When will this shit end?

[steviewevie]

Repeat of Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe from back in May currently on bbc2.

[Ryan1984]

36 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

Here is it - mainstream coverage now and seems that threatening to sue councils over trying to stop the spread leads to this...

(Even more) blood on their hands.

[Chapple12345]

Lord almighty 

[steviewevie]

[charlierc]

48 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Repeat of Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe from back in May currently on bbc2.

What's super weird looking at AntiViral Wipe is that May almost feels like a whole other world ago now, nevermind look back at footage of March when this thing imploded so fast.

I watched the Death to 2020 thing Brooker did for Netflix when it surfaced there yesterday. It was basically a talking heads version, which worked in its own way but wasn't as good as this. I liked Cristin Milioti's performance - properly crazy stuff.

31 minutes ago, Chapple12345 said:

Lord almighty 

Oh... is he still whining about that?

[Guest]

1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

This was always the problem with the Nightingales, there wasn't there staff to run them. However it won't look good to be closing them down mid 2nd wave.

[shoptildrop]

1 hour ago, Ozanne said:

This was always the problem with the Nightingales, there wasn't there staff to run them. However it won't look good to be closing them down mid 2nd wave.

I had my Mam tell me yesterday that they have to army on standby to run them but they never called them up, so she's like are the hospitals really over run and why aren't the utilising the nightingales??

I tried to explain there wasn't enough specialist critical care staff and that army medics won't always be that specialised in the requirements (to be honest I've not heard anything about army running these things) - christ she flipped her lid that I was suggesting the army medics are inferior (which I didn't) so I tried to step away from the convo very quickly...

My parents have gone down a slippery slope were I can't even have reasonable discussion with them (Dad's gone down the conspiracy rabbit hole 😞 ) It's really made me sad tbh and so many folks are accepting misinformation as fact errgghhh 

[shoptildrop]

I'm really not even sure tbh 😞 

 

 

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, shoptildrop said:

I had my Mam tell me yesterday that they have to army on standby to run them but they never called them up, so she's like are the hospitals really over run and why aren't the utilising the nightingales??

I tried to explain there wasn't enough specialist critical care staff and that army medics won't always be that specialised in the requirements (to be honest I've not heard anything about army running these things) - christ she flipped her lid that I was suggesting the army medics are inferior (which I didn't) so I tried to step away from the convo very quickly...

My parents have gone down a slippery slope were I can't even have reasonable discussion with them (Dad's gone down the conspiracy rabbit hole 😞 ) It's really made me sad tbh and so many folks are accepting misinformation as fact errgghhh 

That’s so frustrating, my brother in law is the same and I can see an impact on my sister which is concerning. It’s so difficult when loved ones are like that.

[xxialac]

Feel sorry for you with intransigent parents.

Show them this thread perhaps. Powerful (and deeply worrying) stuff.

https://twitter.com/sbattrawden/with_replies

[xxialac]

If we really loved the NHS instead of clapping for it, we'd not have this dire situation where these great doctors have to work in a dysfunctional underfunded environment...

 

Hospital Workers: What is the smallest piece of low-hanging fruit that would make coming to work so much better?

Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden

@sbattrawden

(Critical care doctor)

 

• Water coolers
• Hot food out of hours
• Being able to actually get a parking space
• A locker Access to scrubs each day that aren’t just XXL
• Printers that work
• A single login to all the IT systems
• Tea and coffee
• Having a rota > 6/52 in advance
• Self-rostering with SPA time

 

Edited December 29, 2020 by xxialac

[shoptildrop]

1 hour ago, Ozanne said:

That’s so frustrating, my brother in law is the same and I can see an impact on my sister which is concerning. It’s so difficult when loved ones are like that.

I know it made me right miserable after the call as just kept replaying it 😞

[Crazyfool01]

Let’s start the day on a positive ... I’ve had a negative test result through  17 hour turnaround too ... back to work tomorow as the app has told me it’s ok to go back ... come on Oxford today’s the day fingers crossed 🤞 

Edited December 29, 2020 by crazyfool1

[dotdash79]

20 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

Let’s start the day on a positive ... I’ve had a negative test result through  17 hour turnaround too ... back to work tomorow as the app has told me it’s ok to go back ... come on Oxford today’s the day fingers crossed 🤞 

That text arriving at 6 am, can either be a massive blessing or a curse

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, dotdash79 said:

That text arriving at 6 am, can either be a massive blessing or a curse

Do they usually come through at that time then ? Phone was on silent .. I only got it because I wasn’t sleeping well !! I’m amazed at the turnaround time though 

[JoeyT]

Feels like a lineup announcement day...

8am anyone?

 

 

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, JoeyT said:

Feels like a lineup announcement day...

8am anyone?

 

 

Standby those beds 🛌 

[steviewevie]

Oxford going to ride to the rescue?

Snowmageddon going to screw it up?

[dotdash79]

39 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

Do they usually come through at that time then ? Phone was on silent .. I only got it because I wasn’t sleeping well !! I’m amazed at the turnaround time though 

The 2 I have had done have some through at that time same with everyone in our house. But I’ve heard people getting them through the day. 
 

turn around time was about the same as yours

[Fuzzy Afro]

7 hours ago, shoptildrop said:

I had my Mam tell me yesterday that they have to army on standby to run them but they never called them up, so she's like are the hospitals really over run and why aren't the utilising the nightingales??

I tried to explain there wasn't enough specialist critical care staff and that army medics won't always be that specialised in the requirements (to be honest I've not heard anything about army running these things) - christ she flipped her lid that I was suggesting the army medics are inferior (which I didn't) so I tried to step away from the convo very quickly...

My parents have gone down a slippery slope were I can't even have reasonable discussion with them (Dad's gone down the conspiracy rabbit hole 😞 ) It's really made me sad tbh and so many folks are accepting misinformation as fact errgghhh 

What a giant waste of cash those nightingales are if they don’t have the staff to use them. I wonder if they could move routine procedures over to the nightingales (using specialists etc) and then expand the critical care capacity of normal hospitals. 

[Crazyfool01]

5 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

What a giant waste of cash those nightingales are if they don’t have the staff to use them. I wonder if they could move routine procedures over to the nightingales (using specialists etc) and then expand the critical care capacity of normal hospitals. 

I wonder if the contracts had any tie in with friends of ministers ?  

[Bennykill]

Had the first stage of the vaccination yesterday.  No new super powers to report so far.  Very organised at the hospital and getting though lots of people quite quickly.  

[Ryan1984]

55 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

Feels like a lineup announcement day...

8am anyone?

 

 

8am been and gone... Really feels like we need it right now.

[Matt42]

1 minute ago, Ryan1984 said:

8am been and gone... Really feels like we need it right now.

8pm x

[Crazyfool01]

What time did we get the Pfizer announcement ? Feels like it was early in my shift when I got notification on my watch 🙂 ....