Been to the dentist today for my regular 6 monthly check up…in the time I Stood at reception filling in the usual forms etc (maybe 5 mins at most) three random people walked in off the street asking if they could register. There are signs up on all the access doors apologising for no NHS patient availability for new patients.
Saddest of all the 3 enquiries was a young mother with child in arms asking about availability. She was advised that if she was a registered patient then her kids could join her on the books, but if not then she would have to go to back to her own dentist who may accommodate her, but were under no obligation to do so! She said she had already tried that.
I’ve never seen my dentists practice as busy as it was today…they have gone from 2 full time dentists a year ago to 4 full time and 1 part timer, and still can’t Keep up with demand. Seems that due to government instigated changes and cost cuts nobody wants the job anymore…?.?
Have we heard similar elsewhere in the healthcare sector I wonder?
Record cartridges are relatively simple to make. CD transports, including the lasers, really aren’t. As long as there’s a supply of transports and parts for them then CDs have a future. When there (eventually) isn’t that’ll be it.
I’m so shocked that tiktok posters are vacuous idiots who have absolutely no idea or understanding of what goes on outside their little self obsessed bubble
A significant number of young people (anyone under early 30s I’d say- so not just Gen Z) are consuming an increasing amount of their news from it. I have had more than one conversation with work colleagues in their late 20s and early 30s who told me they mostly get their news and info from TikTok, where they’ve expressed an extremely polarised or one sided view of a news story, without even being aware that there was another side to it. It wasn’t that they were aware of both sides of the argument and strongly disagreed with one - they were surprised to hear an alternative viewpoint existed.
I admit these aren’t the brightest people, but they are people who you wouldn’t immediately suspect as being stupid and have seemingly respectable jobs.
The ability of TT to create widespread echo-chambers and mass-sentiment around a given topic is significant and shouldn’t be readily dismissed.
