Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Walken]

My mum was diagnosed, treated and is now in remission from cancer, all during lockdown (I’ve seen her once ffs). It was hard and she had to do loads alone. But the care was there.

The NHS have been amazing if I’m honest. when I was in last week it was hard not to be emotional about how ace they all are.

I know, it's made me feel a bit guilty about not choosing a more altruistic career to be honest.

 

[Leylo]

June 21st we tell the Gp's they have to work again.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

How would the NHS managed this appointments without lockdown? Do you seriously think it would have been just business as normal?

I don't, but I also don't think this was the only path available. And, do you think people who don't want lockdowns actually fancy people to die? Why can't we have civil discussions?

 

[Brennan]

I don't, but I also don't think this was the only path available. And, do you think people who don't want lockdowns actually fancy people to die? Why can't we have civil discussions?

People who drink drive don’t want people to die either.

 

[mill]

I’ve seen that before. But that in now way implies that it is as a result of lockdown.

 

[coollino]

April is going to make or break this really isn't it. People are talking about June as if its next week.

Huge surge in flight bookings apparently. Madness.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

It's came from Scotland. Why would the Scottish government want to twist things to give good PR to Boris?

It's good news. I don't think there's any evidence whatsoever that it's propaganda. I'm not sure why anyone would want to get annoyed by news like this.

No wonder we have so many dead. Amazing. It was explained on political show on BBC 2 yesterday lunch time. Come on the article itself you are tweeting is not even peer reviewed it actually means something in health and social sciences.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Professor from Harvard Medical School

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Well, he's not someone you'd want to be in trenches with.

 

[JLW]

My wife was the same with her hospital appointments and scans, all done in a fairly quick turnaround and virtual meetings afterwards.

But, some people will say lockdowns have affected these services to push their anti-lockdown agenda.

My wife has experienced different, and has been struggling since the week before Christmas and is still today.

She had a mark/infected spot on her neck and pains all down her left side Shoulder/Arms/hands, she has been worried about it and contacted her GP but couldn't get no contact, anyway she went private to a dermatologist and its Carcenoma first stage skin cancer. To get this removed she needs a referral letter from her GP for which she's had nothing at all back from them since she got told in January.

Just to add i don't have any anti lockdown agenda i just have concerns that lockdown is solving one problem but creating many more.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

My wife has experienced different, and has been struggling since the week before Christmas and is still today.

She had a mark/infected spot on her neck and pains all down her left side Shoulder/Arms/hands, she has been worried about it and contacted her GP but couldn't get no contact, anyway she went private to a dermatologist and its Carcenoma first stage skin cancer. To get this removed she needs a referral letter from her GP for which she's had nothing at all back from them since she got told in January.

Just to add i don't have any anti lockdown agenda i just have concerns that lockdown is solving one problem but creating many more.

Sorry to hear that. Hope she gets better mate...

 

[JLW]

Anyway great news that enjoying life again will be back soon rather than just existing.

 

[Moomin]

My wife has experienced different, and has been struggling since the week before Christmas and is still today.

She had a mark/infected spot on her neck and pains all down her left side Shoulder/Arms/hands, she has been worried about it and contacted her GP but couldn't get no contact, anyway she went private to a dermatologist and its Carcenoma first stage skin cancer. To get this removed she needs a referral letter from her GP for which she's had nothing at all back from them since she got told in January.

Just to add i don't have any anti lockdown agenda i just have concerns that lockdown is solving one problem but creating many more.

Awful that, hopefully she gets it resolved ASAP.

I'd be fuming with the GP.

 

[BlueToff]

April is going to make or break this really isn't it. People are talking about June as if its next week.

Huge surge in flight bookings apparently. Madness.

Yeah.

I think they'll manage it okay in schools with the twice weekly testing in secondary schools and the masks.

I suppose the bonus with April is that nothing is open inside, other than retail, and masks will be mandatory.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Anyway great news that enjoying life again will be back soon rather than just existing.

I agree that getting some normality back will be like being reborn after this last year. The issue is that is we had opened in Easter the modelling suggests that this would lead to 91,000 deaths. Following the slightly more cautious approach of the roadmap reduces that to 30,000 deaths. That number could be reduced further if the focus was on stopping people from dying. I personally would have liked to have seen the roadmap pushed back by a month.