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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

williamalex1 said:
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.
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Our GP’s have handles appointments in a variety of ways, you can book a non-urgent appointment via phone and the timescale is no diffetent to face to face, more urgent appointments receive a call back same day and then face to face (same day) if required, some appointments have been carried out via Zoom.

Also our Health Centre is also a vaccination centre and there are always at least 2 of the GP’s administering jabs when it is open.

The Nurses are also covering their own job and taking turn adminstating vaccines.

I and my family have had no issue contacting or being looking after by our GP’s.
 
Covid cost me an entire season, last season, very late in my golf life when I could ill-afford to lose it.
Fortunately, we're back in the saddle this season, but it's hard to knock the rust off my game.

When the covid catastrophe first exploded among us, we were more concerned with the possibility of transmission via surfaces than we needed to be.
We came to discover that nearly all transmission is airborne, and wearing masks would have pretty much been enough.

Instead we had one player to a cart, no touching the flagstick, no rakes for the bunkers, and changing shoes in the car park because the clubhouse was closed.
Golf required a social aspect for me, so I paid my dues to retain membership in good standing,
but I didn't play all year.

Now just about everybody at the club has had two jabs of either Pfizer or Moderna [we don't have Astrazeneca here] vaccine.

To be honest, I wasn't sure if I'd ever get to play again.
Once in a great while, something works out.
 
The Dog. said:
I am not embarrassed. I answered the original question honestly but am indifferent to engaging a long winded defence of my opinion on a polarising subject that is unlikely to end in any form of consensus. However, this gives a good example as to why. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/05/04/reason-youvenot-seen-gp-recently-frankly-scandal/

Great welcome you get here:

Seems a lot of effort to join a forum just to use the word "eviscerated."
Shame you don't have anyone to drink with by the sound of it.
He is quite clearly shying away from answering this.
Maybe he's a bit embarrassed?
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Fair enough, apologies if I misread the situation, but I did find it an odd opening post. (y)
Oh, and don't worry Dog, "eviscerated" is a great word.
 
Ethan said:
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.
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I only know that the nurse I saw wasn't a happy bunny being left to do all the donkey work. The vaccinations we received were given by nurses. My wife waited 12 hours to see a doctor in the A/E department after being taken there by ambulance.
Plenty of nurses running around like blue arsed flies but very few doctors.
 
Swinglowandslow said:
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?
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Should we be affording the same courtesy to journalists, footballers, high-handicappers, politicians, delivery drivers, low-handicappers, old people, young people and celebrities too, every time someone on the forum makes a sweeping generalisation?
 
Ethan said:
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.
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I only know 2 - BiL and SiL. In the last 12 months he's quit his practice to go part-time locum. She's quit hers to join a private practice doing a couple of call outs a day to wealthy customers.
They are much more relaxed and don't appear to be paying for their changes financially.
 
RichA said:
Should we be affording the same courtesy to journalists, footballers, high-handicappers, politicians, delivery drivers, low-handicappers, old people, young people and celebrities too, every time someone on the forum makes a sweeping generalisation?
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Maybe. If someone makes a vague general comment, "I hate delivery drivers", you may be interested to know why, and whether the reason applies to all of them. If they say "I hate the delivery driver from Pizza Hut in Bracknell who put my pizza through the letter box", then we can say "OK, for enough".
 
RichA said:
I only know 2 - BiL and SiL. In the last 12 months he's quit his practice to go part-time locum. She's quit hers to join a private practice doing a couple of call outs a day to wealthy customers.
They are much more relaxed and don't appear to be paying for their changes financially.
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OK, but those are not common except maybe at pre-retirement. There are pension implications and work security for both of them, although they may be quite happy to accept them. Some private GPs get very pissed off after a while with over-demanding patients who have little wrong with them but expect 24/7 service.
 
Ethan said:
OK, but those are not common except maybe at pre-retirement. There are pension implications and work security for both of them, although they may be quite happy to accept them. Some private GPs get very pissed off after a while with over-demanding patients who have little wrong with them but expect 24/7 service.
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Both are younger than you might expect. The last sentence of your reply sums up why they left their "public" practices.
 
More bad news for Astra Zeneca. Reports of arterial clot problems in younger people in a paper in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.

Previously all the clot problems were on the venous side, i.e the part that returns deoxygenated blood to the heart, and associated with rare conditions, but these reports are on the arterial side and associated with common conditions, so starts to confirm the fear that some of us had that some effect on stroke, myocardial infarction and other arterial thrombotic events was likely and could be an even bigger and less easily differentiated problem. A 1 or 2% increase in CVST is no problem, a 1 to 2% increase in MI and CVA is much bigger. It may be that only people with certain genetic predispositions are at higher risk, but this is not yet fully understood.
 
A second article in the same journal points out that these attacks are "much more common" during a COVID infection, which is presumably much less likely if one has had the AZ vaccine.
 
RichA said:
A second article in the same journal points out that these attacks are "much more common" during a COVID infection, which is presumably much less likely if one has had the AZ vaccine.
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Stroke in three vax recipients all 43 years old or younger? All had features of the VITT vaccine-specific antibody response. These were related events. In some ways, it is no surprise, It was always highly likely, and I have expressed concern here about the possibility that arterial side events must also be increased and are likely to be less noticed, apart from in young people in whom they are very rare.

The commentary that stroke occurs as a complication of Covid is not intended to explain these reports, because the patients concerned did not have Covid, but to make an epidemiological comment, and we already knew this. However, this risk of stroke is heavily biased towards older people, as the commentary notes, and the risk of stroke in patients with Covid in their 30s and 40s, which is not specified, is likely to be vanishingly low.
 
Ethan said:
Stroke in three vax recipients all 43 years old or younger? All had features of the VITT vaccine-specific antibody response. These were related events. In some ways, it is no surprise, It was always highly likely, and I have expressed concern here about the possibility that arterial side events must also be increased and are likely to be less noticed, apart from in young people in whom they are very rare.

The commentary that stroke occurs as a complication of Covid is not intended to explain these reports, because the patients concerned did not have Covid, but to make an epidemiological comment, and we already knew this. However, this risk of stroke is heavily biased towards older people, as the commentary notes, and the risk of stroke in patients with Covid in their 30s and 40s, which is not specified, is likely to be vanishingly low.
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It's still only considered to be a very rare side effect, yet you have raised it a few times on this golf forum.
I hope it hasn't put anyone off being vaccinated.
 
I was talking to a friend who has volunteered to help get people vaccinated in one of the 8 areas with the Indian variant. It was sad to hear that during his house to house visits they get abused. He talked about how many of the ethnic residents refuse to go and take the vaccine they are abusive and refuse to even take an explanatory ĺeaflet.

Sad reflection of the misinformation floating around.
 
drdel said:
I was talking to a friend who has volunteered to help get people vaccinated in one of the 8 areas with the Indian variant. It was sad to hear that during his house to house visits they get abused. He talked about how many of the ethnic residents refuse to go and take the vaccine they are abusive and refuse to even take an explanatory ĺeaflet.

Sad reflection of the misinformation floating around.
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All leaders in the area , religious, council, celebs, respected people .. should take the vaccine and make a massive deal of it like khan did in London all over twitter etc etc and how all MPs have done

Just show it's safe

Dunno what more people can want than those in charge taking it .. they wouldn't take something unsafe
 
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