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Five million surgical masks and more than a million respirators.
It seems a bit daft if it's true, but let's be honest, a lot of what is being claimed at the moment in the media isn't actually true or there is a twist in the tail.
However I just looked it up and in less than two months we have taken delivery of 132 million masks so we need to put this into context and we don't actually know all the ins and outs.
THAT SAID - Things like this need to be looked at as even if it does represent only a small amount of what we are using it is still a significant amount of kit.
I'd be interested to see where this story ends. A French factory recently was blocked by their government when they were about to send us a similar about of masks.
“Hello, I'm your MP. Actually I'm not. I'm your candidate. Gosh.”
Boris Johnson canvassing in Henley, 2005.
Your daily reminder that Boris IS like Churchill. on 22:16 - Apr 22 by Lord_Lucan
Five million surgical masks and more than a million respirators.
It seems a bit daft if it's true, but let's be honest, a lot of what is being claimed at the moment in the media isn't actually true or there is a twist in the tail.
However I just looked it up and in less than two months we have taken delivery of 132 million masks so we need to put this into context and we don't actually know all the ins and outs.
THAT SAID - Things like this need to be looked at as even if it does represent only a small amount of what we are using it is still a significant amount of kit.
I'd be interested to see where this story ends. A French factory recently was blocked by their government when they were about to send us a similar about of masks.
Yeah I posted the link a few days ago.
This article published 6th March, the PPE supplier in France who cancelled the NHS's order says the NHS were the first to put an order in. It was cancelled by the French giver event.
"We are facing a big problem: who to prioritise" explained company director Nicolas Brillat. "The requisition does not allow any wiggle room for us to deliver to the NHS, but it is complicated because the NHS was the first client to order and uses our masks all year long."
Your daily reminder that Boris IS like Churchill. on 22:23 - Apr 22 by GlasgowBlue
Yeah I posted the link a few days ago.
This article published 6th March, the PPE supplier in France who cancelled the NHS's order says the NHS were the first to put an order in. It was cancelled by the French giver event.
"We are facing a big problem: who to prioritise" explained company director Nicolas Brillat. "The requisition does not allow any wiggle room for us to deliver to the NHS, but it is complicated because the NHS was the first client to order and uses our masks all year long."
Every country in the world is desperately getting PPE from wherever they can
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There's another thing to consider.
The masks being flown out from UK are from a wholesaler, not a manufacturer. We don't know what the quality is like and what antics the wholesaler has got up to to sell to the highest bidder.
Not everything rings true but I am interested to see where this goes.
“Hello, I'm your MP. Actually I'm not. I'm your candidate. Gosh.”
Boris Johnson canvassing in Henley, 2005.
Your daily reminder that Boris IS like Churchill. on 22:28 - Apr 22 by Lord_Lucan
There's another thing to consider.
The masks being flown out from UK are from a wholesaler, not a manufacturer. We don't know what the quality is like and what antics the wholesaler has got up to to sell to the highest bidder.
Not everything rings true but I am interested to see where this goes.
We have the Conservative opposition up here aiming the same criticism the Scottish government. Virtually word for word.
It’s as if people of all political persuasions are using PPE as a political football.
Point of order. Gallipoli was an entirely reasonable idea, which might have worked if: a) The commander of the naval assault had not lost his nerve* when virtually through the defences, then refused to try again; b) The initial landings been better conducted by comanders on the scene (e.g. had they reinforced the beaches where there was almost no opposition, rather than the one where troops were being cut to pieces); or c) A certain Kemal Pasha (later quite famous) had not taken command of reserves and rushed them to the vital spot as the defence was wavering.
Had any one of those things gone right, there was a high likelihood of knocking Turkey out of the war by capturing her (then) capital. Thus freeing up large numbers of troops for redeployment elsewhere. Plus opening up a supply route to Russia and possibly causing Bulgaria not to join on the side of the Germans.
It was a pretty good plan, had it worked. But virtually everything which could go wrong, did.
Far better than Sir John French's conduct of the Battle of Loos later that year. A frontal assault across poor terrain with insufficient artillery, inexperienced infantry reserves, preceded by a cloud of poison gas some of which blew back into the faces of attacking troops when the wind changed. Compounded by poor command and control at the most senior level (French being away from his main HQ and staff during the battle).
If you want to bash Churchill for doing something ideological which lots of people thought would be bad and turned into a disaster, then look at the return to the gold standard in 1925.
* Indeed, if a single Turkish ship hadn't sown a line of mines in one particular spot, then the ships would not have been sunk which caused Admiral de Robeck to withdraw the fleet, just at the point where the Turks were running out of ammunition. Or even if those mines had been spotted by the air reconnaissance conducted earlier in the day (which they could have been, but weren't). Upon such small chances, great events can turn.
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