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It's been carnage in the boy's school this week. Probably not helped by a double-header of parties last Fri evening and Saturday morning. The Fri on being at one of those play centre places in a shed. At least the Sat one was outdoors.

Teacher off, the boy's reading buddy off, the girl he sits next to off, and another boy off the same table, and several more from the same class. He started with a bad cough 2 days ago but negative LF tests. Thankfully he also returned a negative PCR test from yesterday as well, as a couple of them have. Seems to be a 50:50 split of those off that either have a bad cold, or Covid. And the rest of those off are because they all want to make sure they can go away next week...

My sisters kid has it - they are due to got to Ireland on hols, not now. Still very much out there with all the testing going on. Its a ploy to get the kids to have the jabs for sho

Covid and flu vaccines this morning. My immune system is currently reminding me of this with some impressive aches and lethargy.

Meanwhile a colleague died of covid after 11 days on ICU. He spent the pandemic shielding then caught it from his niece at a family get together. Somehow makes it more real, even though we have 11 patients on ECMO on our own ICU; I guess that is how much we’ve normalised this.

Jesus Newt - thats terrible.

Explosive Newt wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 9:39 pm Covid and flu vaccines this morning. My immune system is currently reminding me of this with some impressive aches and lethargy.

Meanwhile a colleague died of covid after 11 days on ICU. He spent the pandemic shielding then caught it from his niece at a family get together. Somehow makes it more real, even though we have 11 patients on ECMO on our own ICU; I guess that is how much we’ve normalised this.

Oh thats horrible fella.

My dads been in the renal unit of hospital for over a week now, they are pretty good at keeping the patients safe from infections so while you're not allowed to visit its a good thing in many ways.

drcarlos wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 2:05 pm



...The moment it was off they were accepting cups of tea and food items from us, not bothering about social distancing or any sort of sanitization. You've got to wonder that when you see things being filmed that have screens and distancing for the cameras how many and just like that out front but couldn't give a shit behind the scenes?

Like people socialising in bars and restuarants?

What a pantomime. The Pope comment is awesome.

The Pope is head of businesses across the world...

What an utter cock...

Presumably the comment "You have to take these papers - they're legally binding" is tosh too. Surely you don't have to take papers from a complete stranger, just because they've been prepared by a lawyer ?

Still, they got their PR Stunt filmed. that's all that counts

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/1 ... dy-infirm/

Covid likely to be fatal ‘only for the very old and already infirm’
Calls to speed up booster rollout as study finds vaccinated people dying of coronavirus have average age of 85 and five underlying illnesses

Analysis by the Italian National Health Institute, which looked at deaths in the country between Feb 1 and Oct 5, showed major disparities in people who were dying from Covid after being fully jabbed.

It found the average age of death in the vaccinated was 85, and that on average each person had five underlying illnesses when they caught Covid. In contrast, the average age of death among the unvaccinated was 78, with those people having four pre-existing conditions on average.

Cases of heart problems, dementia and cancer were all found to be higher in the sample of deaths among those vaccinated.

Shock horror

dinny_g wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 10:36 am The Pope is head of businesses across the world...

What an utter cock...

Presumably the comment "You have to take these papers - they're legally binding" is tosh too. Surely you don't have to take papers from a complete stranger, just because they've been prepared by a lawyer ?

Still, they got their PR Stunt filmed. that's all that counts

it would have been funnier if she'd turned round and dropped them into a bin...

Rich B wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 11:14 am it would have been funnier if she'd turned round and dropped them into a bin...

Rich B wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 11:14 am

dinny_g wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 10:36 am The Pope is head of businesses across the world...

What an utter cock...

Presumably the comment "You have to take these papers - they're legally binding" is tosh too. Surely you don't have to take papers from a complete stranger, just because they've been prepared by a lawyer ?

Still, they got their PR Stunt filmed. that's all that counts

it would have been funnier if she'd turned round and dropped them into a bin...

Or put on surgical gloves to take them because, you know, Covid…

Also - good to see Rev’s still the same! Good man, don’t ever change

mik wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 4:27 pm

Freak analysis of a freak accident

There seems to be loads of factors going on contributing to the concerns that hospitals are going to be overcome and I'm not sure I understand what the main cause is or if its genuinely the perfect storm of... understaffing; lack of appointments at GPs and COVID.

Partially unlocked in Melbourne. Had my first pint in 70ish days in the pub last night, swiftly followed by many more.

6 lockdowns totaling 262 days so far.

Lots of mask wearing in the HOC as they know they are on telly today.

Heading into London today… positive test by Monday???

Got to wonder about to the minimal reporting of side effects of the vax

Speaking from recent experience of my old man nearly dieing of kidney failure they tracked it down to minimal change kidney disease. Named as you need a biopsy and extra mega microscope to find it. Research says it may be caused by reactions to flu type medication. Old fella had no issues before.

I'm still no anti vaxxer. Just when you're told your dad's got 48 hours to pull through you have to ask questions why

Sorry to hear that and hope he is on the mend now.

To shine a light on side effect reporting... Any suspected (i.e. even unproven) unexpected / previously undocumented side effect of a medical / pharmaceutical product should be reported for further investigation. In the UK, there is a system called "yellow card" for this (literally, the British National Formulary had little yellow cards in the back you could tear out and send off). I actually sent off one this week for a young chap with pericarditis the day after his vaccine - although he had been under the weather generally for a week or so previously so hard to know for certain.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... -reporting
says have been close on 300,000 yellow card reports on the covid vaccines. Nothing I can see in there about kidney dysfunction, although hopefully your old man's case gets a yellow card report. That said, MCD can be due to lots of things - in adults it's reactive and can be triggered off by drugs, infections, tumors, etc etc so it would be tricky link to make conclusively.