Yeah I’m getting quite an extensive amount of cosmetic stuff done mate, they didn’t test me for the initial consultation and check up.
I haven't had the Chinese Flu, no. I know one person who supposedly had it and thought he was going to die (he's a corpulent chap), so much so that he phoned his nearest and dearest and bade them adieu. However, I also know of at least one instance of an individual dying and having their unrelated death recorded as Chinese Flu, which seemed a little odd but which fits more easily with the various 'conspiracy' theories than any plausible medical reason. After all, what reasons are there for lying about the cause of death at a time of national hysteria, unless it's desirous to maintain that hysteria to some nefarious end?
It ****ing wasn't like, hospitals were overflowing with patients for nigh on 3 months, ITU beds were in massively short supply and they were spreading staff from ITU all over and into theatres where they were converting spaces into ITU beds, the patients were dying left right and centre as well. I know this as I was in the middle of it all
I lost my sense of smell about 4 weeks ago like barely just getting it back. How do you get these tests?
It ****ing was like. The average age of Covid-19 deaths is higher than the life expectancy. That’s an astonishing stat which highlights that it’s only the really elderly that it really harms. Nightingale hospitals were largely not needed so I’ll always question the overflow response, as well as seeing NHS staff constantly having the time to create social media videos. The media and government had the whole population ****ting themselves and that should never have been the case. We should have told the elderly to stay indoors and anybody under pension age to crack on living their lives and going to work. For a long time now every week we are having less deaths than the 5 year average. That’s because the elderly that were dying anyway sadly had their deaths brought forward a little early. When do people predict the second wave will happen? Packed beaches? BLM protests? There’s a spike now apparently amongst the 18-49. Loads of lads in South Tyneside I know are now testing positive and it’s turning into a joke because none of them knew they had it and hospital admissions are staying steady. That’s because it doesn’t effect the younger population and certainly not enough to strip us of our livelihoods. I’ve done a few months to protect the elderly but no chance will me and my kids be giving up any more of our lives for people who have already lived theirs. People could just as easily have passed on the flu in winter to some of the older relatives on any year previously which could have done them in. We don’t lock down for it and change our lives, though.
I know what I saw and dealt with. You can read and quote as many manipulated statistics without looking at the full picture of what happened within the walls of hospitals as you like. If it hits harder this winter than it did at the end of the last then it'll be horrendous. If beds run out which we were very close to doing and did in ITU, younger folk will be dying without oxygen therapy. For three months hospitals were overflowing with Covid patients, alarms were ringing within the walls as oxygen levels were running out and quick switches to big portable O2 bottles were needed before the supplies were automatically switched off due to the dangerously low levels. Without that O2 therapy many thousands more would've died. Seeing colleagues wheeled off to intensive care wasn't something I ever want to see again. It was bad enough dealing with the volume of deaths we were getting every day and we weren't just seeing one, it was numerous every single shift without seeing colleagues on deaths door. It was ****ing horrendous and no ****ing ****ty stats will change my mind on that front, what we dealt with in hospitals has led to PTSD in some of my colleagues. We get the odd Covid patient now and again (there are new bays closed to new patients because of it and the volumes are increasing again) and I can see the tears in the eyes of folk I work with as they dread it's coming back at us again.
Aye and I’m sorry you and your colleagues had to deal with it all. However, it is your jobs. You can scream and shout about all your bullshit that you want, but at the end of the day, it’s still bullshit. I’m also right about it not bothering the younger generation and all the points I made. Something you conveniently skipped over to tell me again that you work in a hospital. Yawn.
I agree with this one hundred percent, there's a lot of nonchalance around now, especially amongst the younger generations. Can't see the government committing to another full lockdown, I predict an even worse situation than the swine flu epidemic in 2009/10, you could not get hospital beds for many then, this will be much worse in my opinion.
Bullshit? I was there, nothing I've said is a lie, all of it happened ya ****ing melt. We had many patients under 50 sedated with tubes down their throats into their lungs keeping them alive. We had to open spaces in theatres as ITU beds to keep them alive. If it hits harder (no-one knows what will happen yet) we'll be running out of ITU beds rapidly as we were well over capacity as it was.
Interesting to look at it from afar as we've been pretty good here. Sun's out in the UK so some see it as being over. To coin a phrase from a popular TV series "Winter is coming" The Northern Hemisphere was lucky that it hit hardest at the end of winter, i can see the complacency of some causing a mega spike in a few months time.
