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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Apr 4, 2020 13:22:22 GMT
Thanks guys. He's a bonny lad. Shame we can't visit for a while, Mrs Len is getting broody
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2020 15:11:54 GMT
Congratulations and very best wishes to both parents
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2020 7:27:33 GMT
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Post by dudleyhatter on Apr 5, 2020 9:13:55 GMT
Thanks for the clip NYE.
The level of stupidity amongst the great unwashed continues to find new lows.
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Apr 5, 2020 11:29:10 GMT
f***ing luddite loons. sadly, there are lots of people who are really looking for this stuff to guide their opinions. i know a couple of them, and they're immensely frustrating, because reason doesn't work on them.
not that most of them will see the response, but i'm glad that rather than solely trying to dismiss it, the tone has been of undisguised anger - "I am absolutely outraged, absolutely disgusted, that people would be taking action against the very infrastructure that we need to respond to this health emergency." from the NHS director, etc.
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Post by dudleyhatter on Apr 5, 2020 21:19:07 GMT
Regardless of my personal political affiliation I would not wish this disease on anyone and so I hope that Boris and his partner make it through this awful situation and he emerges the other side a better and more humble person.
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Apr 6, 2020 8:38:02 GMT
Just finished reading "The Nanny State Made Me, Britain and how to save it" by Stuart Maconie.
An excellent read that puts into words what has happened to Britain since the Second World War. How the NHS, Education, Libraries, Social Services, Housing, Water, the Railways etc have been sacrificed in the name of profit chasing and privatisation.
Quite prophetic about the situation at the moment (written in December 2019) and how it will take something like this to make people think where future priorities lie. Can't agree with everything he says but a thought provoking book.
I don't think Maggie Thatcher was his favourite person !
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2020 8:53:44 GMT
For anyone mildly interested I'd also recommend 'Recless opportunists' by Aeron Davis, 'Honourable friends' by the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas and 'Democracy and it's crisis' by AC Grayling and be prepared to be by turns astonished, angry and baffled by the way a minority are manipulating the sheer bloody incompetence and indifferently complacent governing classes of this country
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Post by gazz on Apr 6, 2020 17:28:57 GMT
Don't know what to make of this:
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Apr 7, 2020 12:00:48 GMT
Latest update below on my mate Rick from his wife. Hoping against hope that this may be a corner turned, albeit very slowly...
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Hi everyone, before I give this update, which contains a little positivity, it is important to repeat what the doctors have said. Richard is still critically ill and on life support and we still don't know how things will turn out. That said, he has now been off his paralysing medication for over 30 hours and when they first tried this 3 days ago he lasted less than 20 mins.
This (yesterday - HiM) morning they reduced his sedation a little - the sedation is proving a complication for Covid patients; because of the long spells on ventilators, patients' systems are flooded and this has a cumulative effect, meaning it takes a lot longer to bring them out of it. His ventilator is now on a less aggressive setting and he can do some of the work if he is able to. His kidneys have taken a hit but have not deteriorated in the past few days. He is still spiking temperatures which they think is the virus, however his infection markers - which have been high - have reduced.
They are learning with Covid patients that everything has to be done so much slower with tiny steps, but it is good to be able to report some 'slow' progress and we cling on to this tiny ray of hope.
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Apr 7, 2020 12:31:18 GMT
Fingers crossed that a full recovery is now possible, keeping fighting Rick
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Apr 7, 2020 13:31:27 GMT
Thanks, Lennie. A tiny baby step in the scheme of things, and amidst an ongoing series of daily ups and downs - but at least this one is in the right direction.
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Post by archie on Apr 7, 2020 14:13:50 GMT
Good to hear.
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Post by gazz on Apr 7, 2020 17:42:16 GMT
Any ray of hope, regardless of size, is huge, Maccy - Rick is clearly made of stern stuff, matey.
I was just thinking about you and Rick when I got in from work earlier, so many thanks for the update.
Keep fighting, Rick!
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Apr 7, 2020 19:06:40 GMT
Don't know what to make of this: Mrs Macc, who is mildly asthmatic, has tried this, matey, and swears that it works by keeping the airways clear and preventing any build-up of fluid on the lungs. So, who am I to argue?! In fact, have just given it a go myself - and now feel very relaxed, albeit with a pleasant touch of light-headedness...
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