Moved from Wold View (which has shut) to Station Road Practice 3, I preferred Wold View myself. Pharmacy is Station Road as well.
Yes, the attitude of some, not all, at Practice 3 is not the best. Though since Humber Primary Care took over my original surgery has gone from a 10/10 to one where it is virtually impossible to get an appointment or to see a doctor. The large practice on Victoria Avenue is shutting and patients being moved to station approach as well. As I said in my original post, a money making exercise. It is ridiculous. They are closing surgeries in Brid, anything more than removal of a splinter requires a trip to a trip to Scarborough (need to see a cardiologist, have just got a letter from Scarborough informing me it will be in around 51 weeks time), yet they are building all those houses as you come into Brid and have announced a complex for elderly residents comprising of 162 dwellings on Pinfold Lane. How are they all going to be able to see a doctor?
GP's seem very keen to send patients to Scarborough. My wife has ended up going twice and the hospital's attitude is "why have you come here, see your GP" They need to make their collective minds up.
I like that it was “some of us knew.” They didn’t know. They just didn’t want a piece of cloth on their face. I imagine the Venn Diagram of people who thought Covid vaccines were killing people by the millions and the ones saying masks don’t work is a perfect circle. The consensus remains that masks are effective. I’ll bet you a tenner it remains that way. That Cochrane review is disingenuous at best and I suspect has been published to boost a specific agenda.
It isn't a them Vs. us situation that the media and authorities like to present. Clearly, the covid nazi comments don't do anyone any favours and are used to shut down any criticism of the handling of the pandemic. But there's a necessity to examine whether the public money spent was spent well, whether vaccines have caused long term damage to healthy ppl and surprisingly, where the virus originated from and how. Many governments want none of these three questions to be examined in any detail.
I agree that health studies are needed and it’s vital we find out how it originated so that we can better prepare in the future. That being said, the case is not being helped by a not-so-subtle “alt science” brigade who are paid to spread misinformation. The anti Covid measures industry (yeah, industry, how depressing is that?) is worth over a billion dollars world wide and it has taken great strides to sponsor papers, pay scientists and put out media pieces that further their project. What people deserve is the truth, nothing more. That doesn’t come from people on substack or a social media network. It comes from the people we know are reliable and know what they’re doing. Truth is in short supply at the moment; everything is framed as a conspiracy or a threat to “we the people” (vomited in my mouth saying that) which casts doubt on people who are working hard to better humanity. As hard a pill as it can be for some to swallow, the overwhelming majority of doctors, scientists and specialists know better than your average person. Whether that’s medically, geographically or environmentally, that’s the way it is. What’s great is that there’s little stopping anybody from studying to become a scientist and I’d hope that more young people take STEM subjects on for careers, goodness knows we need them.
Spent over 40 years as an industrial chemist in various roles, would highly recommend it as an interesting and varied career, fun too.
There's a certain arrogance about some claiming that views that oppose theirs are somehow liable to be from non-experts. That implies they consider themselves expert enough to make that differentiation, yet their comments don't always support that.
Of course doctors and others would never have an agenda, especially when they are after funding, would they?
Ohhh ohhh. That’s me. Except I didn’t claim anything of the sort. The scientific consensus is that masks prevent the spread of Covid and contributed to the slowing of the spread of the viruses (and still do). So anybody saying anything against the consensus is going to have to present a solid case that isn’t based on meta analysis of several different studies. It isn’t arrogance to be able to see the difference between somebody who is incorrect and somebody who is right. Nor is it arrogance to then challenge somebody who is incorrect who is saying they’re not.
I wondered who would assume it was for them. It says a lot you found the hat fitted. There's too much wrong with the rest of your post for me to respond fully to, only to say it seems to fit with the comments that you're responding to. The politicians may back your position, science doesn't.
Well that’s what I said. Scientists get lobbied and paid for just like any other sector would. Dangle a chance at a book publishing or a bag of cash towards a research project in front of them and they’ll be tempted. Happened to Michael Yeadon and Assem Malholtra.
Presumably those who are right are the ones who share your view and those who are incorrect are those who don’t?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65058119 There was a national Long Covid conference at Hull University in March, a friend who went said it's going to be years before we fully understand Covid - not like anything doctors have seen before
You posted it directly under my post and I’m the only one discussing an opposing view (also a bit depressing) at the moment, it was hardly a leap. Politicians don’t back my decisions, remember, they didn’t initially want to lock down. They heroically gave people “breaks” for Xmas. They didn’t think masks were needed (not based on science, but more on the fact that they didn’t think the British people would stand for such a thing.) It wasn’t until May 11 2020 that masks became a requirement, the government told people in the same breath that they were “following the science” (they weren’t) and that you could make a mask by putting a T-shirt over your face. Unbelievable.
