Coronavirus

[Gemmill 42649]

Not great. Hopefully she gets a light dose and the kids can dodge it. 

[ewerk 29491]

Hopefully she’s okay troops. Pregnant women are understandably worried about the unknown side effects of the vaccine. However it needs to be weighed up against the risks of catching covid. My wife wasn’t sure about getting the booster while pregnant but after a conversation with our maternity consultant on what he had seen in the wards she was in no doubt that the best thing was to get it.

[Gemmill 42649]

Have you just very recently had a kid then ewerk? Is this your first and did I miss the big announcement? 

[ewerk 29491]

It’s my second, not due until June.

You must have missed the announcement in Waterford Whispers.

[Gemmill 42649]

Congrats, I guess. 

[trooper 940]

The midwifes been on a our daughter about getting  jabbed all through the pregnancy. I know there's supposed to be a lot of pregnant woman with covid in hospital who are not jabbed

Edited December 31, 2021 by trooper

[trooper 940]

An estimated 2.3 million people in the UK had COVID in the week up to 23 December - a substantial rise on the 1.4 million the previous week.

I guess we'll see the knock on effect next week with the NHS given the usual 2 week delay 

[Kid Dynamite 6822]

2 hours ago, wykikitoon said:

The nightingales are a  total white elephant. They don't have the staff to put in them.

I was involved in the NE Nightingale. Amazing effort to get it pulled together so quickly but in hindsight it was never going to work. No staff to run it. Totally inadequate donning/doffing facilities. Probably would have ended up a glorified hospice if things got as bad as were first feared. 
 

Fuck knows what the tents in car parks plan is supposed to solve. We can't even man the wards we've got currently 

[wykikitoon 19314]

7 minutes ago, trooper said:

An estimated 2.3 million people in the UK had COVID in the week up to 23 December - a substantial rise on the 1.4 million the previous week.

I guess we'll see the knock on effect next week with the NHS given the usual 2 week delay 

I think you could do with a break from looking at figures dude

[ewerk 29491]

16 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

I was involved in the NE Nightingale. Amazing effort to get it pulled together so quickly but in hindsight it was never going to work. No staff to run it. Totally inadequate donning/doffing facilities. Probably would have ended up a glorified hospice if things got as bad as were first feared. 
 

Fuck knows what the tents in car parks plan is supposed to solve. We can't even man the wards we've got currently 

The idea is that it’s easier to staff them when they’re on the premises and they’ll be filled with patients nearly ready to go home so will require less care. That’s the theory anyway.

[Alex 34094]

1 hour ago, trooper said:

Really fucking angry at one of my daughters. She's 7 months pregnant got 3 kids & refuses to get jabbed. About an hour ago told me she didn't feel to hood & did a test. Hey presto its came back positive. I've said to her loads of times have you had the jab the same reply not yet. Now this its to bloody late & no doubt the kids will get it as well now grrrr 

Hope she’s ok. 

[Kid Dynamite 6822]

11 minutes ago, ewerk said:

The idea is that it’s easier to staff them when they’re on the premises and they’ll be filled with patients nearly ready to go home so will require less care. That’s the theory anyway.

Sounds great on paper. But no staff is no staff. If your ward usually needs 5 nurses and is currently running on 3 then where do you find an additional 3 for the car park tent?

[strawb 4069]

Our lass has done a positive LFT. First time since it started either of us have had it. I’m still negative somehow but could probably have a free week of work here

[Dr Gloom 21302]

1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

Congrats, I guess. 

Commiserations more like

[NJS 4256]

Had planned to spend this weekend with my lass in a hotel cut off from the world - we've cancelled now as her parents who she spent xmas with have just tested positive. 

 

What a shitter. 

 

 

[ewerk 29491]

1 hour ago, Kid Dynamite said:

Sounds great on paper. But no staff is no staff. If your ward usually needs 5 nurses and is currently running on 3 then where do you find an additional 3 for the car park tent?

I think you’re missing the point. The government can announce they’ve created thousands of extra hospital beds. Headlines tend not to worry about the details.

[trooper 940]

I remember Johnson promising a million boosters a day until the new year would be given. Have they even managed a million a day yet ?

[ewerk 29491]

I think they actually did. The vaccines are the one thing they haven’t fucked up.

[wykikitoon 19314]

1 hour ago, trooper said:

I remember Johnson promising a million boosters a day until the new year would be given. Have they even managed a million a day yet ?

Yes

[trooper 940]

London Firework  Display is going ahead tonight

[Monkeys Fist 41318]

Profs Sir Chris Whitty and Sir Jonathan Van-Tam have both been knighted in the New Year Honours List. 
 

Also…

[trooper 940]

Whitty & Van Tamm get knighted

 Johnson got this 

 

[Isegrim 9577]

 

[Alex 34094]

 

[trooper 940]

19 minutes ago, Alex said:

 

Every single step of this has seen one fuck up after another