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"In shielding hospitals from COVID-19, Britain left the weakest exposed"

This in-depth report will make your blood boil. State sanctioned murder by neglect. reuters.com/investigates/s…
"According to several care home managers, a key route for infection was opened up by an NHS decision taken in mid-March [to] transfer 15,000 patients out of hospitals and back into the community, including an unspecified number of patients to care homes."

Words fail me.
I've looked into the changing nature of the Government policy on care homes in greater detail in the thread below...
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Andy Serkis is reading The Hobbit live for charity! #Hobbitathon

He's singing all the songs too - it works so well! Brilliant.
I just got the "Golfimbul" pun, and I must have read The Hobbit a dozen times!
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"The UK government handed a contract to feed more than a million pupils eligible for free school meals to a company with fewer than 150 staff"

French firm, no competitive tender, handling £234 million in vouchers.

Odd. Is there some inside connection?
theguardian.com/society/2020/m…
Here's a bit more background to the story. Still doesn't reveal the connection, if any, but gives a better idea of the size of the contract - and of the firm's failure to provide adequate service.
schoolsweek.co.uk/edenreds-natio…
And here's some more insight into the disastrous performance of the scheme, which has left many kids going hungry...
schoolsweek.co.uk/how-the-govern…
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Matt Hancock on 12 April, boasting about having increased the NHS's critical care capacity.

(Of course, there was a policy in place to free up 15,000 hospital beds in double quick time by discharging everyone ASAP - including infected and untested patients back into care homes.)
It's like the mayor of a town crowing about its citizens having enough to eat., without mentioning that's because all the neighbouring villages were raided and their food stocks stolen, and all the growing crops were ripped from surrounding fields.
And here's Matt Hancock, 3 days later on 15 April, announcing that FROM THEN there would be a policy of testing all patients before they're released into care homes.
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