Matt Hancock - how hard is it to say sorry and that mistakes were made?

[Mottie]

It's often been noticed that Mottie has an aversion to foreigners.

I'm sure that's not true. The only foreigners I know you to single out for finger pointing is Romanians, Arabs and Germans. I agree, it would be wrong to suggest you just singled out blacks.

And along come the final two S club members with yet more deflection. I note that @ellal and @Notch7 seem to have furloughed themselves from this thread. No surprises there.

 

[JohnD]

Mottie isn't usually reticent to display his prejudices.

I wonder why he's whinging today.

 

[transam]

Mottie isn't usually reticent to display his prejudices.

I wonder why he's whinging today.

Your waffle

 

[SirGalahad]

See what I mean. No answer from Oopsie or Notchy but chummy pipes in with a bit of deflection. Point proven.

Lol Mottie. Answer the question then...

If the shoe fits.

 

[motorbiking]

How have you worked that out?

remove deaths from non-working age group, and you're left with 1.5M heathcare workers is about 2.5-3%. Should probable limit that further. But the point is made.

 

[Mottie]

Lol Mottie. Answer the question then..

Eh? What question? Oh, sorry, there was no question. Just more deflection.

 

[SirGalahad]

remove deaths from non-working age group, and you're left with 1.5M heathcare workers is about 2.5-3%. Should probable limit that further. But the point is made.

Lol that's not even a back of an envelope calculation.

Not all healthcare workers are frontline.

https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/re...what-kinds-of-staff-make-up-the-nhs-workforce

If you have worked it out which sector is then over represented?

 

[durhamplumber]

https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/present...-doctor-who-died-of-coronavirus-calls-matt-h/

It would humanise Hancock and other MPs if he accepted responsibility.

For starters,could have caught the virus anywhere

 

[IT Minion]

remove deaths from non-working age group, and you're left with 1.5M heathcare workers is about 2.5-3%. Should probable limit that further. But the point is made.

There's a hell of a lot of assumptions in there. For a start the NHS is 77% female. When you add in that Men are twice as likely to die from Covid-19 then that drops it by 1/6th all on its own. Factor in other risk factors like smoking (less than 6%) compared to the national population of around 14% and you drop it further.

In short, interesting theory but it'd need a lot more work for it to hold up.

 

[ellal]

There’s no ****ing country. It’s all, bull crap. It always was. Still, no harm in asking.

Toys and pram comes to mind

 

[Mottie]

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[Brigadier]

There's a hell of a lot of assumptions in there. For a start the NHS is 77% female. When you add in that Men are twice as likely to die from Covid-19 then that drops it by 1/6th all on its own. Factor in other risk factors like smoking (less than 6%) compared to the national population of around 14% and you drop it further.

In short, interesting theory but it'd need a lot more work for it to hold up.

When / if this is eventually all over, and the numbers are scrunched, I expect that we'll be no nearer to the answer.
Especially when you have things like the French preliminary study citing smoking as a possible preventative against Covid-19