COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[kaz7]

On a more serious note, my mother died in a care home on Wednesday, and I've heard an awful lot of ambulances driving around today. Thanks to everyone for making this such a decent place to hang out and deal with the pandmeic, it's helped me stay in a good frame of mind.

Sorry to hear that lovely,what is happpening is mental,this is a good community ,mostly,supportive

 

[SWP's back]

Can you actually confirm though that Italy aren't doing the same thing? Isn't it logical to just presume everyone is backlogging often due to the insane nature of what every country is going through? Why are they going to be doing any differently to us?

I also don't get how anyone can be annoyed at anyone for being upset at hearing about 900 deaths. It's not exactly not bleak is it ffs? Unless you think its totally fine?

Oh do fuck off you neck beard. I saw your post before the edit accusing me of lacking empathy.

It’s nothing of the sort, my post was simply explaining for the hard of thinking that it’s impossible to compare daily death figures between different countries when the U.K. (for example) keeps adding in non-hospital deaths for a previous one to two week period to any figures released on the day they were determined.

The numbers are collated as such due to the fact that non-hospital deaths require two separate GP’s to see the body and sign the death certificate. It means that numbers aren’t available in real time.

As for “why the U.K. would be different to Italy”, the U.K. hasn’t taken a single ventilator away from a older patient to give it to a younger one (yet). Our health service has not yet reached capacity.

So you can keep posting about everything is bleak and blame the government if that’s your way of dealing with it. Other posters can however, realise it’s a shite situation and yet still come to rational view that no amount of finger pointing or asserting blame will make a difference.

If you’re wanting to win the badge for the most upset and most depressed by the situation then have at it.

 

[SWP's back]

The Govt are looking into forging medals for everyone involved in the Falklands as a way of boosting public morale. In order to qualify, you must publicly state your belief that there was clearly nothing more than pure chance involved in the number plate 1984 FKL ending up on Jeremy Clarkson's car as they filmed him driving around southern Argentina winding the locals up.

Didn’t the Falklands War start and end in 1982?

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Boris out of intensive care - hoorah!!

He can't be. We're being lied to.

 

[SWP's back]

On a more serious note, my mother died in a care home on Wednesday, and I've heard an awful lot of ambulances driving around today. Thanks to everyone for making this such a decent place to hang out and deal with the pandmeic, it's helped me stay in a good frame of mind.

So sorry for you loss bud. Went though the same in February with my Dad. Stay strong.

 

[SilverFox2]

Why are comparing with spain at all? We govern by consent here and we had to be asked very politely at the start and not told,we will never have a harder lockdown

Agree Karen, in Spain almost immediately the government took control of police, army and commercial finance so could maake its decisions immediately.
In UK most needed HOC agreement to emergency laws so took time to enforce new Bills.
Easy to blame a soft approach by Boris but part of it was the price of maintaining democracy I feel.

 

[Summerbuzz]

Sorry to hear that lovely,what is happpening is mental,this is a good community ,mostly,supportive

It's a mix, isn't it. It's easy to get your back up from something someone says one day that doesn't matter the next. Being able to go through that when talking about these issues seems to have been pretty healthy, it's good to remember that it's rarely worth getting too worked up about one moment or argument, because there'll be different ones tomorrow, and the day after.

 

[mackenzie]

Big shout for Bluebell Nursing Home in Salford for me tonight.
It's my mum's birthday today (74) and although we were estranged for many years because of her mental illness from being a young mum, we have built bridges in the last 4 years.
She didn't know it was her birthday but when she came to the phone and I wished her happy birthday she then turned round and told the care staff. They then proceeded to sing happy birthday to her, and one of the staff then came back on the phone to say my mum's beam of a smile had been the best thing they had seen all day.
Fantastic staff.

And just to add....she is physically very good and mobile. She has had breast cancer but is in recovery. Her smile can be either angelic or something else (that's schizophrenia for you) but she has always been extremely intelligent.
The staff there are mostly immigrants and wonderful. Never a bad or harsh word with any of the residents.
I wanted to cry when I heard them sing happy birthday to her.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

What's a neck beard ?

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

Oh do fuck off you neck beard. I saw your post before the edit accusing me of lacking empathy.

It’s nothing of the sort, my post was simply explaining for the hard of thinking that it’s impossible to compare daily death figures between different countries when the U.K. (for example) keeps adding in non-hospital deaths for a previous one to two week period to any figures released on the day they were determined.

The numbers are collated as such due to the fact that non-hospital deaths require two separate GP’s to see the body and sign the death certificate. It means that numbers aren’t available in real time.

As for “why the U.K. would be different to Italy”, the U.K. hasn’t taken a single ventilator away from a older patient to give it to a younger one (yet). Our health service has not yet reached capacity.

So you can keep posting about everything is bleak and blame the government if that’s your way of dealing with it. Other posters can however, realise it’s a shite situation and yet still come to rational view that no amount of finger pointing or asserting blame will make a difference.

If you’re wanting to win the badge for the most upset and most depressed by the situation then have at it.

neck beard ?

never heard that before