Wishing you and Mrs Col...the mildest of "ordinary" colds..and a negative test. Fingers crossed.
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Hope it's just a regular winter cold mate - nurseries up here are closed, except for key workers kids
Thank you for this mis information. Are you part of many thousands that are flooding the web With info to protect China?
Will the WHO arrive and find the wet market Is replaced by a new building? What’s happening to all those pro democracy people in Hong Kong... the ones who have a disappeared?
Oh by the way How are the Uighur’s doing? According to your government it’s all lies and they are living happily?
Funny how you only turn up when China is mentioned? Go away and take your fake account with you.
Surprised our own posters actually liked your post ( bar Watford).
Since end of August, schools were issued test kits and should be ordering more as required for regular testing of staff. It was part of the reopening plans after summer break.
They were issued them and received handfuls for hundreds, sometimes thousands of children. All the best Col.
According to Aljazerah news site "China" is right.. The WHO investigation team is due there tomorrow. What they will find I have no idea though.
Plenty of time to cover up...if there was something to cover up.
Beth, I was saying they were denied entry... which they were. I don't know about now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55555466
The whole thing is as dodgy as bat soup followed by cream of dog and bat pate. Anyone who ever questions China about Covid they seem to disappear... a bit like the journalist Chen Quishi... who after disappearing apparently is okay according to a "friend"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-february-found-says-friend-chen-qiushi-china
However Chen is fine according to his "friend" and doesn't want to be seen ever again.
As for agent FG4432R565G... anytime you mention anything about China he pops up. Do they really think the World is that stupid?
It’s good when people pop in especially if they’re bringing some sort of different perspective or expertise.
You’ve got Jeff onside though, so all good.
Maybe he can see through this as well.
Anyway I like different opinions... Maybe that ChinaSaint fellow would explain something to me about Tiananmen Square?
Watch out Jeff you liking a post of mine has put you in the 'Usual suspect Bad book'. When posting on the clique thread be prepared to be shot down with every post unless you moan about the government.
Hello all, just thought I’d pop in to give you a bit of a perspective of what we as a service are dealing with and how we are coping.
I was lucky enough to have a few weeks off over Christmas and missed the start of the chaos. To be honest I needed it as was feeling burnt out, emotional and my MH was at rock bottom. I’d had a couple of horrible weeks that involved 3 cardiac arrests, a bloke who had been stabbed 15 times with a key, another who had been hacked to pieces (literally) with a machete (I got cancelled on that one thank ****) and finally a hanging (my first proper one).
I’ve now been back for one weekend of nights and sadly it’s only getting worse. Approximately 80% of our jobs are COVID related, and many of these patients are in real difficulty.....O2 sats of below 90% and really struggling. Of course you have those who simply can’t look after themselves and really need to man up, however most are genuinely sick. An interesting thing we have noted a few times is ‘silent hypoxia’, where the patient isn’t struggling for breath, looks ok but when you check their Oxygen levels they can be running at 85% or so. Many times I’ve checked my equipment thinking it had gone wrong, only to find it really is working fine.
Most of these, if not all, hit our criteria for going to hospital and there is where the ‘log jam’ occurs. We can wait for anything up to 9 hours to handover at hospital (so I’ve been told, however I was lucky and only had a maximum of 1 hour to offload). Adding to that the ambulance has to be cleaned after for IPC, it turns what could of been a 30 minute turnaround into a 2 hour turnaround....leading of course to no ambulances being on the road. There have been anything up to 650 calls holding at anyone time and the claps have definitely been replaced by the ‘Where the **** have you been ?’
Of course the bullshit calls are still coming in and there is nothing more frustrating than dealing with crap when they are having to GB Cardiac arrests...totally does my head in. For example this weekend i had a patient who complained of having chest pain, who had locked himself out of his flat....miraculously this chest pain vanished after I had climbed through is window and let him in.....funny that !!!
So where do we go from here ? I’m being totally pessimistic and feel the end really is in sight. With the vaccine finally being dished out I honestly think this is the endgame and things will at sometime soon be returning to some kind of ‘normal’.
I had my first dose of vaccine this morning and was amazed at how easy the process was....it must be a gigantic task and all credit due to the massive army of students and volunteers who are getting on with it. I made no secret a while back that I was totally against the first ‘lockdown’ as I felt, and still feel, it was a case of ‘kicking the can down the road’ and just hoping for the best. However with the vaccine now here, I’d be saying that a lockdown probably is for the best....it’s hopefully only a few months and many, many more people will be vaccinated thus leading to normality.
I also think, and it is only my logical opinion, that it probably is best for most people to get one dose and the second dose be delayed, except for the most vulnerable. Surely it’s better to have 20 million people 80% protected rather than 10 million people 90% protected ?
Anyway, if you got to the end of this then well done. I hope you are all well and that life is good. I personally still have my ups and downs, have my anger and MH issues and probably best I stay off the board....wishing harm and violence on someone really isn’t a good look and there would only be one person who looked like a **** (yep, that would be me.
I still mostly love the job and nothing can beat the buzz of driving at 70 mph on blue lights, through traffic, playing ‘Firestarter’ by the Prodigy at full blast....it has its good points and I get paid for it, though sometimes I feel like Nicolas Cage in ‘Bringing out the Dead’.
Besides if it gets too much I could soon go delivering shopping for Tesco......my choice.
The good thing is that having Charlie back has really reignited my passion in our team again and him scoring last night has given me a massive buzz....long may the feeling last
Bella Ciao Comrades
Stainsey
I was lucky enough to have a few weeks off over Christmas and missed the start of the chaos. To be honest I needed it as was feeling burnt out, emotional and my MH was at rock bottom. I’d had a couple of horrible weeks that involved 3 cardiac arrests, a bloke who had been stabbed 15 times with a key, another who had been hacked to pieces (literally) with a machete (I got cancelled on that one thank ****) and finally a hanging (my first proper one).
I’ve now been back for one weekend of nights and sadly it’s only getting worse. Approximately 80% of our jobs are COVID related, and many of these patients are in real difficulty.....O2 sats of below 90% and really struggling. Of course you have those who simply can’t look after themselves and really need to man up, however most are genuinely sick. An interesting thing we have noted a few times is ‘silent hypoxia’, where the patient isn’t struggling for breath, looks ok but when you check their Oxygen levels they can be running at 85% or so. Many times I’ve checked my equipment thinking it had gone wrong, only to find it really is working fine.
Most of these, if not all, hit our criteria for going to hospital and there is where the ‘log jam’ occurs. We can wait for anything up to 9 hours to handover at hospital (so I’ve been told, however I was lucky and only had a maximum of 1 hour to offload). Adding to that the ambulance has to be cleaned after for IPC, it turns what could of been a 30 minute turnaround into a 2 hour turnaround....leading of course to no ambulances being on the road. There have been anything up to 650 calls holding at anyone time and the claps have definitely been replaced by the ‘Where the **** have you been ?’
Of course the bullshit calls are still coming in and there is nothing more frustrating than dealing with crap when they are having to GB Cardiac arrests...totally does my head in. For example this weekend i had a patient who complained of having chest pain, who had locked himself out of his flat....miraculously this chest pain vanished after I had climbed through is window and let him in.....funny that !!!
So where do we go from here ? I’m being totally pessimistic and feel the end really is in sight. With the vaccine finally being dished out I honestly think this is the endgame and things will at sometime soon be returning to some kind of ‘normal’.
I had my first dose of vaccine this morning and was amazed at how easy the process was....it must be a gigantic task and all credit due to the massive army of students and volunteers who are getting on with it. I made no secret a while back that I was totally against the first ‘lockdown’ as I felt, and still feel, it was a case of ‘kicking the can down the road’ and just hoping for the best. However with the vaccine now here, I’d be saying that a lockdown probably is for the best....it’s hopefully only a few months and many, many more people will be vaccinated thus leading to normality.
I also think, and it is only my logical opinion, that it probably is best for most people to get one dose and the second dose be delayed, except for the most vulnerable. Surely it’s better to have 20 million people 80% protected rather than 10 million people 90% protected ?
Anyway, if you got to the end of this then well done. I hope you are all well and that life is good. I personally still have my ups and downs, have my anger and MH issues and probably best I stay off the board....wishing harm and violence on someone really isn’t a good look and there would only be one person who looked like a **** (yep, that would be me.
I still mostly love the job and nothing can beat the buzz of driving at 70 mph on blue lights, through traffic, playing ‘Firestarter’ by the Prodigy at full blast....it has its good points and I get paid for it, though sometimes I feel like Nicolas Cage in ‘Bringing out the Dead’.
Besides if it gets too much I could soon go delivering shopping for Tesco......my choice.
The good thing is that having Charlie back has really reignited my passion in our team again and him scoring last night has given me a massive buzz....long may the feeling last
Bella Ciao Comrades
Stainsey
I was waffling with Watford and missed the post. Sorry to hear this Col, I hope she is okay and gets well soon.
Hang in there mate. Hope you don’t ever have to come to Bracknell. Not because of the nature of the job, it’s just a dive.
Ellers, you say you like different opinions, yet whenever I offer one you are condescending about China. I am not sure what the wet market will look like when the WHO team arrive, it may have been replaced, I am not in Wuhan so cannot comment on that.
The pro-democracy people in Hong Kong were guilty of civil unrest, they caused major upheaval in the city during 2019 and had such an event happened in the UK I am sure the government there would have arrested those guilty as well. Yet, this is another example of double standards where the media is trying to paint a false picture of events and not send out a truthful message.
The Uighurs, mostly living in Xinjiang province are ok, no civil unrest in that region for a number of years now. The internment camps are actually training centres where people go from Monday to Friday to learn a trade so that they can improve their lives. At the weekends, if they wish they are free to go to their homes. None of that is reported in the western media.
Most of the anti-China rhetoric through the Uighur’s is sourced through an An Australian think tank, largely funded by the government of the USA, articles are written by someone that has never set foot inside China, so how would he know what is happening on the ground?
Here is a link to that think tank, so you can see for yourself the level of biased reporting.
https://johnmenadue.com/agents-of-f...ut-the-australian-strategic-policy-institute/
Here are some links to websites about the people of Xinjiang, so if you wish you can educate yourself on what life is like there for the ordinary people of that region.
http://en.chinaxinjiang.cn/
http://english.ts.cn/xinjiang/
and a response from the Chinese government after Dominic Raab outburst earlier this week
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-01-...rced-labor-in-Xinjiang--WY1DTNKPyU/index.html
You wrote, according to my government, it is not my government. If you bothered to look at my profile, instead of ranting about my being in your opinion a fake account, you would see I am from the UK. I chose to live here as my wife and son were born here. I have a better life here than I had back in the UK.
You also mentioned about Tiananmen Square, what would you like to know? Are you thinking of visiting?
I hope this rather long reply has answered your questions.
Can you answer a question for me! My question is, what are the benefits to the UK of Brexit? I have many Chinese friends here who are constantly asking why the UK chose to leave the EU, I am unable to give a satisfactory answer, I thought maybe you could offer an explanation, thanks, in advance.
The pro-democracy people in Hong Kong were guilty of civil unrest, they caused major upheaval in the city during 2019 and had such an event happened in the UK I am sure the government there would have arrested those guilty as well. Yet, this is another example of double standards where the media is trying to paint a false picture of events and not send out a truthful message.
The Uighurs, mostly living in Xinjiang province are ok, no civil unrest in that region for a number of years now. The internment camps are actually training centres where people go from Monday to Friday to learn a trade so that they can improve their lives. At the weekends, if they wish they are free to go to their homes. None of that is reported in the western media.
Most of the anti-China rhetoric through the Uighur’s is sourced through an An Australian think tank, largely funded by the government of the USA, articles are written by someone that has never set foot inside China, so how would he know what is happening on the ground?
Here is a link to that think tank, so you can see for yourself the level of biased reporting.
https://johnmenadue.com/agents-of-f...ut-the-australian-strategic-policy-institute/
Here are some links to websites about the people of Xinjiang, so if you wish you can educate yourself on what life is like there for the ordinary people of that region.
http://en.chinaxinjiang.cn/
http://english.ts.cn/xinjiang/
and a response from the Chinese government after Dominic Raab outburst earlier this week
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-01-...rced-labor-in-Xinjiang--WY1DTNKPyU/index.html
You wrote, according to my government, it is not my government. If you bothered to look at my profile, instead of ranting about my being in your opinion a fake account, you would see I am from the UK. I chose to live here as my wife and son were born here. I have a better life here than I had back in the UK.
You also mentioned about Tiananmen Square, what would you like to know? Are you thinking of visiting?
I hope this rather long reply has answered your questions.
Can you answer a question for me! My question is, what are the benefits to the UK of Brexit? I have many Chinese friends here who are constantly asking why the UK chose to leave the EU, I am unable to give a satisfactory answer, I thought maybe you could offer an explanation, thanks, in advance.
Ah bless did your line leader allow you to reply?
So the people in Hong Kong were guilt of Civil unrest?
The Uighurs are okay?
I'm sure posters on here will be able to see through you now.
Why did the Chinese government try to run people over with tanks?