Coronavirus: Better Call Sol - CORONAMANIA (8 Viewers)

[Lili Marlene]

I normally give opinion pieces the respect they deserve but thought this piece was pretty good actually, it struck a chord with Irish politics

The virus cares as little for Irish values as it does for American individualism

Neither strategy works - Saturday, we logged over 200 cases per million people; the US logged 165 - ours just smells better

www.irishtimes.com

 

[sleepy]

Bit of a ranty post here.
My dad's 81. He's worked as a music teacher since he was 20. He works out of the house doing it. He gave up for a couple of months because of the lockdown. Around September, he started taking pupils again, getting everyone to wear masks, wiping down the piano after. I wasn't overly happy about it but I can't stop him.
Last week, my mam put her foot down and said she wasn't comfortable with people coming in and out of the house with the cases rising and asked him to stop doing lessons. I thought, that's a wise move. Especially when one of his pupils was coming from trumpet lessons in a pretty small room.
Anyways, her sister, who is in her 80s and recovering from cancer, went for a check up with a consultant earlier this week. The consultant said to my aunt "Yes, you're fine to go shopping and of course you have the grandkids over. Personally, I think the whole thing's over blown"
Now, my mam's feeling guilty about making my dad stopping working.
I don't really have much of a point to all this except thinking that consultant's a fucking idiot and is potentially endangering people. That's all

 

[egg_]

Fuck that fucking consultant and the horse he rode in on. I was in hospital for an ECG recently and had a doctor laughingly tell me that covid was just a simple respiratory virus - while my wife had been in A&E with the long-tail version 2 weeks before unable to move her legs. Of course I said nothing, because I just wanted to be out of there

I'm all for listening to the experts, but in my experience individual hospital consultants are often grade-A cunts. They think their deep expertise in one tiny area means they know everything there is to know about medicine, and they are wrong

p.s. Tell your Ma I said she's dead right. I'm doing singing lessons via zoom, and one of the kids did piano lessons in zoom during the first lockdown, and they're fine

 

[sleepy]

Fuck that fucking consultant and the horse he rode in on. I was in hospital for an ECG recently and had a doctor laughingly tell me that covid was just a simple respiratory virus - while my wife had been in A&E with the long-tail version 2 weeks before unable to move her legs. Of course I said nothing, because I just wanted to be out of there

I'm all for listening to the experts, but in my experience individual hospital consultants are often grade-A cunts. They think their deep expertise in one tiny area means they know everything there is to know about medicine, and they are wrong

Yeah, from talking to my mam last night, she seemed to be of the opinion that "He must know what he's talking about, he's a consultant after all" I kept trying to remind her that every other piece of advice out there goes completely against this. Kids are being told not to trick or treat, never mind people in their 80s.

 

[magicbastarder]

Of course I said nothing, because I just wanted to be out of there

might be worth ringing the hospital to complain? god knows how many people he's saying that to.

 

[hugh]

That's a bit mad. Consultants are specialists but they also have extensive general medical training so that guy has no excuse. I agree that they are often pricks though.

 

[sleepy]

might be worth ringing the hospital to complain? god knows how many people he's saying that to.

True that but then I'm hearing this 3rd hand so I wouldn't know who to complain to or about. He's based down in Ballinasloe, that's all I know

 

[magicbastarder]

seems to have been said directly to egg though.

 

[egg_]

yep - I have this open in another tab atm Step-by-Step - Patient Advocacy Service

 

[rettucs]

short of a vaccine, something like this will improve the quality of life greatly.

Oxford scientists develop five-minute Covid-19 antigen test

Rapid test could be used in mass testing at airports, businesses

www.irishtimes.com

stay positive there lads, its not all doom and gloom. Shite an all as things are, we'll see a light of some description, at the end of the tunnel, soon enough

 

[pete]

So what you’re saying is we all need to move towards the light?

 

[Cormcolash]

short of a vaccine, something like this will improve the quality of life greatly.

Oxford scientists develop five-minute Covid-19 antigen test

Rapid test could be used in mass testing at airports, businesses

www.irishtimes.com

stay positive there lads, its not all doom and gloom. Shite an all as things are, we'll see a light of some description, at the end of the tunnel, soon enough

The Indians came up with a 15-minute test with 98% accuracy that you can do in the house last week

 

[rettucs]

So what you’re saying is we all need to move towards the light?

you stay where you are. I'm afraid if you start moving anywhere you'll be looking for sponsorship!

 

[pete]

you stay where you are. I'm afraid if you start moving anywhere you'll be looking for sponsorship!

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[rettucs]

done, aaaaages ago

 

[flashback]

The consultant said to my aunt "Yes, you're fine to go shopping and of course you have the grandkids over. Personally, I think the whole thing's over blown"

The joke goes:
What do you call the person that graduates bottom of the class from medical school?
Doctor.

A friend of mine's Doctor insisted that "a couple of cigarettes a day is fine, as long as you don't get addicted" (and this got interpreted by her as her Doctor basically recommending she'd smoke, a bit). But yeah, having a PhD, or being an MD or anything else doesn't prevent you from being a fucking spanner.

 

[magicbastarder]

i had a weird virus about ten years ago which led to me having a CT scan because i was having deja vu episodes lasting up to ten minutes (at their longest).
anyway, went to the hermitage after the deja vu thing started to freak me out a bit.

the nurse who triaged me (an australian woman) had never heard of deja vu - she was fascinated by the idea but wrote it on the sheet as 'dezar vu' despite me spelling it for her.
when i was seen by the doctor, he asked me to describe my symptoms and actually got angry with me when i kept telling him i was having massive episodes of deja vu. 'don't tell me what you read on the internet, tell me what you experienced'.

he actually had trouble believing i knew what deja vu was, and assumed i had learned the term after googling my experience.

 

[sleepy]

i had a weird virus about ten years ago which led to me having a CT scan because i was having deja vu episodes lasting up to ten minutes (at their longest).
anyway, went to the hermitage after the deja vu thing started to freak me out a bit.

the nurse who triaged me (an australian woman) had never heard of deja vu - she was fascinated by the idea but wrote it on the sheet as 'dezar vu' despite me spelling it for her.
when i was seen by the doctor, he asked me to describe my symptoms and actually got angry with me when i kept telling him i was having massive episodes of deja vu. 'don't tell me what you read on the internet, tell me what you experienced'.

he actually had trouble believing i knew what deja vu was, and assumed i had learned the term after googling my experience.

This story sounds familiar alright.

 

[egg_]

Anybody who's seen The Matrix knows what deja vu is. Right? And that's everybody, right?

 

[magicbastarder]

it was funny in hindsight.
'why are you here, what have you experienced that you came here?'
'i've been having massive flashes of deja vu'
'no, tell me what you actually felt or experienced'
'i, uh, was experiencing massive flashes of deja vu'
'no,i want to know what you actually felt and what the actual sensation was for you'
'i was experiencing massive flashes of deja vu'