Skalliwag Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 (edited) 8 minutes ago, thegrogmonster said: That has been one of my main mottos for years. Your old man was wise. Go away camping and always take extra beer and supplies for this reason. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Yep,or when going fishin. .And we always had a .22 leaning against the wall in the kitchen. Edited April 14, 2020 by Skalliwag 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boydeste Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 2 hours ago, Painter said: Yup. Better to have them and not need them, than to not have them when they are needed. Ditto to that mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krapow Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Meanwhile we've just had the highest number of weekly overall deaths on record ... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krapow Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 (edited) Noticed quite a few food/takeaway places opening again when I was out today. Was delighted to see the famous Sutton and Sons fish and chips open for takeaway. They've won all sorts of awards. It's a bit more expensive than others, but worth it. You place or plaice your order, and wait by the tables outside, observing social distancing of course! Me being a good Katholic boy will give it a rattle on Friday, storm in with my Rangers top on for a Cod and Chips and 5 Hail Mary's Edited April 14, 2020 by Krapow 5 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painter Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 1 hour ago, Krapow said: Meanwhile we've just had the highest number of weekly overall deaths on record ... Saw a graph on the beeb earlier, from the ONS that showed weekly deaths. The spike the first week of April (the last week on the data) was huge. I'd post it but can't find it, but I'm sure it was approx 30% up from the week before... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fforest Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 8,000 inmates released to ease risk ThailandThe Department of Corrections has suspended jail sentences for more than 8,000 inmates nationwide to ease overcrowding in prisons during the Covid-19 pandemic. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1899685/8-000-inmates-released-to-ease-risk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krapow Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 3 minutes ago, fforest said: 8,000 inmates released to ease risk ThailandThe Department of Corrections has suspended jail sentences for more than 8,000 inmates nationwide to ease overcrowding in prisons during the Covid-19 pandemic. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1899685/8-000-inmates-released-to-ease-risk Contact @Pumpuynarak quick, he's more guns up there than the whole of Texas! Can't be too prepared for the onset of the Hunger Games! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krapow Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 20 minutes ago, Painter said: Saw a graph on the beeb earlier, from the ONS that showed weekly deaths. The spike the first week of April (the last week on the data) was huge. I'd post it but can't find it, but I'm sure it was approx 30% up from the week before... They're overreacting mate, nothing to worry about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcfc2007 Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 7 minutes ago, fforest said: 8,000 inmates released to ease risk ThailandThe Department of Corrections has suspended jail sentences for more than 8,000 inmates nationwide to ease overcrowding in prisons during the Covid-19 pandemic. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1899685/8-000-inmates-released-to-ease-risk If only there was somewhere they could be locked up, where they wouldn't be near vulnerable people, almost like a secure facility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 bloody hell... Hampden Square Pharmacy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 7 minutes ago, lazarus said: bloody hell... Hampden Square Pharmacy I knicked a bottle of the foam gel from work. 😀 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starshine Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 1 hour ago, Krapow said: Contact @Pumpuynarak quick, he's more guns up there than the whole of Texas! Can't be too prepared for the onset of the Hunger Games! Second only to Thumper63 who has his own armoury in Colorado mountains. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickrock Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 48 minutes ago, lazarus said: bloody hell... Hampden Square Pharmacy We had price gouging here until govt set up a mini price police dept you free call or on the website and they send the govt gestapo over for a grab your ankles and insert this session Started when the global demand for toilet rolls went through the roof Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcfc2007 Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Trump has just halted funding to the WHO. BOOM! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fforest Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 I am not taking any chances......Here is a little self protection for when I take my daily walk in Pattaya.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alias Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 21 minutes ago, fforest said: I am not taking any chances......Here is a little self protection for when I take my daily walk in Pattaya.... Nice use of "tactical" tywraps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KhunDon Posted April 15, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 15, 2020 (edited) 15 hours ago, dcfc2007 said: They won't be needed. I'll put money on it. There was a hysterical overreaction. They cleared wards, cancelled non-urgent operations, reconfigured the hospitals. That should have been enough, but they had to satisfy the public who had been whipped into a frenzy by the media. Nope not at all. I'm delighted this 'field hospital' hasn't been used. I'm just disgruntled with the complete overreaction, the media driven frenzy and the economic carnage this is causing. There was no need for 'field hospitals', we aren't at war, they done an amazing job to reconfigure hospitals, that was enough. “Won’t be needed, I’d put money on it”. You could say the same about car insurance, but yet you buy it every year and you’re the only person driving the car, so every thing should be fine right? Or will it?What about life or home insurance, most people buy it and we all hope we DON’T need it, but we buy it, just in case. Just what do you expect the Government to do, sit on their arses like you seem to want them to do because it costs a few millions. That’s feck all compared to what this is going to cost when the final bill comes in. I would put money on if it goes tits up and the NHS is overwhelmed, you’ll be amongst the first to shout they didn’t do enough. Even though they have cancelled elective and non essential surgery to free up many beds, there are still thousands of emergency admissions for other conditions that require hospital beds and they cannot be in the same wards as Virus patients. These non Covid patients also require medical and surgical doctors and dedicated high dependency and ICU trained nurses. Given that very few Corona virus patients need major surgical intervention, it makes sense to have these extra hospitals. Or do you believe only Virus patients are being admitted to hospital these days? I believe the plan is also to use these new/temporary hospitals for those who are coming out of Intensive care or High Dependancy units and who no longer require mechanical ventilation, nor require 1 on 1 nursing and also to make room for new, sicker, Covid patients who do. Edited April 15, 2020 by KhunDon Spelling. 4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 7 hours ago, Painter said: Damned if they do, damned if they don't.... Some are judging based on hindsight, when going into this we had no idea what we are facing. And while it appears we're getting the infection rate under control, we still can't say with any degree of certainty this pandemic won't still spin out of control. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Good to see we're giving the proverbial finger to WHO. Hope more countries do the same. Trump halts World Health Organization funding over handling of coronavirus outbreak 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post code_slayer_bkk Posted April 15, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 15, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, forcebwithu said: Good to see we're giving the proverbial finger to WHO. Hope more countries do the same. Trump halts World Health Organization funding over handling of coronavirus outbreak I thought the WHO was better as a rock band ..... Edited April 15, 2020 by code_slayer_bkk 2 1 4 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunDon Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 I see on the news that Captain Tom Moore has raised over £4.9 million as of 9 am this morning then the donation site crashed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52278746 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcfc2007 Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 7 hours ago, KhunDon said: “Won’t be needed, I’d put money on it”. You could say the same about car insurance, but yet you buy it every year and you’re the only person driving the car, so every thing should be fine right? Or will it?What about life or home insurance, most people buy it and we all hope we DON’T need it, but we buy it, just in case. Just what do you expect the Government to do, sit on their arses like you seem to want them to do because it costs a few millions. That’s feck all compared to what this is going to cost when the final bill comes in. I would put money on if it goes tits up and the NHS is overwhelmed, you’ll be amongst the first to shout they didn’t do enough. Even though they have cancelled elective and non essential surgery to free up many beds, there are still thousands of emergency admissions for other conditions that require hospital beds and they cannot be in the same wards as Virus patients. These non Covid patients also require medical and surgical doctors and dedicated high dependency and ICU trained nurses. Given that very few Corona virus patients need major surgical intervention, it makes sense to have these extra hospitals. Or do you believe only Virus patients are being admitted to hospital these days? I believe the plan is also to use these new/temporary hospitals for those who are coming out of Intensive care or High Dependancy units and who no longer require mechanical ventilation, nor require 1 on 1 nursing and also to make room for new, sicker, Covid patients who do. Can you point me to where I said that I wanted the government to sit on their arses. I never said that. I said that the initial response of reconfiguring hospitals and cancelling non-urgent treatment was enough. The problem is the govt bought into these models that wildly over estimated the number of deaths and hospitalisations. That alongside a public whipped into mass hysteria by the fake news media only made things worse. There was no need for these 'field hospitals'. We are not at war. We are not going to be at war, these 'field hospitals' are going to lie empty and unused. A grotesque waste of public finances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunDon Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Meanwhile Tom Moore has now raised over £5,000,000. He didn’t moan, he just got his Zimmer frame out and walked. 🤗 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunDon Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 33 minutes ago, dcfc2007 said: Can you point me to where I said that I wanted the government to sit on their arses. I never said that. I said that the initial response of reconfiguring hospitals and cancelling non-urgent treatment was enough. You say “there WAS (past tense) NO NEED for these field hospitals”. Can I borrow your crystal ball, I’m planning on buying a lottery ticket this weekend. 😉 Do you have a hotline to how this virus is going to progress or how many more people will need hospital beds and specialist treatment? Governments can’t just sit back and do the minimum possible, hopes and prayers are not PLANS! They need to plan ahead for the worst possible eventualities and these hospitals are the result of those plans. What happens when these “reconfigured hospitals” are full and ambulances keep rolling up with patients needing beds? Remember, hospitals were at straining point well before this all kicked off. Most of these “field hospitals” are in buildings that are perfect for this purpose. They have water, sanitation, power and road access already in place, hardly “field” hospitals in the true sense of the word. In fact the army guy in charge of their construction said so, in so many words. His only worry is that if they are going to be used in the winter months heating may be a problem. Note, it’s mainly the army that is doing most of the work and as you keep pointing out “we are not at war” so the army isn’t doing much are they? Using their skills to transform these venues into hospitals makes sense and keeps costs down and when they are no longer required, it’ll be easy to put them back to their original use. Compared to some government spending over the years, IMHO, this is money well spent. 👌 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcfc2007 Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 30 minutes ago, KhunDon said: You say “there WAS (past tense) NO NEED for these field hospitals”. Can I borrow your crystal ball, I’m planning on buying a lottery ticket this weekend. 😉 Do you have a hotline to how this virus is going to progress or how many more people will need hospital beds and specialist treatment? Governments can’t just sit back and do the minimum possible, hopes and prayers are not PLANS! They need to plan ahead for the worst possible eventualities and these hospitals are the result of those plans. What happens when these “reconfigured hospitals” are full and ambulances keep rolling up with patients needing beds? Remember, hospitals were at straining point well before this all kicked off. Most of these “field hospitals” are in buildings that are perfect for this purpose. They have water, sanitation, power and road access already in place, hardly “field” hospitals in the true sense of the word. In fact the army guy in charge of their construction said so, in so many words. His only worry is that if they are going to be used in the winter months heating may be a problem. Note, it’s mainly the army that is doing most of the work and as you keep pointing out “we are not at war” so the army isn’t doing much are they? Using their skills to transform these venues into hospitals makes sense and keeps costs down and when they are no longer required, it’ll be easy to put them back to their original use. Compared to some government spending over the years, IMHO, this is money well spent. 👌 No need for a crystal ball. I've already provided you with a link to a 'field hospital' thats been lying completely empty. Just like the others around the hospital. The govt and NHS didn't do the bare minimum. They done a fantastic job to reconfigure hospitals, recruit more frontline medical staff, and free up resources. That was more than enough. There was no need to bend to the public hysteria. No need for this 'its a war' bollocks, let's build 'field hospitals'. They were never needed, and I'll bet you they won't be needed either. All this has done is fuel the mass fanny wetting hysteria of the public. Complete waste of money and resources. We will find this all out in the years to come, when there's a public inquiry into the complete mishandling of this nonsensical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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