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Anyone over 45 can now book their first jab.https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/
From the horse's mouth;https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain/uks-johnson-warns-lockdown-not-vaccines-behind-drop-in-covid-deaths-idUSKBN2C00PZ?rpc=401Go careful, everyone!
Quote from: Axholme Lion on April 12, 2021, 02:26:40 pmQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on April 11, 2021, 11:31:11 pmMeanwhile, yet another appalling article by Heneghan in The Spectator this weekend, suggesting, wrongly that 10s of thousands of excess deaths have been caused by lockdown. I really don't understand what stunt the right wing media are trying to pull on this issue. And the fact that Sunak dragged Heneghan into Downing Street to convince Johnson to ignore SAGE on the circuit breaker last September is looking more and more like a shocking error.https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/371/bmj.m4074.full.pdfWhat about all the people who have missed out on cancer diagnosis in time to save their lives because the NHS shut up shop?Dentists are always banging on about how important regular check ups are in relation to general health, but all of a sudden they don't want to know. I suppose my dentist will get back in touch with me when it's time for him to renew his Range Rover.Not sure what point you're making AL.Obviously there will be knock on health issues (positive as well as negative) from lockdown.My point about Heneghan's article is that he was strongly implying that there have been many tens of thousands of additional, non-COVID related deaths due to lockdown.There haven't. Full stop. For him to imply that, and for The Spectator to publish that is nothing short of disgusting. PS. They have edited the article to water down that implication slightly, so they know they have gone over the line. But they haven't apologised for the original. Just quietly changed it.https://mobile.twitter.com/_johnbye/status/1380912308512288769
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on April 11, 2021, 11:31:11 pmMeanwhile, yet another appalling article by Heneghan in The Spectator this weekend, suggesting, wrongly that 10s of thousands of excess deaths have been caused by lockdown. I really don't understand what stunt the right wing media are trying to pull on this issue. And the fact that Sunak dragged Heneghan into Downing Street to convince Johnson to ignore SAGE on the circuit breaker last September is looking more and more like a shocking error.https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/371/bmj.m4074.full.pdf
Meanwhile, yet another appalling article by Heneghan in The Spectator this weekend, suggesting, wrongly that 10s of thousands of excess deaths have been caused by lockdown. I really don't understand what stunt the right wing media are trying to pull on this issue. And the fact that Sunak dragged Heneghan into Downing Street to convince Johnson to ignore SAGE on the circuit breaker last September is looking more and more like a shocking error.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on April 13, 2021, 10:47:30 amAnyone over 45 can now book their first jab.https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/My son is 41 and has his first jab booked for next week.
Quote from: normal rules on April 12, 2021, 11:19:25 amThere will be some scary numbers to come from India yet. A country with a poor health system, millions living in poverty and third world living conditions. Hospitals already overwhelmed. We may never know the actual devastation the virus will wreak here. And yet they still gather in their thousands for religious festivals... after recording over 150,000 new cases on each of the last two dayshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56713993
There will be some scary numbers to come from India yet. A country with a poor health system, millions living in poverty and third world living conditions. Hospitals already overwhelmed. We may never know the actual devastation the virus will wreak here.
As a result of working countless hours attempting to keep seriously ill patients alive in a pandemic, and then running the UK's vaccine progamme, NHS staff are recieving a 1% pay rise (real terms pay cut).As a result of running the UK's failed £37 billion Test & Trace system the chief executive of Serco will recieve a bonus of £4.9 million.Cronyism and capitalism eh, makes you proud to be British...https://twitter.com/ReicherStephen/status/1383692228590137350
Out of interest why does no one ever ask for care workers to get a pay rise, many care homes charge a fortune to be there and the vast majority of care workers only get minimum wage?
Skippy, wouldn't it have been easy for the government to give NHS staff a 'decent' pay rise, especially when it's not them paying for it! Their 'generosity' would have been really paid for by the likes of me and thee, and all other taxpayers living in the UK. Oh, hang on a minute......
Quote from: bpoolrover on April 18, 2021, 05:21:42 pmOut of interest why does no one ever ask for care workers to get a pay rise, many care homes charge a fortune to be there and the vast majority of care workers only get minimum wage?Boris Johnson has a plan for that. Ready to go, he said when he took over in July 2019.You don't think he was, err lying to us do you...
The easiest thing in the world would have been to give the NHS staff a bigger pay rise. I'm sure your great leader Starmer would have done so if only to make a name for himself as Mr Generous, despite it being someone else's money he'd have used to pay for it. You see, or more to the point you fail to see, there's more to politics than making decisions in order to pacify persistent whingers like you, who would never be appeased by anything a Tory government did anyway. I believe NHS staff will get their reward when the time is right, and that will be when the government feel the financial climate has sufficiently recovered from the pandemic. if that's at the cost of popularity from people who they've never been popular with anyway so be it.