So are we saying 200k people a week need to self isolate for 14 days - so approx 400k at any one time?

It's more than likely double that figure.

Bearing in mind that until/unless a vaccine is found, all of us are going to be infected at one time or another.

And everyone wonders why track and trace wont work - 200k a week - say it takes 30 minutes a call that's 100k hours of calls a week if you can contact each person quickly. That's a big number

True. You can add to that the fact that the three main sites, Collindale, Manchester and Porton Down don't really get on with each other or coordinate particularly well.

It won't work now, but four months ago it would have, and we probably wouldn't now be looking at this dreadful scale of infection rise. It's a 35 million pound clusterf***. Not only did they set it up on an Excel spreadsheet (totally unbelievable) but they used the spreadsheet the wrong way around.

If you want to believe everything you read, that is. But what would The Sin bin without all the left wing bias.

Multiple threads, all about how useless the government are, not a single mention of the Labour 'plan' or Crignebins brother evoking hate and anti establishment gatherings....

I'd completely missed the bit where Labour won the election and we had their record in power to judge them by.
Distraction and whataboutery - this is all the hard right have left to cling to.

I think IR80 has a new username, folks.

Well there’s probably a good reason why we we can’t judge Labours record in power - and in all honesty with the current balls up of Covid & Brexit you’d still hardly know they exist

I would suggest you watch the many PMQ’s between Johnson and Starmer or the debate between Johnson and Miliband this year and you may realise that they do exist and find it rather easy to make the PM look clueless and irrelevant. The polls also show more people support Labour than the Cons and that Starmer is a better leader.
I wonder how many of the new red wall Conservatives will be voted back in next time, judging by how twitchy they have become they are already beginning to wonder if Johnson is the right man
How many of those impacted by Covid wished that Labour was in power. The private companies making millions won’t of course because they can just carry on milking the tax payer for as much as possible with the full backing of the Cons especially one minister.

Was it not Johnson who said it wasn’t despite being given many opportunities to do so. I suppose like many times in the past another minister needs to correct the confusion unnecessarily caused by his lack of preparation.