There was a partial deferral of Social Security payroll taxes in the last quarter of 2020. I thought that these would need to be repaid this year by employees, but I’m not seeing any news stories about this.
There was pushback by some companies on allowing the deferral, but I thought that it was applied at the governmental level.
It was my thoughts that the employees would have to pay it back this year. You know and to my knowledge, Biden was a proponent of cutting SS benefits. I guess I will have to research it a bit.
March 16, 2021 The UK Government’s Pandemic Shame By SANJEEV KRISHNA and YOLANDA AUGUSTIN
COVID-19 infections and deaths in the United Kingdom are now falling, largely as a result of a rapid nationwide vaccine rollout. But the government’s incompetent provision of personal protective equipment means that frontline health-care workers remain in the pandemic’s crosshairs.
London – Many rich countries have at times failed to provide enough personal protective equipment (PPE) for their health-care workers during the coronavirus pandemic. But the performance of the United Kingdom’s government – which has repeatedly urged the public to “Clap for Our Carers” – has been particularly shameful.
Although the government’s vaccination drive now dominates the headlines, we must not lose sight of the fact that at least 850 health- and social-care workers in England died from COVID-19 between March and December 2020. And these workers remain at risk.
The medical professionals who lost their lives include Peter Tun, a senior doctor managing COVID-19 patients at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, who pleaded for vital PPE supplies three weeks before he died from the disease last April. Similarly, Andrew Ekene Nwankwo, a locum nurse at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, died of COVID-19 after desperately trying to buy his own PPE online. How many other UK health-care workers would still be alive had the right equipment been available?
The UK has so far recorded more than 4.2 million COVID-19 cases and over 125,000 deaths. The exact number of infections among patient-facing health workers is not known. But one study estimated that they accounted for around 10% of all cases between April and June 2020, with health-care workers being six times more likely to become infected than the general population.
A separate study in late April 2020 found that health-care workers in Birmingham had a rate of seroprevalence – the presence of antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, indicating previous infection – that was four times higher than the local population as a whole (24% versus 6%). These figures do not include the first peak of the pandemic in the UK in late March and early April.
At the end of March 2020, one in four National Health Service doctors were sick or in isolation, according to the Royal College of Physicians. With the NHS facing a PPE supply crisis, the British Medical Association (BMA) reported that some doctors and nurses – like Nwankwo – were buying their own face masks in order to come to work.
You are not a dumb person. If you can not figure out how to properly C&P an article, then edit it so people can follow it, or do not do it. Why is it, I can post y0ur article and you can’t? You should be able to at least get the link correct.
LONDON – Many rich countries have at times failed to provide enough personal protective equipment (PPE) for their health-care workers during the coronavirus pandemic. But the performance of the United Kingdom’s government – which has repeatedly urged the public to “Clap for Our Carers” – has been particularly shameful.
Although the government’s vaccination drive now dominates the headlines, we must not lose sight of the fact that at least 850 health- and social-care workers in England died from COVID-19 between March and December 2020. And these workers remain at risk.
The medical professionals who lost their lives include Peter Tun, a senior doctor managing COVID-19 patients at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, who pleaded for vital PPE supplies three weeks before he died from the disease last April. Similarly, Andrew Ekene Nwankwo, a locum nurse at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, died of COVID-19 after desperately trying to buy his own PPE online. How many other UK health-care workers would still be alive had the right equipment been available?
The UK has so far recorded more than 4.2 million COVID-19 cases and over 125,000 deaths. The exact number of infections among patient-facing health workers is not known. But one study estimated that they accounted for around 10% of all cases between April and June 2020, with health-care workers being six times more likely to become infected than the general population.
A separate study in late April 2020 found that health-care workers in Birmingham had a rate of seroprevalence – the presence of antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, indicating previous infection – that was four times higher than the local population as a whole (24% versus 6%). These figures do not include the first peak of the pandemic in the UK in late March and early April.
At the end of March 2020, one in four National Health Service doctors were sick or in isolation, according to the Royal College of Physicians. With the NHS facing a PPE supply crisis, the British Medical Association (BMA) reported that some doctors and nurses – like Nwankwo – were buying their own face masks in order to come to work.
You seem to believe you can do or say whatever you wish to on this site without fear of reprisal for your comments and actions. You have been admonished by one author for your numerous unrelated comments on his post. I have asked you to take more time to properly post comments and you fall back on the problem we are having with the AB programming which we are working on as I write this to you. I will add to this, post comments which are related to the post’s topic.
Dan would not tolerate your nonsense and I will not either. I will delete your comments if need be and if necessary I will place you in “spam” which will block you. Your choice Anne.
Ron (RC) Weakley (A.K.A., Darryl For A While At EV) says:
Since we do not have time after my wife’s work day for three hours to make dinner, then I simmered our corned beef on Sunday adding in the yellow potatoes and then the cabbage quarters during the final hour of cooking. Yum! My secret ingredient is a half bottle of marsala wine to the cooking broth. With just two of us in the house then are getting meals for five days out of one pot. Best way to reheat is to put a meal with some saved broth in a covered casserole dish in a cold oven and turn on to bake 350F for about 50 minutes.
I have always cooked, but it took a global pandemic to get me baking bread again. Had not had to proof yeast since the late 70’s.
Ron (RC) Weakley (A.K.A., Darryl For A While At EV) says:
Freud wore a slip today, a Freudian slip that is. Somewhere A few minutes ago in a galaxy far, far away I wrote –
“…After 2008, then I began searching for an explanation, not for the crisis which I had seen coming for years, but for why most other people did not, people that were formerly educated and should have known…”
Of course I had meant to write “formally educated” instead of “formerly” but in this context that seems an ironic case of distinction without a difference. RIP, Sigmund, for you are ever on our tongues and fingers, even if not our minds.
There was a partial deferral of Social Security payroll taxes in the last quarter of 2020. I thought that these would need to be repaid this year by employees, but I’m not seeing any news stories about this.
There was pushback by some companies on allowing the deferral, but I thought that it was applied at the governmental level.
Jim:
It was my thoughts that the employees would have to pay it back this year. You know and to my knowledge, Biden was a proponent of cutting SS benefits. I guess I will have to research it a bit.
The UK Government’s Pandemic Shame
March 16, 2021 The UK Government’s Pandemic Shame By SANJEEV KRISHNA and YOLANDA AUGUSTIN
COVID-19 infections and deaths in the United Kingdom are now falling, largely as a result of a rapid nationwide vaccine rollout. But the government’s incompetent provision of personal protective equipment means that frontline health-care workers remain in the pandemic’s crosshairs.
London – Many rich countries have at times failed to provide enough personal protective equipment (PPE) for their health-care workers during the coronavirus pandemic. But the performance of the United Kingdom’s government – which has repeatedly urged the public to “Clap for Our Carers” – has been particularly shameful.
Although the government’s vaccination drive now dominates the headlines, we must not lose sight of the fact that at least 850 health- and social-care workers in England died from COVID-19 between March and December 2020. And these workers remain at risk.
The medical professionals who lost their lives include Peter Tun, a senior doctor managing COVID-19 patients at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, who pleaded for vital PPE supplies three weeks before he died from the disease last April. Similarly, Andrew Ekene Nwankwo, a locum nurse at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, died of COVID-19 after desperately trying to buy his own PPE online. How many other UK health-care workers would still be alive had the right equipment been available?
The UK has so far recorded more than 4.2 million COVID-19 cases and over 125,000 deaths. The exact number of infections among patient-facing health workers is not known. But one study estimated that they accounted for around 10% of all cases between April and June 2020, with health-care workers being six times more likely to become infected than the general population.
A separate study in late April 2020 found that health-care workers in Birmingham had a rate of seroprevalence – the presence of antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, indicating previous infection – that was four times higher than the local population as a whole (24% versus 6%). These figures do not include the first peak of the pandemic in the UK in late March and early April.
At the end of March 2020, one in four National Health Service doctors were sick or in isolation, according to the Royal College of Physicians. With the NHS facing a PPE supply crisis, the British Medical Association (BMA) reported that some doctors and nurses – like Nwankwo – were buying their own face masks in order to come to work.
Anne:
You are not a dumb person. If you can not figure out how to properly C&P an article, then edit it so people can follow it, or do not do it. Why is it, I can post y0ur article and you can’t? You should be able to at least get the link correct.
LONDON – Many rich countries have at times failed to provide enough personal protective equipment (PPE) for their health-care workers during the coronavirus pandemic. But the performance of the United Kingdom’s government – which has repeatedly urged the public to “Clap for Our Carers” – has been particularly shameful.
Although the government’s vaccination drive now dominates the headlines, we must not lose sight of the fact that at least 850 health- and social-care workers in England died from COVID-19 between March and December 2020. And these workers remain at risk.
The medical professionals who lost their lives include Peter Tun, a senior doctor managing COVID-19 patients at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, who pleaded for vital PPE supplies three weeks before he died from the disease last April. Similarly, Andrew Ekene Nwankwo, a locum nurse at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, died of COVID-19 after desperately trying to buy his own PPE online. How many other UK health-care workers would still be alive had the right equipment been available?
The UK has so far recorded more than 4.2 million COVID-19 cases and over 125,000 deaths. The exact number of infections among patient-facing health workers is not known. But one study estimated that they accounted for around 10% of all cases between April and June 2020, with health-care workers being six times more likely to become infected than the general population.
A separate study in late April 2020 found that health-care workers in Birmingham had a rate of seroprevalence – the presence of antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, indicating previous infection – that was four times higher than the local population as a whole (24% versus 6%). These figures do not include the first peak of the pandemic in the UK in late March and early April.
At the end of March 2020, one in four National Health Service doctors were sick or in isolation, according to the Royal College of Physicians. With the NHS facing a PPE supply crisis, the British Medical Association (BMA) reported that some doctors and nurses – like Nwankwo – were buying their own face masks in order to come to work.
anne:
You seem to believe you can do or say whatever you wish to on this site without fear of reprisal for your comments and actions. You have been admonished by one author for your numerous unrelated comments on his post. I have asked you to take more time to properly post comments and you fall back on the problem we are having with the AB programming which we are working on as I write this to you. I will add to this, post comments which are related to the post’s topic.
Dan would not tolerate your nonsense and I will not either. I will delete your comments if need be and if necessary I will place you in “spam” which will block you. Your choice Anne.
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
Since we do not have time after my wife’s work day for three hours to make dinner, then I simmered our corned beef on Sunday adding in the yellow potatoes and then the cabbage quarters during the final hour of cooking. Yum! My secret ingredient is a half bottle of marsala wine to the cooking broth. With just two of us in the house then are getting meals for five days out of one pot. Best way to reheat is to put a meal with some saved broth in a covered casserole dish in a cold oven and turn on to bake 350F for about 50 minutes.
I have always cooked, but it took a global pandemic to get me baking bread again. Had not had to proof yeast since the late 70’s.
Freud wore a slip today, a Freudian slip that is. Somewhere A few minutes ago in a galaxy far, far away I wrote –
“…After 2008, then I began searching for an explanation, not for the crisis which I had seen coming for years, but for why most other people did not, people that were formerly educated and should have known…”
Of course I had meant to write “formally educated” instead of “formerly” but in this context that seems an ironic case of distinction without a difference. RIP, Sigmund, for you are ever on our tongues and fingers, even if not our minds.