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Carbuncle

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  1. I found this: https://www.payingforcare.org/how-much-does-care-cost/ which seems to be quoting what looks like a reliable source - the reliable source itself is expensive to access. As you say the average UK cost for nursing care in a care home is about £900 per week. I am struggling to know whether that is a lot or a little because the amount of care needed will vary hugely. Do you have any way of getting at what £900 per week buys? I am interested but looking for something which is not built out of anecdotes. It's probably a hard question.
  2. I remember the problems the US media had with Trump. You're just not supposed to treat the leader of your government as a liar. It's a hard adjustment to make.
  3. Forget about stand out person, how about some random asshat Tory politician who isn't a lying toad?
  4. When is the media going to start treating his denials as not credible? I don't mean in connection with this specific event I mean in general when something sleazy is alleged and he comes out and issues a denial. It really is time they started treating his utterances with the scepticism the utterances of a versatile liar deserve rather than pretending they have probative value.
  5. I somehow doubt Donald Trump has ever been a member of Sheffield Forum.
  6. No, he's just an idiot chuntering on about how the vaccine is killing people. This is how it works: one gullible conspirasheeple passes misinformation to other gullible conspirasheeple and so the infodemic spreads.
  7. I don't think it is outrageous ... although I did say just over rather than under half a million (because I could not remember the exact number given).
  8. I personally don't have a problem with that. For what it's worth he was on Sheffield Forum posting about covid around the beginning of the pandemic in the UK and got banned. I think he is a genuine person rather than for example somebody from a Russian troll factory. The problem I have is the fact he is spamming us with misinformation.
  9. More ridiculousness. As usual you want to tell me what I think/ mean. Why should I apologise for the (extreme) interpretation you put on the term 'covid sceptic'? It's not even rude why are you pretending to take offence? Now what about you? Why are you spreading misinformation?
  10. I think I could answer the 'question' to my own satisfaction if I could get to the relevant (accounting) numbers and understand what was being provided. For example, last night I also watched a BBC documentary 'Inside the Care Crisis with Ed Balls'. While much of this was touchy-feely there was an interesting case where numbers and context were available. One of the care homes Ed Balls worked at had an Alzheimers patient who the home recommended as needing 24 hour care. His assets funded this for 3 years for a total of a little over half a million pounds. When the money ran out the care was downgraded and the falls began. I feel I can do the math if given the numbers.
  11. You have repeatedly indicated that you have expertise in this area and continually demonstrated that you do not. 1. Surgical masks are worn to prevent/ reduce movement of pathogens from the surgeon to the patient. 2. The masks that surgeons and theatre staff (mostly) wear to operate do not require fit testing or fit checking because they are not expected to form an air tight seal to the face. 3. Surgical masks are cheap and readily available. You got all these things wrong ... because you do not in fact understand masks or how they work despite all your claims. The FFP2 and FFP3 are standards are for masks warn as personal protective equipment (PPE). Surgeons generally do not wear masks as a form of PPE since the risk which is being mitigated is not to the surgeon but to the person being operated on. The FFP2 and FFP3 standards offer no guarantees as to protection for anybody other than the wearer. Many (most?) FFP2s and FFP3s use a valve on the exhale. Ones exhale is very moist and it is better not to feed this through a filter if it is not required. Why do you as covid sceptics so frequently repeat misinformation?
  12. Sorry, I managed to leave out the word 'didn't' in my last post. I do not think we are in agreement. I would like to know whether widespread overcharging is occurring. It's plausible but I did not know before watching the programme and do not know now.
  13. This idea of "overcharging" is an interesting one and the documentary suggested it is happening but they just didn't get close to demonstrating it. They did not have the goods.
  14. Instead of being able to locate a fire (the crisis in care) the documentary makers pointed to the presence of smoke such as a seemingly complex company organisation some parts of which are domiciled in places associated with secrecy and tax avoidance.
  15. The UK can't suppress mask wearing just because one person has a strong aversion to them. I'm sorry but you are just not that important.
  16. Interesting. Previously you have claimed to have done them for twenty years. It's more credible when your story stays the same over time.
  17. Bats are the origin of SARS, MERS and SARS-CoV-2 and are the subject of intensive virology research based on the huge variety of viruses they harbour and the potential threat they pose to humans. For example: Bat origin of human coronaviruses ( https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-015-0422-1 ). As you say there is often an intermediate host between bat and human. I seem to remember that virologists found many antibodies for various bat coronaviruses found in bat infested areas of Southern China meaning presumably that human were being infected directly by bats. Sorry I cannot remember where I read this.
  18. Bats are the main source of coronaviruses. They live in caves. Every night they fly out of their caves and deposit their guano while in flight. The guano which goes everywhere contains viable coronavirus. Lots of opportunity for coronaviruses to jump species barriers.
  19. Ridiculous documentary. Only about a minute's worth of information padded with innuendo.
  20. Setting aside the current case ... Child protection work is clearly very difficult. Failures can occur in both directions. Ripping families apart is obviously extremely traumatic for children and the care system has frequently been a source of danger to its 'users'. Leaving children with abusive or potentially abusive parents also carries huge risks. The close decisions are obviously hard decisions and the consequences of errors are massive. Rather than focusing on one particular case we (or rather the appropriate experts) need to make sure the system as a whole is functional and keeps errors at reasonable levels. I don't know how to assess the system as a whole though my prejudice is that social work is underfunded and that Delbow's seemingly more informed assessment is right. I do know I don't trust either knee-jerk reactions or warm words from politicians and their ilk.
  21. You keep making the same point: covid is not a particular problem for the vaccinated and the healthy under-40s therefore once all the over-40s and vulnerable have had the opportunity to have the vaccine we could have ignored covid and gone back to normal and suffered only modest health consequences from covid. I understand what you are saying. The problem is it's not true and it does not get any more true for your repetition of it. If we had removed all restrictions in April, cases would have grown rapidly and we would either have toughed it out with hospitals overwhelmed (to the point of not even being able to give oxygen to all those who could benefit from it) or reimposed a hard lockdown. Replace April with mid-June and I do not know what happens but for April, I think it's clear using simple arguments with data that is publicly available. You just have to contemplate the possibility that you have missed something and actually look at the data for yourself. But I'm guessing you are just going to post that graph from AgeUK for the fifth time and repeat yourself.
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