I'm astonished the media don't seem to be running the story Walking Can Kill You. After all, it's a nice simple headline. Could provoke panic as the gullibles all believe the inescapable fact that walking 100 times around your garden can cause death. Media knows there's no need to point out that, at 100, death becomes quite likely. After all, dead people cannot sue. Nice slogan; Don't Walk; Save The NHS. Readers bored with Brexit; bored with Covid; bored with #MeToo. Bored with Harry&Meghan.

I hope they play "Walk of Life" at his - state? - funeral?

walking with Covid can kill you

But on a serious note how do we as a country recover from the mentality that it is a disaster when a 100 year old dies with Covid, but it is ok for a 40 year old to die of cancer in order to try and save him?

Wyot wrote:
But on a serious note how do we as a country recover from the mentality that it is a disaster when a 100 year old dies with Covid, but it is ok for a 40 year old to die of cancer in order to try and save him?

One disaster doesn't cancel out another disaster.

Yes, it is appalling that we cant have life saving treatment, and also appalling that a gentleman who was bedridden at home for weeks STILL contracted coronavirus. How?

Honey wrote:
Wyot wrote:
But on a serious note how do we as a country recover from the mentality that it is a disaster when a 100 year old dies with Covid, but it is ok for a 40 year old to die of cancer in order to try and save him?

One disaster doesn't cancel out another disaster.

Yes, it is appalling that we cant have life saving treatment, and also appalling that a gentleman who was bedridden at home for weeks STILL contracted coronavirus. How?

If you prioritise C19 over everything else then this is a decision to prioritise one kind of life over another that requires justification. Cancelling one over another doesn't come into it.

Cap Tom: we have no idea what part C19 played in his death. Just that he had it when he died. How did he catch it? Well quite; our assumptions look to me increasingly unsound about what is effective in preventing infection.

Wyot wrote:
Honey wrote:
Wyot wrote:
But on a serious note how do we as a country recover from the mentality that it is a disaster when a 100 year old dies with Covid, but it is ok for a 40 year old to die of cancer in order to try and save him?

One disaster doesn't cancel out another disaster.

Yes, it is appalling that we cant have life saving treatment, and also appalling that a gentleman who was bedridden at home for weeks STILL contracted coronavirus. How?

If you prioritise C19 over everything else then this is a decision to prioritise one kind of life over another that requires justification. Cancelling one over another doesn't come into it.

Cap Tom: we have no idea what part C19 played in his death. Just that he had it when he died. How did he catch it? Well quite; our assumptions look to me increasingly unsound about what is effective in preventing infection.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/captain-si...oore-tested-23431517

This article is about the family explaining that he had actually been in hospital and then sent home to be attended by nurses.
I assume his family were not infected, as they were allowed into the hospital.

I am annoyed that everyone acts as if covid strikes randomly, when it is preventable, and nursing care is a huge source of the infections.

It is absolutely bonkers to accept it as inevitable that loads of people are given the virus in hospital, and to do nothing about it.

Can you imagine a chef using rotten meat in a restaurant, being upset when the customers die, and doing the same thing the next day while the nation claps for him?

I dont want to be rude or mean to nurses. I know that they often have a very hard job with crap protection and inadequate training, and are mostly doing the very best they know how, but people are dying unnecessarily, and that trumps hurt feelings.
It needs sorting out.

I don't know much about it Honey but when hospitals are full of people with this very infectious disease, are the nurses at fault? It is air borne. Perhaps they are doing all they can?

It may be that we need a lot less people with Covid in hospitals infecting the vulnerable. I suspect the panic hasn't helped that.

Oh good. Someone else has noticed. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9218431...e-stay-hospital.html