Guilt Free Railing 19

[WouldBeGood]

Rail away!

No judgment, no resilience wankery.

Equal opportunity railing 😃

Could this be the last thread..?!

Railing against yet more money unaccounted for in SG records

Oops meant to attach the source.

And it’s not that… oh dear, railing against myself being a numpty. Least it wasn’t nudes I suppose ! Here it is

Dinoteeth perfect!

I saw that @WouldBeGood and perhaps the most shocking thing is this is just so routine for the SG. Poorly kept records, missing money, lack of transparency, it's just so completely typical for them that no-one bats an eyelid any more. They clearly don't give a shit either and seem to think this is completely acceptable, spouting the usual bollocks about 'lessons learned' (they won't be) and deflecting onto something else. Anyone else desperately wish there was someone competent in charge?

Me.

The money wasted on court cases brought against the government is a shocker too.

There's a good going Scottish gravy train too. Trips here and there.

Hope you shake off the covid lurgy quickly @FoxyFoxyLoxy

Also shocking to see the covid death rate in Easterhouse 72% above the Scottish average. This really has been a two tier pandemic

Just got the blue envelope of doom for my primary aged child, and rang up to cancel. Apparently the lines are really busy with parents of this age group either ringing up to cancel or rearrange because their child has had COVID in the last 12 weeks. If our school is anything to go by this could be half of them! I imagine there will be a lot of no shows for the same reason. The appointment was for the regular vaccination centre that we went to, so I have to assume that these slots being used for healthy 5-11 yos (who don't really need the vaccine) are competing in some way with the slots for the spring boosters, and that seems very short sighted.

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And it’s not that… oh dear, railing against myself being a numpty. Least it wasn’t nudes I suppose ! Here it is

(😬 so could have been something else. I dread doing that by mistake on here.)

But, yes I saw that too. Got to laugh at Kate and her abacus saying it’s because they spent it so quickly and efficiently. Or words to that effect.
What the what?🤣

Still haven’t received one yet @Y0uCann0tBeSer10us it’ll be going straight in the bin. My dc had the flu spray administered on school premises back in Nov. Interesting what will happen this winter- flu spray and covid vaccine in one perhaps? Consent point for both, then could be done on school premises etc, etc.

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Also shocking to see the covid death rate in Easterhouse 72% above the Scottish average. This really has been a two tier pandemic

It's very sad and I was saying yesterday that I think our higher Covid death rate is the general poor health of the nation (in parts)

Devi is back!! Wittering about vaccination of 5-11 year olds 🙄

Turns off Calm app, heads over to Twitter…

I was just coming on to rail about bloody Devi Sridhar @WouldBeGood. Apparently delaying vaccinating 5-11 year olds (because there were genuine concerns over safety I seem to recall) was one of the 'biggest mistakes' the UK made. Apparently we should have vaccinated them all against a disease that does them no harm at all in the overwhelming majority of cases, despite questions over vaccine harm, to do what exactly? Help prevent the spread of variants that are poorly matched to the vaccine anyway for a matter of weeks before that 'protection' wears off? And since we now know that all that does is push the problem down the road a bit, give us larger spikes later?

And let's be honest with ourselves - these children had 'time off school' because of policies rather than illness. If we treated it like any other virus asymptomatic people wouldn't be off at all and those who did become ill would probably be off for a couple of days.

Exactly @Y0uCann0tBeSer10us! The fecking school closures and isolating is what impacted attendance!!

Exactly yet more hindsight justification from Devi.

Railing about scot gov's social security online portal being down for 4 days! This is apparently a standard outage that they warned nobody with applications in progress about.

Since when is 4 days a standard downtime for a key online portal?

4 days!!

Is Scotland rubbish at IT? The SG? Is this a UK thing? Certainly, the NHS never seems to have my records in a form that a GP can access? Is Scotland/UK generally poor with organisation? That's my impression but I'm clueless about IT so I wouldn't know.

Devi must be feeling pretty embarrassed at this point to be fair, which I assume is behind a lot of this pie in the sky deflection. After insisting for so long that COVID could be eliminated because she didn't seem to understand the mutability of the virus, the various doom-laden predictions about England which didn't come to pass, and fairly recently musing about how we could learn from South Korea (shortly before their cases also go in orbit), even her most ardent supporters must be starting to doubt her judgement.

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4 days!!

Is Scotland rubbish at IT? The SG? Is this a UK thing? Certainly, the NHS never seems to have my records in a form that a GP can access? Is Scotland/UK generally poor with organisation? That's my impression but I'm clueless about IT so I wouldn't know.

based on my recent experience, yes.

GP - no email, no video calling. Telephone contact only.

Covid testing - booking an appointment easy as it's a UK national system. Emails and texts are very generic though as they are trying to account for the differences in rules in the 4 countries. Still none the wiser about what other people in my house are supposed to be doing in terms of isolating.

Covid app - £7 million waste of money.

I do know that all the Scottish health trusts have different systems so papers cannot be easily shared. Bizarre in such a small country. Doctor at my work told us that sometimes they need to get papers printed and delivered if it’s urgent…

They asserted 4 days was a completely standard IT outage - it's a scott gov portal. I'm incredulous and also about the lack of any notice on the site that it was going down, or the duration of the downtime!

I had to live chat an administrator to find out it was down til Monday else I'd have had a very frustrating weekend!

@Y0uCann0tBeSer10us

Devi must be feeling pretty embarrassed at this point to be fair, which I assume is behind a lot of this pie in the sky deflection. After insisting for so long that COVID could be eliminated because she didn't seem to understand the mutability of the virus, the various doom-laden predictions about England which didn't come to pass, and fairly recently musing about how we could learn from South Korea (shortly before their cases also go in orbit), even her most ardent supporters must be starting to doubt her judgement.

She’s not so embarrassed to promote her book which is pinned to the top of her Twitter feed. Her book about the pandemic. So every time she says something a bit prickly- such as the comment yesterday about children’s vaccines- voila, a nice little promotion for the book too.

I’m sure Nicoliar has it in her ‘to read’ pile of books, she always seems to have so much time spare for reading…

Oh yes would my next call was to GP for repeat prescription: due to covid (why oh why?) you can no longer do online repeat prescriptions so I have to find time to walk in a handwritten request for a repeat prescription.

It's hilarious!

Did covid make them unable to use their existing IT systems?

Well yes @OnceUponAWhine. Perhaps 'embarrassed' was the wrong word. 'Worried' maybe, or 'engaging in reputation management'? She definitely doesn't miss any opportunity to promote herself that's for sure, despite being comprehensively wrong on many occasions. Having worked in academia my entire adult life I've honestly never seen anything like it.

The repeat prescription thing is mad @mapleleavesreturn! DD tells me they’ve stopped the dedicated answermachine service they had here and safe now has to run the gamut of the 8.30 free for all calls