BluTiger Posted April 29, 2020 Report Share Posted April 29, 2020 1 minute ago, DC2 said: Can’t believe your wife bothers cooking, she might just as well hand you your “vitamins” bottle! I actually do a lot of the cooking, I value my health. Stepson would eat my Thai curries every night if he could, just hope her indoors never clocks these posts 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Central Posted April 29, 2020 Report Share Posted April 29, 2020 3 minutes ago, DC2 said: Sounds terrible. But, out of interest, have you ever been bed-ridden with flu for three weeks? It’s not the “cold” that people make out! No, I never have had flu. I have had my flu jab for the last few years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star Lady Posted April 29, 2020 Report Share Posted April 29, 2020 47 minutes ago, Blupanther said: Glad you got over it. My ND advised me to increase my intake of Vitamins A, C, and D, along with Zinc and Selenium back in February to boost the immune system. Caught it in March, felt a bit rough for a day but was fine after that, but the other two in the house were ill for a fortnight. I lost my sense of smell and taste for a month, but that was a blessing in disguise with the wife's cooking Just asking, no agenda but did you have a test? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted April 29, 2020 Report Share Posted April 29, 2020 45 minutes ago, DC2 said: Sounds terrible. But, out of interest, have you ever been bed-ridden with flu for three weeks? It’s not the “cold” that people make out! Absolutely. I had real flu one christmas. I was bed ridden for several days. When i did start to recover i had to retrain my legs on how to walk. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluTiger Posted April 29, 2020 Report Share Posted April 29, 2020 2 minutes ago, Star Lady said: Just asking, no agenda but did you have a test? No, but stepson works for the NHS and he was isolated here with us on the advice of his supervisor. They were pretty sure that's what it was, he had all the symptoms. He was only here for a month while he was buying a house, but that's all on hold now. We are in line to have the antibody test when it becomes available... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWitcher Posted April 29, 2020 Report Share Posted April 29, 2020 (edited) 27 minutes ago, cityrebel said: Absolutely. I had real flu one christmas. I was bed ridden for several days. When i did start to recover i had to retrain my legs on how to walk. This is the point. Most people get a bit of a cold and call it the flu.. it isn't. Flu knocks you about always. Whereas Covid, 80% of the time does nothing of the sort. However, if you are vulnerable (especially the elderly) covid can be very dangerous indeed as we have seen.... hence the need for such groups to be protected. Its not rocket science. For the rest, its less dangerous than the flu. Edited April 29, 2020 by BWitcher 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC2 Posted April 30, 2020 Report Share Posted April 30, 2020 20 hours ago, westhamboy66 said: One of the most pathetically stupid, ill informed comments I have ever seen. I truly hope you will get it so can correct your idiotic comment when you are fit enough. Here’s a good comparison with flu: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/flu-vaccine-deaths-nhs-ineffective-crisis-bad-weather-illness-2017-a8660496.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topaz325 Posted April 30, 2020 Report Share Posted April 30, 2020 I think there will be some major problems when the lockdown is eased regarding unemployment and social unrest, it was also mentioned on the news recently that there will be a big increase in cancer cases because of missed screenings and the lack of early interventions. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 Tests yesterday were 122,347 which of course beats significantly the tough target set by Hancock of 100,000, which journalists and critics were preparing to call for his resignation from office. Seems appropriate in that case then to call for their resignations having met and smashed the target. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWitcher Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Tsunami said: Tests yesterday were 122,347 which of course beats significantly the tough target set by Hancock of 100,000, which journalists and critics were preparing to call for his resignation from office. Seems appropriate in that case then to call for their resignations having met and smashed the target. The levels of gullibility have no bounds it seems! And now it transpires the tests have been 'posted'... Marvelous.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/01/ministers-accused-of-changing-covid-19-test-tally-to-hit-100000-goal Edited May 1, 2020 by BWitcher 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC2 Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 6 minutes ago, BWitcher said: The levels of gullibility have no bounds it seems! And now it transpires the tests have been 'posted'... Marvelous.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/01/ministers-accused-of-changing-covid-19-test-tally-to-hit-100000-goal Note, no mention of how many people tested! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Third Man Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 From the answer about numbers tested, if I understood the answer, which is not easy to do, 36,000 of the tests were home tests sent out yesterday, so not quite 100,000 tests carried out but I could have misunderstood the vague answer Just had to clarify the answer, so not 100,000 carried out as the ones in the post have been counted as done as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 17 minutes ago, BWitcher said: The levels of gullibility have no bounds it seems! And now it transpires the tests have been 'posted'... Marvelous.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/01/ministers-accused-of-changing-covid-19-test-tally-to-hit-100000-goal Do your homework. The methodology of collection this data has been set out before, and the figures today are consistant with how they have been recorder since day 1. Regardless of your comments, even if you did take the postal ones away from the total, it's not a bad stab at 100,000. Starmer has already realised it was a very near hit, and has already indicated that it's not an issue he will be following up. Perhaps he is learning, could be a message for others. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 7 minutes ago, The Third Man said: From the answer about numbers tested, if I understood the answer, which is not easy to do, 36,000 of the tests were home tests sent out yesterday, so not quite 100,000 tests carried out but I could have misunderstood the vague answer Just had to clarify the answer, so not 100,000 carried out as the ones in the post have been counted as done as well See the rules, it is. TTM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Third Man Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 32 minutes ago, Tsunami said: See the rules, it is. TTM Rules made up by the people who have to follow them, great way of doing things so the definition of tests carried include the ones carried out to someone's house by the postman bet we all wish we could work to rules like these 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, The Third Man said: Rules made up by the people who have to follow them, great way of doing things so the definition of tests carried include the ones carried out to someone's house by the postman bet we all wish we could work to rules like these Never the less, that's what the rules have been confirmed the Professor in charge of testing programme. If they weren't counted on day of release, when would they be recorded. I realise this is now a politicised issue, but Starmer has already accepted the issue as he sees the need to ramp up the number of tests. All getting so silly. Edited May 1, 2020 by Tsunami 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC2 Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 1 hour ago, Tsunami said: Never the less, that's what the rules have been confirmed the Professor in charge of testing programme. If they weren't counted on day of release, when would they be recorded. Hang on, let me have a wild stab at this. How about when the samples are received in the Lab or when the test result is known? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Third Man Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 2 hours ago, Tsunami said: Never the less, that's what the rules have been confirmed the Professor in charge of testing programme. If they weren't counted on day of release, when would they be recorded. I realise this is now a politicised issue, but Starmer has already accepted the issue as he sees the need to ramp up the number of tests. All getting so silly. Its a con, it has always been touted as the number of tests carried out, now it seems we should all have known it wasn't that at all, for gods sake "its in the post" is now being used as an excuse by the government 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 13 minutes ago, The Third Man said: Its a con, it has always been touted as the number of tests carried out, now it seems we should all have known it wasn't that at all, for gods sake "its in the post" is now being used as an excuse by the government Everything "a con" when the result is not what you wanted. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC2 Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 3 hours ago, Tsunami said: Do your homework. The methodology of collection this data has been set out before, and the figures today are consistant with how they have been recorder since day 1. Regardless of your comments, even if you did take the postal ones away from the total, it's not a bad stab at 100,000. Starmer has already realised it was a very near hit, and has already indicated that it's not an issue he will be following up. Perhaps he is learning, could be a message for others. No, Dave. The government has cheated. Everyone knows it. They haven’t “done” 100,000 tests and they haven’t tested 100,000 people. Hancock has come under intense pressure over the 100,000-a-day target since making it. At the time, the government was clear that the figure represented the number of people having a test. Click on the section in red to see that the government intended it to be 100,000 people. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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