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marinyork

Resting in suspended Animation
Location
Logopolis
It will be. If anyone takes the 1.5 million letters to supermarkets then those letters will get nicked I'd imagine too.
 

Smudge

Veteran
Location
Somerset
I’m hearing from my son, via his medical friends, that a number of doctors in London have been mugged at knifepoint and had their NHS badges stolen.

These are doctors who have completed long shifts and have left the hospital wearing their NHS id badges round their necks.

I’m struggling to think of anything more disgusting.

It may well be true, but I'd be wary of automatically believing stories that have passed through a few people, we all know how chinese whispers work. Especially in times like these.
Would have thought that something as despicable as that would have been widely reported.
 

Rocky

Hello decadence
It may well be true, but I'd be wary of automatically believing stories that have passed through a few people, we all know how chinese whispers work. Especially in times like these.
Would have thought that something as despicable as that would have been widely reported.
It happened to one of his mates at UCLH. The messages that the junior doctors are sending via their WhatsApp group is to warn each other. They are not to flame things.
 

tom73

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
If you still find this hard to understand than watch this.
If you went out yesterday as if it was bank holiday Monday or down the pub for one last party.
You may have now infected 59,000 other people.
If we act now the NHS can save lives.
No health service in the world no matter how much money it has can possibly cope with a mass number of critical ill people.
The NHS will try but it won't and can't do this without everyone helping them.
Real hard clinical decision are made everyday but once this get's going they will have to be made on mass and quickly.
They may have to make one about you.


View: https://twitter.com/caitlinmoran/status/1241852210386001923?s=20
 

Pale Rider

Legendary Member
His colleagues think it’s so people can get access to supermarkets and food rather than gaining entry to the hospital. I’m struggling to get my head round this.....is it really that difficult to get food?

Good thought, not least because in those circumstances the check is likely to be even less thorough.

I've seen a couple of saddos over the years who were not out for obvious gain or to cause harm, but just wanted to be seen as at the heart of things, important, to be listened to.

All the things they didn't normally get.

An example is the woman who pretended to be a 9/11 victim.

There was a guy near me who pretended to be a solicitor at magistrates' court.

He got away with it for a while, doing two or three minor cases.

Part of the (reluctantly advanced) mitigation was that he'd done a good job of the cases, so his victims had suffered no disadvantage.
 

marinyork

Resting in suspended Animation
Location
Logopolis
If you still find this hard to understand than watch this.

Another poster on here put up a guardian article here about lessons learned from Italy.

The article is all right, all if getting a little bit misty eyed and vague, but an improvement on a couple of other articles I've seen that said the 11 municipalities behaved.

The pass it onto to three people message, not mentioned in the article, was actually one that started to appear on italian tv a couple of days after national lockdown and repeated quite a lot.
 
Location
London
If you still find this hard to understand than watch this.
If you went out yesterday as if it was bank holiday Monday or down the pub for one last party.
You may have now infected 59,000 other people.
If we act now the NHS can save lives.
No health service in the world no matter how much money it has can possibly cope with a mass number of critical ill people.
The NHS will try but it won't and can't do this without everyone helping them.
Real hard clinical decision are made everyday but once this get's going they will have to be made on mass and quickly.
They may have to make one about you.

The pub bit of that a reference to Friday?
They have all been shut since Friday night haven't they?
 

Julia9054

Guru
Location
Knaresborough
https://www.asthma.org.uk/advice/triggers/coronavirus-covid-19/
For all the asthmatics on here. Advice updated yesterday. Turns out I am in the very high risk group despite being ridiculously fit and healthy.
Bollocks!
 

Pat "5mph"

A kilogrammicaly challenged woman
Moderator
Location
Glasgow
Mod Note:
Some trolling/abusive/fake news posts a few pages back have been deleted.
Sadly I had to cull a few of the reasonable responses too, because they quoted deleted posts.
The Mods team does not usually divulge mods actions, but, I'm from Italy, I cannot accept blatantly incorrect statememnts like:

WHO, FOR GOD SAKE, ARE THESE PEOPLE THAT WILL DIE LONELY .... !!!
They will be in hospital with superb health care professionals who are already aware of their underlying and long term serious health issues ...
Thread ban for Landsurfer.


I’m struggling to get my head round this.....is it really that difficult to get food?
Sadly, yes, in my area at least.
Unless you can rustle up meals from random ingredients.
 

marinyork

Resting in suspended Animation
Location
Logopolis
https://www.asthma.org.uk/advice/triggers/coronavirus-covid-19/
For all the asthmatics on here. Advice updated yesterday. Turns out I am in the very high risk group despite being ridiculously fit and healthy.
Bollocks!

The DCMO covered this yesterday saying that the number of letters going out was very large and that the net was being overcautious to protect people and that some would be surprised, but not to be alarmed. They also said that there might be some duplication of letters from different bits of the health service to make sure they make contact.

Someone pregnant I know various people had said that in general there is a risk of complications with flu and so ordinarily it's on the list was then understandably quite upset initially when Witty changed the guidance on Monday, I think it was, and said pretty much the same thing.
 

Mugshot

Cracking a solo.
I’m hearing from my son, via his medical friends, that a number of doctors in London have been mugged at knifepoint and had their NHS badges stolen.

These are doctors who have completed long shifts and have left the hospital wearing their NHS id badges round their necks.

I’m struggling to think of anything more disgusting.
Also reports this morning of ambulances having their tyres drilled.

Coronavirus Kent: Six ambulances have holes drilled in tyres in overnight attack in Ramsgate
 
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