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Post by Steve on Sept 1, 2023 21:00:12 GMT
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Post by seniorcitizen007 on Sept 3, 2023 12:30:43 GMT
I've had Covid 3 times. The first time It was detected by a test. The other two times I thought I had a "cold" ... but it went on for over a week, longer than my colds usually do. The weekly blood tests I get when I have dialysis showed low Potassium ... a common sign of Covid. This low Potassium can go on for months (or even longer) and is one feature of "Long Covid". The fact that I have a kidney condition that prevents excretion of Potassium meant that my blood levels didn't go dangerously low. I actually read about this "benefit" of my type of kidney failure in a report very early on from a Chinese dialysis unit. It's possible that if my kidneys had been healthy Covid could have killed me! People with low kidney function are also less likely to have a deadly "Cytokine storm". Maybe the hospital "balls up" back in 2019 that wrecked my kidneys saved me from "death by Covid"?
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Post by johnofgwent on Sept 3, 2023 18:31:51 GMT
No one knows how many people died and / or suffered long term because of the closed clinics and operation theatres . The government knows how much the public will tolerate being told what to do though and they will use this in the future , no doubt . The threat of a new covid will be exploited by future governments . I lost two ‘vague acquaintances’ to COVID by which i mean they were taken to hospital, and admitted to ICU. One died in ICU because the virus’s impact on BP took out the function of vital organs. Another was discharged from ICU and eventually discharged to their home and died there 3 months later I ‘know of’ several others some celebrity some not so much whose lives were snuffed out in a similar manner. But two of my friends died of untreated cancer which reached end stage before they were seen by anyone, because treatment and diagnosis alike were put on hold And i myself and a friend both almost died of heart and lung conditions both clearly a consequence of the pox but for which our treatments were abbreviated and our in patient time curtailed ‘for fear we might catch the pox’ when the reality was we were both still full of antibodies against it from having been hit by it. So yeah, i am acutely aware of people not receiving treatments they needed and suffering as a result, some terminally so. Certain politicians need to be reminded of this at regular intervals over the next half century because it is a sure fire thing they will be hoping we will forget. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Sept 3, 2023 18:34:42 GMT
thanks for that i’ll bear it in mind but i’m surprised they haven’t nagged me. Round here the surgeries pay someone to research what funds they can screw out of the trust by ticking boxes … |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2023 10:35:03 GMT
I've had Covid 3 times. The first time It was detected by a test. The other two times I thought I had a "cold" ... but it went on for over a week, longer than my colds usually do. The weekly blood tests I get when I have dialysis showed low Potassium ... a common sign of Covid. This low Potassium can go on for months (or even longer) and is one feature of "Long Covid". The fact that I have a kidney condition that prevents excretion of Potassium meant that my blood levels didn't go dangerously low. I actually read about this "benefit" of my type of kidney failure in a report very early on from a Chinese dialysis unit. It's possible that if my kidneys had been healthy Covid could have killed me! People with low kidney function are also less likely to have a deadly "Cytokine storm". Maybe the hospital "balls up" back in 2019 that wrecked my kidneys saved me from "death by Covid"? If we'd believed the government, people with your pre-existing conditions should be dead by now. Congratulations on surviving! |
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Post by Bentley on Oct 20, 2023 18:11:25 GMT
Nationwide lockdowns in the UK during the pandemic were a “failure” of public health policy as they were not considered a last resort, an epidemiology expert has said. Giving evidence at the Covid-19 public inquiry on Monday, Prof Mark Woolhouse of the University of Edinburgh – a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M-O) – said the group failed to adequately assess the negative consequences of a nationwide lockdown. “The harms of the social distancing measures – particularly lockdown, the economic harms, the educational harms, the harms to access to healthcare, the harms to societal wellbeing … just the way we all function … mental health – were not included in any of the work that SPI-M-O did and, as far as I could tell, no one else was doing it either,” Woolhouse told the inquiry. “I take the view that it would have been very helpful if the government said explicitly: ‘We don’t want to go into lockdown. What’s your advice? How can we both minimise the health burden and stay out of lockdown?’ And we could have given a lot of advice and all the other things you could do other than lockdown. “The question of how to avoid lockdown was never asked of us and I find that extraordinary.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/16/uk-lockdowns-were-a-policy-failure-health-expert-tells-covid-inquiry?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other |
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