will also change ad hoc, and no protest/dissent will be allowed given the latest draconian bill being enacted...

'Kerching' for certain industries of course...

And no doubt the usual suspects won't understand this, but the UK is now under a mild (so far) state of martial law...

Because the rules governing the minutiae of all our lives can be changed at any moment by decree!

 

[charliegolf]

You and Ellal can do the right thing and save the economy £28.80 each a week. Everyone doing their bit. all good. I call dibs on Gal's tests, so that's mine paid for.

 

[teaboyjim]

Everyone in England will be offered twice weekly covid tests. Get your wallets out someone has to pay for this. “All in all, the government keeps on seeking quick fixes based on one intervention. What they consistently fail to do is to build a system in which all the parts work together to contain the virus.”

So is this at the proposal stage SirGalahad?

 

[IT Minion]

It's not that long ago you were complaining not enough testing was being carried out.

This should be the plotline of a Bond Movie starring Roger Moore. Mass testing and surveillance with technologies that don't yet exist should be the realm of speculative fiction not policy proposals.

So tell me who supports such madness?

I think Sir G has been consistently unimpressed by Moon shots.

 

[denso13]

What about when the 'virus' miraculously 'mutates' yearly?

Like a lot of other viruses. What is so miraculous about that? It would be miraculous if it didn't evolve and mutate.

 

[securespark]

'Kerching' for certain industries of course...

Indeed. Those companies run by Tory vultures waiting with open arms for wheelbarrow loads of public dosh.

 

[Notch7]

Indeed. Those companies run by Tory vultures waiting with open arms for wheelbarrow loads of public dosh.

The rich make always make money out of a crisis.

 

[SirGalahad]

It's not that long ago you were complaining not enough testing was being carried out.

Timing.

Testing at the start mattered when Bojo was denying the whole thing until it blew up in his face.

You really are so morally bankrupt that you would defend and forgive this Government for everything.

You said this about the Moonshot.

I don't think anybody does, almost an entire years NHS budget FFS.

 

[SirGalahad]

You and Ellal can do the right thing and save the economy £28.80 each a week. Everyone doing their bit. all good. I call dibs on Gal's tests, so that's mine paid for.

Jest all you like but this is a waste of money as the lateral flow tests. Also you haven't paid for the whole year so thats £1500 from you.

Lack of a central registration process and of comparative data means that Public Health England’s Porton Down laboratory and the University of Oxford have been tasked with evaluating the sensitivity, specificity, and kit failure rate of lateral flow tests. Only three of 40 test kits evaluated made it through the first assessments.2 And only one of these has been evaluated in field studies; it is still unknown how the others work in the real world.

Public Health England’s evaluation of the Innova test showed that its sensitivity was 79.2% when used by trained laboratory scientists, 73% when used by trained healthcare staff, but only 57.5% when used by track and trace centre staff employed by the pharmacy chain Boots

So what is the purpose of this testing regime?

There is no co-ordination and you will probably need a PCR test to confirm the lateral flow test result is correct.

So pay up.

 

[Vinty]

Everyone in England will be offered twice weekly covid tests.

Get your wallets out someone has to pay for this.

“All in all, the government keeps on seeking quick fixes based on one intervention. What they consistently fail to do is to build a system in which all the parts work together to contain the virus.”

Don't these quick tests have a high false result rate.

 

[SirGalahad]

Don't these quick tests have a high false result rate.

Yes they do but they have a 100% success rate for the Tory MP trousering the contracts.

Test & Trace was a shambles and is still costing billions. The public are so apathetic and ill informed they can pay for their apathy in higher taxes and less services.

 

[Dangee]

Move to France then, see how you get on there eh. Whinge whinge whinge lol.