I’ll have to be more careful, it wasn’t intended a a disagreement with what you said, just an observation but I can see you may have taken it that way.
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I’m in a similar position with an operation (not directly life-threatening condition) postponed “indefinitely”. Having experienced some similar (at least 2) similar situations with lack of communications/mix-ups to your wife’s I’ve found we have to push for clarification and in my case was solved on one of the occasions by the GP being able to access the hospital records online. My brother had a similar experience where his GP was able to access an x-ray online and see that something had been missed.
You just make little throwaway comments about wanting to save everyone "but we can't " or "we need to decide priorities" etc, but you're just hiding behind your consistent permissive attitude of accepting the loss of whole swathes of people. Are you trying to tell me that the CMO, when talking about balance, was talking about how to weigh up and justify deaths of one group over another?
It’s interesting how many people say they are worrying about future deaths due to poverty etc and it seems to me these very same people are the ones who never worried about such death before
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It’s interesting how many people say they are worrying about future deaths due to poverty etc and it seems to me these very same people are the ones who never worried about such death before
You're absolutely right, maybe you'll use better data next time.
And it's completely unquantifiable too, but it's a nice soundbite.
Funny how it never caught on last year with the reports of 120,000 deaths related to austerity measures since 2010? 5 times more than what covid19 has taken (so far)
No actual proof of that and the figure is just a projection.Funny how it never caught on last year with the reports of 120,000 deaths related to austerity measures since 2010? 5 times more than what covid19 has taken (so far)
for the first time there weren’t any overweight ones, perhaps they’d all been rejected as unfit .
I think there are figures to back up the healthy part, due to rationing, the National Loaf and so on. As someone who lived through that period I am often struck by the fact that I don’t ever remember seeing any fat kids for example and we were all pretty active, cycling everywhere and so on. Of course I lived in the South so it may have been different in other parts of the country. When I did my National Service and met the strange Northern folk
It doesn't need to. If politicians stopped lying and learned to tell the unvarnished truth they might be surprised how much more respect and cooperation they would receive. A caring state is a good thing and that is the one lesson we should learn from this event.
Congratulations to you and your family Dave
Congratulations to you and your family Dave
Is that your first grandkids?
From what I have read, the army is working on ppe distribution and helping out on testing stations.
Army may be busy but festivals company doesn’t sound appropriate. No doubt well connected
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...though I somehow suspect the 100-fold greater number of deaths in the UK compared to South Korea reflects a statistically robust difference.How many people are really dying from COVID-19? Here’s the answer from a respected statistician (David Spiegelhalter, professor of the public understanding of risk at Cambridge University)m
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...how-does-britain-compare-with-other-countries
I’ll save you the trouble of reading it the TLDR version is we don’t know, we may have a better idea at the end of the year, maybe we’ll never know (actually, I’ve added the last bit, but it’s a reasonable inference
I quite agree! It’ll be interesting to see if anyone can work out the reduction in deaths from air pollution, traffic accidents* (rather easy that one) and so on.
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