If you can hear ambulances that probably a sign there’s less covid. They didn’t have enough staff to crew them when it was prevalent. There’s not enough anyway, or not enough to allow so many to be tied up at HRI waiting to admit people. Me and Mrs Tash looked after an old man with an apparent heart attack in City centre on an evening (thought we’d lost him at one point, but he survived in the end) and were told it was a 2 hour wait for an ambulance. Was eventually 45 mins but still not fast for what the issue was
Meanwhile, there was an alcoholic living opposite me, who regularly fell down the stairs, or fell over and smacked his face on the pavement, who often kept ambulances occupied for hours on end. He sold his house to live off the proceeds, but then decided he'd sold it too cheap and had been robbed, so has been sleeping is his car in the garden as a protest. Two weeks ago, there were two coppers there for hours, must have been high on six hours, trying to shift him. So many resources being wasted.
As far as I know I haven't. Her indoors, and the lad both had it just before Christmas last year. I tested daily while they were both positive and came out negative each time. Since then occasional tests whenever someone I have been in contact with reports they have got it but same result.
I haven't (as far as I know). Same for missus, even though she works in schools. Both our 'kids' have though. Odd.
Wasn't sure weather to put this here or the conspiracy thread, significent 18% above average death rate and it's not covid.
Blimey, a big rise in excess deaths registered just after the hottest UK temperatures on record. Whatever could be the cause?
Well the microchip in my vaccine was activated last month and my 5G reception has never been better. Up yours, KCOM!
Football season has started. Going by the hysterical overreactions of some of our fans suicides could account for a lot of them.
I posted this last week but people were blaming the weather, excess non covid deaths have being happening for the last year and not just in the Uk https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Excess_mortality_-_statistics
Amazing stuff, the Telegraph article mentions Lockdown in the headline, then produces exactly zero evidence that a lockdown has anything to do with this. They say the DOH has "concern that the deaths are linked to delays to and deferment of treatment for conditions such as cancer". That sounds very plausible, but the cause is likely to be the pandemic, not the lockdown. Three reasons, 1) people were reluctant to visit GPs/hospitals due to fear of Covid; 2) appointments and operations cancelled because of a) Covid patients taking up beds/staff and b) staff shortages due to Covid. It could be argued that the lockdown would have stopped it being even worse as it kept the numbers of Covid patients and staff sick down. Perhaps I'm missing something, or maybe it's just the anti-lockdown people getting increasingly desperate for an argument in support. There's certainly nothing in the piss-poor Telegraph article to support blaming lockdown.
I'm not sure people were reluctant to visit a GP,they were discouraged from doing so!They were possibly put off going to Hospital because it was a spreading ground for the virus(my local hospital is filthy and always has been). My GP's practice 'locked down' and were extremely reluctant to see anyone(the door was locked and they weren't seeing people).On the one occasion I was 'summoned' to a face to face to discuss an abnormal liver blood result(which was 6 months ago), I thought he was going to operate as he was dressed in theatre scrubs,visor,mask,plastic disposable apron and disposable rubber gloves!!! He was off sick with 'alleged' Covid 5 or 6 times!! How the **** he caught it is one of life's mysteries.
