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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,021
Deleted member 5849 said:
Now they're the stories we need more of!
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I posted on yesterday of a 104 year old survivor here, they don’t seem to get picked up by the news though!
 
Last edited: Apr 6, 2020
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SeaSeeEffCee

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,022
Grendel said:
Yes I have answered it - also the nhs capacity seems to be coping as well as most others in Europe doesn’t it?

He did t even shake hands you clown
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Why did he tell everyone he had then?

 
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Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,023
Ring Of Steel said:
I don't know what this means
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Friends titles
 
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Otis

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,024
Saddlebrains said:
This is well boring lads. Grow up
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Yup. I'm off to watch Hazel next door putting out her granny pants on the washing line, whilst she listens to Val Doonican and twiddles about with her crucifix.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,025
Otis said:
Yup. I'm off to watch Hazel next door putting out her granny pants on the washing line, whilst she listens to Val Doonican and twiddles about with her crucifix.
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I’m making mug cakes and getting fatter
 
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PVA

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,026
Exactly. Either he shook hands which is irresponsible, or he didn't shake hands but told everyone he did, which is arguably even more irresponsible.

Either way, it's not a good look.
 
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Ring Of Steel

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,027
Brighton Sky Blue said:
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Ah ok, sorry
 

Ring Of Steel

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,028
Brighton Sky Blue said:
I’m making mug cakes and getting fatter
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I'm reading about some of the people who recovered, there are some wonderful stories coming out now if you avoid the usual news sources.

We are living in a great big pile of shit right now, but there is always some hope and as we go through this more will emerge.
 
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SkyBlueDom26

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,029
Coronavirus lockdown 'to end in June' – with ministers planning to release workers, areas or ‘immune’ at different times

End of May/June will be realistic in terms of loosening the restrictions
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,030
David O'Day said:
Only they were, pandemic planning was be on going for a decade.

This the NHS is properly funded line is bizarre even for you
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This pandemic is a respiratory pandemic and has left all of the west unprepared
 

Ian1779

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,031
PVA said:
Exactly. Either he shook hands which is irresponsible, or he didn't shake hands but told everyone he did, which is arguably even more irresponsible.

Either way, it's not a good look.
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He got Brexit done though... apparently it blinds the populous to the fact he’s absolutely full of shit.
 
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PVA

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,032
Ian1779 said:
He got Brexit done though... apparently it blinds the populous to the fact he’s absolutely full of shit.
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Indeed. Turns out a few soundbites and being funny on HIGNFY aren't important qualities when leading the country through a crisis.
 

Ring Of Steel

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,033
Grendel said:
This pandemic is a respiratory pandemic and has left all of the west unprepared
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SARS and Swine flu (ARDS) were also respiratory pandemics.
 

Ring Of Steel

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,034
Lego- the miracle cure for bored & restless kids
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,035
Ring Of Steel said:
SARS and Swine flu (ARDS) were also respiratory pandemics.
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Yep, and I know for a fact that the NHS did some really specific preparation for those, when I worked at a Trust in 2014/15 they still had a load of specially purchased PPE for Swine flu, of course 2009 was back when the NHS had a funding settlement that covered its cost of treating people.
 
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SkyBlueDom26

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,036
Germany is also doing very well, cases and deaths also dropping.... Lets hope this week its our turn
 

Ring Of Steel

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  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,037
SkyBlueDom26 said:
Germany is also doing very well, cases and deaths also dropping.... Lets hope this week its our turn
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The only things we know for sure...

1. Everyone will say "the next two weeks are critical" every day
2. At about 4pm each day ccfc84 will ask Sickboy if the Italy figures are out yet
 
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David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,038
Grendel said:
This pandemic is a respiratory pandemic and has left all of the west unprepared
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As already pointed out they have been preparing for a potential SARS or MERS pandemic for a decade.



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David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,039
Ring Of Steel said:
SARS and Swine flu (ARDS) were also respiratory pandemics.
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They have been looking at potential MERS pandemics as well

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SkyBlueDom26

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,040
 
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Ring Of Steel

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,041
SkyBlueDom26 said:
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ok so at first glance thats good for us, right?
 

Ring Of Steel

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,042
David O'Day said:
I'm a bit sad everyone seems like by throw away Paddington bear joke but not my tribute to the London bus drivers who died doing their jobs
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You are very right and I will correct that anomaly.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,043
clint van damme said:
as my mate who made a Tik Tok dance video is finding out.
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Have yewtree raided his house?
 
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skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,044
Grendel said:
This pandemic is a respiratory pandemic and has left all of the west unprepared
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We’ve had SARS, bird flu and swine flu in recent decades as well as our own ongoing issues with Bovine TB and there’s no evidence that we prepared for this possibility. The warning signs were there.
 
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David O'Day

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  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,045
Ring Of Steel said:
You are very right and I will correct that anomaly.
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Also there will be shop workers and care home staff who die because they are still working

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skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,046
PVA said:
Exactly. Either he shook hands which is irresponsible, or he didn't shake hands but told everyone he did, which is arguably even more irresponsible.

Either way, it's not a good look.
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Exactly.
 

Johnnythespider

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,047
skybluetony176 said:
Get well soon Boris. I hope you get the full NHS treatment. Stuck on a trolley in a corridor for 14 hours just like my dear old gran had to the day before she died, I hope you only get treated by NHS professionals who are pikaninis with watermelon smiles and bin bags as substitutes for PPE, if not I hope they’re from the EU working here under freedom of movement, I hope you’re served sub standard lukewarm food because that’s what the budget dictates and what I really hope is that (aside from getting better) you learn something from this experience.
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This is like tag team wrestling, Tony in for PVA who "stuck" to his guns magnificently, i expect to see Dom in for a tiring Grendel any minute.
 
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clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,048
David O'Day said:
Only they were, pandemic planning was be on going for a decade.

This the NHS is properly funded line is bizarre even for you
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We were told to build redundancy into the NHS in order to deal with such a pandemic years ago.
We were warned after the pandemic excersise in 2016 we weren't prepared..
Any one saying no one could see this coming is ignoring the truth.
If we had made some preparation but were caught out by the scale of it I could accept that but we ignored the warnings and now we're paying for it.

Pointing at foreign governments who've performed just as woefully doesn't excuse ours.
 
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Ring Of Steel

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,049
Johnnythespider said:
This is like tag team wrestling, Tony in for PVA who "stuck" to his guns magnificently, i expect to see Dom in for a tiring Grendel any minute.
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Johnnythespider

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,050
Ring Of Steel said:
I didn't even believe Johnson, and I said that publicly on here so its right that I also say publicly on here that I was wrong.

I don't see anyone wishing the man dead, unless I've missed that bit. However I hope he sees first hand the calibre of the people that are caring for him just now and thinks twice before fucking them all over once he's back in his office and awards them an appropriate wage to live on- wiping out some of the massive debts some of them have might be a good start bearing in mind what they're doing- we are only under capacity due to huge sums of money being thrown at it. And yet they still don't have the PPE they need. We have let them down. And I also hope that once recovered he reflects that maybe making silly throwaway comments about shaking peoples' hands knowing millions were watching was stupidity. This does not equate to wishing death on someone, nowhere close. Nor does pointing out that massive mistakes have been made- they have- whats this about buying millions of tests only to discover they're the wrong tests?

I didn't see this level of outrage when bus drivers, nurses and essential workers passed away, only arguments about whether the figures were fudged- at this point its impossible to even talk about COVID19 without death hanging in the air, so before it all gets too bitter & twisted with people saying "you want him dead" and that type of sick bullshit, so I will go crunch some numbers and drink tea.
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Me too, i was suspicious when it was announced, clearly i was wrong and i wish him the best with his illness
 
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David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,051
clint van damme said:
We were told to build redundancy into the NHS in order to deal with such a pandemic years ago.
We were warned after the pandemic excersise in 2016 we weren't prepared..
Any one saying no one could see this coming is ignoring the truth.
If we had made some preparation but were caught out by the scale of it I could accept that but we ignored the warnings and now we're paying for it.

Pointing at foreign governments who've performed just as woefully doesn't excuse ours.
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It's grenners though innit, if he stunned his toe he would blame the eu

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skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,052
clint van damme said:
We were told to build redundancy into the NHS in order to deal with such a pandemic years ago.
We were warned after the pandemic excersise in 2016 we weren't prepared..
Any one saying no one could see this coming is ignoring the truth.
If we had made some preparation but were caught out by the scale of it I could accept that but we ignored the warnings and now we're paying for it.

Pointing at foreign governments who've performed just as woefully doesn't excuse ours.
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Yeah but would you rather live in Italy...
 
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Colin Steins Smile

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,053
Having spoken to my son who is a frontline doctor dealing with Covid19. It really struck home the seriousness of the infection. He is seeing patients die that have previously been fit and well and the time it takes to stabilise people is long........and some are not responding to ventilation, so leaving the medics with a decision to remove it and watch them die, as there is not prospect to recover.
Additionally they've lost a nurse who was working on the Covid wards and needed ventilating.
As medics they are used to getting positive outcomes and this is hitting moral.
 
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Ring Of Steel

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,054
Colin Steins Smile said:
Having spoken to my son who is a frontline doctor dealing with Covid19. It really struck home the seriousness of the infection. He is seeing patients die that have previously been fit and well and the time it takes to stabilise people is long........and some are not responding to ventilation, so leaving the medics with a decision to remove it and watch them die, as there is not prospect to recover.
Additionally they've lost a nurse who was working on the Covid wards and needed ventilating.
As medics they are used to getting positive outcomes and this is hitting moral.
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All I can say to you, which is not much but very much meant, is please give your son massive massive best wishes and thank him. I don't think anyone will forget what him & his colleagues are doing.
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Apr 6, 2020
  • #13,055
David O'Day said:
Also there will be shop workers and care home staff who die because they are still working

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Too true. Sadly.
 
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