Covid - news and views

I think what was said that it was Hoped to open up the country by the earliest the 21st june

The Israelis got their adult population 100% jabbed sometime ago and went back to more or less normal once the vaccines had had a chance to take effect and the hospitalisation had dropped to low numbers. 

It seem to me that HMG is just doing the same but it is taking longer because of our much larger population and the current mutations. 

I'm sure we will get there but of course there is a hard core that won't have the vaccine and those that just ignore the rules, etc. just making things worse and then moan about their curtailed freedoms.  How stupid is that?

What about the lives that have been ruined. As for the tooth I tried a private dentist and they won’t entertain taking it out. I take a drug called methotrexate which can stop the blood from clotting. So it has to be an nhs hospital dentist.

Judge my stance on 1word freedom. 

Just have to join the queue for "non urgent"? cases caused by the nearly overwhelmed NHS, which needed staff from other departments to keep the lid on (just) 

My OH waited for First urgent appointment to see a consultant from Sep last year to end of April this and now waiting for an urgent (Consultant. Speak)follow up

I didn’t realise that dentists could also double as doctors. My brother in law was the same with his cancer but unfortunately died 1st. From what I gather with all of this is that only covid deaths matter.

I always thought that a dentist had nurses as well ,and if you are saying you must have a hospital op where were those nurses also and could mean a very long waiting list to get the backlog down  

I did and passed sentence accordingly.

I'm glad I can't feel your pain, but you do have my sympathy.

A private dentist may not extract it, but some might, have you tried more than one? A simple phone call asking about your drug could resolve the question without examination.Does the nearest private hospital have someone who could do it? Most doctors who work in the NHS do some hours in a private hospital. I'm sure those who have money are not sent to the NHS 😱.

I was at the dentist this morning I go Denplan, great guy been with him more than 30 years since he qualified and he said he's heard of waiting lists to join a practice, even private ones, of 2 years. Apparently lots of dentists are retiring and there's no coming through. Similar with doctors we don't train enough...... I understand we have a lack of a certain specialist in our NHS Trust 'because they've all gone home to their own country' from one of their secretary 's.

A result of outsourcing that's coming home to roost?? Covid just highlighting the issues in a similar way to lack of preparedness for a pandemic and shortage of PPE did in the early days. We need to learn lots of lessons from this situation - look back at dig for victory in ww2

It sounds to me, Dave,  as if you're exactly one of those who had Boris/Matt delaying the first lockdown because, we now discover,  they thought the great British public just "wouldn't stand for it". Whereas, it turned out, the great British public responded magnificently.

And what was the result of that original delay? Thousands of avoidable deaths.

Your "freedom" I think, can just be put on hold a little longer, surely?