John Buckley
- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
- Posts: 615
For what it’s worth TWD my sympathies are with you. A very difficult situation I know, but how can you shut up his racket when he no doubt genuinely believes that he is actually doing you all big favour by “performing”? He will no doubt also be encouraged to continue by his “followers” ( I guess that he has some that are tone deaf? ) in addition to any media coverage that are desperate for any so called ‘news’.
I have a similar situation where I live, but at least that is only inflicted upon the local residents once a year from lunchtime till late, so as a one off, sort of bearable. However, if that became a regular event, like yours, then apart from launching a few house bricks their way God knows what I would do.........but I would have to do something!
So hang on in there, you are not alone and when Sky news want to interview you as to how this guy has helped you through the crisis then you can really let rip..........you know that sooner or later it’s going to happen!
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,095
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
Today is the 11.00am silence, it is the time to remember those NHS workers who died because of this virus.
While I am thinking of them I will also think of all the 'ordinary' victims who in their own way are just as important.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,095
See #465
Overall the rate of deaths appears to be largely consistent with the number of healthcare workers in the population and the distributions by occupation and geography are largely as expected.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 357
Captain Haddock wrote:See #465
Overall the rate of deaths appears to be largely consistent with the number of healthcare workers in the population and the distributions by occupation and geography are largely as expected.
Hmm. That's interesting. Can the same be said for Transport for London employees I wonder?
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,095
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
I find the term 'underlying health conditions' so misleading as it covers everything from minor illness like skin problems to terminal cancer, I suspect most of the population have some sort of health problem.
I have not seen my doctor for over 2yrs and only have to see the nurse because they call me in for yearly health checks because I have an 'underlying health condition'.
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Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,938
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,706
So what is the difference between a "Clinical Assessment Station" & a drive through "Testing Station"?
The first is on Maison Dieu Road in the car park of the Health Center, is manned by NHS staff on the very rare occasion that it is in use, the latter is in De Bradlei Wharf car park, is manned by armed services personnel and had a ver long old queue this morning
Why do we need both in Dover?
What exactly is the point of the former? other than being a colossal waste of money?
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,069
Bob Whysman wrote:‘They’ say :
I believe Shostakovich would have roared a deep Russian basso profondo roar of laughter at the irony that he was able to compose and have his music performed publicly in a totalitarian communist state, yet he cannot be performed in public in an apparently free country. In fact, I'm certain he would have written it into an opera. The quartet should, of course, have played a scaled-down version of Haydn's 'Farewell' symphony.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
#472 - Maybe it's got something to do with capacity? Just hazarding a guess, you understand.
Oh how I wish this had happened in my working years. So much to learn. When my boss said "you haven't done your job", I could have retorted, "that doesn't matter. I had
the capacity to do it".
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
I thought that Starmer was very clever at PMQs today by downplaying the need for 100,000 tests by tomorrow and refocusing on the 250,000 tests claimed some while ago by the PM. In doing so he takes a bit of pressure of the health service and piles it back onto number 10.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,544
A list of numbers of local deaths and locations, If you can get around the adverts and crap.
https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/kent-coronavirus-latest-map-shows-4086927Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,069
Ross Miller wrote:So what is the difference between a "Clinical Assessment Station" & a drive through "Testing Station"?
This may explain, RM. But, then again, it may not, as it doesn't mention the former type.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-getting-tested'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,095
At a cost to the economy of £2.4 billion a DAY to prolong their life by a few weeks (average total stay 10months) it would appear that the ungrateful inhabitants of 'care' homes are still dropping like flies!
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
Meanwhile the Nigthingale Hospitals are empty. London capacity up to 4,000 and has treated just 51 patients.
Surely it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out protecting care homes should have been a priority for public health and the economy. Wife works for NHS and says the PPE manufactured in the UK by Burberry etc is totally useless as Whitehall didn't give them correct specs, the lot has been binned.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,095
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,069
There's more sanity in Shriver's short article than we've had from our entire political class and their supporting cast of scientists and media stenographers since this feverish business began.
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
If this is war, Britain has already lost. At least Churchill didn't succumb to the enemy before the battle had even started unlike Bonkers Boris
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Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,706
From the ONS -
Week 16 (ending 17/4) provisional deaths registered 22,352 - this is 3,835 more than in week 15 & 11,854 above the 5 year average
Now the interesting part - of the deaths registered in week 16 8,758 mentioned CoVid19 (39.2%)
so there were 3,096 excess deaths for causes other than CoVid19 compared to the long term averages -
So what was the cause of these other excess deaths?
Bear in mind on average England & Wales records 1,500 deaths every day of the year...
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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
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