Who else is sick of the hysteria?

[Suranjeep]

There must be others? Time to tighthen ofcom rules, and clamp down on mis or sensationalist reporting in newspapers, online, TV, Radio etc.

Granny killers, look into their eyes, covidiots, hype over figures, over reporting, under reporting, selective reporting, anti vaxxers, selfish non maskers, etc etc is goes on and on.

There would probably be better compliance for rules etc if this hadnt become a circus of hystera and hyperbole.

/rant over

@Ilovegreentomatoes

Long covid is very real I don't recall the flu virus leaving so many people with long term conditions yet people are comparing covid like it's the flu when the long term affects can be so much worse.

But not for everyone , Why should people continually be fearful or a virus they may or may not get they may or may not get ill from they may or may not get long Covid the May or may not die from . Why should we be continually be fearful every time someone coughs whole family’s isolating / missing work or school . People still struggling to see a gp or a dentist . Even things like driving tests are hard to book because of the back log which effects young people. Covid does not and shouldn’t no longer be trump everything and I’m sick of it . It’s no way to live and I don’t know why we are still doing it after the vaccine.

Why do people bother arguing with covid minimisers? They are clueless and closed minded.

A GP who ignores that someone has unintentionally lost a considerable amount of weight is clearly not doing his job

It was a telephone appointment and dad said he "had lost a bit of weight". had he been in the consulting room the GP would have noticed that "a bit of weight" was putting it mildly. The GP didn't ignore it...he didn't see it because covid measures meant no face to face appointments at all. Those measures meant that the GP could not do his job properly and my dad suffered for it.

@SonnetForSpring

Why do people bother arguing with covid minimisers? They are clueless and closed minded.

Covid minimisers ooh stop, that cuts so deep 🤣

[quote whittingtonmum]Yeah. I have just watched a press conference held this afternoon by some of the world's most eminent scientists concerned about the situation in the UK - total bunch of hysterics - the lot of them [/quote]
That link lead to a bunch of random you tube videos and adverts. Has it expired?

@trappedsincesundaymorn I'm truly so very, very sorry for your loss. I hope your last time together was as peaceful as it could be.
My dad is in a similar position atm with cancer and a heart condition. His GP's response was so lacking in rigour his diagnosis comes 8/10 months later than it should have.. It has been exhausting, heartbreaking and makes me deeply angry.

@SonnetForSpring

Why do people bother arguing with covid minimisers? They are clueless and closed minded.

Yeah your right people that are sick of the scaremongering and double standards are Covid minimisers . Maybe we are just trying to get on with life wasted enough time life is short enough.

@SonnetForSpring

Why do people bother arguing with covid minimisers? They are clueless and closed minded.

Why do people bother arguing with covid catastrophisers ? They are clueless and closed minded 🤷‍♀️

I got sick of it a good 12 months ago when I realised it was hysterical media driven fearmongering coupled with a gaslighting, lying, corrupt government.

A loved one suffered a stroke in spring of last year, and has not yet seen a doctor face to face or had any treatment. The neurologist has been doing phone-only appointments since the pandemic started, and the waiting list for an appointment is nine months.

Neurologist spoke to my loved one recently and said "I need to see you in person urgently" then we got a letter saying their next appointment was booked for March 2022 and would be another phone appointment.

The NHS cannot cope with the amount of Covid cases and this is killing people with unrelated conditions.

And it's mostly being driven by terrible government handling, and by idiot Covid-deniers.

If people are getting vaxxed, wearing masks, practicing good hygiene and basic common sense, but also think the whole thing has been handled poorly and blown out of proportion, then fine.

But I fear many of the people whinging about "hysteria" and "just a mild flu" are also anti-vaxxers / anti-maskers who refuse to obey even the most basic precautions because they fundamentally do not believe in Covid, and it's those people who are filling the ICUs, who are spreading Covid and causing these spikes. (I'm sure there are plenty of people who complain about hysteria who are vaxxed and masked, but in general there does seem to be a correlation.)

Anyone who's unhappy with the amount of doctors, vets, teachers, etc. unavailable because they've been pinged, or with the lack of NHS beds: get vaxxed and wear a damn mask and be sensible, or you're part of the problem.

Of course it's also important to remember the government are doing everything in their power to deliberately tank the NHS so they can privatize it, and they've exploited Covid for that purpose.

But that doesn't mean Covid isn't serious. If it wasn't serious, we would not have seen such a response across the entire world and from such a huge range of countries and types of government.

The right talk about the deserving/non deserving poor and the left talk about the deserving/ non deserving NHS patient. Quite a disturbing parallel

they might have become more transmissible but they are generally not more deadly

Aside from the (glaringly obvious) fact that if more people are getting them, then they ARE more deadly, you are wrong. The Kent variant had a higher mortality rate than the original strain, and the Delta one higher than the Kent strain.

Those measures meant that the GP could not do his job properly

I'm sorry about you Dad, but I think you would be better blaming the poor practice of his GP rather than covid for this. For a start, GP's are able to see patients if they wish and this has always been the case. GP's are no more special than the doctors and nurses in hospital who had no choice about whether to have direct contact with people with covid. However for many, phone appointments are less grief. Many practices have also actively fought to hold their own covid vaccination clinics instead of the mass vaccine centres etc, even though it can take weeks to get a routine appointment there. I'm sure this has nothing whatsoever with the amount they get paid per jab administered....

But in this case, it was the GP's job to ask and establish exactly how much weight your Dad had lost and over what period, and follow up with a face to face appointment to clarify if needed. Weight loss is clinically relevant, and most doctors wouldn't know a patient well enough to spot weight loss by sight, so it is their job to check beyond ' lost a bit of weight'.