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It really caught me, I was surprised to see the 505 days figure and the concept of an 'occult' infection, made me wonder if people who had/have Long COVID were still infected in some deep-tissue way but we're no longer shedding?
Yep, I went to put deziel in the car yesterday and of the 9 people at the station only I had a mask on. Just because it isn't law anymore doesn't mean it's not wise or indeed not reccomended to do still...
Thanks man, I did. I didn't wear a mask but I tried to wash my hands often. Unfortunately hand sanitizer stations were few and far between and most of them were empty.
Great. All we needed to cap off the last 2 1/4 years.
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I wonder when the USA if ever will follow suit.Another UK COVID contract under investigation for shady allocation/incompetence:
Civil servants called UK Covid testing scheme ‘unlegit’, court hears
Details of emails released in Good Law Project challenge to awarding of contracts to Abingdon Health for antibody tests
One would hope so, or what are Public Spending Audit Offices for? :)
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Judging by how much the UK seems to have spent in total... my wallet is a little happier that we didn't.
So way more than 34 buggered off into the void. The same happens in the states with lots of line items given to specific targets for reasons most pertaining to lobby support buried in 100's of thousands of lines of law. While you could spend years digging into and reading the laws the end result after you throw up your fist in frustration is realizing that no one cares. That life goes on that tax money inevitably goes on to buy political favor and pay for keys (One would hope so, or what are Public Spending Audit Offices for? :)
The UK Track and Trace system spent £34 billion. As of this moment that's $42.5 billion in the almighty dolla.
Some local councils ran a local track and trace system and got success rates around the 90% mark where the national scheme fluctuated wildly between 40% and 80%, I've seen reports they spent around £900k on local tracing so lets square that at a nice round Million£ as an average spend.
From what I've been able to Google up, there are 398 local councils in the UK, so £398 million at a million per council if it had all been done locally with those assumed numbers, vs £34 billion for the national initiative as a whole...
If we are lenient and accept some aspects of the national initiative were used by the Local schemes, double that 398 million and then add another 5 billion just for the shits and giggles of it, there is a loooot of missing money there...
I'm wondering if the Audits can eventually track it all down? Where in the hell did £34 billion bugger off to?
- EDIT -
Because an idle mind is the Devils plaything, I types some letters into an engine of online search and found the following fact checker saying no one knows how much was spent and it was only the budget which was £37 billion, and may not be the actual money spent:
NHS Test and Trace has not spent £37bn so far - Full Fact
A post on social media uses the total two-year Test and Trace budget to make misleading claims about where the money is going.
So there we go, expected spend was merely £20 billion. Still a bit more than local initiates could assumed to have been :)
Remember the old joke? "A couple billion here....a couple billion there...soon you're talking real money..."
