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Toffee_Loaf said:
Let me tell you a story about a brother in laws grandfather. He was retired, mobile, active in his community, cared for a sick wife but had his routine. To keep himself active he walked to the supermarket each day, about 2 miles, to buy some newspapers. He was in good health. His only problem was that he needed some injections in this knees once every few weeks to help him walk.

When the lockdown came this man wasn't allowed any more injections. It was too risky for someone to see him for 5 minutes and administer them. Nor would they send him his injections to administer himself or to anyone else to do it for him. It became too painful to walk, so he stopped. He then started to decline rapidly. He became depressed, he then became bed bound and then died. Ironically his really ill wife was taken to a care home and is still alive even now, but the lockdown killed the healthier person.

Go on ... tell us you saved granny. The NHS this man had paid into and supported all his life abandoned that man who only needed simple, cheap, trivial support. It's an example of how disgraceful that lockdown was. It killed people. It made people live alone in misery unable to see family.
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That's great but how much was he paying for crisps?
 
Toffee_Loaf said:
Let me tell you a story about a brother in laws grandfather. He was retired, mobile, active in his community, cared for a sick wife but had his routine. To keep himself active he walked to the supermarket each day, about 2 miles, to buy some newspapers. He was in good health. His only problem was that he needed some injections in this knees once every few weeks to help him walk.

When the lockdown came this man wasn't allowed any more injections. It was too risky for someone to see him for 5 minutes and administer them. Nor would they send him his injections to administer himself or to anyone else to do it for him. It became too painful to walk, so he stopped. He then started to decline rapidly. He became depressed, he then became bed bound and then died. Ironically his really ill wife was taken to a care home and is still alive even now, but the lockdown killed the healthier person.

Go on ... tell us you saved granny. The NHS this man had paid into and supported all his life abandoned that man who only needed simple, cheap, trivial support. It's an example of how disgraceful that lockdown was. It killed people. It made people live alone in misery unable to see family.
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You're confusing the necessity of lockdowns with how they were administered.

This was explained to you yesterday. How are you not getting this?

Not the thread for this in any case. Happy to discuss further on the Rona fred.
 
Toffee_Loaf said:
Let me tell you a story about a brother in laws grandfather. He was retired, mobile, active in his community, cared for a sick wife but had his routine. To keep himself active he walked to the supermarket each day, about 2 miles, to buy some newspapers. He was in good health. His only problem was that he needed some injections in this knees once every few weeks to help him walk.

When the lockdown came this man wasn't allowed any more injections. It was too risky for someone to see him for 5 minutes and administer them. Nor would they send him his injections to administer himself or to anyone else to do it for him. It became too painful to walk, so he stopped. He then started to decline rapidly. He became depressed, he then became bed bound and then died. Ironically his really ill wife was taken to a care home and is still alive even now, but the lockdown killed the healthier person.

Go on ... tell us you saved granny. The NHS this man had paid into and supported all his life abandoned that man who only needed simple, cheap, trivial support. It's an example of how disgraceful that lockdown was. It killed people. It made people live alone in misery unable to see family.
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I think you've made this story up.

Fortnightly injections in his knees? Really?
 
Toffee_Loaf said:
What a surprise the political saddos would rather mock and make fun of an old man dying. You really are beneath contempt.
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No mate, it's very sad to hear about the fellas death. What I think is sad is that you've fundamentally misrepresented medical regimes to make a case for your own argument.

THAT is poor form fella.

What was up with his knees? What injections? What killed him apart from being bed bound?

No disrespect, but it all seems a bit of a leap to me.
 

Toffee_Loaf said:
Let me tell you a story about a brother in laws grandfather. He was retired, mobile, active in his community, cared for a sick wife but had his routine. To keep himself active he walked to the supermarket each day, about 2 miles, to buy some newspapers. He was in good health. His only problem was that he needed some injections in this knees once every few weeks to help him walk.

When the lockdown came this man wasn't allowed any more injections. It was too risky for someone to see him for 5 minutes and administer them. Nor would they send him his injections to administer himself or to anyone else to do it for him. It became too painful to walk, so he stopped. He then started to decline rapidly. He became depressed, he then became bed bound and then died. Ironically his really ill wife was taken to a care home and is still alive even now, but the lockdown killed the healthier person.

Go on ... tell us you saved granny. The NHS this man had paid into and supported all his life abandoned that man who only needed simple, cheap, trivial support. It's an example of how disgraceful that lockdown was. It killed people. It made people live alone in misery unable to see family.
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Let me tell you a story about a step brother's grandfather. He was retired, mobile, active in his community. To keep himself active he played golf. He was in good health. His only problem was that he had a mild form of cancer. Pills needed rather than chemo.

When the lockdown came this man wasn't allowed to see his outlier family It was too risky for someone to see him for 5 minutes due to the cancer and his age. And because people thought they knew better and didn't follow the rules, it increased the dangers of serious illness or death considerably.

I'm telling you... We saved him and other granny and grandfathers. The NHS this man had paid into and supported all his life allowed me to pick up his weekly prescription (I live 2 doors down) and I put the prescription on the doorstep, ring the doorbell and leave. It's an example of how people pulled together during lockdown and supported eachother as best we could. It saved people. It made vulnerable people safe, although people living alone (like me) miserable unable to see family. But it was for the greater good.
 
Daveysgingerlovechild said:
No mate, it's very sad to hear about the fellas death. What I think is sad is that you've fundamentally misrepresented medical regimes to make a case for your own argument.

THAT is poor form fella.

What was up with his knees? What injections? What killed him apart from being bed bound?

No disrespect, but it all seems a bit of a leap to me.
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Cortisone injections - no more than 3/4 per year, as it thins out and eventually destroys the cartilage - see many old footballers and sports people.
 
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