April 2020 - wasn’t this when bidding on as much PPE as possible was basically the government’s only hope?
Apologies for Daily Mail link, but these were the headlines at the time. Any minister worth their salt would have been on a Turkish runway with a suitcase full of treasury bonds, and instructions to buy whatever is available.
The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), which was responsible for purchasing and delivering Covid PPE, said it was unable to provide a statement due to the pre-election period
Cowards.
Hindsight is 20/20 and they couldn’t have known how long the pandemic was going to last, but yeesh what a waste.
So the government acted quickly, signed a contract for the delivery of PPE that was delivered. Then the pandemic died down and the PPE eventually was not needed.
I understand that these numbers are astronomical, but it does seem like it was done for the right reasons and in the right way.
For a government to get the volume they require, they need a supplier to scale up. A company scales up the way this supplier did requires investments and thus income. Meaning large orders.
And then this stuff has a 3 year shelf life meaning the existing contracts where sufficient for usage and the stock went to waste.
Can you imagine if the government had not made these provisions and the peak of the pandemic lasted 6 or 12 more months. This was an insurance premium… an expensive one… but an insurance premium. People don’t whine their house did not burn down even though they paid the premium.
My only dissapointment would be if it turns put elsewhere in the world there would have been an actual need for this stuff and instead of eating those costs, incineration was cheaper.
That was my fist thought. Like couldn’t they find a few warehouses or military bases or some place to put it? Even donating would have been better than destroying it.
So, maybe this is hindsight, but why were battery inspections and storage in the same location? If the batteries failed inspection (which I’m guessing the exploding ones would have, or at least do now) they should be kept separately from known good batteries right?
In other news. A factory fire in Hull, England received nothing more than local news coverage this week. Their product? Hand sanitizer. Turns out that 99% alcohol is really flamible.
I wonder why there’s such a huge disparity in news coverage between these two stories. I guess it’s because the building was evacuated successfully, right?
I think when if it would have been evacuated in time there would still be news coverage
People just love reading and therefore clicking stories that tell them that electric cars are bad and they should just continue buying gas powered vehicles instead of considering a change
Same as with that tanker that burned out on the coast of the Netherlands with some EVs on board
A lot of stories where covering it in a way that implied the fire was because of those EVs when in the end the level where they were stored was among the very few that was still intact - but that didn’t make the news…
2 a day is manageable from the stand point of what do you do with all these chopped off penises! You just get the specialty furnace lit up and you chuck the dicks in one at a time and watch as they ablate into a gas.
From the article, it sounds like the HPV vaccine would help prevent these penile cancers.
Refresh my memory… weren’t Republicans up in arms trying to prevent their children from getting the HPV vaccine?
Well, now I’m even more glad I got the HPV vaccine (I got the one for 9 types), damn.
I always thought it’d be possible that getting HPV could lead to a penile amputation like maybe in insanely rare cases, but holy fuck that 6500 seems like a large number to think about when you consider that 1 is too many.
I wonder how the result of an investigation of the IDF against itself will turn out. I’m sure there’s gonna be lots of „you you you“s been given out, not really for doing this in the first place but rather for the fact that they got caught on camera.
Small reminder that there is no evidence that it was Israel and that it is not uncommon for hamas to target Civilians, medical personnel and journalists wich aren’t from aljazeera.
Actually it’s extremely uncommon. In fact I haven’t seen Hamas do this a single time yet. 8 months of terror attacks on civilians in Gaza and it’s israel every single time
Aside from blatantly stupid claims with zero evidence, why would Hamas have any reason to waste any sort of resources and energy on their own people?
You could at least vaguely make a statement about human shields, but no let’s go with “obviously it was Hamas because it’s always Hamas, even when Israel itself says it wasn’t Hamas”
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