Cheers mate, reading that now 
This is also a very good source of info.
Mainly written by accountants though!
I am on their mailing list so will send anything relevant your way
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I’m in fucking tears here. And I’m sure they won’t be the last I’ll shed.
Sometimes I just hate this world 
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Anyone got a link to that there self reporting app from a university?
While I’m at it my fuckwit managers at work have plumbed new depths of cuntishness to an extent where I would resign but for the mortgage. The email I sent them might see me in front of a hearing anyway.
Time for wine.
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Am not suprised at Cumbria being so high up this list,
Pity Westminster isn’t
That is awful. My liver op relied on the availability of an ICU bed for several days. I doubt it would be scheduled now but I doubt a hospital dealing with hundreds of Covid patients would be a sensible environment for a cancer patient with a compromised immune system I really do hope they can create the time and space for the operation later in the year. So many times this shite just comes down to luck and your friend is due some…
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And that’s the real damning part. it should NEVER come to that.
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Sometimes it is just the nature of the beast. My original diagnosis only happened because I had an ulcer that bled. Otherwise, the cancer would have progressed until I had a crisis. I could give you other examples. Granted, management of a diagnosed case shouldn’t depend on chance, but it often does. Shit happens for good or bad…
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I know that too well, Olan.
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Sorry Paul.
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Don’t apologise mate, it’s just the way things are, if the NHS was better funded the ‘luck’ element would surely reduce.
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Depressingly, we’re all - to varying extents - looking down the barrel of the same gun healthwise - CV is just making it all a lot more obvious, but it’s always a huge lottery thanks to callous political dogma and greed…
Our nearest general (Pilgrim, Boston) is one of the worst in the cuntry. At this point I stop thinking about it. We’re fucked if we ever get properly ill - they’ve killed or made worse all of our local friends who’ve been there. One couple - she went in with appendicitis - now she’ll shit into a bag for the rest of her life; he’s dead.
I gave-up going to GPs for help with anything from hayfever to depression some years ago: I’ve had 30 years of being told that I need to go away and lose weight for whatever happens to be wrong with me - tooth-ache to panic attacks. Not even joking. Healthcare’s not for us. It’s for young people with simple, highly-circumscribed conditions that have clear prognoses and affordable treatment regimes.
I’m sat here looking around me - not meaning to be melodramatic - but friends will, or have already lost loved-ones due to COVID; other friends have already lost their jobs; local businesses I’m on good terms with have already shut their doors forever; I’ve just heard our local has been forced to stop even its takeaway service and probably won’t reopen when this eventually peters-out; good friends are in tears because they’re self-employed and see no prospect of any meaningful help; we have a feckless, lying, incompetent government that has a heartful of hate for all of us they see as weaker than themselves; we have generations of ignorant, feral, materialist automata who are incapable of relating to anything but their own wants who are cheerfully spreading a potentially lethal disease “because they’re a bit bored”…
Sam’s developed a persistant cough, and I’m beset with chills and extremely tired right now, hence the moany incoherence… Think of it as a “Primal Whinge”.
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And as usual, the show takes precedence over the real work
They’ve had since November to stockpile PPE, not that should need stockpiling, it’s the sort of stuff they should have permanently ready surely?
Expiry dates.
On face visors? Aprons?
I have to say, we have had excellent care and support from our GP, dentist, and hospitals, for everything required. Our GP saved my life, and the hospital insured it worked.
We have always been very impressed and pleased with level of care and competence.
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How many should they stockpile?
^ This
We’re experiencing a once in a lifetime event, maybe once in a hundred years, maybe more!
I’m not suggesting that the NHS isn’t underfunded, it is, but if they were to stockpile every piece of kit for every possible scenario, where would that money come from?
Believe it, or not. Yes, they have expiry dates.
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Me too, pretty much. The medics are generally great. The system can be more-or-less shit sometimes but I’ve learnt when to look panicked and when to talk quietly and pretend to be carrying a big stick. Most of the time I don’t need to do either and we can just be grown up about stuff.
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