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Margaret Pilkington 19-01-2022 15:04

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It does not follow that if BJ is ousted….there would be a rush to Keir Starmer.
Tony Blair wrecked the Labour Party…..along with many aspects of UK society.
I would never vote Labour again as long as I live….I would prefer to spoil my paper than vote for that obnoxious crew.
And the Tory MP for Bury who has changed sides…what a hypocrite.
He signed a bill that said if an MP changed their allegiance they should resign and have a bye election.
The people of Bury voted in a Conservative MP and now have a Labour MP.

cashman 19-01-2022 16:36

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I am the same NEVER AGAIN sadly.

Margaret Pilkington 19-01-2022 16:52

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My lass was a paid up party member for years, a staunch supporter…..but she is despairing of how the party has evolved.
Now she would no more vote for the Labour Party than she would show her bum at the town hall

ferret man 19-01-2022 19:11

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I should think not, don't you think we have enough bum's at the town hall.

dotti34 20-01-2022 01:08

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The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence – that is until you get there. We have two major elections this year, State in March and Federal in May, or thereabouts. The way people are talking now it looks like we will have a complete change of government in both cases, but is the alternative going to be any better? Who knows.

dotti34 20-01-2022 01:11

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Now that the waiting time between the second jab and the booster has been slashed to 3 months over here, and I believe that is the same over there, what do people think about it? Initially we were told that it was important to wait six months, then this went to five, then to four, and now it’s three. I find this to be a real worry, if six months was the criteria before, how safe is it now to have it slashed to three?

The original information we were given was that once 90% of the people were vaccinated things would be getting back to normal. Obviously this hasn’t worked, and so now it’s the booster thati is the carrot before the donkey. I don’t believe any of the garbage that we are told but it will be interesting to hear from the people who have actually had the booster in the three month’s space. Any takers?

Margaret Pilkington 20-01-2022 06:39

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ferret man (Post 1262745)
I should think not, don't you think we have enough bum's at the town hall.

Yes but they are just ‘bog standard bums’…..this would be a bare bum.

Margaret Pilkington 20-01-2022 07:20

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dotti34 (Post 1262746)
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence – that is until you get there. We have two major elections this year, State in March and Federal in May, or thereabouts. The way people are talking now it looks like we will have a complete change of government in both cases, but is the alternative going to be any better? Who knows.

I really think that it makes very little difference…..it is like changing one crocodile for another one….sometimes it might be a bigger crocodile…but it is still a croc.

monkey hanger 20-01-2022 09:41

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Without any knowledge or proof i have a feeling that under labour we would have had even more and longer virus restrictions. Then for those of us who have not bought into the green agenda what we have seen already may be mild to what labour would have come out with.

cashman 20-01-2022 15:28

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Have to say in my opinion Labour have Never bothered about the worker since that prat Corbyn was in charge and many are too thick to see that.

Margaret Pilkington 20-01-2022 16:30

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Cashy, I think it goes back a lot further than that, but I would not dare to guess just how far.

cashman 20-01-2022 16:36

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blair did some good stuff as well i reckon. till he sent lads to die.

Margaret Pilkington 20-01-2022 17:26

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I cannot think of anything good that that evil war monger did.
He dismantled the fabric of society, he opened the doors to all comers….whether they had anything to contribute or not.
He made benefits a way of life….again whether there had been contributions to the fund or not.
He sent young men and women to theatres of war ill prepared and vulnerable.
He lied again and again….he was the puppet of George W Bush and he had hie eyes on getting his name into the history books….and of course that WILL happen, but for the wrong reasons.

I cannot think of anything at all that would redeem any of that.

monkey hanger 21-01-2022 10:10

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Quote:

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 1262757)
Have to say in my opinion Labour have Never bothered about the worker since that prat Corbyn was in charge and many are too thick to see that.

think you could go back to the days of wilson and callahan to show if they did anything for the working man. even that is debatable and possibly wh would have to go back as far as atlee. lot including me have voted labour and ended up regretting it. a vote for them now would be a vote for even more government control, more dingy divers and such and out greening the green party. think we all know where they will get their votes from without the need of spelling it out.

cashman 21-01-2022 10:54

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Quote:

Originally Posted by monkey hanger (Post 1262769)
think you could go back to the days of wilson and callahan to show if they did anything for the working man. even that is debatable and possibly wh would have to go back as far as atlee. lot including me have voted labour and ended up regretting it. a vote for them now would be a vote for even more government control, more dingy divers and such and out greening the green party. think we all know where they will get their votes from without the need of spelling it out.

i cant go back this football season my memories knackered.:D

Margaret Pilkington 21-01-2022 11:17

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Yes MH…I think you would have to go back a long way to find a Labour government that really knew what the working man needed to make his life liveable and acted on those needs.
The Politicians in general are so far removed from the lives that we live, that they cannot know the things that would make lives better for those who are working class(or is that term too in woke for them)

We had an MP who knew how deprived our area is….he came from a working class background, but once he got to the city….it seemed like he forgot all about the things that would improve lives for the people who voted for him…..he became dismissive of his voters…..he somehow became superior.
Something that those who voted for him ( I was one of those ) found hard to swallow.

odders 21-01-2022 20:21

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1262775)
Yes MH…I think you would have to go back a long way to find a Labour government that really knew what the working man needed to make his life liveable and acted on those needs.
The Politicians in general are so far removed from the lives that we live, that they cannot know the things that would make lives better for those who are working class(or is that term too in woke for them)

We had an MP who knew how deprived our area is….he came from a working class background, but once he got to the city….it seemed like he forgot all about the things that would improve lives for the people who voted for him…..he became dismissive of his voters…..he somehow became superior.
Something that those who voted for him ( I was one of those ) found hard to swallow.

Yeah him and his mate, took the good nature of folk. And dropped us all for his own advantage. Funny how things work out for the backstabber's. Where's he now? Lol we don't even mention his name:tongueout

Margaret Pilkington 22-01-2022 10:24

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I neither know nor care...although I did hear that he was hoping to rejuvenate his political career at some point in the future...when he thinks that maybe we have forgotten his betrayal of his voters, his background and the town.


Well I can tell him that 'Women and Elephants NEVER forget' and I would poke my eyes out before I would put my cross in his box.

cashman 24-01-2022 17:39

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well i have to say i SHALL NOT FORGET. either, and im certainly not an elephant.

Margaret Pilkington 24-01-2022 17:46

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Cashy…I I thought you said your memory was shot to bits :D

cashman 24-01-2022 17:59

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1262976)
Cashy…I I thought you said your memory was shot to bits :D

it is but he used to stand with us up stanley when he came aint been near us since, though he has spoken when ive seen him in town but not the same in my eyes.

Margaret Pilkington 24-01-2022 19:01

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Cashy, it is OK….if you by chance forget his betrayal…..I will remind you.

cashman 24-01-2022 19:30

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1262978)
Cashy, it is OK….if you by chance forget his betrayal…..I will remind you.

dont think theres a cat in hells chance of me forgetting that margaret, its been since the comments in observer after brexit,

monkey hanger 26-01-2022 09:17

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1262978)
Cashy, it is OK….if you by chance forget his betrayal…..I will remind you.

possibly like the big union man who gets promotion with the firm. to the tune of the red flag, the union now can kiss my a---, i,ve got a foremans job at last.

monkey hanger 26-01-2022 09:22

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back to the topic now. well our good old Biased Broadcasting Corporation were at it again this morning in the yorkshire area news. found another pet scientist worried about the figures and pushing the restrictions finishing too early narrative. as usual no one with the opposite view as usual. when or ever will this cease.

cashman 26-01-2022 09:44

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Quote:

Originally Posted by monkey hanger (Post 1263017)
back to the topic now. well our good old Biased Broadcasting Corporation were at it again this morning in the yorkshire area news. found another pet scientist worried about the figures and pushing the restrictions finishing too early narrative. as usual no one with the opposite view as usual. when or ever will this cease.

in answer to your question = When they get shut of Boris,

taddy 26-01-2022 14:57

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[QUOTE=cashman;1263019]in answer to your question = When they get shut of Boris,

Sorry Cashy, can't agree with that, the man stuck two fingers up to the Frogs, Germans and the rest of the so called European Community whilst others in his party were shouting him down and saying it would be economic and political suicide to go it alone. We had been going it alone from 1066 until we were conned in the 1970s to join in the great game of creating a European state with the two countries that hate everything British playing the leading role. I cannot put into words what I really would like to say because G.C.H.Q. might just send the"woke" thought police around to have a word in my shell like.

Margaret Pilkington 26-01-2022 15:11

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Taddy, I think you need not worry about .GCHQ….I feel that right now they will be fully taken up with listening to the intelligence that is going on re the situation in the Ukraine to be too bothered about the little people(that is you and me) in the UK.

Margaret Pilkington 26-01-2022 15:18

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All this thrutching to get rid of BJ is engineered to destabilise the country at a time when the focus should be on making progress forward out of the pandemic.

We need to get on with the lives we suspended.
As for the sins committed by Boris….and others in government….chewing them over will not change anything.

Show me someone who says they did not break the rules…..and I will show you someone with a foggy memory….and No Nail holes in their hands and feet.

And any adult in this country who does not recognise that those who consider themselves elite…..can do what they want…and it has always been so……and if you think it doesn’t happen then you are deluded.
How can you tell if a politician is lying…..answer, their lips are moving!

monkey hanger 27-01-2022 08:39

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[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;

We need to get on with the lives we suspended.
As for the sins committed by Boris….and others in government….chewing them over will not change anything.

Show me someone who says they did not break the rules…..and I will show you someone with a foggy memory….and No Nail holes in their hands and feet.


funny how more people are wound up by boris and his parties but never mention the real problems of over 5 per cent inflation with fuel costs going sky high and even the basics in shops going through the roof in price. knowing public nature, those who are throwing the most stones may have broken the rules more than the others.

taddy 27-01-2022 08:45

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[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;1263026]Taddy, I think you need not worry about .GCHQ….I feel that right now they will be fully taken up with listening to the intelligence that is going on re the situation in the Ukraine to be too bothered about the little people(that is you and me) in the UK.

Thanks for that Marge

Margaret Pilkington 27-01-2022 12:09

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MH….this is called ‘distraction Politics’…..if the media can whip up some outrage….then it helps the establishment bury the bad news…..the fact that there is going to be rampant inflation if the NI rates are hiked….that there is a looming crisis that means some households are going to be thrust into fuel poverty….and that the rising cost of fuel means that it is inevitable that these costs for goods and services will reflect this.
Council tax will go up and yet wages are not keeping pace with these rising prices.
Yes, it will be true that some pensioners will be making the choice whether to put on two more layers so that they can eat…or heat their home but miss a meal.

The green levies on bills need to be pruned back…..and maybe the standing charges need to be reduced……every time the energy bills go up….the government are laughing because it puts a windfall of tax into their coffers for doing bu88er all.

Margaret Pilkington 27-01-2022 12:10

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Taddy you are welcome…..and if they came for you…..then sure as eggs are eggs they would come for me too.

cashman 27-01-2022 12:27

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as sure as eggs are eggs people tell me the msm news dont bother mentioning the UKRAINE but focus on Birthday Cakes etc,all they are attempting is get rid of B.J. the remoaners and cummings. people have either short memories or are totally stupid imho.

Margaret Pilkington 27-01-2022 16:06

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Cashy, they are brain rinsed….hard of thinking……they swallow what they are fed without chewing it over

cashman 27-01-2022 18:00

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1263053)
Cashy, they are brain rinsed….hard of thinking……they swallow what they are fed without chewing it over

you put it nicely but STUPID will do for me.:D

Margaret Pilkington 27-01-2022 18:10

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Thank you Cashy….I went to the school of diplomacy…..I only forget myself sometimes.

Margaret Pilkington 27-01-2022 21:18

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Quote:

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 1263057)
you put it nicely but STUPID will do for me.:D

Cashy…..what have you been drumming into me since…well forever……
You can’t put sense where there is none.
Spit for brains.

monkey hanger 28-01-2022 09:41

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new one came out yesterday. sainsbury,s wanting the muzzles to continue in their stores. well at least we know where not to shop now.

Margaret Pilkington 28-01-2022 14:10

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Looking around today in both Accrington and Blackburn there seemed to ba as many wearing masks as there have been at any time….and not just in enclosed spaces, but out in the open air.
Yes, I know it is their choice, but have these people been so scared that they will continue to wear these things forever more?

cashman 28-01-2022 14:30

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i noticed the same when i went down accy, the bus was near full everyone bar 1 had a mask on, i did myself cos it was very busy, accy was the same.

DaveinGermany 28-01-2022 19:55

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1263098)
….and not just in enclosed spaces, but out in the open air.


Out & about on the Autobahns I see some folk alone in the car, driving along, fully muzzled???? What's that all about???

Margaret Pilkington 29-01-2022 11:09

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Yes I have seen that here…lone people in cars wearing a face mask.

There is a repot out today which is highly critical of the Nudge Units policies to get the population to comply with government suggestions.
It cites posters with graphic images as being ‘grossly unethical’ and says they are akin to tactics used in communist China.
The question is…..Will anything be done about it.
And you can surely guess at the answer to that one.
The whole thing has been about exerting control over the population by using fear tactics.

I have not worn a mask.
I will not wear a mask…..we cannot build up our own immune responses by not being exposed to bacteria and viruses……and there is some crossover immune response from viruses that are NOT Covid, but help our immune systems build a response to the Covid.

The jab dies not encourage your immune system to make T Cells and B Cells.
These are the killer cells that seek out and hunt down the virus.
Maybe that is why the jab confers only a degree of protection against getting extremely sick and allow you to transmit the virus even though you might think you are protected.

Recently, both my husband and I had the virus…he has worn a mask since day one….he got sick enough to put him in bed for three and a half weeks….whereas I felt a bit ropey for two days, but was well enough to get up and care for him and do all the other necessary chores that go with running a house.

Perhaps my exposure to other airborne pathogens gave me the better immunity so that I had a milder version recovered fully sooner and was able to look after my other half.

cashman 29-01-2022 11:23

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany (Post 1263113)
Out & about on the Autobahns I see some folk alone in the car, driving along, fully muzzled???? What's that all about???

Its about STUPID PEOPLE.

Margaret Pilkington 29-01-2022 12:50

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Cashy, they might be stupid, or they may just have been scared witless by the drip, drip, drip of media fear tactics driven by the government nudge until of behavioural psychologists.

There has been a lot of misinformation sowed by the propaganda machine….from the hiding of relevant peer reviewed research to the skewed figures of infections, graphs, the lies about those hospitalised with the virus(who have been misleadingly reported as being in hospital for the virus….when they contracted the virus while there for some other reason)
Deaths reported as being from the virus that were blatant lies.
A friend of ours is till trying to get her husbands death certificate amended because it was recorded as the virus being the primary cause of death when he died of Alzheimer’s and had NEVER ever had a positive test.
Fear is a great motivator….it is also a great divisive weapon.

cashman 29-01-2022 16:33

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1263146)
Cashy, they might be stupid, or they may just have been scared witless by the drip, drip, drip of media fear tactics driven by the government nudge until of behavioural psychologists.

There has been a lot of misinformation sowed by the propaganda machine….from the hiding of relevant peer reviewed research to the skewed figures of infections, graphs, the lies about those hospitalised with the virus(who have been misleadingly reported as being in hospital for the virus….when they contracted the virus while there for some other reason)
Deaths reported as being from the virus that were blatant lies.
A friend of ours is till trying to get her husbands death certificate amended because it was recorded as the virus being the primary cause of death when he died of Alzheimer’s and had NEVER ever had a positive test.
Fear is a great motivator….it is also a great divisive weapon.

true but they are stupid to me if they have not the brains to sort out it has not been hard.

Margaret Pilkington 29-01-2022 16:36

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Sometimes fear drives out logical thought Cashy.
It might not have got past you, for you common sense prevails.

monkey hanger 30-01-2022 10:20

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[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;1263146]Cashy, they might be stupid, or they may just have been scared witless by the drip, drip, drip of media fear tactics driven by the government nudge until of behavioural psychologists.

or the ones that are regular fixtures back in the old days of doctors appointments or visit A and E for a broken finger nail.

monkey hanger 30-01-2022 10:25

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1263174)
Sometimes fear drives out logical thought Cashy.
It might not have got past you, for you common sense prevails.

would really love to know the reason why those like us have not been taken in by the propaganda machine on covid and other issues. the others who have been taken in cite on there stance that they too have used common sense on the matter. there must be something in our DNA that prohibits this or something more deeper.

cashman 30-01-2022 11:28

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Quote:

Originally Posted by monkey hanger (Post 1263201)
would really love to know the reason why those like us have not been taken in by the propaganda machine on covid and other issues. the others who have been taken in cite on there stance that they too have used common sense on the matter. there must be something in our DNA that prohibits this or something more deeper.

those taken in by the propoganda use that excuse to cover themselves is my thought.

DaveinGermany 30-01-2022 13:04

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Quote:

Originally Posted by monkey hanger (Post 1263201)
there must be something in our DNA that prohibits this or something more deeper.

It goes back to the primordial soup days when we first crawled out & still wet behind the lugs, something bigger & uglier had crawled out before us & was eating everything else that followed.

Those of us with a shifty & naturally mistrustful oulook on those things bigger than us, especially if they have lots of teeth, fur & claws learnt early on these things were best avoided & scuttled off in the oposite direction to the sounds of growls & unmerciful screams.

We quickly learnt about the benefits of fire, clunking great clubs & pointy stick for our betterment & further evolution, right up to the point of apex predator & all round yobbling. Then we got civilised, our natural propensity for mayhem, destruction & general fondness towards casual violence sort of ebbed & we began to trust "people", there began the slippery slope of humanity.

But deepseated within each one of us, some stronger, some weaker is the faint glimmer of racial memory, the throwback to the time of teeth, claws & fur. Those of us with a better developed sense of shifty distrustfulness tend to project this on the world & people around us enabling our inherent sense of self preservation, while the less fortunes, well ..... they happily toddle off towards the ripping teeth, jaws, claws & fur to be disembowled & etten in a violent frenzy of brutality by the beasties they'd forgotten to run away from.

Taken from the dissertation from (Prof Emeritus) Dave W Williams "Uni of life & hard knocks" 1965 - to present

Margaret Pilkington 30-01-2022 13:58

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Quote:

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 1263204)
those taken in by the propoganda use that excuse to cover themselves is my thought.

Cashy, we know that common sense is a plant that grows in not very many gardens.
Some folk don’t drink at the fount of knowledge….some just gargle.
And you can clearly see who they are…..so the government edicts have made them just a bit easier to avoid.

monkey hanger 01-02-2022 09:57

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1263209)
Cashy, we know that common sense is a plant that grows in not very many gardens.
Some folk don’t drink at the fount of knowledge….some just gargle.
And you can clearly see who they are…..so the government edicts have made them just a bit easier to avoid.

thats all well and good but they also think we are stupid and theirs is the only gardens where common sense actually grows. thing is though its their gardens that upset my hay fever in summer.

Margaret Pilkington 01-02-2022 11:04

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Well, there are a lot of people out there in the world who seem to have spit for brains…..and some of them are in politics.

cashman 01-02-2022 12:44

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1263285)
Well, there are a lot of people out there in the world who seem to have spit for brains…..and some of them are in politics.

true and theres quite a few down accy.

taddy 01-02-2022 16:05

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[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;1263209]Cashy, we know that common sense is a plant that grows in not very many gardens.

Marge, I am over run with it on the allotment give me a shout if you want a cutting anytime.;);)

DaveinGermany 01-02-2022 16:59

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Quote:

Originally Posted by taddy (Post 1263297)
Marge, I am over run with it on the allotment give me a shout if you want a cutting anytime.;);)


If they're anything like sprouts :sick: you can poke 'em! :D

Margaret Pilkington 01-02-2022 17:58

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I have a good crop of it myself Taddy….in fact I was going to ask you if you wanted some for your allotment…..but if you have enough….then I am sure if you are down town you could sell a bit of it.

odders 02-02-2022 07:57

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Another leak or just a show to the public...£8.4 billion wasted on PPE thats completely wasteful and is going in the tip.

That's our money, and nobody's bothered....

What a joke this whole episode has been....complete fkn nonsense

taddy 02-02-2022 09:03

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[QUOTE=odders;1263314]Another leak or just a show to the public...£8.4 billion wasted on PPE thats completely wasteful and is going in the tip.

That's our money, and nobody's bothered....

What a joke this whole episode has been....complete fkn nonsense

(fkn), what on earth could you mean by that? :enough:

odders 02-02-2022 09:35

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Taddy ....show me who's interested.? Please who actually cares?

odders 02-02-2022 09:42

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We ain't gètting it back. Its money gone from society....wake up

taddy 02-02-2022 10:39

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[QUOTE=odders;1263326]We ain't gètting it back. Its money gone from society....wake up

Or in your case maybe you should hibernate for a little longer.

monkey hanger 02-02-2022 11:06

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Quote:

Originally Posted by odders (Post 1263326)
We ain't gètting it back. Its money gone from society....wake up

true, but there is no guarentee it would have been spent where you and others wanted it to be spent.

odders 02-02-2022 11:49

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Quote:

Originally Posted by monkey hanger (Post 1263339)
true, but there is no guarentee it would have been spent where you and others wanted it to be spent.

What do you mean? Ìtrs £8 billion quid. It shoúd have saved a generation. What could you do with that money?

You cant waste money without been accountable £8 billiom , Brother Boris???

odders 02-02-2022 11:53

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On crap in the tip dont forget....

monkey hanger 03-02-2022 10:08

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Quote:

Originally Posted by odders (Post 1263340)
What do you mean? Ìtrs £8 billion quid. It shoúd have saved a generation. What could you do with that money?

You cant waste money without been accountable £8 billiom , Brother Boris???

8 billion sounds a lot that most of us cannot get our heads around. we talk in hundreds or if buying a house thousands. it is money wasted but pails into insignificance when over 100 billion is spent already on HS2 when the initial cost was 56 billion. that means 50 billion extra spent on something that many either do not want or have no interest in. actually what could you get for 8 billion that would changed the lives of a generation.

Margaret Pilkington 03-02-2022 16:20

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The Nightingale Hubs that were built on the prognostications of the SAGE modellers…..who predicted that the hospitals would be inundated with Covid cases…..and cost 10.6 billion pounds of taxpayers cash have so far treated SEVEN patients.
That is something in the order of 1.5 billion per patient…..good value?

cashman 03-02-2022 16:22

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didnt know they took notice of sage clowns for that.:confused:

Margaret Pilkington 03-02-2022 16:29

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Well it was the modellers predictions….and SAGE seem to hang onto their predictions like a drowning man to a straw.

Less 03-02-2022 16:40

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1263412)
The Nightingale Hubs that were built on the prognostications of the SAGE modellers…..who predicted that the hospitals would be inundated with Covid cases…..and cost 10.6 billion pounds of taxpayers cash have so far treated SEVEN patients.
That is something in the order of 1.5 billion per patient…..good value?

Lets give it a different twist, lets pretend that the fact they had these hospitals prepared and ready, Why didn't they need them?

Obviously because they handled the pandemic so well that they became redundant before the plastic wrappings could be taken off.

Hmmm, maybe I'm not too old to start a new career?

Hey Blaire, you need a new spin doctor? I could get you re-elected (if you'll take a wage drop).
:rolleyes:

Margaret Pilkington 03-02-2022 18:11

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They did not need them because the predictions were flawed….and Omicron was far less of a problem than Delta
What I wonder…..and I have not seen any reports regarding this.
Had those prognostications come to pass….just where would they have got staff to run these Nightingale hubs.

I know that governments need to ensure that all bases are covered, but truly none of the predictions from SAGE have come true.

Oh and as for a change in career Less……don’t hold your breath.

Less 03-02-2022 18:25

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1263419)
Oh and as for a change in career Less……don’t hold your breath.

I can PRETEND there's an opening for me, I couldn't be any worse than the other fantasy league players!

Margaret Pilkington 03-02-2022 19:26

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No Less…in fact you could easily be a darned sight better because you are in touch with the us…the little people whose voice is often stifled.

monkey hanger 04-02-2022 09:06

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[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;1263419]They did not need them because the predictions were flawed….and Omicron was far less of a problem than Delta
What I wonder…..and I have not seen any reports regarding this.

many countries and even many people in this country do not realize that omicron is far less of the threat to peoples lives and health in general as delta and other varients were. they have a total obsession of case numbers rising and ignore everything else. just cannot ever see us getting back again to the old normal in any ways. any illness now will be blasted over the MSM to frighten without being put into context. afraid fear is the key.

cashman 04-02-2022 09:15

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if they give the true figures, case numbers are NOT rising they are decreasing but some are too daft to see that.plus the average age for deaths are 82.

Margaret Pilkington 04-02-2022 13:59

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If the truth be told omicron has been a godsend.
It has allowed people to get a mild infection and make their own antibodies……and it has also caused them to make their own B and T killer cells which seek out the infection and kill it.

This will have no nasty side effects in the future and is tailored to your own needs.

Cashy we have been bamboozled from the very start.
Figures were manipulated to create the maximum fear factor…..and this was successively ramped up and the population were brainwashed into complying with rules that have probably made little difference to the outcomes.

People have still died, but then flu kills as many people every single year without all this social and economic disruption.
People will continue to die in the future from this virus and others that may come along.
But we should never be coerced into the jackboot control measures that were employed by the government at the behest of the government.

monkey hanger 05-02-2022 08:03

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[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;

Cashy we have been bamboozled from the very start.
Figures were manipulated to create the maximum fear factor…..and this was successively ramped up and the population were brainwashed into complying with rules that have probably made little difference to the outcomes.

what did surprise me was how easily this manipulation was done. somehow i could never see my parents being taken in like the majority have and would have pushed back against them from day 1. could never have seen my ma wearing a face muzzle going shopping after all the time it took her on her make up before leaving the house.

cashman 05-02-2022 08:52

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Was not hard to bamboozle people mate, no one had a clue how bad this virus was? the government were being advised by village idiots.

Margaret Pilkington 05-02-2022 09:14

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Scientists Cashy….but the Wrong kind of scientists. (Which is actually worse than relying on the village idiots because letters after their name give them credibility)

And they were responsible for vast sociological damage that will be felt for decades.
They repressed any information from other scientists by calling it dis information.
I do not subscribe to ANY social media to have my opinions formed for me.
I search out information from reliable sources….sources with a scientific background.

In the initial phase of the infection the doctors were using the wrong treatments….many patients died because of this rather than from the effects of the virus.

My views have not changed from the beginning.
We were manipulated….all of us….even those who felt what was being done was wrong had to follow rules that did not protect, but only made it look like something was being done

monkey hanger 06-02-2022 09:39

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long covid could be the discription of untreated or undiagnosed illnesses that have occured over the last two years plus the tipping over the edge of the mentally frail.

Margaret Pilkington 06-02-2022 10:25

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All viruses have the ability to create long term problems…..do you remember the term ‘yuppie Flu’ this was a term used to describe what is now called ME(myalgic enceplalomyelitis)….also known as Chronic fatigue syndrome….it is thought to be an auto immune response to infection.
There are no definitive tests for this condition…it is diagnosed on symptoms.
And there is no real treatment for it either….the treatment is symptomatic.

cashman 09-02-2022 17:43

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deaths and hospital admissions are decreasing the government say on todays news, so if things carry on like this RESTRICTIONS will end at the end of this month,, i personally agree with that, LABOUR are objecting lol all i can say is after a lifetime of voting labour, anyone who objects to that is a complete waste of time, in my view. anyone voting for clowns like the LABOUR Party is wrong in the head, defo a screw loose.some will now call me but i dont give a stuff.

taddy 10-02-2022 08:48

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I'm with you Cashy

monkey hanger 10-02-2022 09:07

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labour are just showing by this how they possibly would have handled things from the start. no one has criticised johnson more than me but with them i have a feeling we could have ended up like canada, australia and new zealand. its something that the left has always loved, the control of the masses.

Margaret Pilkington 10-02-2022 09:57

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If you said to Labour ‘it is daylight’ they would tell you that it is dark.
I get the feeling that the argue the toss for arguments sake…not because they have anything positive to add…but just so that it looks like they are ‘opposing’….opposing has to be done with intelligence and knowledge….and I have to say this lot couldn’t pour pee from a shoe unless the instructions were written on the sole.

The statistics can be made to say anything.
It would have helped if we had had a level of honesty and transparency from the outset.
Like the numbers of people who have actually died because of the virus…rather than with it.
The number of people who have died from heart attacks, Cancer and other long term illnesses because they have not been able to access the care that they need.

My daughter was supposed to have a scan last June….it has been postponed so many times….and she still has not had this follow up scan.
So those who did not die from Covid may just be a Covid statistic because their disease process was ignored.

We have been controlled and bamboozled and there will be very many people who will continue to dodge you like you have the plague and continue wearing masks and avoid living their lives.

cashman 10-02-2022 09:58

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thats summed up perfectly to me, Labour in general DO NOT GIVE A STUFF about people, ITS CONTROL they want of the masses.

Less 10-02-2022 10:17

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One of the things that has effected me is that I no longer ride my bike, something I used to do regularly before covid.
Stopped using it because of covid lock down, it's in the kitchen being ignored and so neglected the tyres are as flat as my enthusiasm to take it out, I don't think I'll ever use it again, what a waste.:(

taddy 10-02-2022 17:11

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[QUOTE=Less;1263750]One of the things that has effected me is that I no longer ride my bike, something I used to do regularly before covid.
Stopped using it because of covid lock down, it's in the kitchen being ignored and so neglected the tyres are as flat as my enthusiasm to take it out, I don't think I'll ever use it again, what a waste.

Please tell me where you live and I shall come and pick it up. (if it's going for naught ? that is) and if it's not to far away. I will be three score years and fifteen tomorrow but I would love to ride a bike again. (only partially joking).

Margaret Pilkington 10-02-2022 18:14

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Taddy…Happy Birthday for tomorrow.
I suppose you will be stopping some Hobgoblins from going off?

taddy 11-02-2022 07:43

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[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;1263755]Taddy…Happy Birthday for tomorrow.
I suppose you will be stopping some Hobgoblins from going off?

Thanks for that Marge but I don't need a birthday or any other reason for suppin my four pint daily dose of Hobby Gobby.:D:D

monkey hanger 11-02-2022 08:21

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Less (Post 1263750)
One of the things that has effected me is that I no longer ride my bike, something I used to do regularly before covid.
Stopped using it because of covid lock down, it's in the kitchen being ignored and so neglected the tyres are as flat as my enthusiasm to take it out, I don't think I'll ever use it again, what a waste.:(

doubt you are on your own there. think nearly everyone have stopped doing something that they did pre virus. we always used to have one day out of the area once a week looking round the shops and going into a cafe, not a restaurant, for dinner. now its a case of shopping out of necessity, going home for dinner due to the muzzle regulations as we have broken the habit and cannot be bothered anymore.

Less 11-02-2022 09:43

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Less (Post 1263750)
One of the things that has effected me is that I no longer ride my bike, something I used to do regularly before covid.
Stopped using it because of covid lock down, it's in the kitchen being ignored and so neglected the tyres are as flat as my enthusiasm to take it out, I don't think I'll ever use it again, what a waste.:(

Well, well, by coincidence, just had a text from my doctors surgery it seems according to my latest blood test, I'm lacking in the vitamin d department and am therefore being prescribed extra vitamins.
Vitamin d is known as the sunshine vitamin so I suppose 2 years of staying indoors must have had some effect?
Maybe I should put some air in those tyres after all.

monkey hanger 11-02-2022 10:50

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those of us living in the north should all be on vitamin D tablets all the time especially us pennine chain livers.

Margaret Pilkington 11-02-2022 10:59

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For a number of years we(my other half and I) have got into the habit of taking Vitamin D from the start of October to when the clocks go forward.
Dr Grimes at what was QPH used to tell us that it would help us to combat the nasty bugs going round in the winter months.....and it does seem to work...or might that be the Vit C we take too...whatever it is, we keep doing it

monkey hanger 11-02-2022 11:33

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well margaret you cannot be called an anti pill popper anyway.

Margaret Pilkington 11-02-2022 14:56

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Those are the only pills I take….himself takes more prescribed stuff.

cashman 11-02-2022 17:04

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i have been told vit D is the one dunno if its true.

Margaret Pilkington 11-02-2022 18:30

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Vitamin D boosts the immune system but has other beneficial effects too

Exile on Spencer St 21-02-2022 11:12

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If anyone wonders why some people distrust Bill Gates involvement in mass vaccinations, find time to listen to the first five minutes of this.



[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlygUb9RVgA[/

Interesting, but it won’t allow me to copy the link but it’s from Dr. John Campbell’s web site yesterday and the subject is B*ll G*yes and Australia.

Paranoid, moi? ��


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