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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Rangie on 13 February 2021, 08:19:12
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Headlines in paper today meetings of up to 6 by May possibly, be patient.
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Jam tomorrow?
Mind you your vaccination programme is going very well :y
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The other thing is that Matt Hancock is finally talking about Covid as a disease that we'll have to live (or die) with rather than eradicating it totally. ::)
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Just booked our first vaccinations on Tuesday morning.😁
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The other thing is that Matt Hancock is finally talking about Covid as a disease that we'll have to live (or die) with rather than eradicating it totally. ::)
It seems ministers have been too scared to let the (thick) public know this is the reality, though even the scientists at the briefings have been saying this for ages.
I guess, they know the public is stupid, and if they let this out even now, every idiots would simply think oppsit, and disobey all measures. So they need to make out normality* will return in the not too distant future, once they have old'uns jabbed, because the 2 things that the UK public care about is the NHS and deaths of family. Easing up on restrictions now would kill both the NHS and many matriarchal mothers, and the BBC TV News would be wall to wall with council house daughters blaming the authorities for killing their mothers, and how life is no longer worthwhile (I have a great cure for that).
*obviously, a new form of normality, where we live with it, but all the vulnerable will be 80% protected.
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Lets hope they can get the hospitals reasonably clear by July then, and clear up the back-log of 12 months of patients waiting for operations and treatment (the ones still alive) ready for the next wave/spike then :-\
feel free to quote me if i'm proved wrong ;)
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People are overly risk averse in the modern age.
Back in the day people were dropping dead from just about every sickness, disease, and pox.
They just went on with their lives until they had a visit from a bony individual wearing a black cloak, and carrying a scythe. :)
We have it easy.
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To be fair the majority of us on the forum have never had to go through a world war. Just imagine what that must have been like :-\
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I did wonder about the possibility of being called up if the first Gulf War went sideways :-\
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I did wonder about the possibility of being called up if the first Gulf War went sideways :-\
How old would you have been?
From memory the first Gulf war was around 1990/91.
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I did wonder about the possibility of being called up if the first Gulf War went sideways :-\
How old would you have been?
From memory the first Gulf war was around 1990/91.
Yep, I recall being a useless student at the time. ::)
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I did wonder about the possibility of being called up if the first Gulf War went sideways :-\
How old would you have been?
From memory the first Gulf war was around 1990/91.
Yep, I recall being a useless student at the time. ::)
Speaking of which, what became of that Tunnie fella?
I appreciate there are nappies to change, but in this country we have individuals called 'women' to deal with such mundane tasks. :)
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I did wonder about the possibility of being called up if the first Gulf War went sideways :-\
I was there .... went to action stations .... twice ;) ;)
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I did wonder about the possibility of being called up if the first Gulf War went sideways :-\
How old would you have been?
From memory the first Gulf war was around 1990/91.
Knocking on 15 :o
I vaguely recall bits on the news about the Falklands conflict, but that was mostly people waving at ships on the tellybox.
The Middle East was quite a bit closer to home, and had the potential to go sideways very quickly, and although it was relatively shortlived in the end, it was day after day of nothing else in the papers for the duration.
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I did wonder about the possibility of being called up if the first Gulf War went sideways :-\
How old would you have been?
From memory the first Gulf war was around 1990/91.
Knocking on 15 :o
I vaguely recall bits on the news about the Falklands conflict, but that was mostly people waving at ships on the tellybox.
The Middle East was quite a bit closer to home, and had the potential to go sideways very quickly, and although it was relatively shortlived in the end, it was day after day of nothing else in the papers for the duration.
If memory serves Thatcher was still there at the start, before Major took the reins.
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Indeed, he 'took over' just before Christmas iirc...
Having looked, it only lasted until Feb '91 :o
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Lets hope they can get the hospitals reasonably clear by July then, and clear up the back-log of 12 months of patients waiting for operations and treatment (the ones still alive) ready for the next wave/spike then :-\
feel free to quote me if i'm proved wrong ;)
I do have to agree. If they can clear the sniffle stuff out by the summer, that gives them 6 months to make inroads to delayed procedures before the naturally busier winter.... ...likely to be busier than "normal" as the sniffle will come back.
I think, if they can just sort of the inefficiencies in the NHS, they could make good inroads.
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I did wonder about the possibility of being called up if the first Gulf War went sideways :-\
I did remember - vaguely - being in a pub with a bit of after hours lock-in when it actually started, and the landlord turning on the telly - which was still working, which back then was unusual in itself, as by that time in the morning, the national anthem had long been sung, and the white dot in the middle completely disappeared.
Me and my bestie had a very long conversation over several pints about would working for Titish Brelecom count us as whats now called key workers, and we'd get out of becoming canon fodder.
I had just turned 20.