Covid - news and views

Posted on 16/06/2021 18:30 by moulesy

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? 

Posted on 16/06/2021 18:23 by JVB66

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  

Posted on 16/06/2021 18:28 by Bakers2

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

Posted on 16/06/2021 18:12 by davetommo

Judge my stance on 1word freedom. 

Posted on 16/06/2021 18:40 by davetommo

I thought they were dental nurses. Not trained medical nurses

Posted on 16/06/2021 18:51 by Takethedogalong

Freedom is a very big word. Very evocative, can be a deeply meaningful concept to the truly oppressed. William Wallace......

I wouldn’t put having to occasionally wear a face mask, or having to drink a beer at home in comfort, or not getting blathered in a nightclub into that category though, at the moment😂

I am sympathetic about your toothache though, not nice. Makes one very irascible......

Posted on 16/06/2021 18:43 by davetommo

The tooth ache I can live with for now. The point I was making was that there  are other medical things beside covid. People are dying from other things but we don’t get told every day how many.

Posted on 16/06/2021 19:00 by davetommo

I would rather have the toothache than wear the mask. I take inhalers because my breathing tubes are swollen due to having rhuemetoid arthritis and find it hard to breath with the mask on.

Posted on 16/06/2021 19:00 by davetommo

I would rather have the toothache than wear the mask. I take inhalers because my breathing tubes are swollen due to having rhuemetoid arthritis and find it hard to breath with the mask on.