The Price of Listening To The Goblin of Doom

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The Price of Lockdowns - We've Forgotten How To Be Ill

 

As per Auntie:

"Rebecca London.

The retail worker from Bournemouth caught what she calls "the worst cold ever" at a festival.

We've actually been seeing a rise in the number of coughs and colds and viral infections," says Dr Philippa Kaye, a GP based in London.

She says the numbers have been as high as you'd see in a normal winter and the main reason is because of the easing of coronavirus restrictions.

"We are mixing in a way that we haven't been mixing over the past 18 months," says Dr Philippa.

"During those first lockdowns, we saw numbers of other [non-Covid] infections fall. We think that that was primarily due to the restrictions on meeting up."

Get used to it, that's what happens when humans mix (as we are designed, and need to do).

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The Guardian's Scaremongering BS!

 

As loyal readers know I am no fan of the Guardian, and wouldn't use it to wipe my armpits with.

However, even by the Guardian's sorry standards their headline and article is beneath contempt.

Here's why it's bollocks:

To get to 7k hospitalizations/day within 6 wks we'd need cases to rise >10x in the next 5 wks. To do that, we'd need to go from cases contracting ~25%/wk now to them rising ~60%/wk from tmrw on & sustained thereafter. How's that worth discussing even as an extreme risk scenario?

— Andrew Lilico (@andrew_lilico) September 14, 2021

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Cloth Masks Don't Work

PSST. Dunno if people know this re: Bangladesh

The cloth mask that FAILED to reduce sx driven, serologic sars-cov-2 was like the Rolls Royce of cloth masks 👇👇👇

Not the ford-pinto cloth masks we have been using in USA for 18 months.... pic.twitter.com/Ao8SOfKqw1

— Vinay Prasad, MD MPH 🎙️📷 (@VPrasadMDMPH) September 2, 2021

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Nanny's Health Service - Covid Only

 

The Spectator reports that in July, 45 per cent of patients succeeded in having a consultation with their GP on the same day that they made their appointment, while 24 per cent waited more than a week. These figures are a modest improvement on January last year, when 42 per cent had a same-day appointment and 30 per cent had to wait more than a week. 

The difference hardly marks a sea change in efficiency. It is not as if GPs are having to see more patients than they were before the pandemic. On the contrary, the number of overall appointments fell from 27.2 million in January 2020 to 25.5 million in July this year

There is a limit to how long GPs can use Covid-19 as an excuse for refusing to see patients face-to-face. Other parts of society have largely returned to normal. Shops and restaurants no longer have to enforce social distancing. Even nightclubs are open. 

Yet GP surgeries continue to operate as if we are still in the darkest depths of lockdown. Just 57 per cent of GPs consultations in July were held face-to-face — a little higher than the 47 per cent recorded in April last year but still far below the levels prior to the pandemic. In January 2020, four in five consultations were held face-to-face.

The NHS is exacerbating the problem by offering financial incentives to surgeries to hold certain numbers of consultations remotely. 

During the depths of the pandemic being told to protect the NHS might have made some sense. However, the NHS was set up to protect and care for us, not the other way round (especially as we pay for it!).

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Mu Mu Land!

It only affect cows, so stand down everyone!

WHO Mu?

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