Where's my thread gone?

[CovidJabToday]

I posted last night about how the vaccine centre I went to yesterday was not well ventilated, tea and coffee given in the waiting area after etc... Sharing of pens.

The thread was going ok, no rudeness or arguments on the thread, just people giving sensible comment. Some with similar experiences, some with better experiences.

Then this morning a thread pops up about 'beware the anti vaxers', dissing my thread and calling it fake.

Now my thread has gone???

Why are we only allowed to give one side of the story on Mumsnet? This is shocking. My post wasnt offensive or anything. All true. How are posters meant tom prove they r genuine?

A lot of censorship going on these days. Pretty soon we won’t be able to voice any opinion that doesn’t fit with the mainstream narrative.

this country is one of the leading countries in the world with the highest vaccine rates and lowest amount of cases and deaths!

We might be leading in terms of the numbers of vaccines, but we certainly do not have the lowest number of cases or deaths!

see here

@Userzzz

A lot of censorship going on these days. Pretty soon we won’t be able to voice any opinion that doesn’t fit with the mainstream narrative.

Oh please! Don't be ridiculous.

How come it's censorship when we're all here on a thread discussing it?!

If you want to peddle nonsense that 'doesn't fit the mainstream narrative' go and find a conspiracy theorists site to post on.

@Elephant4

The fact that Mumsnet is censoring - makes me come here less and less these days.

They've deleted all sorts recently - with no other purpose than to close down debate that fails to meet their agenda.

I read your post OP. It was very interesting. Harmless. Provoked thought and conversation. I have no idea why MNHQ would have deleted it. Other than that perhaps they have been paid by the government to do so.

It certainly wasn't a harmless post, and that's exactly the point.

And it's risible beyond belief that you think anyone would be being paid by the government to delete posts that have a potentially harmful outcome

I'm glad you're coming here less and less. Maybe there are others sites where you can peddle your conspiracy theories?

The post title made me very wary. I can't believe someone who works for the NHS would put such an irresponsible, alarmist title.

@Pimlicojo

The post title made me very wary. I can't believe someone who works for the NHS would put such an irresponsible, alarmist title.

Quite

Responsible NHS worker sees something that concerns them. What do they do?

Why quickly join Mumsnet and post about it of course.

@HelloMissus

Responsible NHS worker sees something that concerns them. What do they do?

Why quickly join Mumsnet and post about it of course.

Truely same as the poor souls in ICU with Covid who quickly join Facebook, take a sad selfie and start posting very articulately about how they ran a marathon last week.

@HelloMissus

Responsible NHS worker sees something that concerns them. What do they do?

Why quickly join Mumsnet and post about it of course.

actually they may not have much else they can do. Few people in the ranks in the NHS have power to change anything, they take great risks if they do speak out. Someone who is motivated by helping others may realise the best they can do is warn everyone to go masked up, sanitizer etc and not accept tea/coffee offers.

Do not be blind about the fact that speaking out in the NHS leads to the messenger being shot more often than a positive change taking place www.computerweekly.com/news/252489543/NHS-whistleblower-privacy-concerns-passed-on-to-regulator-but-campaigners-not-holding-their-breath

time I don’t think poster tried any other avenue.
She was apparently too poorly after her injection to try other measures .

Not to poorly to join MN tho.

Thank you @mnhq for erring on the side of caution with this.

Few people in the ranks in the NHS have power to change anything, they take great risks if they do speak out

I hardly think suggesting they don’t serve hot drinks at vaccination centres is such heavy duty whistleblowing that it’s going to lose OP their career

And I think an inflammatory title from a first time poster is worth investigating, but the deletion message was not helpful.

@MrsFezziwig

Few people in the ranks in the NHS have power to change anything, they take great risks if they do speak out

I hardly think suggesting they don’t serve hot drinks at vaccination centres is such heavy duty whistleblowing that it’s going to lose OP their career

And I think an inflammatory title from a first time poster is worth investigating, but the deletion message was not helpful.

well then honestly you have no idea. In many areas of the public sector you get labelled as a trouble maker if you challenge top management on anything. Not instantly career ending necessarily in such a case but very possibly card marked.

Anyway, good news is that having seen a few more centres on the news in the past couple of days, I've seen some much better conditions

@MrsFezziwig

The thought was that if these centres are being manned by volunteers, etc. then they are probably just following similar processes to what they do when they man other things - offer everyone a cup of tea and a biscuit

@InterfectoremVulpes you do realise that the volunteers are (as you state) manning the centres - they don’t actually draw up the protocols for running them? So it’s not like the volunteers have just decided to serve refreshments off their own bat.

Half the problem with this site is the number of posters who are so eager to jump in with there smart arse retorts that they don't even bother to read what has actually been said. Either that or they prefer to deliberately distort and misinterpret just so they can jump in with a smart arse comment.

It's quite funny because some trolls can actually be pointing out something quite true... the two aren't mutually exclusive.

On a James Bond forum someone posted that in Casino Royale it's crazy that Bond is leaning over a drowned person grieving when a massive Venetian building has collapsed into the water and there's no press or police or ambulances around... quite true but it was posted in such a way to get things going... sort of posts, shoots and leaves... It's like a well-timed heckle in a stand-up routine.

I disagree with those accusing the OP of lying about working for the NHS.

As I mentioned upthread. Like the OP I live in Bedford.

On Friday I had to ring the hospital on an unrelated matter, but nevertheless got put through to the vaccination centre. Had a jovial chat about the wrong extension, but asked if there was any chance of my being put on their list (76 with lots of underlying conditions) as I could come at very short notice.

Nice receptionist went off to check, and came back saying ‘No, sorry we are only treating NHS staff’.