COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

[SexyGreyFox]

covid seems more and more like a scam, we could have probably ignored it once all the old and vulnerable already died thanks to the NHS ejecting infected patients back to nursing homes and saved 1+ years worth of mental health problems.

My department is still getting daily calls from relatives, patients and staff members because of Covid and we still have 75 Covid patients.
Honestly give it a rest

 

[CapitalOne]

Call me cynical, but I’m sure that a lot of the people who seem to care about mental health issues and not covid issues (point to make clear, not those who seem to care about mental health issues and covid issues) are just jumping on the mental health bandwagon because it suits their agenda

 

[krooton]

Call me cynical, but I’m sure that a lot of the people who seem to care about mental health issues and not covid issues (point to make clear, not those who seem to care about mental health issues and covid issues) are just jumping on the mental health bandwagon because it suits their agenda

Plus I feel that mental health problems in general are more treatable than, you know, death.

 

[Mr Badger]

My department is still getting daily calls from relatives, patients and staff members because of Covid and we still have 75 Covid patients.
Honestly give it a rest

I haven't dipped into this thread for a while. Had an "interesting" conversation recently with someone who apparently has worked in a hospital for many years (he said he deals with patients but didn't seem to be a full blown doctor or similar). Anyway, he was spouting a mix of conspiracy theories. On one hand he was convinced that Covid is a man made Chinese viral weapon that escaped from the lab. On the other he was claiming the Covid pandemic was much less serious than reported, that the death figures were artificially inflated and that hospitals were actually really quiet during lockdown and that the NHS was not put under pressure. I suggested that maybe that was just his own experience and not reflective of areas that were hit hard by Covid, but when he realised that I wasn't agreeing with him he quickly lost interest in continuing the conversation.

 

[CapitalOne]

Plus I feel that mental health problems in general are more treatable than, you know, death.

If i was being even more crude, the attitude can be observed thus:

Covid is only sniffles why would you risk mental health?

the flip side being:

Covid is killing people why can‘t people put up with being a bit sad for a while?

I hold neither of those positions I just want to highlight the flaws in these ill thought through arguments.

 

[do_ron_ron]

hospitals were actually really quiet during lockdown and that the NHS was not put under pressure

I only have to ask my niece, a nurse, about this stupidity. Covering nurses who have been off or just putting in extra shifts when needed left her so exhausted she was told not to come in for a week and rest. I thought most of the CT loons were in America.

 

[arknor]

If i was being even more crude, the attitude can be observed thus:

Covid is only sniffles why would you risk mental health?

the flip side being:

Covid is killing people why can‘t people put up with being a bit sad for a while?

I hold neither of those positions I just want to highlight the flaws in these ill thought through arguments.

and what about the massive cancer back logs and all the other operations on huge waiting lists?

 

[jpm]

I had a letter the other day for my spring booster, will be my fifth jab. I'm a kidney transplant recipient.

 

[Craig R]

I had a letter the other day for my spring booster, will be my fifth jab. I'm a kidney transplant recipient.

Wish I'd had another booster before I caught it. It had been 7 months since my last one and the efficacy had probably worn off a bit. I had a few very rough days but thankfully seem to be through the worst now.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

that the death figures were artificially inflated

I witnessed week after week relatives screaming for Covid to be put on Death Certificates and Clinicians refusing because it wasn't.
My own Dad caught Covid in hospital around 6 weeks ago and died shortly after, the Clinicians refused to put that on the death certificate saying it didn't make a difference.

hospitals were actually really quiet during lockdown

Well that was true, I could walk through all the hospital and not see another person however it was all happening behind closed doors

 

[jpm]

Wish I'd had another booster before I caught it. It had been 7 months since my last one and the efficacy had probably worn off a bit. I had a few very rough days but thankfully seem to be through the worst now.

I've been lucky, everyone else around me seems to have had it except me. Even sat on the same sofa as my father watching rugby who then tested positive there next day.

 

[CapitalOne]

and what about the massive cancer back logs and all the other operations on huge waiting lists?

That’s a great point…that needs to be dealt with by the government it’s their job. Maybe now we have learned how to staff up and deal with a pandemic scenario. In the mean time you can’t argue with a virus so are you asking me to chose between modes of death?

 

[cheesefest]

Wish I'd had another booster before I caught it. It had been 7 months since my last one and the efficacy had probably worn off a bit. I had a few very rough days but thankfully seem to be through the worst now.

JCVI have messed up asthmatics up big time. They had such a strict criteria on who was in group 6. I just fell short of it. Yet other medical conditions, no questions of how many hospital visits, what meds you have taken - you were in group 6 regardless the severity.

My GP practice moved me from group 10 to group 6 as so close to the criteria. Why should someone 10 years older than me, no health issues and WFH got the vaccine before me?

 

[Delvis]

JCVI have messed up asthmatics up big time. They had such a strict criteria on who was in group 6. I just fell short of it. Yet other medical conditions, no questions of how many hospital visits, what meds you have taken - you were in group 6 regardless the severity.

My GP practice moved me from group 10 to group 6 as so close to the criteria. Why should someone 10 years older than me, no health issues and WFH got the vaccine before me?

My wife called up to get a replacement inhaler and the receptionist said "don't you think there are more important things happening right now".

Good times

 

[SexyGreyFox]

My wife called up to get a replacement inhaler and the receptionist said "don't you think there are more important things happening right now".

if that's true you need to put a complaint in.

 

[Delvis]

if that's true you need to put a complaint in.

People always complain about the place tbh.

 

[CaptainCook]

My wife called up to get a replacement inhaler and the receptionist said "don't you think there are more important things happening right now".

Good times

That’s appalling and completely irrelevant to their job as a receptionist

 

[CaptainCook]

and what about the massive cancer back logs and all the other operations on huge waiting lists?

If Boris had not ****ed it by keeping covid out and not letting it rip there would have been more NHS capacity available for cancer patients

 

[Craig R]

I've been lucky, everyone else around me seems to have had it except me. Even sat on the same sofa as my father watching rugby who then tested positive there next day.

I only have one other friend that I know of who has managed to beat me in the "last to get it" race. Everyone else I know has had it by now.

He was sat next to me in a car for over an hour on the day before my symptoms showed up, while I was probably highly contagious, and somehow he still didn't catch it. Lucky guy!

 

[SexyGreyFox]

People always complain about the place tbh.

Verbal or an actual proper complaint?