Nightingale Hospitals

Nano said:
In fairness, the news reports coming out of Italy were that we would need mass dorm size hospital wards to cope with the sheer amount of people dying of covid so a lot of stuff was bought in a panic to ensure that something was there.
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Yep. Mass hysteria created, everyone expected to die. Quite a few on here screaming that we didn't have enough PPE and we should buy some at any cost.

A minority on this message board were called conspiracy idiots when calling out the hysteria.
 
The_Tiler said:
Yep. Mass hysteria created, everyone expected to die. Quite a few on here screaming that we didn't have enough PPE and we should buy some at any cost.

A minority on this message board were called conspiracy idiots when calling out the hysteria.
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Instead they just sent all the old people back to care homes to die so the nightingales weren't needed.

I'm sure they all shared your 'mass hysteria' view.
 
Fatmlad said:
During the pandemic, 9,000 beds and mattresses were bought – at a cost to the NHS of £24m – for the Government’s Nightingale hospitals which lay largely empty.

From our investigations with the Daily Mirror, we can now reveal that 6,000 of these beds were not fit for clinical use, and have been sold off for only £410,000.

We found that in some cases, beds bought for thousands of pounds were being flogged for as little as £6 each.

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Read the full story

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the really sad thing is, ... is that nobody is interested,!!
 
The_Tiler said:
Yep. Mass hysteria created, everyone expected to die. Quite a few on here screaming that we didn't have enough PPE and we should buy some at any cost.

A minority on this message board were called conspiracy idiots when calling out the hysteria.
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Lots did die, did you miss it or were you too busy telling people it didn't exist?
 
Brian Marwood said:
It is true and it’s what traders have been doing since trading began centuries ago.

Why does this surprise you?
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Because I don't know anything about trading on that scale and have never had much to do with people who are in that line of work. So the whole Idea of the large amount of money involved is way beyond anything I can even imagine. I have never had the type of finances to be involved so I have never seen the point in learning about it, that includes stocks and shares I have never had the spare finances to invest in them so I have never tried to learn about them. So when I did hear somebody casually talking about millions of pounds I found it fascinating and scary in equal measure.
 
Druss_The_Legend said:
I was speaking to somebody A while back at a family BBQ at my in-laws and the person I was speaking too son worked in the city and they where telling me how when the price of oil dropped during the pandemic A lot of people got very rich by basically getting barrels of oil for next to nothing, storing them and then making huge profits once prices stabilised.
As I said this is 3rd hand information and I'm not sure if this is true or not and I'm not clever enough to know the logistical side of this, but it really wouldn't suprise me.
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I had heard the same story at the time.
 
Trug said:
I had heard the same story at the time
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There was an extremely small window where the future price of a barrel of oil actually dropped into negative territory (from memory $-16) due to the potential cost of long term storage. I'm sure people who knew what they were doing made hay.
 
Druss_The_Legend said:
I was speaking to somebody A while back at a family BBQ at my in-laws and the person I was speaking too son worked in the city and they where telling me how when the price of oil dropped during the pandemic A lot of people got very rich by basically getting barrels of oil for next to nothing, storing them and then making huge profits once prices stabilised.
As I said this is 3rd hand information and I'm not sure if this is true or not and I'm not clever enough to know the logistical side of this, but it really wouldn't suprise me.
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That's how banks work, in part at least; buying cheap and selling high.

Literally money for nothing.

There's a place for it of course, its the bedrock of modern capitalism and the first world economy, but its guilty of contributing to the wealth gap which is damaging lives.
 
The_Tiler said:
Yep. Mass hysteria created, everyone expected to die. Quite a few on here screaming that we didn't have enough PPE and we should buy some at any cost.

A minority on this message board were called conspiracy idiots when calling out the hysteria.
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We didn't have enough PPE because the Tories decided that having a rolling stock of emergency equipment for the highly predictable (and predicted) pandemic wasn't a good way to syphon money from the state.

I don't remember anyone saying that buying at any cost was a good idea. I do remember plenty of people being enraged at the utter incompetence of our Government - largely for all the reasons that are being covered by this inquiry.
 
The_Tiler said:
Yep. Mass hysteria created, everyone expected to die. Quite a few on here screaming that we didn't have enough PPE and we should buy some at any cost.

A minority on this message board were called conspiracy idiots when calling out the hysteria.
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I was one of them, I actually had my account deleted because of the uproar that common sense brought to the table.
There were some posters on here who were adamant that Hartlepool's hospital was about to be transformed into a 'Covid only' treatment centre.
 
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