Coronavirus Death Thread

[Yevrah]

I'd say this is why restrictions are getting dropped early but we all know it's Boris trying to save his arse.

I don't know that it is, the science just isn't there to support them any longer (it never was tbf), which even our friends up North agree with now.

[Ben]

I think they would be lifted next Wednesday (the next review date) regardless, but putting it out to the media last night and bringing forward the Cabinet decision to today is definitely a play to at least deflect some of the headlines.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, agree with you on that.

This charade with Sue Gray should end ASAP and an actual police investigation should take place.

[Lewis]

You would quite happily lamp any coppers stopping you seeing your dead parent. Then again, seeing as they increasingly only police people who won't push them back it probably wouldn't come to that.

[Spikey M]

Just punt the cunt out of office and call it a day. There's zero point in Sue Gray or asking Cressida Prick to have a look at it. Fuck all will happen.

[Ben]

The Sue Gray report will be a whitewash. She will blame office culture and civil servants. We're all waiting for Boris to be crucified by it but she won't name him personally.

[Kikó]

I don't think the police investigate historic crimes.

[Baz]

I’m in a Telegram group for a Kodi addon that has loads of wrestling stuff on (WOD) and I use it to watch all my AEW, but the guy who runs it keeps posting antivax propaganda in the group. It takes a lot of strength to not call him out on it, cos I don’t wanna lose access to such a wealthy source of wrestling.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't think the police investigate historic crimes.

On this, tbf I've never seen the logic of all the bleating about the police not investigating it - they've been consistent in saying they don't investigate historic breaches of the Coronavirus Act. For them to investigate this one only would be far more political than not to do so.

[Pepe]

One of the worst, if not the worst thing we did was not letting people see their dying relatives and not letting them hold funerals. That was just downright fucked up.

[Magic]

One of the worst, if not the worst thing we did was not letting people see their dying relatives and not letting them hold funerals. That was just downright fucked up.

The people apparently revelling in this fact are mental as well. Imagine boasting about 'following rules' that meant your mum died alone. Fuck that.

[Giggles]

Double Patricks Day bank holiday this year and a new one in Feb from next year on :drool:

They'll need the pubs open properly for a double paddys day though.


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[Ben]

Double Patricks Day bank holiday this year and a new one in Feb from next year on :drool:

They'll need the pubs open properly for a double paddys day though.

Surely by then?

England has gone from a peak in cases to "COVID is over" in 15 days.

[randomlegend]

The people apparently revelling in this fact are mental as well. Imagine boasting about 'following rules' that meant your mum died alone. Fuck that.

That's not a sentiment I've heard literally anywhere. There's plenty of people who are furious that they couldn't see their dying parents because of the rules whilst Boris and the lads were getting pissed in the garden of number 10, but that's an entirely different thing.

It will be absolutely absurd if they get away with this. If it were a bunch of ITU doctors and nurses who'd held a piss-up in hospital grounds after a terrible shift they'd have all been strung up, and they were going through a lot worse than anyone in the government.

[Luke Emia]

The people apparently revelling in this fact are mental as well. Imagine boasting about 'following rules' that meant your mum died alone. Fuck that.

Problem is though they were probably in hospital. What are you going to do in May 2020 just barge your way in?

[Baz]

Double Patricks Day bank holiday this year and a new one in Feb from next year on :drool:

They'll need the pubs open properly for a double paddys day though.


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Bank Holiday Gold Cup Day. :drool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Deepti's timeline today is proper cornered tiger stuff. You love to see it.

[Giggles]

Bank Holiday Gold Cup Day. :drool:

And there’s the reason not to go near the pub even if it is open.

[niko_cee]

Are we still lolling at the recently departed? (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60050996)

:face:

Sounds well dodgy though.

[Spikey M]

Part of the problem with vaccine passports, that. The real needle dodgers will just get ill on purpose and some of them will die because of it.

Vaccine Passports will be looked back on as a cock up in the future. There's no actual reason for them or benefit provided by them.

[CJay]

All of this talk of isolation down to 5 days, but does anyone ever test negative before Day 10? :moop: Day 6 for me and the positive line is dark and massive. Day 8 for my wife and her's was like that yesterday so guessing will still be positive today.

[Ben]

Vaccine Passports will be looked back on as a cock up in the future. There's no actual reason for them or benefit provided by them.

Exactly. Complete security theatre.

All the studies done on them suggest they reduce transmission by a maximum of 5%.


All of this talk of isolation down to 5 days, but does anyone ever test negative before Day 10? :moop: Day 6 for me and the positive line is dark and massive. Day 8 for my wife and her's was like that yesterday so guessing will still be positive today.

My brother was negative by Day 6 and 7. He was asymptomatic.

[randomlegend]

The real needle dodgers will just get ill on purpose and some of them will die because of it.

There's no actual...benefit provided by them.

Sounds like a clear benefit to me.

[Spikey M]

All of this talk of isolation down to 5 days, but does anyone ever test negative before Day 10? :moop: Day 6 for me and the positive line is dark and massive. Day 8 for my wife and her's was like that yesterday so guessing will still be positive today.

My daughter is day 5 today. She's absolutely fine. Thick red line.

She's going in on Monday regardless.

[Manc]

That definitely won't backfire.

[Magic]

Why would it backfire? She'll go in, infect everyone and get dedicated one-to-one teaching time. It's perfect.

[Kikó]

Sounds like a clear benefit to me.

Dr death reporting in 😡😡

[Spikey M]

That definitely won't backfire.

It's day 10. If it backfires then it always has done.

[CJay]

Day 9 Shirley?

[SvN]

My line was barely visible on day 5, and disappeared by 6 and 7. My sister was still getting an almost maroon line on day 10.

[randomlegend]

Dr death reporting in 😡😡

Hello Mr GMC man reading this, I was only joking. :wave:

[Spikey M]

Day 9 Shirley?

Close enough innit.

[John Arne]

We (Vietnam) have a 9 day holiday coming up with 90% of the population returning to their hometowns, and Omicron slowly seeping in (currently about 200 cases), fully expect to return early February to about 68 thousand million cases.

[Kikó]

My line was barely visible on day 5, and disappeared by 6 and 7. My sister was still getting an almost maroon line on day 10.

My lft only showed on day 9 and my symptoms boomed the week after.

[CJay]

Close enough innit.

Murderer.

[niko_cee]

So this move to end the legal isolation rules when they expire [or sooner], is that essentially declaring the pandemic over? Covid becomes a normal, everyday illness?

[Don]

But it's very dangerous so everyone will still be getting their quarterly boosters.

[Yevrah]

So this move to end the legal isolation rules when they expire [or sooner], is that essentially declaring the pandemic over? Covid becomes a normal, everyday illness?

There will still be SCIENCE wankers (like Deepti) who will never let this go (and I see they're now saying we should be doing more to protect people against flu), but bar the inevitable shitting the bed over another VARIANT OF CONCERN, we're done.

[Ben]

At least it's brought healthcare capacity issues into the mainstream. The NHS gets fucked every winter anyway. My wife is a masochist for going back every day.

[Lofty]

The problem with the police now is they have stripped out everything that once made it an attractive career so you get the dregs applying because anyone capable enough to be a decent copper lols at the salary.

[Giggles]

Bar stool soon :yn:

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[Shindig]

Heh. Only 14% lateral flow tests have actually had their results recorded with the NHS.

[Spikey M]

I'm not surprised, it was an ordeal. Having to go through everywhere I've been, who I've seen and where I might have caught it in tick box form took fucking ages. And they haven't stopped texting me since.

[Boydy]

Surely that's just because most people who get a positive lft will go get a pcr? And no one's reporting negative lfts.

[Spikey M]

You can't get a confirmatory PCR any more, can you?

[Shindig]

Surely that's just because most people who get a positive lft will go get a pcr? And no one's reporting negative lfts.

It's since the start of the pandemic so it may be people weren't reporting negatives when they didn't need to. It's such an honour system you can absolutely see a bunch of positives getting unreported.

[Boydy]

I don't really think you'd be doing anything (ethically) wrong if you had a positive LFT and didn't report it but booked a PCR and isolated until the result of that confirmed it.

(When you could get a PCR after a positive LFT).

[Waffdon]

I thought you still had to go for a PCR even after a positive LFT? A few folk I knew over Christmas were negative with them and positive on the PCR.

Not that I’d bother with that hassle, like, but I thought that was the rules.

[Waffdon]

Bar stool soon :yn:

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Class, I was looking at flights for my birthday next month at £15 a pop. Wasn’t sure if things were back to normal
Or not

[niko_cee]

Asking for a friend, are you [legally?] required to report a positive LFT in the UK?

[Shindig]

Nah, it's legal to isolate but reporting tests have nothing tied to them.

[Spikey M]

I thought you still had to go for a PCR even after a positive LFT? A few folk I knew over Christmas were negative with them and positive on the PCR.

Not that I’d bother with that hassle, like, but I thought that was the rules.

Nah, they stopped it.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/confirmatory-pcr-tests-to-be-temporarily-suspended-for-positive-lateral-flow-test-results

[Queenslander]

And they love it.



The planned reopening of Western Australia's border to the rest of the country on February 5 will be delayed indefinitely, Premier Mark McGowan has announced.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-20/wa-border-opening-delayed/100771492?utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf252906620&utm_campaign=fb_abc_news&utm_source=m.facebook.com&sf252906620=1&fbclid=IwAR1wvxcK3qPK4Xn2WVpP_8HChbd-jEKVW_6DyPijnGo250ijrPkOgrZrkUQ

[Shindig]

Looks unless they're planning a separatist movement, they're playing silly buggers.

[Queenslander]

Their Supreme Leader can do know wrong in their eyes. They wont get to succeed as the other States have to okay it but the thought of a future Afrikaans/White Australian ethno State is rather amusing.

[Shindig]

In that case, I welcome Left Australia's independence.

[Giggles]

:chief:


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[niko_cee]

Which bit are you happy about? Restrictions being lifted [logical although seems out of character] or the some restrictions still in place bit [mad, but, well]?

[Giggles]

I’m vaccinated and all the numbers a pointing to the stress on hospitals subsiding so I’m happy to see them lifted of course.

Plus I can now sit on a bar stool, which hasn’t been allowed since May 2020, and not on a seat at a table like a child. Pubs may as well have been closed for nearly two years straight for that alone.

[Kikó]

Must be pretty upsetting for your Freeman constables and end of the world merchants seeing governments willingly remove restrictions.

[Giggles]

I’m most sure what a freeman constable is but We have far more magic style gobshites than ones who want to see it remain. It’s a good day overall.

[Shindig]

Today I found out how to pronounce Taoiseach.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60080080

I'm bound to be on an AA flight in March. Hopefully some twat doesn't pull this.

[Giggles]

Today I found out how to pronounce Taoiseach.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60080080

I'm bound to be on an AA flight in March. Hopefully some twat doesn't pull this.

Jack Charlton used to say tea-shop :cool:

[Kikó]

I’m most sure what a freeman constable is but We have far more magic style gobshites than ones who want to see it remain. It’s a good day overall.

These folk.

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[Shindig]

"It doesn't work like that!"

Neither does quoting a version of the Magna Carta that was repealed within a year of it being signed, lads.

[Spikey M]

Why do people stand listening to these cunts? Just tell them to fuck off and keep telling them to fuck off until they have sufficiently fucked off.

[Mike]

Two years in and today work was handing out hand gel for staff for the first time. Apparently it just turned up from the council and nobody knew it was coming.

[Lewis]

These folk.

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I really expected this to be the fat idiot blocking the nice clipboard lady. What a twist.

[Magic]

Some freaks up here still insistent on bask wearing.

[Shindig]

Is it not more wholesome they're doing it through choice rather than force?

[randomlegend]

These folk.

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They should all be charged with wasting police time the absolute braindead cunts.

[randomlegend]

Some freaks up here still insistent on bask wearing.

They're doing it to protect the vulnerable, such as yourself and your swiss cheese lungs.

[Pepe]

Swiss cheese lungs. :D

[Baz]

Two years in and today work was handing out hand gel for staff for the first time. Apparently it just turned up from the council and nobody knew it was coming.

You’re welcome

[Giggles]

Masks should remain forever regardless of covid.

[Mike]

You’re welcome
Ha cheers
We also got told at the start we can’t have any alcohol based gel in work, so we aren’t even meant to use them.

[Spikey M]

Bad new guys, the world is still mental. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60092463)

Why would you start allowing flights again - after 10 fucking months - if you're going to immediately shit the bed when the inevitable Covid cases turn up? Surely you'd have these conversations first? Surely they knew that boarding a flight at the is one of the sure-fire ways of catching Covid at the moment?

[niko_cee]

Masks should remain forever regardless of covid.

That's more like it.

[Giggles]

As should hand sanitising. People are filthy creatures so both would be very welcome going forward.

[Shindig]

Nah, once their guard's down, scruffs will still scruff.

[Spikey M]

Nah, once their guard's down, scruffs will still scruff.

The most stones ever thrown in a glass house?

[Shindig]

Nah, Magic's doing that every time he posts.

[randomlegend]

I'd happily keep masks forever at work. I've been ill SO MUCH less.

[Foe]

You are welcome to continue wearing a mask, should you wish.

[randomlegend]

You are welcome to continue wearing a mask, should you wish.

Thanks mate.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Flu hasn't bounced back either, has it? Maybe another 5/10 years of lockdowns and we'll all be immortal.

[Pepe]

Or so fragile that the smallest of colds will kill us.

[Kikó]

More dickheads. You may not be surprised that he owns a gym.

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[Jimmy Floyd]

Did this level of retard always exist, or has the internet multiplied them?

[Shindig]

Both? Village idiots have always existed but internet access has allowed communities to form and accelerate around them.

[Don]

These vids are quality, keep them coming.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Have you served any papers yet Taz?

[Spikey M]

They're the same idiots that used to pull this shit:


https://youtu.be/knH51LX1e8Y

[Magic]

Daws on twitter is describing people who are anti-passport as "pro-virus". :D

He's completely lost it.

[Kikó]

Not really.

[Magic]

That is just as bad as the other lunatics.

[Kikó]

The protests are nonsensical and utter wibble

[Lewis]

Daws on twitter is describing people who are anti-passport as "pro-virus". :D

He's completely lost it.

'Baws'.

[Queenslander]

"What you need to do luv is to drive 3500km and hope the rules change by the time you get there..."

The Supreme Leader of Left Australia (Thanks Shindig) needs to get a bloody grip.



Ms Anderson and Mr Jones have applied for a G2G pass for the two of them, hoping to enter WA via SA in the next few weeks.

For now, Ms Anderson said they're "living out of a suitcase" in a friend's apartment as their previous leave had expired.

The couple, who are travelling with their dogs Maisy and Dobbi, need to drive to WA because their pets can't fly into Perth.

Who can leave and enter WA from February 5
Premier Mark McGowan warns further restrictions will be considered as Western Australia reviews the impact on the Omicron COVID-19 variant in the eastern states.

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Originally, Ms Anderson was hoping they could drive into Kununurra, but under WA's new border rules this entry point was only for "transport, freight and logistics and border community residents".

This means that, if approved, they've had to drive 3,500kms down the centre of Australia before quarantining in a safe location in WA.

If they don't get their application to enter WA approved, Ms Anderson said they "would essentially be homeless".

Then Friday threw another curveball at the couple: Ms Anderson tested positive to COVID-19, which means they now must wait for her to recover.

Ms Anderson said she has booked doctor's appointments in Perth, which will now have to be delayed or rescheduled in Darwin.

"I feel like a ticking time bomb, all I want to do is get into my new home," she said.

"I should be nesting right now and making my house a home, reuniting with my family."


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-22/nt-wa-border-closure-sees-home-buyers-locked-out/100773398?fbclid=IwA
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The State is farking enormous let them quarantine in any one of the many abandoned farm houses.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-60095060

Bamster Bovid Bull. :(

Someone PM him.

[Kikó]

*BM x

[Spikey M]

Borry.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60100369

Lol

[Giggles]

Not so smug now.

[Spikey M]

I suppose credit where it's due, she's not putting herself above the law.

[Jimmy Floyd]

She probably only agreed to marry him so that she could then cancel the wedding due to Covid and look leaderly.

[Magic]

I suppose credit where it's due, she's not putting herself above the law.

Don't you just love it when they fall on their cretinous swords.

[Kikó]

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Another in the series.

[Shindig]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGex0kLgNok

Every one of them is this.

[Giggles]

What's going on there?

[Lewis]

The actual whopper in all of these is the person tweeting as 'Cockjuggling Twatsicle'. I could name all of the accounts they re-tweet most often without looking.

[Spikey M]

What's going on there?

Mongs are saying that the vaccines are genocide and the people conducting them will be tried under the Nuremberg Code or something along those lines.

[Giggles]

Where are they though? And why put out a video that makes you look like a mong yourself?

[Spikey M]

Where are they though? And why put out a video that makes you look like a mong yourself?

A police station I think. And because (somehow) they think they're talking sense. There's actual insanity going around at the moment.

[Giggles]

If they’re that thick then it’s time to start rounding them up.

[Manc]

But are they that thick?

[randomlegend]

Even thickecestershire.

[Spikey M]

Finally tested negative today. Just in time for my wife to test positive this evening. FML.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/26/disabled-people-plan-b-restrictions

I just don't get the arguments put forward by these people. There aren't arguments, in fact, not coherent ones. Just lists of emotionally-fuelled statements that don't make sense.


We all want to return to normal. It’s why so many of us have followed the guidelines around mask-wearing, social distancing, self-isolating and shielding. It’s because we want to get through the pandemic and return to freely hugging our loved ones, travelling without fear of getting infected in transit, and also throwing and attending parties.

We are told we need to live with Covid in the long term. But living with this virus should not mean putting the lives of our most vulnerable at significant risk, especially at a time when the Omicron variant has led to such high rates of infection. If this hasty lifting of all plan B restrictions is a political decision to save one politician’s career rather than a decision based on science, data and evidence, it must be reconsidered. Lives are at stake if it is not.

What point is being made there? I don't understand. And obviously it isn't a political decision to save one politician's career. It's irrelevant to his career.

[niko_cee]

We binned all mask rules as of midnight. A glorious day and may they never return.

[Dave.]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/26/disabled-people-plan-b-restrictions

I just don't get the arguments put forward by these people. There aren't arguments, in fact, not coherent ones. Just lists of emotionally-fuelled statements that don't make sense.



What point is being made there? I don't understand. And obviously it isn't a political decision to save one politician's career. It's irrelevant to his career.

Also articles like these seem to forget that we have these wonderful things called vaccines which are making a great deal of difference.

[Yevrah]

I don't fully understand why, but these people seem to be GAGGING to live under a draconian set of rules forevermore and on Dave's point, they are the worst type vaccine sceptics going.

During the summer the "We don't want another lockdown in the future, so let's have one now" summed their position up really.

[Spikey M]

1 in 8 Primary School kids are currently off with Covid and nobody is batting an eyelid. From first hand experience, it's widely just being lolled off over video calls. Only one of the parents from my daughters class had anything worse than a mild cold, and even that was just a couple of days in bed.

It's over. Spring is coming, nobody is scared anymore and our government has rendered its self unable to put restrictions in place even if they wanted to.

Time to just ignore the whoppers and crack on. Bring on March when the isolation mandate expires.

[randomlegend]

We're getting 1-2 PIMS-TS kids a week at the moment which is the most we've ever had by far. I've never even seen one of the comparable diseases - like Kawasaki - which were around before covid.

I'm really surprised none of the media have got excited about it yet.

[niko_cee]

More of a news story if you drop the PIMS.

There was a bit on the local news here about it yesterday I think [there having been a few cases locally].

[Yevrah]

Bring on March when the isolation mandate expires.

If that doesn't get renewed it's going to end Deepti and her merry band of doom mongers.

[Ben]

1 in 8 Primary School kids are currently off with Covid and nobody is batting an eyelid. From first hand experience, it's widely just being lolled off over video calls. Only one of the parents from my daughters class had anything worse than a mild cold, and even that was just a couple of days in bed.

It's over. Spring is coming, nobody is scared anymore and our government has rendered its self unable to put restrictions in place even if they wanted to.

Time to just ignore the whoppers and crack on. Bring on March when the isolation mandate expires.

Kids aren't affecting the NHS and that is the only metric the country is arsed about.

[Spikey M]

I'm not sure they're particularly arsed by that now, either.

[Ben]

That’s true. Up here in the North East, the pandemic ended with England’s first game of the Euros. I remember the police coming in the pub looking for a particular person and didn’t even bat an eyelid at the complete disregard of the rules.

[Pepe]

Kids should be allowed to go to school with Covid. Heck. just stop testing kids. It doesn't matter.

[Spikey M]

Heck? :harold:

[Pepe]

Heck yeah, baby.

[Spikey M]

Golly.

[niko_cee]

Kids should be allowed to go to school with Covid. Heck. just stop testing kids. It doesn't matter.

I think most sane individuals have taken this step themselves.

Our isolation laws fall away next month some time and apparently won't be renewed so it's very much into the home straight now.

[SvN]

Until the next megatron variant arrives from Botswana that's 10x more infectious and makes us bleed from our arses.

[Ben]

Telling people not to get a PCR after a positive LFD was the first step to ease it in. The last test I did was coming back from Germany in September.

[Pepe]

Working in a private university, I will probably be required to wear a mask for the next 25 years. Never met a bunch so paranoid.

[Spikey M]

I think most sane individuals have taken this step themselves.

Our isolation laws fall away next month some time and apparently won't be renewed so it's very much into the home straight now.

It's not that easy though. It's one thing testing every cough, sneeze and fart, we stopped bothering ages ago, but if someone else in the class tests positive, your kid gets symptoms and the school demands everyone take a test, then you've got to the stage where it's more hassle to not do so.

What's more mental is my 3 year old isn't allowed back to nursery until the whole house is negative. So he's down 2 weeks of nursery, despite not being ill and that not being the actual rules. Why are these cunts allowed to make up their own rules on this shit? Especially in such a low-risk environment.

[SvN]

My son's nursery are bad for this, They tried demanding a PCR for my son because he had a sniffle, and I told them to get fucked because he tested positive over Christmas (a lie, but he almost certainly would have if we'd bothered) and a PCR within 90 days is pointless.

They also forced another parent to test their 2 year old son because he had a runny hose. It came back negative, so they let him back in. But then a day later they said he needed to get another PCR because, shock horror, he still had a runny nose. What two year old doesn't have a runny nose for fuck sake?

Fortunately, they backed down in both instances. But they seem desperate for any excuse to send your kid home.

[niko_cee]

You also need to learn [which has probably been either a terrible or perhaps necessary life lesson for the kids] that when someone asks if you have done a test today then the default answer is yes, yes I have.

[Shindig]

Even the yanks are allowing lateral flows for travel. Partly because they need a result within 24 hours of departure. No PCR’s coming back that quick.

[Lewis]

My friend's ninety-three year old nan fell over a few weeks ago. She didn't break anything, but they decided to keep her in for a few days because of how frail she is. During her stay she contracted hospital-acquired pneumonia, covid, and then sepsis. Now she's dead. If they were actually trying to kill her, what else could they have done?

[randomlegend]

My friend's ninety-three year old nan fell over a few weeks ago. She didn't break anything, but they decided to keep her in for a few days because of how frail she is. During her stay she contracted hospital-acquired pneumonia, covid, and then sepsis. Now she's dead. If they were actually trying to kill her, what else could they have done?

What they wanted to do was send her home with sufficient care in place to support her while she recovered. All doctors know hospital is not the best place for old frail people unless they really have to be there and will discharge them at the first safe opportunity.

Unfortunately the social care sector is on its knees so cannot facilitate these kinds of discharges. More money is then spent keeping these people in hospital than it would cost to look after them at home, a proportion of them get complications (making it even MORE more expensive than the social care would have cost) and some of them die.

This is the nonsense, short-sighted system we live with.

To combat this situation, hospitals are coming up with "virtual ward" systems whereby patients are sent home but remain under the care of the hospital. They have monitoring set up so their observations can be reviewed remotely and necessary treatments are provided at home. This minimises face-to-face contact and brings with it all the other benefits of being at home vs being in hospital.

[Lewis]

Blood on your hands pepper ponce.

[randomlegend]

Blood on your hands pepper ponce.

The blood is on the hands of Tory-voting mongs like yourself, I'm afraid.

[Lewis]

I never knew her. One less pension coming out of my taxes.

[randomlegend]

I never knew her. One less pension coming out of my taxes.

The hospital stay came out of your taxes. Do you have any idea how much that would have cost?

[Spikey M]

Is there much blood involved with Covid, Pneumonia and Sepsis? There's Phlegm and Pus on somebody's hands though. Rip.

[Lewis]

The hospital stay came out of your taxes. Do you have any idea how much that would have cost?

Probably less than continued support. Well done National Death Service.

[randomlegend]

Is there much blood involved with Covid, Pneumonia and Sepsis?.

Should ask Magic, he's the expert.

[randomlegend]

Probably less than continued support. Well done National Death Service.

Probably not. In-patient hospital care is insanely expensive.

I looked into similar stuff before because we had a patient with renal failure who kept getting admitted because she was homeless and so would miss her dialysis. The cost of one admission would have easily covered the cost to house her for a year, and she was getting admitted every few weeks.

[Lewis]

By all accounts she had been in and out of there every few months for years. Let's just share the credit.

[randomlegend]

Kind of undermines your initial claim that the NHS killed her when it's evidently been the only thing keeping her alive "for years". Mate.

[Lewis]

All the more tragic that it turned on her.

[Disco]

1-0 to the baby folder.

[niko_cee]

Exactly what proportion of annual tax revenues would it take to actually fund 'the health service' properly? Isn't it running at something like 20% of them at the moment [probably more]? Or is the answer that it's the same percentage, but we just need to double tax revenues? :yawn:

[Pepe]

The answer is always more than it currently is, regardless of the current level.

[randomlegend]

Exactly what proportion of annual tax revenues would it take to actually fund 'the health service' properly? Isn't it running at something like 20% of them at the moment [probably more]? Or is the answer that it's the same percentage, but we just need to double tax revenues? :yawn:

You would dramatically improve things by making the NHS budget and the social care budget more fluid. There is a HUGE amount of money spent on NHS care which could be avoided by spending much less on social care. There are people sit in hospital for weeks - sometimes months - who are medically well enough to go home but the social care to facilitate that isn't available/won't be funded.

[Ben]

Exactly right. My wife works on a surgical ward (amputations etc.) and they often have patients in for months post-op because they're not allowed to discharge them into unsafe housing (ie. they had stairs and losing a leg makes navigating them a bit difficult), and the community care teams are woefully underfunded so run at a snail's pace.

[Kikó]

My aunt has made a decent business out of after care for the elderly who come out of treatment. Basically filling the gap as there is no public service that can help elderly people recover.

[Shindig]

Is she operating some kind of half-way home? It's something to think about if, post-pandemic, there's a bunch of office space going under utilised. Convert them into care services, or something.

[Kikó]

No - she just has about 4-5 staff who go and do home visits and monitor and care for those discharged.

[Shindig]

Ah, that's a much more boring solution.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I turned up at the supermarket to buy my OFFICE sandwich this morning to find them dragging the mask mandate sign away, like a slain pretender from the battlefield, and putting up in its place one that says: "Please wear a mask if you can".

I wore one, like a cuck.

[Spikey M]

The last remaining head has gone. London has fallen. Every man for himself.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The time my head truly went was in April 2020 when I tried pulling the same trick (buying a sandwich in the morning) and they turned me away because I didn't work for the NHS.

What times we lived in. No masks of course until July of that year.

[Manc]

Rumour has it Giggles is going down to just the one.

[Spikey M]

The time my head truly went was in April 2020 when I tried pulling the same trick (buying a sandwich in the morning) and they turned me away because I didn't work for the NHS.

What times we lived in. No masks of course until July of that year.

:D I remember that. My Mrs came home from work once having been shouted at by one of our NHS heroes because another one of our NHS heroes had her kids with her.

I also remember an old lady being shut down for questioning the logic of opening the store exclusively to the NHS and vulnerable people at the same time. What a victory that turned out to be for her.

There's going to be some belting material for future films coming out of all this.

[Ben]

It's funny how so many people have been righteous about wearing their mask even in the last week but have jettisoned it today just because Boris said it's alright.

[Baz]

I wore mine this morning. :sorry:

[thommo]

It's funny to think that Wales was the latest to adopt the mask mandate (around September 2020), and yet I'm still told to wear one in pretty much every public place now. I went out for drinks this weekend and we weren't allowed in to one particular establishment if we didn't wear our masks for the 10 metre walk to our table. Madness.

[Spikey M]

It's funny how so many people have been righteous about wearing their mask even in the last week but have jettisoned it today just because Boris said it's alright.

It's been the way the whole way through. People want Prime Ministerial permission to do just about everything now. It's madness and we'd have laughed our arses off at someone predicting this 3 years ago.

[Raoul Duke]

In the Netherlands it's been more legal to pay for a hand job off some ropey Romanian than it is to get a pint in the last few weeks. Starting to open up bars/restaurants etc. now but there's still a 10pm stop in place :moop:

[Yevrah]

It's going to take some time for all this shit to fully subside, but we're at least on the right track now.

[Giggles]

Rumour has it Giggles is going down to just the one.

Same as before and no reason to change it.

[Shindig]

Hospital patients down 2000 in a week. 110 ventilators freed up in that time, too.

[Lewis]

There were about half a dozen masks in the supermarket, all of them on weak-looking women. It's over.

[Lofty]

I saw a porno yesterday in which the fella was unironically wearing a mask for the whole thing while his female 'friend' did not. Peak covid.

[Shindig]

My sister got her booster maybe a week or two before me and caught it when the rest of her household came down with it. :D

[Giggles]

Hilarious indeed.

[Shindig]

Y'see, when some governments are still trying to push that the boosters impact transmissibility, it kind of is.

[Magic]

See the SNaziP are actually trying to make these emergency laws permanent.

[Ben]

I'm still getting threatening "GET BOOSTED NOW" texts and emails. Relentless.

[Pepe]

Meanwhile, email sent to everyone at work:


[Mr. Director of Athletics],

Since you didn't reply to my email, I can only assume you really don't care about safety or policy at the [University's gym].

Since I last emailed you, I have abstained from going to the [University's gym] to work out (despite my desire to workout everyday) as I don't feel it is a safe environment since no one enforces or follows masking policy.

After seeing [President of the Uni]'s remark that the weight room was closed due to lack of masking compliance, I had hoped that perhaps you were taking your job more seriously. As a result, I went to the [University's gym] at 8am this morning hoping to avoid crowds and work out in relative safety.

As I entered, the women's lacrosse team occupied every treadmill and not a single player was masked. Not one. Their coach standing directly behind the treadmills was also unmasked. When I asked her why her players weren't masked, she replied: "Well, I can't see them. How would I know if they are wearing masks?" I was so mad that I left the [University's gym] without even starting my workout.

Am I incorrect, that the policy of the [University's gym] is that everyone, regardless of vaccination status, must be masked? Is the [University's gym] some sort of mask-free zone? Or do coaches and their players have some sort of special no-mask privilege? Or do you simply not have management skills to control the operations of your facility? Or perhaps you just don't care.

In my last email, I sent a list of suggestions. Let me add one more: an hour block (or two or three) in the [University's gym] for faculty and staff ONLY with heavy masking enforcement. No student and especially no athletes can walk through the [University's gym].

I just want to workout. When can I do so safely?

Dr. xxx
Professor of Film/Media Studies

:happycry:

[Kikó]

Wearing a mask on a treadmill? Are you mad?

[Pepe]

Worth noting that the vaccination rate in the University is 95%+.

[randomlegend]

if you redacted the subject they taught, it wouldn't take anyone more than 3 goes to guess it from that email.

[Boydy]

if you redacted the subject they taught, it wouldn't take anyone more than 3 goes to guess it from that email.

Yeah, it wouldn't be hard since it says it at the bottom.

[randomlegend]

Does redacted mean something different in Ireland?

[Boydy]

No, I just can't read. :moop:

[randomlegend]

No, I just can't read. :moop:

I edited it predicting someone would make the joke you did, I just must have done it between the time of you reading it and pressing reply.

[Lewis]

An American professor of films (probably a woman as well going off the tone) is obviously going to be some sort of melt singularity. I'm surprised they left the house.

[Boydy]

I edited it predicting someone would make the joke you did, I just must have done it between the time of you reading it and pressing reply.

I fucking knew that part wasn't there when I first read it!

[Pepe]

(probably a woman as well going off the tone)

Incorrect, surprisingly.

EDIT: Or not, if you've met the lot that works here.

[Magic]

She sounds like she needs a good fucking seeing to.

[randomlegend]

I fucking knew that part wasn't there when I first read it!

Mwuhahahaha

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

She sounds like she needs a good fucking seeing to.

Phwoar.

[Luca]

Masking in the gym ffs. :D

Pepe, he even looks like a soppy melt in his photo.

[niko_cee]

You'd think with a name like Dr XXX you'd be more or a badass.

[Spikey M]

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They're definitely more French than British.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's probably the Congolese embassy, they'll never spot him there.

[Ben]

It's mental that China continue to lock everything down two years down the line. When does it end for them?

[Shindig]

I feel they might loosen up once the Olympics is out the way. Although that's going to be a mess. Not a lot of natural immunity, not sure about their vaccine's effectiveness against Omicron either. If they open up fully, how long will it take for them to panic and shut it down again?

[Spikey M]

It's probably quite a low key event for them as they're used to massive government over-reach. It wasn't too long ago that they needed special centres for people to dump undesirable babies at (https://thediplomat.com/2013/12/a-safer-way-to-abandon-babies-sparks-controversy-in-china/) because Chinese couples wanted the one child they were allowed to be perfect.

[Lewis]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/30/ppe-bought-for-nhs-waste-minister

:happycry:

[Pepe]

How many nurses is that?

[Yevrah]

Enough to have given everyone in the NHS a grand bonus.

[Spikey M]

Why can't we just flog it?

[Lewis]

Because then we won't have enough and people will complain about not being prepared and penny-pinching.

[Lofty]

Out of interest, having seen an NHS worker on facebook saying many of their colleagues now regret being vaccinated, does anyone who has been vaccinated regret it? Never heard that sentiment before personally, more just lolling at the suggestion of any more.

[Kikó]

It's completely nonsensical. What could you be regretful of?

[Don]

They probs just miss the loved ones they lost to myocarditis, the soft shites.

[Manc]

In fairness the chip is starting to itch.

[Giggles]

Regret being vaccinated :D

[Kikó]

They probs just miss the loved ones they lost to myocarditis, the soft shites.

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[Jimmy Floyd]

Think Le Tiss might be in the top 1% of heads that have gone.

[Spikey M]

I siphoned my vaccines out with a straw.

[randomlegend]

They probs just miss the loved ones they lost to myocarditis, the soft shites.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25133462-800-myocarditis-is-more-common-after-covid-19-infection-than-vaccination/

[Magic]

It's completely nonsensical. What could you be regretful of?

Being coerced in to having something against your will? Being lied to? Being on the same side as absolute lunatics who'd be happy under nazi rule?

[Don]

The freedom fighters donned it. U-turns galore and defectors all over the shop.

[Magic]

Grotesquely obese whale to highly intelligent unvaccinated big cocked heart surgeon: "Hi, before I have my third heart bypass I just wanted to check your bovid vaccination status to make sure you don't kill me?"

[Kikó]

Being coerced in to having something against your will? Being lied to? Being on the same side as absolute lunatics who'd be happy under nazi rule?

No, I meant real things.

[Boydy]

Grotesquely obese whale to highly intelligent unvaccinated big cocked heart surgeon: "Hi, before I have my third heart bypass I just wanted to check your bovid vaccination status to make sure you don't kill me?"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10397797/Man-claims-lost-1-5-inches-length-penis-Covid-vascular-damage.html

[Spikey M]

:lol:

[Magic]

Probably fat.

[Shindig]

The article didn’t need to point out he was straight but I’m sure he insisted.

[Jimmy Floyd]

One of the thousands of things worth a lol in life is that whenever a man earnestly describes his own dick, the size is always given as 'definitely above average'. I presume everyone imagines average to be just that bit smaller than what they wake up to every morning.

[Shindig]

I'd wager most blokes don't go around comparing them, to be honest. And the only other cocks they spot are in porn which are either comically oversized or Asian.

[Magic]

Spot the small cock.

[Giggles]

Magic seems like the type who would ask someone if they’d a big one.

[Magic]

Sure the 40 a day have helped you.

[Shindig]

It's the reason he avoids airport toilets.

[Giggles]

Sure the 40 a day have helped you.

40 cocks?

Are you at yourself right now or what? Sick fuck.

[Magic]

:D

[Giggles]

My arse could never take more than 30 in the one day anyway.

[Shindig]

Day 2 testing's no longer a thing, is it? As in it's recommended rather than a requirement? The airport testers I've just booked with seem to still be pushing that.

[Spikey M]

In my old Civil Service job we would send out templated letters to idiots that had managed to fuck up the extremely basic instructions on their fine letter. They were all unnecessarily hostile in tone and were generally only good for pissing people off.

Anyway, one day we received a response to one complaining about the tone of the letter and saying that whoever wrote it needs to stop blaming the world for their tiny penis. This was passed to the guy that sent it with a "haha, they're on to you Alex..."

"Tiny penis? Hahaha. Yeah, alright! They should talk to one of my ex's! They'll tell him how "TINY" I am..."

He was of course called Baby Bell, MicroSausage and a range of other hilarious names from that day onward. Fuck sake, Alex.

[randomlegend]

Spot the small cock.

Spotted.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60238867


The key elements of the plan are as follows:

Step 1: Fully vaccinated New Zealanders from Australia can return home from 27 February
Step 2: Fully jabbed citizens from all other countries are able to arrive from 13 March. This also applies to a number of critical and skilled foreign workers
Step 3: Up to 5,000 international students are allowed into the country from 12 April
Step 4: Australians and all other visitors who can normally travel visa-free to NZ are expected to be able to travel to the country no later than July
Step 5: Begins in October and includes all other visitors and students who normally require a visa


It is thought that about 94% of the country's population over the age of 12 is fully vaccinated

Fuck me. Just open up you mongs. :happycry:

[Jimmy Floyd]

It seems to me that they are unduly skeered of dith.

[Spikey M]

2 years in and their own citizens still aren't allowed home. Absolutely mental.

[Magic]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/02/trusting-people-do-right-thing-saved-lives-covid-lockdowns/

Vindication on the horizon chaps. :drool:

[Lewis]

I want to know what sort of VENTILATION people who are going mental think ought to be installed in schools. Short of massively intrusive industrial units, which might make teaching difficult, what would actually be better than opening windows? Are people just obsessing over it because it sounds like a clever technological solution?

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The heirs of the Scottish Enlightenment.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Apparently we're going to keep paying for their pensions after independence too. That country/region is going to be fucked in a couple of decades, their heads are all over the show.

[Lewis]

They can just hand over the bit of the 'pension pot' where they put the Scottish contributions.

[Magic]

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The heirs of the Scottish Enlightenment.

How about improving the abysmal state of Scottish education? Total distraction tactics.

[Kikó]

Agreed. It's clearly terrible.

[Shindig]

It's going to make the places rife for arson. :drool:

[Magic]

Agreed. It's clearly terrible.

They weren't in power when I was educated amigo.

[Kikó]

:youpi: