Brexit, for once some facts.

[Barry Shittpeas]

This new guidance regarding PPE is going to be reversed engineered from what they’ve managed to lay their hands on, not what is necessary. The PPE they’ve managed to cobble together is not sufficient because they missed the opportunity to secure it and they missed the opportunity because they didn’t read the situation properly.

Reusing PPE, FFS what an excellent way to pass in infection.

 

[Wicky]

Although I don’t agree with the Cambridge Police patrolling supermarkets, parks and benches are a tricky area.

Today in this warm weather, the parks would be rammed full of people if people were allowed to hang out there. So if you see an empty park bench in an empty park, what’s wrong with sitting on it for a while? Well the bench is only unoccupied and the park is only empty because other people are staying at home trying to reduce the pressure on the NHS. Therefore, I don’t think it’s acceptable to sit in parks and people should be moved on.

You'd think cricket was a nice outdoor game with only a few MCC Laws governing play - however our weekend league once had a barrister on the committee and what started of as a couple of pages of league rules soon bloated to 25+ pages. It was possible to a win games not on the field of play but by knowing to the Nth degree obscure subsection rules. The classic was an Army team winning by Duckworth-Lewis when parachutists conveniently interrupted a game by dropping in.

In comparison the unaffiliated weekday evening T20 league used to get along with a bare minimum of rules - more on the level of fight club ...

 

[Wicky]

People can now be arrested and fined £960 for breaking lockdown rules

‘Police will always apply their common sense and discretion,’ Home Office says

www.independent.co.uk

or as Suffolk does

Army tanks stopping Easter daytrippers to Suffolk coast

The Army has been called in to prevent people from ignoring the lockdown and heading for coastal hotspots like Aldeburgh and Southwold.

www.suffolkgazette.com

 

[Danidl]

980 dead. Have the Tories taken the European record?

Not by a long shot... the Tories will have to try harder.. France got up to 1400 deaths yesterday alone, and Italy is still the European leader with twice the UK's total. Germany is a long shot, but making up lost ground.
Its a macabre sweepstakes.

 

[oyster]

Unnecessary travel:

Massive new Covid-19 testing lab in Milton Keynes will play "crucial" part in beating coronavius, Matt Hancock announces tonight
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has today officially - and secretly - launched the biggest diagnostic lab network in British history right here in Milton Keynes

If Charles could open London Nightingale remotely. just why does this idot think he needs to go there?

After all, he could have crashed or broken down on the way and needed assistance therefore putting others at risk. Or does that only apply to us?

 

[flecc]

Careful as there was one town where park wardens are moving on any folk sitting down on benches telling them they have to be moving to be exercising.

I'm ok, I have medical permission from my doctor to rest during walking, indeed it is essential if I am to avoid further tachycardia heart attacks.

The advice is working, following one every six or so days during November and December, it was down to four in January and just two in February on the 1st and the 19th.

That one on the 19th was the last, so 51 days without another painful one.

It happens that the bench I mentioned is about the right distance from my home for me to sit before the pain in my oxygen starved leg muscles bring me to an enforced halt.

If I don't stop then for ten minutes stationary, another attack is inevitable. I know I need a heart valve replacement, but there isn't a cat in hells chance of getting that operation in the foreseeable future.

So it's a matter of who gets to me first, the surgeon or the funeral director. Meanwhile I stay alive by balancing some essential exercise to strengthen the heart, just enough but not too much, and juggling some medications to keep blood pressure in check.

For those of you who understand resting blood pressures, here's my recent lowest and highest examples:

55 over 41 with a pulse rate of 66 on 11th November.

201 over 82 with a pulse rate of 60 on 15th March.
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[wheeler]

After all, he could have crashed or broken down on the way and needed assistance therefore putting others at risk. Or does that only apply to us?

Yes.

 

[flecc]

People can now be arrested and fined £960 for breaking lockdown rules

‘Police will always apply their common sense and discretion,’ Home Office says

www.independent.co.uk

Utter nonsense. Only today the government contradicted the police on essential goods by saying "people can buy whatever they like", their words.

The provincial police forces need to shut up before they make even bigger fools of themselves than they've done already.
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[oyster]

Reusing PPE, FFS what an excellent way to pass in infection.

There is a very recent paper which has investigated reuse of N95 facemasks and found that most can be effectively sterlised for re-use using the standard sterilisation techniques (e.g. autoclave). So long as they are removed from point of use promptly and carefully, and then sterilised, it might be a jolly good idea.

 

[oyster]

People can now be arrested and fined £960 for breaking lockdown rules

‘Police will always apply their common sense and discretion,’ Home Office says

www.independent.co.uk

or as Suffolk does

Army tanks stopping Easter daytrippers to Suffolk coast

The Army has been called in to prevent people from ignoring the lockdown and heading for coastal hotspots like Aldeburgh and Southwold.

www.suffolkgazette.com

We have Castlemartin range just down the road so could repel almost anything, were the army told to do so.

 

[oyster]

I'm ok, I have medical permission from my doctor to rest during walking, indeed it is essential if I am to avoid further tachycardia heart attacks.

The advice is working, following one every six or so days during November and December, it was down to four in January and just two in February on the 1st and the 19th.

That one on the 19th was the last, so 51 days without another painful one.

It happens that the bench I mentioned is about the right distance from my home for me to sit before the pain in my oxygen starved leg muscles bring me to an enforced halt.

If I don't stop then for ten minutes stationary, another attack is inevitable. I know I need a heart valve replacement, but there isn't a cat in hells chance of getting that operation in the foreseeable future.

So it's a matter of who gets to me first, the surgeon or the funeral director. Meanwhile I stay alive by balancing some essential exercise to strengthen the heart, just enough but not too much, and juggling some medications to keep blood pressure in check.

For those of you who understand resting blood pressures, here's my recent lowest and highest examples:

55 over 41 with a pulse rate of 66 on 11th November.

201 over 82 with a pulse rate of 60 on 15th March.
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That is a pretty amazing pulse pressure - 50 is said to be the point at which they should be concerned! (Mind, I know full well they usually don't even work it out, let alone act.)

 

[flecc]

That is a pretty amazing pulse pressure - 50 is said to be the point at which they should be concerned! (Mind, I know full well they usually don't even work it out, let alone act.)

How about this from September for hardly any pressure, times of day, then first and second numbers systolic and diastolic, third numbers are pulse rates:

9/9 8.00 From 8am on feeling very faint and weak, heartbeat too erratic and pressures too low to be measured.

11.02 . . 63 . . . 59 . . . 71 Heartbeat still very erratic

13.24 . . 61 . . . 47 . . . 63 .. " " " "

14.39 . . 85 . . . 61 . . . 95 .. " " " "

15.32 . . 76 . . . 56 . . . 74 Heartbeat rate stabilised

My doctor is concerned, but when this came to a head in the Autumn the London NHS was in crisis and the health trust had asked all GPs in the area to avoid consultant referrals due to the backlog.

The only other way to get attention was for me to phone for an ambulance with each tachycardia event, but since admissions were stuck on trolleys in the area's hospital corridor for many hours and even overnight, I had no wish to do that of course.

Hence our joint plan of action for my care, which as said is working so far. I'm more fortunate than many since I have none of the money worries that so many have and I live in comfort.
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[oyster]

How about this from September for hardly any pressure, times of day, then first and second numbers systolic and diastolic, third numbers are pulse rates:

9/9 8.00 From 8am on feeling very faint and weak, heartbeat too erratic and pressures too low to be measured.

11.02 . . 63 . . . 59 . . . 71 Heartbeat still very erratic

13.24 . . 61 . . . 47 . . . 63 .. " " " "

14.39 . . 85 . . . 61 . . . 95 .. " " " "

15.32 . . 76 . . . 56 . . . 74 Heartbeat rate stabilised

My doctor is concerned, but when this came to a head in the Autumn the London NHS was in crisis and the health trust had asked all GPs in the area to avoid consultant referrals due to the backlog.

The only other way to get attention was for me to phone for an ambulance with each tachycardia event, but since admissions were stuck on trolleys in the area's hospital corridor for many hours and even overnight, I had no wish to do that of course.

Hence our joint plan of action for my care, which as said is working so far. I'm more fortunate than many since I have none of the money worries that so many have and I live in comfort.
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I have had low body temperature (only slightly) and low blood pressure (only slightly) for most of my life. Both have improved, a bit, since being prescribed levothyroxine.

But, at some point as the dose was increasing, I felt as if I had a lung infection and wandered in to see a doctor. They didn't say much but sent me to a heart clinic. When I went to that, they did a heart scan and checked it was working OK - not bad - especially as I was in atrial fibrillation. I usually don't notice my heart rate very much (only in physical exertion). And this was a surprise to me - the scanner person blurted it out because he assumed I knew and was suffering!

A bit more investigation - they offered statins and beta blockers. I declined (especially as my cholesterol level was very low - almost hypocholesterolaemic). And my heart rate returned to normal.

However, I permanently feel I have a lung infection. Sometimes it fades for a while, then it returns. It has been quite significant for several months now. But all they have ever done is X-ray, say there is a bit of infection, and give a course of antibiotics. Helps a bit then comes back.

 

[oldgroaner]

There is a very recent paper which has investigated reuse of N95 facemasks and found that most can be effectively sterlised for re-use using the standard sterilisation techniques (e.g. autoclave). So long as they are removed from point of use promptly and carefully, and then sterilised, it might be a jolly good idea.

Too big a "might" to be used where lives at stake just to save the government looking like the criminally negligent outfit they really are
Best answer
New safety kit/ replace the government with one capable of protecting the NHS and the public

 

[oldgroaner]

People can now be arrested and fined £960 for breaking lockdown rules

‘Police will always apply their common sense and discretion,’ Home Office says

www.independent.co.uk

or as Suffolk does

Army tanks stopping Easter daytrippers to Suffolk coast

The Army has been called in to prevent people from ignoring the lockdown and heading for coastal hotspots like Aldeburgh and Southwold.

www.suffolkgazette.com

I loved the name of the Defence Editor

Doug Trench
Was this a spoof?

 

[Wicky]

It happens that the bench I mentioned is about the right distance from my home for me to sit before the pain in my oxygen starved leg muscles bring me to an enforced halt.

Same here with the intermittent claudication - I'd have to roll up my trouser leg Masonic fashion to show my fem pop scars and give em a wink...

 

[oyster]

Too big a "might" to be used where lives at stake just to save the government looking like the criminally negligent outfit they really are
Best answer
New safety kit/ replace the government with one capable of protecting the NHS and the public

Lives are at stake from not having any face masks. The research looked pretty good but I agree it does need confirmation.

PS Can governments be safely sterilised and re-used? Hmm, I thought not...

 

[Wicky]

Utter nonsense. Only today the government contradicted the police on essential goods by saying "people can buy whatever they like", their words.

The provincial police forces need to shut up before they make even bigger fools of themselves than they've done already.
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Priti Patel's dept with her track record and rule bending they might be keeping her up their sleeves if they feel they need to come down heavy handed if will of the people makes them wander outdoors...

 

[oldgroaner]

 

[flecc]

Priti Patel's dept with her track record and rule bending they might be keeping her up their sleeves if they feel they need to come down heavy handed if will of the people makes them wander outdoors...

She's certainly not the best example for Home Secretary, but the police will leave her alone since their pay rests with her. They still remember what happened when they gave Theresa May a rough time as Home Secretary, big cuts and reduced money.
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