Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

[SocketRocket]

Oh, so you slag off an entire profession, my colleagues and peers, and I am supposed to just say 'Fair enough'. Don't think so.

So the original question I made to you was a simple one 'Why?' and you have no answers except to cite Allison Pearson. She is a Covid denier with a long track record of animosity against the NHS and medical profession.

You have still offered no explanation of why YOU have an issue with GPs, or why your anecdote says anything about GPs in general, and refusing to discuss any more. Sounds like it was all a load of made up [redacted].

I have a problem with GPs in that there's not enough of them or maybe to many of us. That's not their fault though.

 

[The Dog.]

Oh, so you slag off an entire profession, my colleagues and peers, and I am supposed to just say 'Fair enough'. Don't think so.

So the original question I made to you was a simple one 'Why?' and you have no answers except to cite Allison Pearson. She is a Covid denier with a long track record of animosity against the NHS and medical profession.

You have still offered no explanation of why YOU have an issue with GPs, or why your anecdote says anything about GPs in general, and refusing to discuss any more. Sounds like it was all a load of made up [redacted].

Ethan - you seem to think I owe you answers? Like I have to explain myself because you demand it? I don't share that view.

 

[drdel]

The original question was how as Coronavirus affected you and I answered this honestly. I wish I hadn't as it has seemingly invoked the ire of a clique.

Demonstrably untrue? The lady in the article is dead and her husband used to run an NHS Trust. Check out the Planet Normal podcast for more of Alison Pearson's excellent work.

Please accept that I have zero interest in engaging with you in a discussion about GP's.

Haven't the balls? Knickers in a twist? Don't post in the first place? Nice.

Welcome. Take no notice of the courageous 'keyboard' warriors. Its just a golf forum and naturally you'll get a cross section of views; stick to yours. It won't take you long to work out the debaters compared to the shouters and the thin skinned.

In general most of the stuff is good humoured but there are a few who haven't learnt that " It's best to be thought a fool than open one's mouth and prove it".

 

[Deleted member 15344]

The original question was how as Coronavirus affected you and I answered this honestly. I wish I hadn't as it has seemingly invoked the ire of a clique.

Demonstrably untrue? The lady in the article is dead and her husband used to run an NHS Trust. Check out the Planet Normal podcast for more of Alison Pearson's excellent work.

Please accept that I have zero interest in engaging with you in a discussion about GP's.

Haven't the balls? Knickers in a twist? Don't post in the first place? Nice.

Welcome , enjoy and stick with your strong opinions - it will be up to others to accept them.

 

[Ethan]

Ethan - you seem to think I owe you answers? Like I have to explain myself because you demand it? I don't share that view.

No, you slagged off GPs, not your GP, or one particular GP, but 'GPs', so presumably all of them, so I asked a simple question 'Why?', presuming you had a semi-coherent answer of some sort or interesting anecdote.

But you don't. You sound exactly like the sort of reader Allison Pearson likes, asks no questions, seeks no answers, just laps up her drivel and nods.

 

[SocketRocket]

Welcome , enjoy and stick with your strong opinions - it will be up to others to accept them.

What kind of comment is that supposed to be! You have a track record complaining of others 'Strong opinions' and why do you suggest it will be up to others to accept them? If I had posted what he did you would be first to criticise it ?

 

[Swinglowandslow]

Welcome , enjoy and stick with your strong opinions - it will be up to others to accept them.

I take it you mean " up to others to accept them or reject them, as they see fit"?
I'm all for strong opinions ( have them myself from time to time ), but then it is necessary to allow others the same , and be prepared for others to strongly criticise those strong opinions you have expressed, without insult or belittling.
Basic forum participation.
As it happens, I thought he was amusingly using hyperbole, but it seems he wasn't. Though for the life of me, I do not see why he wishes he had not had the first jab! ( I take it that is what he said)...
Care to enlighten, Dog??

 

[Jamesbrown]

The phrase “covid denier” gets thrown around a lot which itches my nipples a lot.
Don’t know of many if any literal “deniers” more people who see it a different away, don’t consider the ends justifies the means, don’t value human life all that precious or prefer a selfish stand point.

 

[GB72]

As part of my positive day, the results form the test events are looking very promising, just 15 cased from 58000 attendees at both indoor and outdoor events:

• There were just four cases of Covid across the entire 17 days of the World Snooker Championships
• No cases emerged from the Brit Awards, even though the audience could mingle at tables and in boxes without masks
• There were only two cases among 5,900 pop-lovers at an outdoor music festival at Sefton Park, Liverpool, and none at all at the reduced-capacity football at Wembley Stadium
• Nine cases were found among 6,000 revellers who packed into a nightclub in Liverpool over two days without masks

 

[SocketRocket]

This was posted by someone I know, I'm not sure if it's originally theirs but I think it sums up the way so many people are feeling right now.

"I have never thought of myself as an anxious person before and it has totally opened my eyes but for the past couple of months I have felt like I haven’t been coping with getting back to normal life , everything has seemed like a lot of effort and my insecurities have been through the roof! A year of seeing only a handful of people/work colleagues due to lockdown has somehow made that my norm , my safe space. I have loved having my children home all the time and now that life has gone pretty much back to normal I’m finding it hard to adjust even getting irritable if my surroundings are too loud. I have avoided seeing people i haven’t seen in the past year and the thought of mixing with people again as we get into the summer months makes me feel really uneasy. It feels really strange to not be totally buzzing about the end of lockdown like pretty much everyone else I know! I thought I’d put this post up as maybe just maybe I’m not alone with feeling like this and it will mean people don’t have to make excuses for me if I don’t attend social situations for a while. I am trying and hopefully I will feel more myself again soon."

 

[backwoodsman]

As part of my positive day, the results form the test events are looking very promising, just 15 cased from 58000 attendees at both indoor and outdoor events:

• There were just four cases of Covid across the entire 17 days of the World Snooker Championships
• No cases emerged from the Brit Awards, even though the audience could mingle at tables and in boxes without masks
• There were only two cases among 5,900 pop-lovers at an outdoor music festival at Sefton Park, Liverpool, and none at all at the reduced-capacity football at Wembley Stadium
• Nine cases were found among 6,000 revellers who packed into a nightclub in Liverpool over two days without masks

Encouraging news, surely.

But I guess it would have been surprising if the results had not been like that? After all, the guests/participants/customers only got in because they'd already tested negative.

 

[GB72]

This was posted by someone I know, I'm not sure if it's originally theirs but I think it sums up the way so many people are feeling right now.

"I have never thought of myself as an anxious person before and it has totally opened my eyes but for the past couple of months I have felt like I haven’t been coping with getting back to normal life , everything has seemed like a lot of effort and my insecurities have been through the roof! A year of seeing only a handful of people/work colleagues due to lockdown has somehow made that my norm , my safe space. I have loved having my children home all the time and now that life has gone pretty much back to normal I’m finding it hard to adjust even getting irritable if my surroundings are too loud. I have avoided seeing people i haven’t seen in the past year and the thought of mixing with people again as we get into the summer months makes me feel really uneasy. It feels really strange to not be totally buzzing about the end of lockdown like pretty much everyone else I know! I thought I’d put this post up as maybe just maybe I’m not alone with feeling like this and it will mean people don’t have to make excuses for me if I don’t attend social situations for a while. I am trying and hopefully I will feel more myself again soon."

A very fair point being made. I am expanding my boundaries in my own time on my own terms. Small group of the same people I used to meet outside with, that group is moving inside this week but we all know that anyone can just up and leave if they are not comfortable. Small steps, bringing things back into my life slowly and one step at a time.

 

[backwoodsman]

The original question was how as Coronavirus affected you and I answered this honestly. I wish I hadn't as it has seemingly invoked the ire of a clique.

Demonstrably untrue? The lady in the article is dead and her husband used to run an NHS Trust. Check out the Planet Normal podcast for more of Alison Pearson's excellent work.

Please accept that I have zero interest in engaging with you in a discussion about GP's.

Haven't the balls? Knickers in a twist? Don't post in the first place? Nice.

"Alison Pearson" and "excellent work" . Not phrases you see in the same sentence very often ...

And welcome by the way.

 

[GB72]

Encouraging news, surely.

But I guess it would have been surprising if the results had not been like that? After all, the guests/participants/customers only got in because they'd already tested negative.

A fair point. The clubbing one was the big one for me, that had the potential to be an absolute covid heaven but it all seems to have gone OK<

 

[backwoodsman]

A fair point. The clubbing one was the big one for me, that had the potential to be an absolute covid heaven but it all seems to have gone OK<

And I agree, its something we should all see as a positive. And a step in the right direction. (I'm starting to get sick of "new normal" . I want "normal" back.)

 

[Deleted member 21784]

A very fair point being made. I am expanding my boundaries in my own time on my own terms. Small group of the same people I used to meet outside with, that group is moving inside this week but we all know that anyone can just up and leave if they are not comfortable. Small steps, bringing things back into my life slowly and one step at a time.

We are slowly pushing it

Sunday we taking eldest to see Peter rabbit 2.. see how that goes

Booked a few other things like meet Peppa on a heritage railway but booked a cabin just for us

And booked a farm trip

So all same people

 

[Swinglowandslow]

Ethan - you seem to think I owe you answers? Like I have to explain myself because you demand it? I don't share that view.

Surely if you denigrate a whole profession, don't you expect, on a forum, someone to reasonably ask you what exactly you are on about?
The making of the comment ( by you) invites asking you to justify it...
Straightforward, isn't it?

 

[williamalex1]

I know that the GPs at my practice haven't had as many face to face appointments and some are actually working from home. 10 days for a non urgent phone appointment .
But the practice nurses have been working full out, escorting patients in, carrying out treatments, then showing them out and cleaning everything after every patient.

 

[Ethan]

I know that the GPs at my practice haven't had as many face to face appointments and some are actually working from home. 10 days for a non urgent phone appointment .

And some of them are in the Out of Hours, the Urgent Care and/or at the vaccination centres. None of the GPs I know, and I know a fair few, are doing less work or having a more relaxed time since Covid started.

 

[Ethan]

Surely if you denigrate a whole profession, don't you expect, on a forum, someone to reasonably ask you what exactly you are on about?
The making of the comment ( by you) invites asking you to justify it...
Straightforward, isn't it?

It was the blanket dismissal of the entire public sector, especially GPs, en masse that invited the question.