Covid - news and views
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On Euronews a couple of days ago they were interviewing a French nurse who said all the hospital's intensive care beds were filled by unvaccinated people and psychologically it was difficult to treat them.
I took that to mean she would rather be treating those who had more responsibility.
peedee
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The Nurse may have even recognised some of them from outside her Hospital demonstrating🤷🏻♂️, that does mess with your mind for sure☹️
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Not quite sure why they chose MK? Perhaps it was because the PM was visiting a vaccination centre at the Open University and that was probably where all the police were? I saw it on the local news and what concerned me was there seemed to be little in the way of police there. It is beyond logic to attack a testing centre. They also interrupted a performance of the Panto at MK Theatre. My son's partner works in a Test Centre (not in MK) and I think had it happened when she was at work she would have been very frightened.
David
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The news channels have reported right wing elements pushing their agendas within the crowd🤷🏻♂️
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Today we have 210,000 cases.
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JV-northern Ireland is the UK. Boosted?, tomorrow both France & the UK will be boosted again, it’s facts👍🏻
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It’s simple maths JV-late or not they all add up to the same figure, there’s nothing magical, scary or odd. Facts are facts🤷🏻♂️
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We have just watched some footage of the idiots at the MK testing centre rampaging through the site. I have no words to describe them!! How can any person, after all this time, behave like that to people who are trying to do something save lives. Whatever your view surely have respect for others doing a job, that footage was so unbelievable! Playground bullies!!! I would never wish death, illness or harm to anyone but just sometimes……………….. ????
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Yes, quite shocking, I think the local MPs choice of phrase to describe them was spot on. We’ve had similar examples here where local lowlife have slashed awnings at vaccination centres and thrown paint around - unbelievable!
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It's not a competition - France aren't the bad guys and we're certainly not the good guys. Both countries have roughly equal populations and roughly equal cases of coronavirus. It's a sad situation and finger pointing achieves absolutely nothing.
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As it’s an average figure over 7 days used in the statistics, the NI blip makes no difference whatsoever.
UK, France or wherever, it’s an issue of concern rather than one of trumping one another.
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Average daily figures.
They give an overall clearer picture.
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Ok JV, thanks.
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Bump
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They are of questionable intelligence. Apparently they mistook the testing centre for a vaccination centre. I so hope those who carried out the damage and intimidation are prosecuted. Personally, I’d stick them all in a cell together, along with a Petri dish of positive swabbing, give their brain cells a real test of commitment.
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Everyone is entitled to their beliefs, but some do beggar belief. Every time our local newspaper reports anything on the internet about people getting the jabs all these anti vaccine people comment. Others with more common sense reply but are soon shouted down by these bullies. I like to think that I listen to others but how can they really believe that it is all made up? It is such an insult for the families that have lost loved ones. Without vaccines we would still have many deaths from polio and smallpox etc. where are these morons getting their info and why do they believe it, it is beyond me.
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I expect the geography of MK explains why they targeted the Test Centre. Many of them probably came by train from Euston and the Test Centre is a relatively short walk from the station. The main Vaccination Centre is at the Open University some four miles from the station and it would have been difficult to get that number of people there by public transport and I suspect they didn't want an 8 miles walking round trip? Whether by coincidence or by design (I am not sure now long such visits are publicised in advance) the PM was visiting the Vaccination Centre the same day. This probably accounted for the lack of police around Test Centre although with the main police station only a few hundred yards from the Test Centre I think Thames Valley Police have some answers to provide. The mob then proceeded to walk to MK Theatre and tried to disrupt the Panto (hopefully the kids just thought it was all part of the show?)
People are entitled to believe what they want but what they are not free to do is to impose those beliefs on others. There was some evidence that right wing agitators had infiltrated the group. The Test Centre staff must have been really frightened and that really is unfair. They are doing an essential job and they need to feel safe.
David
PS, I think I should have quoted heddlo rather than TDA
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