Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. There's no particular logic except that they need to put brakes on somewhere. It's just like pressing stop/go buttons now, if they allow one thing, they stop something else to balance it out.
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  2.  @kylemc0254  Or they can stay home and stay dumb, just how the government likes them.
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  3.  @alexs.1242  Gove did have some good ideas on prison education, but it's not clear whether that would have been funded and he was moved from his department before they could pilot something. Before he was sacked he was also working on measures to help tenants gain more security of tenure (unusual for the Tory party) which got landlords riled up. Maybe Boris was looking for an excuse to sack him. He seems the only one who tried to do something to help people other than the wealthy.
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  4. It's not that at all. Years of underfunding and underpayment of staff have ensured many hospitals are in debt and have a high turnover of staff with high vacancy levels. The management is often brought in from the private sector with financial targets to meet to avoid their contracts being ended. There's a lot of cost cutting and rationing. Bureaucracy in the American system is actually higher but it's a profit driven system. People who are covered by health insurance can get treatment quickly but those not covered my not be able to afford treatment. The Tories have always preferred the idea of a private system and the suspicion is that they are content to let the NHS fail in order to bring about a move to a private system. Many parts of the NHS have been privatised (such as some primary care and ambulance services) but the money for that still comes from the taxpayer funded NHS budget. Profit and shareholder payments is the siphoning off of funds that could otherwise be used for healthcare.
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  5. Don't care as long as there's some competence and good policies. Why do people focus so much on personality? Is it because they have little interest or knowledge about policies?
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  6. When they were in the coalition with the Conservatives that regime was known as ConDem - even funnier.
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  7. I guess the Chinese government needs them to beat up Chinese protestors in China.
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  8. Chicot the Jester. How do you know that? I find it hard to explain some of these differences http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42872377. One woman was even told by the BBC "the BBC does not do equal pay". Well that's against the law. If the BBC was confident that they could justify their pay differences, how is it that they are now moving to rectify some of these differences since the oxygen of publicity was given to them. PWC did a report saying gender wasn't the reasons for the pay gap but you can't trust such accountancy firms to tell the truth. Many collapsing firms such as Carillion were given a clean bill of health by accountancy firms in spite of profits warnings (14 profit warnings in the case of Carillion) and in spite of them having raided the pension funds of employees.
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  9. Chicot the Jester. That video you linked is not relevant to the facts of the BBC. That video is about America and is more general in nature. The question here is specifically the way the BBC operates and pays its staff and whether it complies with UK law.
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  10. Don't forget those airports captured in 1775. Lol.
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  11. I don't think nail shops existed before the 21st century. However did we manage all those centuries without nail shops?
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  12.  Reggie Cyde You are talking nonsense. The Russian revolution is not the same as a democratic election. I suppose to you, everyone to the left of Genghis Khan or Adolf Hitler is a revolutionary Marxist.
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  13.  Eva Anna Paula Braun  What is this greatness exactly? Do people prefer it to food on the table and decent wages?
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  14.  @kellysmallman8864  It's not 99.98% survival rate. It's more like 98% but if everyone got the disease that 2% of deaths would mean 6 million deaths in the USA and 2 million in the UK. You need to consider that rather than cold percentages, and that doesn't include the percentage or numbers of survivors with long Covid or permanent damage to organs. Also if we keep spreading it around it will mutate more. Already many countries are not allowing UK residents in because of the latest mutation which is more infectious and it's affecting our trade at the Dover Calais border crossing. It's really short sighted to just quote percentages as you do.
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  15.  @kellysmallman8864  That's true. Well they listen for a while when it suits them and then they stop listening again.
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  16. At least Gorbachev didn't spend the taxpayers' money on a solid gold toilet, like Putin did. What does that tell you about a man's values and integrity? http://moneyversed.com/crazy-things-vladimir-putin-owns/
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  17. It has a nice sound, this language.
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  18.  @rudymental9993  Thank you. It's not easy for people whether they are ill, or well and suffering economically, and it's dragging on for so long.
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  19. Anyone who puts 'fact' at the end of their statements is not listened to. It's immature assertion with no fact checking at all.
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  20.  @tex8939  Because it's not allowing for the fact that she has her own mind.
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  21.  @HudsonMedia  You're missing the point and lacking a coherent argument, you attack the person.
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  22. ugaaa5. Maybe not, but I still try.
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  23. @Truth seeker. It was a moral booster. These people have a hell of a job seeing so many people dying and trying to save people, day after day. Don't criticise unless you've been in that position. Such things happened in wartime too.
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  24. No it's not. You have no evidence for that do you? The UK has one of the most reputable voting systems.
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  25.  @stequality  Because there has been research by independent bodies that confirms it and because even those who would like to believe there is fraud have never been able to point to more than a handful of cases.
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  26. Um er um er um er um er um er. This is painful to listen to.
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  27. It's not yet an enforced lockdown (like they have in France). It's still a voluntary one.
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  28. Presumably drivers can't choose which hours they work. They can't choose which routes to use. They are clearly employees.
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  29.  @SC-mw2yc  But Jimmy Page and JPJ have since said they were willing to get back together and play Led Zeppelin music. I think they would play with Jason Bonham as a drummer. Robert Plant is the one who does not want to get back together though he did get back together with Jimmy from 1994-1998. They left out JPJ at that time, just so they could avoid people saying it was a Led Zeppelin revival. I can understand Plant's reasons for not wanting to 'do' Led Zeppelin again, but I think Jimmy is sad about it.
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  30. I really try not to order stuff from Amazon, unless I can't get it elsewhere. Unfortunately, the younger generation of my family are used to getting things from Amazon and rely on it much more. I don't think Amazon are fair to their staff, or to other retailers.
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  31. Rishi shows he can lie with the best of them. A suitable replacement for Boris? Boris has to pull his socks up? I think Boris has lost his socks at this stage.
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  32.  @Trancedd  I agree with you that science is ever changing, ever flowing. That's the nature of science. We are always learning. When people say 'trust science' others may misunderstand it as 'this is the definitive truth' (and therefore they may distrust it) whereas it means this is the best knowledge we have at the moment. Science is based on hypothesis, testing, and results that are repeatable or verifiable by peers, so it's the best process we have. It can be challenged by other hypotheses in the light of further knowledge or empirical evidence but these also have to be testable, verifiable and repeatable. That's very different from conspiracy theories which anyone can throw into the media without verifiable evidence.
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  33. What is the scam?
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  34.  @fav9925  Same sort of things happened in WW2, well they did in the UK anyway and nobody whined. They just got on with it. There are conflicts of interest all over the place with the UK government handing contracts, without competition to private companies, who give them funds, to test and trace and the company subcontracts the work to 29 other companies and a mess is made of it. How do you know Gates, the BBC and the Guardian are going to profit from vaccines. Gates funds a lot of things from his charity foundations, not for profit.
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  35.  @schmeegil2240  *won't say anything or will say fk all (know your language)
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  36.  @schmeegil2240  Stupid or misinformed and absorbing conspiracy theories.
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  37.  @schmeegil2240  His profit is from Microsoft but he also gives a lot of money to charity which is spent to improve people's lives in the third world without any profit from that. Can you not understand the difference or are you hard of thinking?
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  38.  @schmeegil2240  Not articulate either then.
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  39.  @schmeegil2240  Even the man criticising Gates didn't say he was making a profit from the vaccine, just that he was making the vaccine and had donated money to the CDC which sounds commendable. The same critic calls Dr Fauci corrupt which is laughable. Income to cover costs so that more vaccine can be made is not 'profit'. Profit is when you charge more for something than it costs to make, and keep that extra money yourself.
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  40.  Arran Robeson  Yes it's shocking that diarrhoea kills over 2 million a year but the government has been cutting overseas aid in response to demands from their supporters. The fact is they don't care so much about poor babies in other countries dying. They just want to deal with threats to themselves in their own countries. It's not a scam because you think it's the wrong policy or that the government is focussing on the wrong things. The virus has also been killing younger people with conditions and vulnerabilities and even younger people who survive it can have long term health effects. Those are not being counted. The government is also locking down in Labour voting areas more than conservative ones, even when the spread has been worse in conservative areas. Leaked emails have revealed this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSiUv4g-rR4
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  41.  @Kraken54321  Covid is certainly worse than the common cold which rarely kills people. Pneumonia can be a result of Covid as well as blood clotting, strokes and organ damage. Some people get it that badly and other people hardly notice the symptoms but the death rate would be far worse if not for preventative measures to avoid out of control spreading, and good hospital treatment. The death rate is probably understated in the UK because in the beginning only those who were tested had deaths attributed to Covid and tests were only done once people got to hospital. Loads of people died untested in care homes and so were not counted. An independent rough check is provided by the measure of the rise in deaths this year compared to previous years. This is called the' excess deaths figure' which includes deaths from all causes. That had certainly gone up well beyond the declared Covid death figures.
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  42.  @Kraken54321  No it isn't unless they've tested positive for Covid. On the other hand people who've had Covid for more than 28 days and die are not counted at all.
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  43.  Arran Robeson  They've not taken away my freedom and liberty. I choose to co-operate with public health guidance for the benefit of the community. People pulled together like that in WW2 and didn't whine about it.
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  44.  @Kraken54321  Yes because that is openly declared as the instruction given to medics in relation to Covid stats. There were thousands who died in care homes though who were never tested for Covid although they showed all the symptoms. The handling of the pandemic and date collection was messed up but as I've said before the independent check figure is the excess death figure in time of Covid compared to previous years. That means deaths from all causes this year compared to deaths from all causes in previous years. Last time I saw that a few months ago the excess deaths were 60,000 when the Covid deaths data was 45,000. This indicates Covid deaths were more likely understated rather than overstated. Since then they've dropped out 5k deaths where patients had tested positive for Covid but died after 28 days.
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  45.  @Kraken54321  ???They already know. The government are the ones who decided not to count anyone who tested positive but died after 28 days.
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  46.  @Kraken54321  I don't know why they don't collect data on recovery rates. I wondered myself but often things are not done if it costs money and it's not considered essential. There have been films of hospitals filling up with Covid patients earlier in the epidemic. There are some on youtube if you look but journalists only put themselves at risk and get in the way of medics to be doing too much of that. The government usually pumps extra money into the service to deal with Winter flu but there have been occasions in the past when people were lying in corridors or waiting in ambulances outside the hospital because there weren't enough beds so they have been overwhelmed to the extent that patients were not always getting treatment when they needed it. In the time of Covid hospitals were reluctant to take patients from care homes for fear of being overwhelmed. My brother in law was in hospital with Covid earlier this year. My sister was not allowed to visit for fear of contracting Covid but then the hospital told her they would have to send him home to her as 'the government wanted the beds'. Hospitals can easily become overwhelmed in situations where you have a pandemic and seasonal flu at the same time. There isn't the spare capacity in terms of beds and intensive care beds because of the cuts over the years. To be fair though, health ssystems around the world have been in danger of being overwhelmed. I've seen videos of dead bodies in Mexico stored in lorries in the street because the morgues were full and hearses queueing up for the cemeteries. In the time of Spanish flu, in the USA in some places bodies were abandoned on the streets.
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  47.  @Kraken54321  I don't think they are collected but you could guesstimate from these figures from countries that do collect them assuming a certain amount of accuracy and honesty https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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  48.  Arran Robeson  How is recovery defined? when people are no longer infectious? When they leave hospital? A lot of people never go to hospital or don't experience symptoms or contact with medics after their test and some continue to have longer term health problems. It's a bit difficult to see how accurate figures can be produced but if you take the world figures for instance, they show that 75% of people have recovered. That percentage may be higher in reality because not all countries collect or publish the data. Most people recover from pneumonia but you wouldn't want to get it. I've had pneumonia and I'd never want to get it again. Same with Covid for many people. Most will recover but you wouldn't want to catch it if you could avoid it.
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  49.  Arran Robeson  It's not a scam. My brother in law has had Covid and had a stroke during it and has had 2 more since 'recovering'. Just go back to comforting yourself with your conspiracy theories. I've got no time for them.
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  50.  Arran Robeson  I've tried to explain as best I can. I think you now need to figure it out for yourself.
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