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Re: Pfizer vaccine approved

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slowsider wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 1:23 pm

Are they building a million quid facility to deliver the vaccine now then? I'd missed that.
I'm coming in halfway through this conversation, so may be out of context, but Mrs. G has been involved in the building of a vaccine centre in east London and apparently there's more springing up everywhere.
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millemille wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 2:16 pm
I run a business, as I'm sure do many on here, and I can't and don't hide from making a decision and communicating it and then accepting the plaudits if it was right or the brickbats if it was wrong. I'd expect nothing less from my, supposed, elders and betters...
There are different ways of saying the same thing - people hear what they want to hear and / or don't read between the lines. Sometimes you need to be subtle or kind or keep people onside.
In a meeting today, I wanted to tell a (more senior) colleague today to STFU and get back in his box. I found a different way of saying that because i have to work with the fecker next week. If I was top of the tree maybe I'd have just told him straight.

Politicians are skilled at trying to make the best out of every decision, every meeting. If they leave themselves open to too much criticism, they'll spend forever defending that rather than getting on with the job. Not really the same as running a business at all. I don't think they're all cnuts on purpose, they're human and to some extent it's an impossible task. Rather more responsibility that running most businesses I reckon.
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Re: Pfizer vaccine approved

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weeksy wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 1:51 pm
slowsider wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 1:23 pm
weeksy wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 12:42 pm

clearly, so what's your point ?

Did they know when it was coming ? How it needed to be handled ? Where it was coming from ? How the infection rate would be when it arrives ? Which areas needed to be first ?

It's so easy sitting at home saying "they should have been better prepared", but i doubt the reality is anything like that. Who will have trained these people ? Would that have been easy with a global pandemic on ?

Lets say they had buildings costing £1,000,000 a week and thousands of staff costing the same, all sitting there waiting and the vaccine had been rejected and not arrived for another 6 months, would you have been OK with that, all the buildings and people sitting there doing nothing for 6 months ?
Are they building a million quid facility to deliver the vaccine now then? I'd missed that.
No, they'll be renting them. They're not just going to do it in a gazebo at the local park are they ? They'll have facilities/locations for storing it, supplying it, trucks, warehouses, staff, lihgting, heating, distribution, they'll have doctors, specialists, nurses, they'll have support staff, admin staff.
Would Nightingale hospitals not be a good start?
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Re: Pfizer vaccine approved

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slowsider wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 3:33 pm
weeksy wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 1:51 pm
slowsider wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 1:23 pm

Are they building a million quid facility to deliver the vaccine now then? I'd missed that.
No, they'll be renting them. They're not just going to do it in a gazebo at the local park are they ? They'll have facilities/locations for storing it, supplying it, trucks, warehouses, staff, lihgting, heating, distribution, they'll have doctors, specialists, nurses, they'll have support staff, admin staff.
Would Nightingale hospitals not be a good start?
Sounds like a decent plan.
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Re: Pfizer vaccine approved

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slowsider wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 3:33 pm
weeksy wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 1:51 pm
slowsider wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 1:23 pm Are they building a million quid facility to deliver the vaccine now then? I'd missed that.
No, they'll be renting them.
Would Nightingale hospitals not be a good start?
Perhaps they are?

The Health Service Journal (HSJ) said that NHS England has told local leaders that each of the 42 health and care systems in England should have at least one mass vaccination site.

Senior sources told HSJ that a larger system could have two.


There are seven Nightingales. The Mirror 02.12.2020 reported:

Military personnel have been ordered to throw up makeshift vaccine sites at 10 locations. The Nightingale temporary hospital at the London ExCel centre and Epsom race course are among those being transformed into mass vaccination centres.
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Re: Pfizer vaccine approved

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millemille wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 2:16 pm I'm suggesting this government tell the truth for once.
Another conspiracy believer.

Just because the future frequently unfolds differently to what was expected doesn't mean that there is therefore a conspiracy.

Here's an uncomfortable truth for you: the only predictable thing about the future is that it is unpredictable.
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Re: Pfizer vaccine approved

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irie wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 5:36 pm
millemille wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 2:16 pm I'm suggesting this government tell the truth for once.
Another conspiracy believer.

Just because the future frequently unfolds differently to what was expected doesn't mean that there is therefore a conspiracy.

Here's an uncomfortable truth for you: the only predictable thing about the future is that it is unpredictable.
Oh do bugger off! This is the 21st century, it's not the bloody middle ages where you have to read goat entrails and feel seaweed to predict the future.

Don't ever apply to me for a project manager's job.
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Re: Pfizer vaccine approved

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millemille wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 6:26 pm
irie wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 5:36 pm
millemille wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 2:16 pm I'm suggesting this government tell the truth for once.
Another conspiracy believer.

Just because the future frequently unfolds differently to what was expected doesn't mean that there is therefore a conspiracy.

Here's an uncomfortable truth for you: the only predictable thing about the future is that it is unpredictable.
Oh do bugger off! This is the 21st century, it's not the bloody middle ages where you have to read goat entrails and feel seaweed to predict the future.

Don't ever apply to me for a project manager's job.
I'd be too scared in case you beat me to death with a chair.
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Re: Pfizer vaccine approved

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So one week in, with incomplete figures and Millemille is already rubbishing the figures ?

Deliveries of large quantities of vaccines will take time as will distribution but with the aim of 1000 vaccination centres ( reasonable to assume a centre would have more than 1 member if staff doing vaccines and without pushing it they should do 50 vaccinations a day per staff member which if they have 10 per centre gets to 500,000 a day .... halve that and in the 105 days until Easter that’s 26 million ( or 13 million if they do 2 per patient which is still a huge number of patients ) ..this will depend upon availability of vaccine and that is IMO going to be the big sticking point, not the administering to patients .


We should consider that in The first week they had to gear up with booking systems and inviting ( mainly elderly and computer illiterate patients) in for first appointments.. The next phase, like the way Covid testing developed, will see eligible people making their own appointments or simply having walk in vaccination sites where you can prove your eligibility and have a jab within a few minutes will see the daily numbers rocketing ( especially when several vaccines are approved and production gets ramped up )

I still think that getting the vast majority of ‘vulnerable category’ patients vaccinated by Easter is possible ...
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Can't they just send it all to Glasgow and tell people it's scag?
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Asian Boss wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 7:34 pm Can't they just send it all to Glasgow and tell people it's scag?
Save a fortune in fresh needles ...
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Re: Pfizer vaccine approved

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millemille wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 6:26 pm
irie wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 5:36 pm
millemille wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 2:16 pm I'm suggesting this government tell the truth for once.
Another conspiracy believer.

Just because the future frequently unfolds differently to what was expected doesn't mean that there is therefore a conspiracy.

Here's an uncomfortable truth for you: the only predictable thing about the future is that it is unpredictable.
Oh do bugger off! This is the 21st century, it's not the bloody middle ages where you have to read goat entrails and feel seaweed to predict the future.
In many cases it would be equally accurate
millemille wrote:Don't ever apply to me for a project manager's job.
FYI - Before being bought out in 2008 I was the absolute majority shareholder of a company which specialised in the ground up design and production of linear and nonlinear programming resource allocation packages marketed to food production corporations worldwide in over 60 countries. The company was even awarded the Queens Award for Export Achievement. lol

A Project Managers job? Hilarious! :lol:

ps - I was a specialist in Operations Research. Look it up. Bless.
weeksy wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 6:39 pm
I'd be too scared in case you beat me to death with a chair.
Scared? Nah, I used to hire and fire arrogant twats like millemille (see above).
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irie wrote: FYI - Before being bought out in 2008 I was the absolute majority shareholder of a company which specialised in the ground up design and production of linear and nonlinear programming resource allocation packages marketed to food production corporations worldwide in over 60 countries. The company was even awarded the Queens Award for Export Achievement. lol

A Project Managers job? Hilarious! :lol:

ps - I was a specialist in Operations Research. Look it up. Bless.


TBF that merely demonstrates you owned >50% of the shares. You could have just bought them after your granddad left you a load of money from his dog food business and still make that claim. :D
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 8:50 pm
irie wrote: FYI - Before being bought out in 2008 I was the absolute majority shareholder of a company which specialised in the ground up design and production of linear and nonlinear programming resource allocation packages marketed to food production corporations worldwide in over 60 countries. The company was even awarded the Queens Award for Export Achievement. lol

A Project Managers job? Hilarious! :lol:

ps - I was a specialist in Operations Research. Look it up. Bless.
TBF that merely demonstrates you owned >50% of the shares. You could have just bought them after your granddad left you a load of money from his dog food business and still make that claim. :D
No silver spoon in my mouth, I started the company from scratch with a partner in 1970 working evenings from home. After he later bailed out I kept ~66% of the company.

Nice try. But fail.
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Oh behave yourself, do you really think I actually believe you inherited your grandfathers dog food fortune :D

You may know about Operational Planning but have still failed to pick up the nuances of human communication.
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The old operational research game, hardest game in the world.

Hire the wrong arrogant project manager and BANG dog food everywhere.

What would grandfather say? :(
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 8:59 pm Oh behave yourself, do you really think I actually believe you inherited your grandfathers dog food fortune :D

You may know about Operational Planning but have still failed to pick up the nuances of human communication.
Nuance my ass.

It is not Operational Planning, it is Operations Research.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research
Operations research (British English: operational research) (OR) is a discipline that deals with the application of advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions.[1] Further, the term operational analysis is used in the British (and some British Commonwealth) military as an intrinsic part of capability development, management and assurance. In particular, operational analysis forms part of the Combined Operational Effectiveness and Investment Appraisals, which support British defence capability acquisition decision-making.

It is often considered to be a sub-field of mathematical sciences.[2] The terms management science and decision science are sometimes used as synonyms.[3]

Employing techniques from other mathematical sciences, such as mathematical modeling, statistical analysis, and mathematical optimization, operations research arrives at optimal or near-optimal solutions to complex decision-making problems.

Because of its emphasis on human-technology interaction and because of its focus on practical applications, operations research has overlap with other disciplines, notably industrial engineering and operations management, and draws on psychology and organization science.

Operations research is often concerned with determining the extreme values of some real-world objective: the maximum (of profit, performance, or yield) or minimum (of loss, risk, or cost). Originating in military efforts before World War II, its techniques have grown to concern problems in a variety of industries.[4]
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Don't know where to post this ...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/army ... oronavirus
Army develops spray to kill coronavirus

A novel disinfectant spray developed by the Army that can eliminate 99.99% of the Covid-19 virus will now be made available to the public and used by military personnel on the frontline as they support the battle against the virus.
... and its cheap too!
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irie wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:00 pm Don't know where to post this ...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/army ... oronavirus
Army develops spray to kill coronavirus

A novel disinfectant spray developed by the Army that can eliminate 99.99% of the Covid-19 virus will now be made available to the public and used by military personnel on the frontline as they support the battle against the virus.
... and its cheap too!
The Army has put Domestos into a spray bottle?

Or is it soapy water?
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Re: Pfizer vaccine approved

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Saga Lout wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:43 am
The Army has put Domestos into a spray bottle?

Or is it soapy water?

It'll be tea.