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@bax - according to Ch4 news the NHS here have set up 50 assessment centres to keep CV-19 potentials away from GPs. This was presented as a 'good thing'.
If though you are badly hit by suspected CV and you are persistent enough to get through to 111 you really need to go straight to care in hospital?
Do you think we are just in a system of obstacles to delay/discourage entry to hospitals?Posted 5 years ago # -
Do you think we are just in a system of obstacles to delay/discourage entry to hospitals?
everything is delay, my friend.
delay the infected count. delay the death count.
and the last place you want to be right now is in a hospital.
breathing difficulties might mean you have no option but to roll the dice on a 999 call, but you will probably just end up in a ward with viral overload and no access to respiratory aid.
god help us all.
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@bax
Dum spiro Spero
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sic transit gloria mundi
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@bax FISCHER!
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there is some good news.. i found a packet of salmon down the back of the freezer.. its going to go well with the noodles tomorrow.. HUZZAH !
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@bax, every cloud eh?
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aye.. i've got SALMON ! and NOODLES !
i bet Catherine Calderwood doesn't have salmon
we will dine like kings at the eleventh hour !
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CC is incredibly still
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cut her some slack gembo.. she's watching Ozark season three.. its just out the now
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I read that Steely Dan references are a sign of recovery
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well, algo..
when the demon is at your door
in the morning it won't be there no more
any major dude will tell you
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Well, I lost my sense of smell over a week ago. Congested sinuses, and what I’ve seen described as “wasabi nose”. No fever. An occasional cough (I’d define it as productive, to the extent that I could cough up a small gobbet of chewy mucus). Once a day a slighty queasy stomach. And a fair amount of gas in the gut (not sure on the standard - see “sense of smell”).
Started to get some smell back in the last day or so, which I’m very happy about.
I’m assuming this was a mild dose of the Covids but, given the half-arsed approach to testing we have in the UK, I may never know.
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did it begin with a headache, PS ?
lungs come later, much later
sinuses not typical tho, so possibly just a cold
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@Bax : Interesting, the "12-to-1" male/female ratios in the anecdote above. Typo, meant to be 2-to-1 maybe? That'd fit more with the Chinese numbers. If it's really a 12, I'm getting my 70 year old mum out of hibernation to do the run to tesco for me.
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no typo. 12 to 1.
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I've had a headache for most of the last fortnight. Put that down to stressing over this mess. I had a cold a couple of weeks ago. Boy has a cough just now, which is mildly worrying me, not about him, he's fine. I actually think he's asthmatic, just too young to be diagnosed yet. His cough persistent overnight and morning, fine all day, started on Thurs. Though he had a cold a couple of weeks ago too.
I've also lost my sense of smell, though to be fair that started in 1996.
First of the hay fever symptoms starting for some people around now, may explain sinus issues just now for some people.
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three day headache is the typical first sign, alongside a low-grade fever that has you removing the duvet, but not persistent.
after that you're straight onto the endless fatigue and aching limbs followed by a tightness in the chest, and some mild diarrhea here and there along the way. any effort to exercise is immediately ceased by heightened symptoms and some breathing impairment.
these are the "mild" symptoms. after a few weeks you get pissed off regarding them as mild, and you wonder if or when they will ever recede.. what is recovered?.. or get worse.. this shit was engineered..
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its looks sunny today
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https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1243844673380265986?s=19
Conservatives 54%
Labour 26%"No conservative government has ever had such a poll rating"
72% satisfied with Johnson
73% satisfied with the Gvt
77% satisfied with @RishiSunakSource: NumberCruncher Politics
https://t.co/EWOtr0JHILPosted 5 years ago # -
BREAKING: Scottish Secretary Alister Jack is self-isolating after developing symptoms associated with coronavirus
Not sure if that is news... probably got it from BJ.
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Not to be too hypochondriac about this, but over the past fortnight I have variously experienced following symptoms:
- annoying intermittent cough (ascribed to asthma, mucus from sinuses trickling down trachea, sitting around two much/spending too much time inside due to sh!te weather, then lockdown)
- some shortness of breath (see above, plus being overweight)
- mild headache (too much staring at screens)At certain points family/colleagues have suspected I'm showing mild symptoms of COVID-19 but I reckon I've been here before after I've been a lazy couch hogging so-and-so, so I think not.
Will let you know if I develop a fever, then it probably is the plague.
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Walked half way to Aberdour from Burntisland. Saw quite a lot more people than normal, people did move to other side of path, but rarely enough room for 2m. Weird how nervous you are now when you see other people...
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I cycled to livi was going to take the path to bathgate but it was too busy. Halfords in livi is open but you cant go in, Pedal Power is open and you can go in.
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This podcast on Cholera is fascinating - especially when it gets to discussion Germany. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/talking-politics/id974670140?i=1000469765206
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"Many short-term emergency measures will become a fixture of life. That is the nature of emergencies. They fast-forward historical processes. Decisions that in normal times could take years of deliberation are passed in a matter of hours. Immature and even dangerous technologies are pressed into service, because the risks of doing nothing are bigger. Entire countries serve as guinea-pigs in large-scale social experiments. What happens when everybody works from home and communicates only at a distance? What happens when entire schools and universities go online? In normal times, governments, businesses and educational boards would never agree to conduct such experiments. But these aren’t normal times.
In this time of crisis, we face two particularly important choices. The first is between totalitarian surveillance and citizen empowerment. The second is between nationalist isolation and global solidarity."
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