Covid

[GetIntoEm]

Absolutely dreadful times. Morons thinking they were the police. Asking random people where their mask is, little Doris in Tesco telling people to only walk in one direction.

Folk sat at home thinking they were loving life getting paid, when a lot of people had their wages capped at 80%

Wasn't for me

[Elizabeth]

It was around this time 3 years ago when things were beginning to lock down.
First time I'd ever heard of the phrase Furlough.
It was wierd to see the long que to get into somewhere.


Not bringing politics into it, thread will be deleted by the mods.

Such a weird subject to bring up

[Lowbankclaret]

I think Inchy being able tell his story is worth every sentace.

[Nori1958]

I think Inchy being able tell his story is worth every sentace.

Possibly....but it normally gets deleted

[Lowbankclaret]

Possibly....but it normally gets deleted

But now Covid is gone , surely he can say.

[Nori1958]

But now Covid is gone , surely he can say.

Don't ask me, I thought it should be allowed all the way through,......apart from your bloody spreadsheets

[Tall Paul]

But now Covid is gone , surely he can say.

Covid is gone?

[FCBurnley]

I am an overweight elderly white unvaccinated mask free male How can I still be alive ?

[Nori1958]

Covid is gone?

His spreadsheet probably says so

[Nori1958]

I am an overweight elderly white unvaccinated mask free male How can I still be alive ?

You'll have passed it on to everyone else

[FCBurnley]

You'll have passed it on to everyone else

Lol

[LoveCurryPies]

My daughter was one of the nurses who was dealing with covid patients, with only a blue paper mask for protection. Each night on the way home from work she would phone, frequently crying because the doctors and nurses all thought they would die.

On getting home (flatsharring with other nurses) they would cry and drink too much. Next day they got up and went back to the wards, thinking they would catch the virus and die.

We started to clap for the NHS staff and they appreciated that. However, three years later the government aren’t prepared to give them a pay rise.

Sometimes my daughter works a 22 hour shift. Doctors fall asleep during procedures or forget what they are doing.

We all feel relaxed and comfortable now, but what if a new variant occurs. One that doesn’t respond to the vaccines.

[Lowbankclaret]

Don't ask me, I thought it should be allowed all the way through,......apart from your bloody spreadsheets

To be fair they said it would be a pandemic, which it was and I was laughed at for saying it would be.

[Damo]

Bizarre how easily manipulated people became when directed by their favourite media source.
The Russia/Ukraine war thing on here is continued proof how naieve certain people are

[dsr]

I remember a friend of my mother's who spent her 100th birthday seeing no-one and answering the phone telling her friends what a miserable day she was having. She died shortly afterwards.

[LoveCurryPies]

We got lucky that scientists developed a vaccine. Imagine if the virus had targeted the young. There will be more variants but are we ready?

[Billy Balfour]

I am an overweight elderly white unvaccinated mask free male How can I still be alive ?

Because, according to your own words, you've been living in a 3-year lockdown.

[Hipper]

Furlough. I think it's American in usage. I first heard it in a Bilko episode - someone 'going on furlough' meaning leave or holidays.

I was lucky in that I never caught Covid (had all the vaccines) but I'm retired so didn't have to do anything. I know two working people that got it though. One got it recently for a second time. Another got it about six months ago and it turns out he now has Long Covid. This makes him tired and listless whereas he was pretty active before. He won't now visit other people preferring to meet them in open spaces and is scared of crowds. He is of course off work. This Long Covid is the more scary condition.

[Lancasterclaret]

Bizarre how easily manipulated people became when directed by their favourite media source.
The Russia/Ukraine war thing on here is continued proof how naieve certain people are

You need to stop reading Pendle Bellas posts Damo!

[Billy Balfour]

Furlough. I think it's American in usage.

It's a Dutch military word for 'leave' that we (UK) adopted in the early 17th century.

[Fretters]

Strangely Influenza Virus never taken anywhere near as seriously. Similarities are both viral, both ghastly, both extremely serious to the vulnerable and the elderly. The Hoo Haaa it caused was Unbelievable. The money it's now costing the Taxpayers eye watering. I appreciate some people were thrilled how their lives gave changed for the better - Lucky them. Some of us not so lucky still out if the house 12 hours a day working. That does grate a bit. Now we are all paying the price of Furlough... For What?

The difference being that we have a vaccine for flu that prevents the NHS being overwhelmed, whereas we didn't for Covid. Now we do and it's going the same way as flu i.e. everyone getting on with their lives and vaccines being routinely offered to the vulnerable.

Apologies if I've missed your point, not looking to start an argument.

[GodIsADeeJay81]

The difference being that we have a vaccine for flu that prevents the NHS being overwhelmed, whereas we didn't for Covid. Now we do and it's going the same way as flu i.e. everyone getting on with their lives and vaccines being routinely offered to the vulnerable.

Apologies if I've missed your point, not looking to start an argument.

Prior to COVID it was quite normal for the NHS to be overwhelmed during winter due to flu etc.

It probably didn't help that people are seemingly incapable of functioning like adults and use hospitals for pretty much everything when they really don't need to do that.
I'm not advocating for pre-paying to use hospitals, but I'm fairly certain people would be less stupid if that was the case.

[MT03ALG]

On Saturday 28th. March 202 I was due to sing with my choir, Colne Orpheus Glee Union, along with several other choirs, at Blackburn Cathedral to celebrate the Centenary of the National Association of Choirs. Coincidentally it was the date of my 70th. birthday. I had a glass of wine at home

[MT03ALG]

2020

[taio]

Prior to COVID it was quite normal for the NHS to be overwhelmed during winter due to flu etc.

It probably didn't help that people are seemingly incapable of functioning like adults and use hospitals for pretty much everything when they really don't need to do that.
I'm not advocating for pre-paying to use hospitals, but I'm fairly certain people would be less stupid if that was the case.

Far more complex than that - difficulty in accessing primary care and 111 for example.

If someone turns up at ED inappropriately they will be diverted to an alternative service such as an urgent treatment centre, which are typically based at hospital but are provided by primary care.

[GodIsADeeJay81]

Far more complex than that - difficulty in accessing primary care and 111 for example.

If someone turns up at ED inappropriately they will be diverted to an alternative service such as an urgent treatment centre, which are typically based at hospital but are provided by primary care.

3 million people on average attend A&E when they shouldn't, this is a big issue.
Yes, they'll get diverted to UGC where possible but they're still tying up time/resources.

People can be stupid when it comes to how they treat the NHS quite simply.

[dsr]

Prior to COVID it was quite normal for the NHS to be overwhelmed during winter due to flu etc.

It probably didn't help that people are seemingly incapable of functioning like adults and use hospitals for pretty much everything when they really don't need to do that.
I'm not advocating for pre-paying to use hospitals, but I'm fairly certain people would be less stupid if that was the case.

Not all adults, even responsible ones, are medical professionals who can diagnose their own ailments. They say not to go to A&E with stomach ache, but I went to A&E with exactly that and was in bed with a drip in my arm within an hour of getting there. When they take away options to see a doctor same day, it's inevitable that hospital A&E departments will get more custom.

[taio]

3 million people on average attend A&E when they shouldn't, this is a big issue.
Yes, they'll get diverted to UGC where possible but they're still tying up time/resources.

People can be stupid when it comes to how they treat the NHS quite simply.

I'm not disputing that some people attend ED inappropriately. I'm saying it's far more complicated than people just being stupid. It's not easy people accessing alternative care, or knowing the service that can best meet their needs.

[ceborame]

Furlough. I think it's American in usage.

It's a Dutch military word for 'leave' that we (UK) adopted in the early 17th century.

When I was researching my Grandad's WW1 service on Ancestry.com, I came across a document that granted him '24 hours furlough' from when he was recovering from being injured in a UK hospital. I had to google what it meant.

[Nori1958]

To be fair they said it would be a pandemic, which it was and I was laughed at for saying it would be.

To be fair..it was already a pandemic when you started posting your death predictions.......then we were banned from discussing it.....how times change

[Nori1958]

Thinking about it...nobody cares anymore which might explain why we've Been allowed to discuss it

[mdd2]

We got lucky that scientists developed a vaccine. Imagine if the virus had targeted the young. There will be more variants but are we ready?

Luck didn’t come into it
Around December 2019 a new infection occurred in China and spread rapidly around the world and within 12 months the World identified the infection as being a coronavirus sequenced it so we knew it’s full genetic make up, developed rapid testing to identify those who were infected or carrying the virus, developed treatments that saved lives and produced several effective vaccines.
Luck was nowhere in there and won’t be again
We just need to ensure that these labs and scientists remain funded to do the work to protect us for the next virus to hit us which seems likely to be bird flu once it mutates a bit more now it is in mammals

[HunterST_BFC]

A lot of revisionism already I see...

If I added my thoughts and the facts already known.

This Thread would be pulled.

The whole UK situation goes back to 2016...
So many mistakes / policy decisions and poor shortcuts have followed.

So many dead

[TsarBomba]

It was absolutely sh*t.

I probably reported and collected more dead bodies in those 2 years than my other 14 combined.

And what those nurses and doctors did was nothing short of heroic.

We are forever in their debt.

[Lowbankclaret]

To be fair..it was already a pandemic when you started posting your death predictions.......then we were banned from discussing it.....how times change

When it started I said shut the airspace before it had escaped China.

Obviously the predictions were when the pandemic started and they were based on data available.

Thank god it didn’t get that serious.

Italy suffered really badly, which appears to be worse than most places.

[Pickles]

I moved to Hong Kong during the pandemic. Things were stricter over there than here, often teetering on surreal. Two week stay in a hotel upon arrival, QR code on my wrist, an app on my phone with which I had to log the perimeter of the hotel room. Phone would vibrate at any time day or night and I had to scan the QR code to show I was still in the room. I later learned that some friends I'd made had forgotten to include their hotel bathroom so every time they went to the loo the HK government were suspicious.

Out of the hotel, masks were mandatory everywhere. Police walked around parks with huge novelty tape measures to make sure you weren't too close to your mate. But things opened up much earlier for us over there. I remember going out on Hallowe'en and it was rammed like a normal night while back at home it was proper lockdown. That being said though, they've only just in the last couple of weeks stopped masks being mandatory.

I'm sure there are other little bits I can't remember right now, and it wasn't all bad or weird when it comes to dealing with a pandemic. And Hong Kong itself is a brilliant place.

Just remembered something else. I was teaching English to kindergarten students and on my first whirlwind of a day I looked down at all these tiny humans in their miniature masks. Then I looked at my cards for the words I was about to teach. Considering much of the teaching was miming what the word is, and the global situation... I'd probably have preferred it to be something other than... "ill."

[Nori1958]

When it started I said shut the airspace before it had escaped China.

Obviously the predictions were when the pandemic started and they were based on data available.

Thank god it didn’t get that serious.

Italy suffered really badly, which appears to be worse than most places.

It's brilliant to travel without any restrictions, Spain recently removed masks from buses...much more pleasant

[Boss Hogg]

Nothing good about it. Miserable for people in care homes and people visiting them and miserable for people attending funerals.