Covid Vaccine Roll out.

McFarmer

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"Overwhelmed in three weeks" ? Yada yada, nonsense piled on nonsense, same headlines in 2018.
Sweden's was an overreaction too imo
Put your mask back on if it's so serious
Our little community hospital is affiliated with a larger regional facility. When our ICU gets full they transport patients two hours to the regional.

At our peak we were full, our regional was full, and they transported to a hospital four hours away that had an ICU bed. Never have done that before. We made it past the peak by the skin of our teeth.

I have absolutely no doubt had precautions not been taken we would have lost folks that could have survived.
 

essex man

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Our little community hospital is affiliated with a larger regional facility. When our ICU gets full they transport patients two hours to the regional.

At our peak we were full, our regional was full, and they transported to a hospital four hours away that had an ICU bed. Never have done that before. We made it past the peak by the skin of our teeth.

I have absolutely no doubt had precautions not been taken we would have lost folks that could have survived.
Yep, well you're entitled to believe what you like but do you ever think it's strange that we made past every peak? That the "3 weeks til the NHS is overwhelmed" never came, that policy was so immaculately by our buffoon leaders
 

McFarmer

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Yep, well you're entitled to believe what you like but do you ever think it's strange that we made past every peak? That the "3 weeks til the NHS is overwhelmed" never came, that policy was so immaculately by our buffoon leaders.
Not a question of belief, just what was visible to everyone. Our resources were stretched.

When precautions are taken, is it much of a surprise the dreaded event doesn’t occur ?
 

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Got my second booster today, thankful for it.

Good friends of ours yesterday all came down with Covid, young family of three, husband is asthmatic and getting anti viruals.

Covid isn’t just another flu or cold virus, how many times does a young family all together come down with the flu in late June and one forty year old man requires medication ?

It was a Nuevo virus, which as I understand it means “new” as in “unknown”. Did we over react ? Maybe. But doctors don’t like seeing grammas die and they certainly didn’t want to be seen a year later sayin’ : “Well shoot, we should have taken that a little more seriously.”

As tough as it was, I’m glad the precautions were taken. Hard to walk back a medical decision, best to err on the side of caution. We donated our Covid relief funds to a couple local restaurants and a community food bank that suffered from the shutdown much more than we did.
Problem is the direction taken could be causing the continuation of what you are describing with your friends .
Hats of to you with your relief funds great gesture
 

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I don't care a fudge what Sweden did. The UK government only did what it had to be try to minimise the number of deaths which would have been political dynamite. As it stood I think the UK got away quite lightly- if people had been infected to the extent that the NHS was running out of oxygen/ventilation equipment and having to let people die for want of these, it would have been bad news.
its Ok if you don’t care you didn’t call the shots on the pandemic management the people that did need to care tho so they learn for next time.
 

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Our little community hospital is affiliated with a larger regional facility. When our ICU gets full they transport patients two hours to the regional.

At our peak we were full, our regional was full, and they transported to a hospital four hours away that had an ICU bed. Never have done that before. We made it past the peak by the skin of our teeth.

I have absolutely no doubt had precautions not been taken we would have lost folks that could have survived.
Unfortunately there have been many winters when hospitals have been close to breaking point with people sent to other hospitals rather than their local , operations cancelled etc we have short memories tho
 

McFarmer

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Unfortunately there have been many winters when hospitals have been close to breaking point with people sent to other hospitals rather than their local , operations cancelled etc we have short memories tho
Check the part where I said “Never had that happen before.”

I am speaking from direct experience, the head of the hospital board, at the time, is a friend of ours. He had to be sent 4 hours away. There were others also.

Surely seeing with my own eyes is evidence enough ? Or did I not see what I thought I saw ? Or maybe you are implying something else ?
 

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Check the part where I said “Never had that happen before.”

I am speaking from direct experience, the head of the hospital board, at the time, is a friend of ours. He had to be sent 4 hours away. There were others also.

Surely seeing with my own eyes is evidence enough ? Or did I not see what I thought I saw ? Or maybe you are implying something else ?
I believe you it was always going to happen when you had a virus (probably made in a lab) which has the ability to take down the old and vulnerable at the same rate as a severe flu season
 

Raider112

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I believe you it was always going to happen when you had a virus (probably made in a lab) which has the ability to take down the old and vulnerable at the same rate as a severe flu season
Worse than flu though surely? You were reminding us that 80% would only be mildly to moderately affected by it earlier, that still leaves well over 10 million that could be more seriously affected, probably needing medical attention.
The problem was that any one of us could inadvertently put an elderly or infirm friend or relative in danger, no doubt a lot of people who lost relatives have been left feeling guilty.
I agree with your idea that it came from a lab, my concern is that the country it came from still has far more restrictions than anywhere else, what do they know that the rest of us don't?
 

McFarmer

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I believe you it was always going to happen when you had a virus (probably made in a lab) which has the ability to take down the old and vulnerable at the same rate as a severe flu season
We had a local LEO die. A week from first symptom to death, in his fifties, very fit, no preconditions. It’s not a “bad flu”.

Granted, it does affect some more than others, for reasons I don’t think they know.

Myself, I am the only one in my immediate family that hasn’t had it. None have had terribly severe symptoms.
 

essex man

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colchester
Certainly put my mask back on ,
Worse than flu though surely? You were reminding us that 80% would only be mildly to moderately affected by it earlier, that still leaves well over 10 million that could be more seriously affected, probably needing medical attention.
The problem was that any one of us could inadvertently put an elderly or infirm friend or relative in danger, no doubt a lot of people who lost relatives have been left feeling guilty.
I agree with your idea that it came from a lab, my concern is that the country it came from still has far more restrictions than anywhere else, what do they know that the rest of us don't?
Err how do you get to 10 million!
 

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