Has anyone seen this doing the rounds on Facebook?

[Heatheronthehill]

I've just seen this posted in a comment

"For those who are doubting the excess deaths in the U.K. from Covid-19 I emplore you to phone up any funeral directors and ask them about their waiting list.
Covid-19 is here, it is worse than they are telling us. The reason people get it worse the second time is because the first time they had it, their lungs were permanently damaged. When people with 3rd/4th rounds of infection start to show up, the rate of deaths will increase further.

I’ve been reading scientific papers published by the respiratory medicine community and the future isn’t looking so peachy. It is important that we all do our part to curb the virus and that we let them do their part to properly research therapies to help with the long term lung damage being caused right now. The sooner we can get some kind of vaccine in the community, even if it’s not effective for everyone, the better."

Does anyone have any knowledge of how true this is?

[RaspberryCoulis]

That'll be the same shite as "i've got a friend in the NHS and the body bags are piling up" or "they're repurposing Hyde Park to use as a morgue" or all the other nonsense which has been all over social media since March.

[Namechangedforthisoct2]

I visited 2 Birmingham based funeral directors last week, there numbers are lower than normal for this time of year!
If you think about it, it makes sense that vulnerable, seriously ill people who may of passed on at some point in the next 12 months passed on earlier in the year and so now death rate is in fact lower than normal - one of them said it was his lowest ever this summer for years.

[Jroseforever]

So irresponsible starting a thread about something you read on Facebook of all places, that you have absolutely no idea about the source and validity.

Scaremongering at its worst.

[lovelemoncurd]

In actual fact the scientific journals seem to be saying if individuals do get reinfected then they suffer milder effects. It's another Facebook pile of garbage.

[movingonup20]

I'm guessing a fundraiser scam? Actually it's likely that having it once gives a level of immunity, not in full but you don't get as sick (not that I was ill the first time!) My good friend is a funeral director and it's quiet at the moment, has been since June. His theory is the first wave swept up all the low lying fruit vulnerability wise.

[PowerhouseOfTheCell]

My family are all funeral directors and the 'waiting list' is set up by the council because there are obviously so many funerals they can fit in a day. Were we are, North West, the average waiting time is 2 weeks, which it was this time last year.
So I'm calling utter bullshit

[movingonup20]

Ps got a crem slot in under 2 weeks which is quicker than often last week.

[NothingIsWrong]

My dad died a couple of years ago and it was 5 weeks before we could bury him. It's not unusual to have to wait in the winter.

[Lairymary]

Nope. If it was that bad Boris and friends would be using that "fact" as another scare tactic.

[LzzyHale]

Yes, phone the undertakers, they could really do with a good laugh at the moment.

[ContraIndicated]

Umm, funeral directors don’t have waiting lists. That’s ridiculous. They book you a funeral, it might be next week or it might be 4 weeks time. There were indeed fairly long waits for the funeral during the first wave, which clearly wasn’t reinfections.

This is actually one of the worst bits of entirely made up scaremongering I’ve seen. It’s irresponsible to be post it here instead of reporting it to Facebook.

[TwoLeftSocksWithHoles]

I think if it were true the information would have seeped out through family members and the roads being choc-a-bloc with hearses.

Unless all Funeral Directors have been forced to sign the Official Secrets Act and they stopped using hearses and are now using white vans.

Having said that I have seen quite a few white vans disguised as builders vans (by putting a folded copy of The Sun or Daily Star on the dashboard) So maybe...

[feelingverylazytoday]

@cbt944

Well, it is certainly true that Covid-19 can cause significant long-term lung damage.

There's actually encouraging signs that people can recover from long term symptoms www.healthline.com/health-news/heart-and-lung-damage-from-covid19-can-improve-over-time

[CaptainMyCaptain]

And people shouldn’t be phoning funeral directors and asking about their waiting lists. hmm

This.

a) They are busy enough and you shouldn't be interrupting them.
b) They wouldn't tell you anyway.

[cliffdiver]

You lost me at 'emplore'.

[NeonGenesis]

I hope that funeral directors aren't now inundated with phonecalls from people asking them stupid questions

[CrazyCatMamma]

twitter.com/pjputh/status/1322808163704446981?s=21

[KitKatastrophe]

I would comment and say "fascinating, I would like to read more, please can you send me links to the research that you read?"

I guarantee they wont be able to.

[onedayinthefuture]

It's like the one that went round saying if you don't follow the rules, you won't like seeing your child taken away to hospital in an ambulance on their own.

I wish it was still the 90s. We'd have none of this mass hysteria.

[CoffeeRunner]

There is a truth that Covid-19 can cause long term damage to lungs which would make catching it a second or third time fatal for some people.

It is also true that people with associated Covid related lung damage may be more susceptible to other illnesses (such as pneumonia) now.

The rest, not so much.

[Devilesko]

I'm wondering why flu deaths are going to be considered as covid.
I don't think as many died as the gov -hoped-, thought would, in the first wave.
They have to do something to bump the figures I suppose.
Give over OP, yes, it's out there and some people have died.
More will die from flu, but of course they'll be no proof. This gov are so transparent yet people buy into the propaganda.

[LemonadePockets]

I’m a funeral celebrant - I work with some of the biggest funeral directors in Scotland & can assure you there’s been no waiting lists here.

The only thing taking extra time currently is if a PM is required or registering the because of staff shortages and WFH.

We had 2 airport hangars turned into temp mortuaries, none have been used.

[PandemicAtTheDisco]

Well, as a medical expert myself (I watched House, M.D.! so clearly know what I'm talking about), with up-to-date, working knowledge of how busy the local hospital is (I work near the hospital and see ambulances go past) and insider ward connections (neighbour cleans at the hospital) - I can tell you that although in my area the current alert level is very high - it looks as if we are through the worst of this wave in this area. There are less ambulances screaming past and my neighbour is working less hours now and all her work friends are well and most are back at work themselves (she was doing overtime due to staff absences). The flower shop is closed and the local funeral place looks just as abandoned as ever. My neighbour says there are plenty of available beds and a good supply of equipment.

Examining the Government's hospital healthcare data for my region it looks as if we are over the peak of the second wave in my region - the daily numbers of newly infected and deaths are both decreasing. Less people are also being admitted to the hospitals (whether that means there are less/no beds or less need could be debateable - but my neighbour leads me to believe the latter).

I think things are looking a lot more positive here. We've been at very high alert for a while and the hospital has coped. I'm hoping the same applies to other areas as they reach their peaks.

[bluebluezoo]

Well, as a medical expert myself (I watched House, M.D.! so clearly know what I'm talking about

I rewatched House recently. Didn’t notice the first time how utterly wrong the medicine is!

Symptoms of a brain tumour, brain scan clear, so Bloke off Dead Poets gives he radio and chemo anyway, it doesn’t cure her (really? No!) so they call in house for the mystery diagnosis...

I don’t think they had any medic advisors at all.