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22 Aug 21
@eladar saidWell I do consider myself a bit of a jock...yes.👍😁
@Great-Big-Stees
So what you are saying is that you are an athletic supporter.
22 Aug 21
@eladar saidHis name is Jaques.
@Great-Big-Stees
So what you are saying is that you are an athletic supporter.
23 Aug 21
@ogb said"Follow the money" is always a reasonable consideration. I don't have a real opinion here as I am not qualified.
now I'm hearing to get a third (moderna) vaccination. it is a booster to help the first two shots last longer...I am diabetic and vegetarian..so I qualify...is this so the Big Pharms can sell more vaccinations ?
23 Aug 21
@trev33 saidApart from it being a humanitarian act it makes sense for unvaccinated regions to get their initial vaccinations first. No one is safe whilst these new variants keep arising which I understand arise in the regions where the virus is out of control.
Let’s say for the joy of discussion that covid is a very dangerous virus that’s knocked off millions already in 18 months, wouldn’t It be wiser to get everyone on the planet vaccinated before talking about first world boosters?
23 Aug 21
@eladar saidI saw the footage from our UK intensive care units as being close to a national emergency. Anyone with serious breathing difficulties has to be hospitalised. This resulted in thousands awaiting alternative treatment/surgery being turned away. The drain upon our health service remains with a backlog of non Covid cases that will take years to treat or assess in addition to the acute Covid cases plus those with longer term symptoms. A friend of mine was very lucky to have quickly had assessment and surgery for womb cancer which her GP managed to arrange last summer. Fortunately she did not contract Covid during her stay in hospital which was a risk.
Kind of odd that we should see a virus unlike any other virus in history.
It is not even close to being the most deadly virus, but it certainly gets the most attention. A vast majority of people who died last year did not die from covid. You would never know it from how people fear it.
@drewnogal saidIn the US Trump opened temporary hospitals when numbers got big. I suppose the UK is unable to do what Trump could do.
I saw the footage from our UK intensive care units as being close to a national emergency. Anyone with serious breathing difficulties has to be hospitalised. This resulted in thousands awaiting alternative treatment/surgery being turned away. The drain upon our health service remains with a backlog of non Covid cases that will take years to treat or assess in addition to th ...[text shortened]... ge last summer. Fortunately she did not contract Covid during her stay in hospital which was a risk.