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Saigon

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The mother of my kids is a nurse at Southmead Hospital in Bristol and they are well under pressure and lockdown not until Thursday I think this is all going to get messy for sure :(
Police last night had great difficulty trying to shutdown an illegal warehouse party near Bristol, a few officers injured, but there were 700 party goers there! The organisers of these raves can afford to pay the fine, they are now being restricted with regard to their drug selling on the streets so have to find another outlet, organise an illegal warehouse rave, sell the drugs, job done. The big problem is that our law enforcement is no real deterrent to them. We need to be Much more Stringent and stop pussyfooting around. I’m sure they were all social distancing!! I am being told to stay in my house, not see family members inside or outside, if I drive in the wrong direction I will face a fine, the police are quite happy to put up road blocks to make sure, but not seriously try and stop this bull sh1t. We are too soft with regard to enforcement for various reasons.
 

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Here being in a high state of alert after the terrorism attacks in the last couple of weeks and lots of military about I think will keep a lot more people in and only out for essentials.
We will see how the infection rate drops.
 

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Chris Smith, British Consultant Virologist, Cambridge University being interviewed on BBC News this morning.

"Dentists, physiotherapists and optometrists will remain open during this lock-down, including the one at Barnard Castle."
 

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So apparently the data used in the predictions on Saturday is about a month out of date and based on a model that says we would be having 1000 deaths per day now....

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The mother of my kids is a nurse at Southmead Hospital in Bristol and they are well under pressure and lockdown not until Thursday I think this is all going to get messy for sure :(

A friend of mine is a nurse at Queens Hospital in Romford, in March she went from being a ward nurse to a high dependency (HD) nurse because of all the Covid cases they had. She was back as a ward nurse in September.
On Saturday they moved her back to being a HD nurse. She reckons that it's worse than when she went there in March already.
And they know how to treat Covid better as well! :oops:
 

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So apparently the data used in the predictions on Saturday is about a month out of date and based on a model that says we would be having 1000 deaths per day now....

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That just has to be incompetence in my book for all the money it's costing and they should be held accountable.
When I'm working on someone's car and I decide to guess rather than using the manufacturer's technical information I would be called a WÂNKER.
 

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A friend of mine is a nurse at Queens Hospital in Romford, in March she went from being a ward nurse to a high dependency (HD) nurse because of all the Covid cases they had. She was back as a ward nurse in September.
On Saturday they moved her back to being a HD nurse. She reckons that it's worse than when she went there in March already.
And they know how to treat Covid better as well! :oops:

A family friend of ours is in Queens at the moment following two heart attacks, awaiting bypass surgery, mid 40's very overweight and diabetic, his outlook is not good! He was complaining about mild chest pains radiating down his arm for a day or two, his Mrs took him with the two toddlers and dropped him at A&E, they haven't been able to see him since! The irony is he works for local NHS in IT.
 

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A family friend of ours is in Queens at the moment following two heart attacks, awaiting bypass surgery, mid 40's very overweight and diabetic, his outlook is not good! He was complaining about mild chest pains radiating down his arm for a day or two, his Mrs took him with the two toddlers and dropped him at A&E, they haven't been able to see him since! The irony is he works for local NHS in IT.

I don't doubt that.

There is a certain irony of people who work for the NHS being massively overweight. My sister-in-laws aunt also works at Queens, (not on the medical side of things) and she is almost 30 stone!!!!! and she's only about 5ft 5"!!!!
 

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I don't doubt that.

There is a certain irony of people who work for the NHS being massively overweight. My sister-in-laws aunt also works at Queens, (not on the medical side of things) and she is almost 30 stone!!!!! and she's only about 5ft 5"!!!!

The unions had a field day a couple of years ago when the NHS said it’s staff should be fitter as they were setting a bad example to patients.
 
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2b1ask1

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I'm hugely overweight but I'm not unfit as I don't have or allow myself to be sedentary. This year in particular I have worked on my endurance, I have got to the point I can manage a 4-hour kayak session on open water without a break averaging 4mph, about 6 hours with a break and what has significantly changed this year is at the start a long session would have needed a couple of weeks recovery and now I'm good to go the next day. My at rest breathing is far better and overall fitness is great. Need to get back on a controlled diet though.
 

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First we have Gove saying confinement will go on longer than 4 weeks and now Sunak too.
Poor old Boris.
 

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...and in further news apparently (although I've not been able to verify this) there are disclaimers on the bottom of the slides that these are 'scenarios' not predictions.

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