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Forum: Idle Banter 11-01-22, 05:14 PM
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Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

Meanwhile, the latest in anti-vaxx medicine:
https://i.redd.it/a8awthfzz1b81.jpg

I'll stick with the vaccine, thanks. :)
Forum: Idle Banter 11-01-22, 11:06 AM
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Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

If corruption, unethical behaviour, cronyism and rule breaking is discovered it should be reported so voters can (hopefully) make better decisions next time.

Burying our heads in the sand...
Forum: Idle Banter 11-01-22, 08:56 AM
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Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

I suppose, technically, if you didn't get an invite he did keep you safe. :)

It's a good job that Boris has a track record of telling the truth, behaving ethically and keeping to the rules or I...
Forum: Idle Banter 09-01-22, 08:33 AM
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Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

cause and effect. Sick people are a drain on profits.

What happens in privatised health care is that the for-profit hospitals realise that they can charge what they like and the insurance...
Forum: Idle Banter 08-01-22, 08:59 PM
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Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

Conservative philosophy is that government should be kept to a minimum so the concept of a nationalised health system is an anathema to them. We have got so used to our welfare safety net that...
Forum: Idle Banter 08-01-22, 06:54 PM
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Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

Don't forget that 40 new hospitals were promised - so presumably there (is) was a need for more facilities.
(Only 6 may be built)
We were also promised 50,000 new nurses.
(15,000 of which were...
Forum: Idle Banter 30-11-21, 09:05 AM
Replies: 474
Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

I had to laugh at this tweet regarding Omicron:

"This is not how I wanted to learn the Greek alphabet."

(Isla McKetta, MFA | #DreamBigFightHard@islaisreading)
Forum: Idle Banter 28-11-21, 05:22 PM
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Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

You're mixing two discussions. The first was that it was suggested that virus' get less deadly as they mutate and my point was that they don't necessarily and I listed some still deadly virus'.
...
Forum: Idle Banter 28-11-21, 02:14 PM
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Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

HIV would like a word and Ebola and Dengue and Rabies and Smallpox (although we have vaccines for the latter two they are still deadly).

Then there's MERS which is a relative of covid with a 35%...
Forum: Idle Banter 27-11-21, 11:01 AM
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Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

Wasn't the new covid variant, "Omicron", in Doctor Who? :)

The name certainly sounds more scary than "Delta"...

It also generated, for the first time, a sensible comment from the Health...
Forum: Idle Banter 22-11-21, 10:02 AM
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Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

of course you're not a moron if there's a medical reason for you not taking the vaccine, quite the contrary because you've made a rational choice based on the risk factors.

The issue I have is...
Forum: Idle Banter 22-11-21, 08:14 AM
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Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

maybe,

and to prove your point, here's an article on 300 years of protests over vaccines with a nice cartoon showing how the smallpox vaccine can turn you into a cow (from which it was originally...
Forum: Idle Banter 21-11-21, 10:13 PM
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Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

sigh, more conspiracy theories?
Besides, AZ isn't an mRNA vaccine, nor is Johnson&Johnson they are modified adenovirus. which have been studied since the 70s.

Plus nearly 90% of patients in...
Forum: Idle Banter 21-11-21, 07:51 PM
Replies: 474
Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

On reddit there is a sub-reddit called the HermanCain Award. He was a Republican (Trump supporter) that refused to wear a mask, caught covid and died. The award is given frequently to anti-vaxxers...
Forum: Idle Banter 30-10-21, 06:43 PM
Replies: 474
Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

the first step is to write to your MP stating your opposition (and why), explain the Bill to your friends and get them to write, too. MPs are there to represent you (supposedly).
Forum: Idle Banter 27-10-21, 08:17 AM
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Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

"NHS Test and Trace has cost taxpayers “eye-watering” sums of money and has not achieved its main objective of letting people return to a normal lives, a damning report by MPs has concluded."
...
Forum: Idle Banter 21-10-21, 03:01 PM
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Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

We had to have laws to make us all wear crash helmets, we had to have laws to make us wear seatbelts, we have had to have laws to stop us using phones whilst driving.

People as individuals may...
Forum: Idle Banter 21-10-21, 10:03 AM
Replies: 474
Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

As cases, hospitalisations and deaths continue to rise the response in 2 months will be:
"No one could see this coming".

A few people could and made jokes......
Forum: Idle Banter 20-10-21, 01:57 PM
Replies: 474
Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

You have to laugh even when it hurts with its accuracy. :grin:

https://newsthump.com/2021/10/20/nation-wearily-prepares-for-further-lockdown-after-government-categorically-rules-it-out/
Forum: Idle Banter 16-10-21, 07:20 AM
Replies: 474
Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

I didn't think there was any doubt that masks helped reduce the spread but letting that pass for a second, here's a great example of mixed messaging - taken from government website here:...
Forum: Idle Banter 15-10-21, 07:52 PM
Replies: 474
Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

0 deaths not possible. I would have introduced lockdown immediately and controlled incoming travelers (like S Korea and NZ). Germany had a test/trace program long before we did, I would have used...
Forum: Idle Banter 15-10-21, 05:59 PM
Replies: 474
Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

links for this allegation? I cannot find any.

I don't think putting the commission under Tory control will help its neutrality especially with the current governments' track record on ethical...
Forum: Idle Banter 15-10-21, 04:20 PM
Replies: 474
Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

Vote Leave were fined £61000 for breaking the law.



Of course the Tories get the blame, they were in power. It was shown by S Korea that an early lockdown was effective and we could see the...
Forum: Idle Banter 15-10-21, 07:50 AM
Replies: 474
Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

...because people aren't paying attention and don't bother writing to their MP, plus the Mail and Express seldom report these cases.

Here's another one that he's getting away with...

The...
Forum: Idle Banter 14-10-21, 05:52 PM
Replies: 474
Views: 52,085
Posted By Seeker
Re: The Covid19 thread

Agreed.

Priti Patel was accused and found guilty of bullying by the ethics advisor to BoZo (Sir Alex Allan). BoZo overrode the investigation and allowed Patel to stay in her post whereas normal...
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