What does RAG mean? I've never heard it before either. (I mean I now know it means red amber green but what does that mean?
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostWhat does RAG mean? I've never heard it before either. (I mean I now know it means red amber green but what does that mean?
I've also seen blue involved, to denote something being completed, producing the inevitable BRAG.
I suspect it was all invented by Big Print Cartridge to drive sales of colour cartridges, but now look what's happened to them.
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I'm surprised it prompted so much comment. The RAG assignation to wards replaced the phrases "clean ward" and "dirty ward" meaning wards that didn't and did have Covid respectively. So a marked improvement because using a phrase like "dirty ward" isn't going to inspire confidence. (Regardless of his dirty the ward actually is. And they can be very.)
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The current moral panic about hunting down people going for exercise more than x miles away or entering supermarkets without masks is just the latest aspect of media narratives about the virus which almost never mention people being forced to go to work and use mass transport to do so
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Talking of RAGs here’s what they were pumping out over the summer
https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1349328972958588935?s=21
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Originally posted by tracteurgarcon View PostI’ve been trying to get my head around these U.K. figures.
100,000 dead (over 11 months) is 50% higher than the total number of civilian dead from military causes during the entirety (68 months) of WW2.
10% of all Covid-19 deaths are in the UK.
10% of all Covid-19 deaths in the UK have happened in 2021.
Yes, people are to blame because of their actions, they could have said no to the stupid eat out to help out scheme, they could have sacrificed a foreign holiday.
However this doesn't take away from the actions of Johnson, the government and their cronies.
Billions wasted on track and trace, on PPE that didn't work, on schemes that encouraged people to mingle, and all this helped to line the pockets of Tory donors in corruption that we've never seen before in the UK.
However it is the people who are to blame, the 17 million who voted for Brexit because they were unable to put their prejudices aside for the greater good.
And the similar numbers who voted for Johnson and Farage and caused this incompetent and corrupt government that we've got for nearly another four years. Minimum. Because in that time Scotland will become independent and Sir Keith Forensic will have done nothing.
Where is the media? The BBC continues to be an affront to moral decency. They've created and allowed Johnson to have this hold on the country.
In France or other countries people would be on the streets rioting if this happened there. We might stand on our doorstep and clap before returning to Strictly.
As a country we're fucked, fucked in a very Victorian way.
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Originally posted by Antepli Ejderha View Post
The same for me, trying to get my head around the numbers that is.
10% of all Covid-19 deaths are in the UK.
10% of all Covid-19 deaths in the UK have happened in 2021.
Yes, people are to blame because of their actions, they could have said no to the stupid eat out to help out scheme, they could have sacrificed a foreign holiday.
However this doesn't take away from the actions of Johnson, the government and their cronies.
Billions wasted on track and trace, on PPE that didn't work, on schemes that encouraged people to mingle, and all this helped to line the pockets of Tory donors in corruption that we've never seen before in the UK.
However it is the people who are to blame, the 17 million who voted for Brexit because they were unable to put their prejudices aside for the greater good.
And the similar numbers who voted for Johnson and Farage and caused this incompetent and corrupt government that we've got for nearly another four years. Minimum. Because in that time Scotland will become independent and Sir Keith Forensic will have done nothing.
Where is the media? The BBC continues to be an affront to moral decency. They've created and allowed Johnson to have this hold on the country.
In France or other countries people would be on the streets rioting if this happened there. We might stand on our doorstep and clap before returning to Strictly.
As a country we're fucked, fucked in a very Victorian way.
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1349628134396715008?s=21
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