I am sorry to hear this. I am grateful for their efforts.
Those who compare this to the deaths from seasonal flu should remember that NHS staff do not usually end up dying from treating and caring for their patients.
Nice one, RWC.I do and I have huge respect for those in the healthcare front line. My brother in law is a 30+ years NHS A&E surgeon at a very large regional hospital. He really is in the front line of this, and I know some of what he and his team are having to cope with in order to save lives
Put people that annoy you on ignore , makes for a better lockdown experience
Gents always remember - it could be worse.
My Mrs View attachment 67925preparing dinner.
At least the last one stayed on the plate.
Don’t worry, not one to let an opportunity go to waste, while she was down there on all fours I asked for ‘toad in the hole” instead.What heinous crime did you commit to have your dinner served on the floor?
Don’t worry, while she was down there in all fours I asked for ‘toad in the hole” instead.
Motorboat if I’m lucky.So tonight’s dinner will be on the floor too
Is the boat still there?
Don’t worry, not one to let an opportunity go to waste, while she was down there on all fours I asked for ‘toad in the hole” instead.
Doggy style is best, means you can watch telly at the same time, rest your pint on her back and also it's the most demeaning position for the woman. Nice!Actually that my favourite of all time , meat and atleast two veg ( yes Greta fecking meat ) followed closely by shepherds pie , now that would make a nasty looking mess all over that amtico floor
Jesus Christ.Doggy style is best, means you can watch telly at the same time, rest your pint on her back and also it's the most demeaning position for the woman. Nice!
I don’t feel superior. I am the first in my family to go to university - and I respect the work and efforts my parents and many others do to sacrifice and be good to others. I am by far the richest on here- I don’t respect money or education.- I respect people.What office based public servants? Are you referring to me? Who said I was office based? Another incorrect judgement on your part. You know next to nothing about me and my life and career beyond I like cars (duh) red wine and I have a tractor. Whereas we know a lot about your education and career because you like to feel superior to the rest of us.
Yes very much so. New guidelines support the use of N95/ FP2. Could you please PM me a contact? I have just ordered 200,000 from Israel but they won’t last long. China are making it hard to get them airfreighted out... Thanks a lot- I appreciate it@iainw @Silvercat I have a contact in Vietnam who has 15m face masks of the following type.
Manufacturer: 3M
Type: N95 type 1860
And also alorryplane load of hand sanitiser.
Are these of any use to the NHS?
I can’t answer question as I would like, but the sad fact is most people won’t have a choice if the curve follows other Western European Countries. NB: Ventilators would need at least one ITU trained doctor to supervise and then a team with a range of skills. Significant numbers of staff will be volunteers - which is absolutely incredible. Between the Engineers and construction workers setting it up and the volunteers supporting the front line workers- it’s an incredible result of human spiritI have to say MarkMas, if I every have the need of a ventilator and all the NHS can provide is a team of one nurse with a whole lot of recently trained inexperienced others to cover lots of ventilators on a ward in say the Excel....................I'll take anything I can get to hopefully survive.
Mark- it’s difficult to explain but I do understand how some of the concepts seem to be contradictory and evolving. Even senior Anesthetist’s are changing their tune. The facts are we have done from ‘best care’ to ‘possible care’ to ‘bad scenario’ to ‘war situation’ in not long. There seem to be various strategies proposed to deal with it. But at the moment it seems to be - try and get as many ventilators as we can and worry about staffing later. I suppose they need to make the illusion of trying their best and ventilators sound sexy and they can rally industry etc. The staffing levels will be like something we have never seen before! It will be different next week so I will go back to talking about cars. What on Earth is going to happen...Presumably he does have a lot of stress right now, and I'm all for a bit of venting, even intemperate venting. I do get that. But, if you say, " I am a colour expert and black is white." and then later say, "Look I clearly said 'grey is gray', and you are a spoilt argumentative child for disagreeing with me", I'm gonna have to react. I should probably not. but I will.
(and thank you for your kind comment)