Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion

[killer b]

So what? As has been hammered home repeatedly throughout the pandemic, the risk you run isn't just to yourself, its to everyone else you could pass the virus on to. The bed in the hospital you take up, the risk to medics and care staff. Fuck his bucket list.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

So what? As has been hammered home repeatedly throughout the pandemic, the risk you run isn't just to yourself, its to everyone else you could pass the virus on to. The bed in the hospital you take up, the risk to medics and care staff. Fuck his bucket list.

Fuck me, bet he’d wished he’d died in the trench during 1939 what with you Petcha driving home the bayonet.

Anyway, not the thread for this nitpicking shite.

 

[killer b]

Fuck me, bet he’d wished he’d died in the trench during 1939 what with you Petcha driving home the bayonet.

Jesus christ you actually typed this out?

 

[SpookyFrank]

It was on his bucket list to visit. His choice. Fuck me, two wars & 100 years old!

He's had 100 fucking years to tick off his bucket list. Either his list is too long or his time management skills are for shit.

 

[frogwoman]

I didn't even know you were allowed to go on holiday in December. I can't get too worked up about it but it is a bit mad. Bit surprised that BA were offered flights at that time. Could he not have postponed it or something?

 

[killer b]

I'm not worked up about it, just a bit baffled by the weird flag-fucking demands we respect his bucket list or whatever cause he fought in the war and is dead old.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Jesus christ you actually typed this out?

It was hardly a serious response was it? Fuck me It’s the sneery, snitching & grassing aspect of this pandemic that gets my goat. Petcha started this fucking crap, & this ain’t the thread for it.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

He's had 100 fucking years to tick off his bucket list. Either his list is too long or his time management skills are for shit.

Don’t you start, or I’ll set Sas on ya.

 

[killer b]

It was hardly a serious response was it? Fuck me It’s the sneery, snitching & grassing aspect of this pandemic that gets my goat. Petcha started this fucking crap, & this ain’t the thread for it.

I'll play Abba as loud as I like thanks.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

I'm not worked up about it, just a bit baffled by the weird flag-fucking demands we respect his bucket list or whatever cause he fought in the war and is dead old.

You’re clearly worked up about it. Have a nice cup of shut-the-fuck-up.

 

[Yossarian]

I can’t begrudge a 100 year old wanting to go on holiday, at that point I think you should do whatever you want. If Covid doesn’t get him something else will, probably before the pandemic is over.

Ashes to ashes, buck to bucket.
Captain Tom just said "Fuck it."

 

[Mation]

Gotta get my kicks where I can. The last page of this thread is

Sorry ish

 

[Dystopiary]

I've found cupid_stunt 's next door neighbour

The fact that the guy felt the need to post this reply:



" I [.....] think it’s desperately sad that he and countless others are suffering, or have died due to Covid"

shit like that on top of Tories, the poorest being shat on, more cuts, world-beating coronavirus figuresanti-immigration bs etc etc, make me really not wanna live in this country any more.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

The fact that the guy felt the need to post this reply:

he's now locked his tweeter account...

 

[Red Cat]

Whatever their motives/reasons their incompetency has led to many many more of these instances taking place than might otherwise have been the case, I should say as a warning it's a harrowing read.


I'm an NHS consultant anaesthetist. I see the terror in my Covid patients' eyes

That is really harrowing.

One of my workmates has been on a ventilator, I'm not sure if they've come off it yet.

 

[Wilf]

Fuck me, bet he’d wished he’d died in the trench during 1939 what with you Petcha driving home the bayonet.

Anyway, not the thread for this nitpicking shite.

It's not remotely nitpicking - it really is hard to imagine getting anything as wrong as coming out with that. Anybody choosing a holiday with flights in December was taking a stupid risk. War hero, good egg, social media influencer, fuck, the virus doesn't distinguish. It just likes reproducing itself. And this can be the result:

I'm an NHS consultant anaesthetist. I see the terror in my Covid patients' eyes | Coronavirus | The Guardian

 

[strung out]

Yeah, it was a bit daft, but legal at the time, so I can't blame him & his family for taking up the offer of free flights from BA to Barbados. The fact that he became ill weeks after returning, would indicate he didn't pick it up on that holiday, but in his care home after returning

I don't think it's about whether it was legal or not. I've broken the law a few times, e.g. gone out for exercise more than once a day, dropped non vital things like Christmas cards through friend's letterboxes, but on each occasion I made an informed decision about what was safe and sensible. Of all the things to do, taking your entire family abroad on a PR trip for British Airways in the middle of the second wave of a global pandemic is utterly moronic and irresponsible.

For what it's worth, he doesn't live in a care home, he lives with his daughter and grandchildren, who went off to Barbados with him, so presumably him or one of his family caught it during or very shortly after the trip.

I don't particularly blame him though, rather his family who sniffed a freebie and some more publicity.

 

[two sheds]

he's now locked his tweeter account...

Fucking hell social media

I'd be tempted to say to the neighbours next time I saw them go out "100,000 dead and you're going to the shops "

 

[David Clapson]

So people are refusing intubators now.

UK Covid-19 patients dying needlessly due to unfounded fears about ventilators

Some critically ill people are refusing intubation, wrongly associating it with higher risk of death, say doctors

www.theguardian.com

We're just lemmings going over the cliff. Nature wants rid of us.

 

[Wilf]

So people are refusing intubators now.

UK Covid-19 patients dying needlessly due to unfounded fears about ventilators

Some critically ill people are refusing intubation, wrongly associating it with higher risk of death, say doctors

www.theguardian.com

We're just lemmings going over the cliff. Nature wants rid of us.

Dunno really. Certainly if there's some misconception out there that's driving this trend, that's very problematic. But the fear of intubation has within it a fear of losing control, not waking up and all kinds of logical fears. If I caught Covid, it would be one of my darkest fears, to be honest. Don't get me wrong, I hope I would be intubated if I ever got that bad, it would be logical, but not every concern people have that might lead to them rejecting the logical is itself illogical.

 

[TopCat]

For all their shitness the idea that the Tories actively want to kill people off is proper tinfoil hat stuff.

Yeah its bonkers Bruno.

 

[TopCat]

Is the new variant, being more transmissable and more deadly, not going to skew predictions of deaths?

 

[David Clapson]

Yes, it's like fear of surgery. But this is people turning down the one thing that can save them, because they've got distorted stats. Where do they get the stats from?

 

[kabbes]

Yes, it's like fear of surgery. But this is people turning down the one thing that can save them, because they've got distorted stats. Where do they get the stats from?

You think that people make decisions because of statistics?

 

[bimble]

interesting chart in here, showing causes of excess deaths in uk since early summer last year.


His thread also contains this - on the possibility that the majority of excess deaths in care homes in the UK during the 1st wave were likely due to undiagnosed covid, which would add something like 10,000 to our death toll. Excess death toll in care homes from Covid-19 ‘hugely underestimated’

 

[Bingo]

interesting chart in here, showing causes of excess deaths in uk since early summer last year.


His thread also contains this - on the possibility that the majority of excess deaths in care homes in the UK during the 1st wave were likely due to undiagnosed covid, which would add something like 10,000 to our death toll. Excess death toll in care homes from Covid-19 ‘hugely underestimated’

No way, I went to school with this guy He was always good at maths, I guess now he's the Covid stats guy!

 

[Doctor Carrot]

Whatever their motives/reasons their incompetency has led to many many more of these instances taking place than might otherwise have been the case, I should say as a warning it's a harrowing read.


I'm an NHS consultant anaesthetist. I see the terror in my Covid patients' eyes

That was fucking horrific to read. I'm between the ages of the two people mentioned in that and I'm in the same physical condition. I work in a corner shop and that actually makes me just want to fuck it all off and get furloughed. Can I still get furloughed if I haven't been before?

 

[klang]

No way, I went to school with this guy

Did you say 'Bye' to him after your exams?

 

[TopCat]

That was fucking horrific to read. I'm between the ages of the two people mentioned in that and I'm in the same physical condition. I work in a corner shop and that actually makes me just want to fuck it all off and get furloughed. Can I still get furloughed if I haven't been before?

I ain't reading that. Should I still stay at home?

 

[Doctor Carrot]

I ain't reading that. Should I still stay at home?

Yes, until 2025.