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BogRollBOGOF · 23/10/2020 20:08

(Socially distanced of course and in strictest obedience of all localised lockdowns and 3 or 5 tiers and whatever illogic the powers that be can dream up next)

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SirSamuelVimes · 26/10/2020 18:50

I'm in tier 1 at the moment which I'm aware is v. lucky. Going up to visit the in-laws in tier 2 towards the end of the week (spare house as someone's away) which is going to be weird. Mil has said she won't make the grandkids stay at a distance but there's no chance of the being indoors with them. Crossing fingers and toes that it doesn't piss down the whole time we're there.

MercyBooth · 26/10/2020 18:54

"live under 1/2 a mile from the promised land who aren't. Fuckers in our borough just wanted the money"

FFS Ridiculous.

AllPlayedOut · 26/10/2020 18:55

This is completely random but I'm a big fan of Rammstein and the government's approach to Covid reminds me of their Benzin music video. They're firefighters who are called out to rescue a man trapped(possibly suicidal) on a high rise building. While driving to rescue this one individual they destroy the whole town, sending trains flying, crashing into whole buildings and wiping out everything and everyone in their path with the truck. In the end it's all for naught because the net rips just as the man jumps onto it.

Littlebelina · 26/10/2020 18:59

Catching up a bit Flowers for your mum mercy.

justasking111 · 26/10/2020 19:02

Just reading bbc comments the wonderful folk of Shropshire have welcomed the welsh to their shopping areas. Wish I lived near a border abutting England.

MercyBooth · 26/10/2020 19:07

Aww thanks @Littlebelina Everyone here has been so supportive Flowers Flowers

TabbyStar · 26/10/2020 19:14

Just reading bbc comments the wonderful folk of Shropshire have welcomed the welsh to their shopping areas.

Are the Shropshire police not patrolling the borders like Gloucestershire are then? Hmm

HitchikersGuide · 26/10/2020 19:22

Can't believe that the 'you wouldn't feel that way if someone you knew had died of Covid' crap is still being spouted. Think I need an MN break, and I've only just come back on!
That and the constant schools threads still going and the 'I'm a doctor and I'll have to work over Xmas because of you' (obviously we all know that winter has been easy for the NHS until this year cos obvs no one's ever died before). Are these people not frankly just bored.

HitchikersGuide · 26/10/2020 19:24

Sorry for everyone going through a shit time.

Bollss · 26/10/2020 19:26

@HitchikersGuide

Can't believe that the 'you wouldn't feel that way if someone you knew had died of Covid' crap is still being spouted. Think I need an MN break, and I've only just come back on! That and the constant schools threads still going and the 'I'm a doctor and I'll have to work over Xmas because of you' (obviously we all know that winter has been easy for the NHS until this year cos obvs no one's ever died before). Are these people not frankly just bored.
Lol at doctors working Xmas being unusual. Do they think hospitals shut for bank holidays Grin
HitchikersGuide · 26/10/2020 19:32

And what's this ridiculous trope about 'hospitals will have to triage and some people won't be treated'. What do these people think happens in normal times? That when there are stories about people raising funds for treatment abroad etc, that that is an invention? That hospices are there for fun, not because sometimes the only thing left is to provide a good death? Do they honestly think that pre-Covid, hospitals were giving out treatment irrespective of NICE guidelines. Yes it may be worse but these are decisions that are always being made. God people are thick.

TheOrchidKiller · 26/10/2020 19:37

"Lol at doctors working Xmas being unusual. Do they think hospitals shut for bank holidays"
I waa going to say that! It's never, "I'm an Amazon delivery driver & I've got to work because of people like you," is it?

AllPlayedOut · 26/10/2020 19:38

Can't believe that the 'you wouldn't feel that way if someone you knew had died of Covid' crap is still being spouted. Think I need an MN break, and I've only just come back on!

I never understand that argument. As though the bereaved are some homogeneous mass with a singular opinion. And even if so I don't think it's especially wise to base policies purely on emotions.

Likewise "Would you say that to a nurse/doctor?" I would actually. I'd have no problem doing so.

permanentlyexhaustedpigeon · 26/10/2020 19:39

Someone I know died of Covid and I still think a lot of the restrictions are worrying. The way people are completely ignoring the economic and mental health fallout of all of this is ridiculous.
The latest meme to make me annoyed is "we're going to have to live with this virus, vaccine or no vaccine. So to help us avoid locking down for ever, ALWAYS stay 2m apart from anyone not in your bubble"
I don't really call that 'learning to live with the virus' if I can't hug my extended family again. Grr.

justasking111 · 26/10/2020 19:44

There are three hospitals in our board. Wrexham put up a plea on FB a few hours ago.

Our Emergency Department at Wrexham Maelor Hospital is extremely busy at present. The department has to prioritise the most seriously injured patients who need urgent care.

Minor injuries and illnesses can be treated:
• at your local Pharmacy
• at a Minor Injury Unit
• by contacting the NHS Direct Wales helpline, open 24/7
• by contacting your GP, or;
• by contacting the C.A.L.L. helpline 24/7 for anyone concerned about their own mental health or that of a relative or friend
By choosing the most appropriate health care service for your needs, you will not only be helping your local NHS services during the COVID-19 pandemic, but you might also be seen quicker.
Information and contact numbers for the services listed above can be found on our website: bcuhb.nhs.wales/.../health-services1/where-do-i-go/

Bugger me a few hours later the second hospital put this up

Our Emergency Department at Glan Clwyd Hospital is extremely busy at present. The department has to prioritise the most seriously injured patients who need urgent care.
If you or someone you know is poorly but it is not a medical emergency, minor injuries and illnesses can be treated out of hours by:
• contacting the GP Out of Hours Service … See More

So we are down to one hospital on a Monday now. They will be busy they have had up to 14 ambulances backed up in the ER zone before now.

This is not covid but normal for us.

Bollss · 26/10/2020 19:46

Our hospital posted similar a week or so ago. They do every winter, and every time it's a sunny bank holiday. Sometimes when the local football team play. It's a small hospital really.

But then they don't staff them so they have "spare" staff hanging around. They want the ones who are working to be actually working. Like any business.

ISaySteadyOn · 26/10/2020 19:46

I mean, tbh, if you are a doctor or surgeon or nurse or HCP, treating sick people is in the job description. And some of those people will have infectious diseases and you may get ill. But that is the nature of the job. Or do I have that wrong?

I have just been reading L.M. Montgomery's Anne's House of Dreams
where she marries Gilbert Blythe. Gilbert is a doctor and I think he would be a bit bemused by all this fuss.

WouldBeGood · 26/10/2020 19:52

@ISaySteadyOn oh my, I loved those books

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 26/10/2020 19:54

Every time I've gone to the pharmacist they've told me to see my GP. Earache - see your GP, thrush - see your GP, allergic rash, see your GP. This is despite me asking for OTC medication each time.

And then there was the time I was told I had a stomach bug. I actually had pancreatitis. I've often thought about that when I've read 'should I go to A&E?' threads on MN. I'd probably be dead if I'd asked for advice!

ISaySteadyOn · 26/10/2020 19:55

[quote WouldBeGood]@ISaySteadyOn oh my, I loved those books[/quote]
Ah! A kindred spiritSmile.

I still love those books.

110APiccadilly · 26/10/2020 20:05

I haven't read Anne of Green Gables for ages! Could do with doing some nostalgic re-reading, will have to see if I can find my copy.

To be honest, anyone from "the past" would be totally bemused by our reaction to this virus. It's just that, unlike them, we're (thankfully) used to most illnesses being less fatal than this one.

Pleasenomoreglitter · 26/10/2020 20:16

Funnily enough, I'm rereading Anne of Avonlea at the moment. Felt the need for some comfort reading.

Reedwarbler · 26/10/2020 20:52

This 'can't believe you would feel that way if someone you knew had died of covid' spouters annoy and irritate me intensely. What would these sanctimonious people (who have quite possibly never come face to face with a death) make of the fact that 3 members of my family, my best friend (and both my dogs) died within the space of 5 years? How dare they imply I wouldn't know how I would feel when someone dies. A death isn't more sad because it's from covid, all deaths are sad.
I also have to say that my poor old fil, with his advanced alzheimers, and being totally demented, deaf, nearly blind and bedridden, would, tbh, be better off if he was killed by covid, rather than lingering in the unpleasant, undignified and unhappy twilight world he now inhabits. Pneumonia is called the old man's friend, perhaps we should attach that label to covid now.

LivinLaVidaLoki · 26/10/2020 20:59

@HitchikersGuide
Can't believe that the 'you wouldn't feel that way if someone you knew had died of Covid' crap is still being spouted

My aunt died of covid. Sorry, with covid. I still think its horse shit.
Thats my stock answer there.

I honestly don't think they've ever experienced death. If they think covid death is the worst, or the only one that matters.

All death is horrible. The idea of dignity in dying unless you are drugged up to the eyeballs or in a medically induced coma (which I thought patients on ventilators were) is a myth. I've watched both my parents die of cancer. In that last couple of days when you pray for them to let go, because they are agitated, uncomfortable, fighting for every breath, knowing each one could be their last. Scared and confused. Do you think these thousands that die every day go slowly and quietly into the darkness? Now imagine what I described happening in thousands in care homes up and down the country. People going through that with no loved ones there to comfort them and tell me that anything about what is going on right now is "for the greater good".

WouldBeGood · 26/10/2020 21:11

As I think we’ve said before on these threads, I do think that one’s attitude is different if one has been through a whole pile of shite before all this. Perspective