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6 | 1.60% |
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80 | 21.33% |
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177 | 47.20% |
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Even with the testicular trauma theme I continue to recommend punching yourself in the balls rather than hate reading the guardian.
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Pistol_Pete posted:I'm waiting eagerly for the Guardian to produce its inevitable sanctimonious, bitterly angry opinion piece about Trevor Philips' suspension and what it says about the moral decay of the Labour Party, so I can read it and get cross. This probably isn't good for my health. 
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Mar 9, 2020 19:28
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baka kaba posted:oh ok I get ya. And yeah don't worry, our capable PM says everyone should just catch it so clearly it's all under control I really don't understand these idiots sometimes. When China, a country totally not synonymous with human rights, health and safety or value of human life in general is willing to jam the brakes on their economy come hell or high water and take extraordinary measures to contain the threat, most of the West is content to sit around waiting for the poo poo to hit the fan instead of trying to make any concerted effort to mitigate the threat. Even if you accept that it's spread too far to be effectively contained, there has been no real effort to stockpile essential supplies or reorganize hospitals to face the incoming bloodshed. Everyone needs to read that Italian surgeon's testimony. The initial thought of how OTT everything was being, then the realisation that all of that would never be enough and that the critically ill people would just not stop coming. Lots of people are going to die because there just aren't enough resources to care for everyone. "Care in the community" means loss of valuable beds in hospital and the drive for "efficiency" means there is no slack left in the system. Even after all of this (and we will survive), you are going to have a hideously traumatised workforce. You can only choose to let/see so many people die before it gets to you. While there are a fair few sociopaths in the medical profession, I predict a wave of doctors/nurses leaving on stress leave after all this is over. I wish I could @jabby here because they are going to be on the super sharp end of the stick and I wish them all the best.
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Mar 9, 2020 19:42
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Guavanaut posted:The two balls should have different medical names, I propose levicle and dexticle. Mine are called Havoc and Malice XMNN posted:epididymitis When I needed my phimosis dealt with a few years ago, I obviously had to see a specialist before they'd actually determine the best course of action and stuff. I was surprised to find the penis inspector was a very cute woman. Testicle pain yay! e; https://twitter.com/peterduggal/status/1237054839538016256 Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Mar 9, 2020 |
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Mar 9, 2020 19:53
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lol @ roast beef
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Mar 9, 2020 20:00
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Guavanaut posted:lol @ roast beef I'm torn between believing this is a disgraceful event that highlights just how morally and aesthetically bankrupt the English publicke are, and believing this is due to the foresight of production and logistics in making sure that the best flavor is always in stock even in a time of crisis
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Mar 9, 2020 20:06
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Regarde Aduck posted:What are you stressing about? There's very little chance you won't get it. All you can do is minimize the chances but to what end? You might just delay displaying symptoms till the exact point where the hospitals are overloaded. So trying to manage it seems pointless as well. Sorry, no sources, but I remember reading something reputable looking that said even under worst case scenarios you were only something like 40-50% likely to contract it, so it may not be all that inevitable.
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Mar 9, 2020 20:11
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wash your hands, take vitamin d, exercise. not much else you can do really.
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Mar 9, 2020 20:15
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Guavanaut posted:lol @ roast beef 
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Mar 9, 2020 20:16
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Lol at everyone panic buying so much they had to reintroduce wartime rationing. The public is loving nuts.
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Mar 9, 2020 20:19
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CODVID-19 must be causing some serious brain damage if people are picking pickled onion over the vastly superior roast beef
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Mar 9, 2020 20:19
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Looke posted:CODVID-19 must be causing some serious brain damage if people are picking pickled onion over the vastly superior roast beef thats a ban
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Mar 9, 2020 20:21
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it's spread to the mods RIP
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Mar 9, 2020 20:22
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Been back following this thread for less than a fortnight and got in a massive row with my sister about trans rights. You people, honestly. Bad influences for sure.
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Mar 9, 2020 20:25
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baka kaba posted:because of transmission to others through cat or is there a risk to pets too? Transmission via pets I think, I don't believe pets can catch it. Same with my dogs but they're easier to keep out of a room. Z the IVth posted:Right now its some variation of 'test, self-isolate and test again if you become symptomatic' depending on the trust. As things get worse though I fully expect it to be 'sod testing, all the patients have it anyway' and you keep working until you drop. Much like what's happened/happening in Wuhan and Italy. In GP-land we're talking about respiratory clinics in one location and shifting to as much telephone and online consulting as possible.
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Mar 9, 2020 20:30
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Z the IVth posted:I really don't understand these idiots sometimes. When China, a country totally not synonymous with human rights, health and safety or value of human life in general is willing to jam the brakes on their economy come hell or high water and take extraordinary measures to contain the threat, most of the West is content to sit around waiting for the poo poo to hit the fan instead of trying to make any concerted effort to mitigate the threat. Even if you accept that it's spread too far to be effectively contained, there has been no real effort to stockpile essential supplies or reorganize hospitals to face the incoming bloodshed. My boss at work today: "Hmm, there are some great holiday bargains at the moment! I might fly the family to Portugal for a long weekend!" Other colleagues: "This corona thing isn't going to be as bad as all that, surely." My parents on the phone tonight: "It all seems a bit overblown to us! It's just a bad case of the flu, isn't it?" Yeah, people are so drat complacent about what's clearly coming from looking at how it's developed in Italy, Iran and China. Like I posted the other day, there'll come a point in the near future when even the most incurious, "I don't watch the news" people are going to understand that this is real and then they'll switch seamlessly into panic mode.
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Mar 9, 2020 20:30
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Speaking from the acute medical wards re Coronavirus, we’ve as of the weekend moved onto the ‘delay’ phase - we’re now screening all respiratory admissions for the virus, and isolating them until the swabs come back. The slight issues being we do no have the isolation facilities (ie side rooms) the PPE or the staff training to achieve this on the wards people are moving to, and the test takes 48-72 hours to come back. So predictably the service and the staff are in meltdown today. Presumably the next step is a wave of staff presenting with symptoms and the resultant quarantines, and given every imaginable rota is already short it’s looking a bit grim.
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Mar 9, 2020 20:37
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I've spent the entire day unproductively watching Bloomberg & F5'ing the Doomsday Economics thread. Has anything actually happened in UK politics?
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Mar 9, 2020 21:05
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Guavanaut posted:The two balls should have different medical names, I propose levicle and dexticle. Dexticle and sexticle imo
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Mar 9, 2020 21:06
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Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer...
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Mar 9, 2020 21:08
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Jel Shaker posted:Dexticle and sexticle imo forkboy84 posted:I've spent the entire day unproductively watching Bloomberg
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Mar 9, 2020 21:08
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wish I'd asked the nice lady for some pain killers but didn't want to sound like a junky if I go into a pharmacy and go into graphic detail, will they give me cocodamol?? e: tbh it was more because I didn't really think about it, but the last time I tried to get something OTC they did give me a bit of a "perhaps you'd prefer one of these" although i was trying to get dextromethorphan cough syrup and I think I had the wrong sort of cough XMNN fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Mar 9, 2020 |
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Mar 9, 2020 21:14
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XMNN posted:wish I'd asked the nice lady for some pain killers but didn't want to sound like a junky No. You might call 111 though I guess for an emergency prescription, or see a GP.
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Mar 9, 2020 21:16
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They’ll give you the 8/500 you can get without a prescription. I mean that and regular ibuprofen will definitely help
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Mar 9, 2020 21:16
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I want to catch the corona virus by the end of the month. Thai authorities have cancelled all public Song Kran celebrations, and the circuit party I’ve booked tickets for has been “postponed” by the organisers until next year. Makes my whole trip a bit pointless. But travel insurance won’t pay out for a cancelation that’s by your own choice. If I had a medical certificate that I couldn’t travel however, I’d be covered. Or the government could ban visitors / flights from the UK, since we do have more cases than them so far. That’d work too.
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Mar 9, 2020 21:18
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Trades posted:They’ll give you the 8/500 you can get without a prescription. I mean that and regular ibuprofen will definitely help I thought that was prescription only? I have very little knowledge of anything medical but internet says so, as per: https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/5958/pil
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Mar 9, 2020 21:22
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You can get Paramol OTC. Dihydrocodeine/ paracetamol.
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Mar 9, 2020 21:26
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oh you can get co-codamol otc. you can get good cough syrup, codeine linctus, also - i kind of wanna get some of that in case i get a chest infection or something - but not at most pharmacies. i think there's some goofy wax based morphine medicine that's also technically OTC
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Mar 9, 2020 21:27
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https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/co-codamol-adults/ 8/500 available from pharmacies, the higher strengths are prescription only
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Mar 9, 2020 21:27
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Pistol_Pete posted:My parents on the phone tonight: "It all seems a bit overblown to us! It's just a bad case of the flu, isn't it?" "Its like the flu" is an analogy thats going to cause a lot of problems because most people think the common cold is the flu and have never experienced the real deal. I wonder if 'pneumonia' would have been a better analogy because Im pretty sure nobody is brushing off 'a mild case of pneumonia'.
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Mar 9, 2020 21:29
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CoolCab posted:oh you can get co-codamol otc. you can get good cough syrup, codeine linctus, also - i kind of wanna get some of that in case i get a chest infection or something - but not at most pharmacies. i think there's some goofy wax based morphine medicine that's also technically OTC 
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Mar 9, 2020 21:30
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EdBlackadder posted:In GP-land we're talking about respiratory clinics in one location and shifting to as much telephone and online consulting as possible. We're trying to fast-track our telephone service but I warned all my colleagues that our clinics were going to be turned into a ward and we were about to be re-drafted as FY1s when the poo poo really hits the fan.
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Mar 9, 2020 21:31
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Solidarity with the healthcare goons who are currently going into battle.
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Mar 9, 2020 21:40
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Jel Shaker posted:Dexticle and sexticle imo Aren't those the names of two of Rees-Mogg's kids? Guavanaut posted:J. Collis Browne's Mixture is morphine and peppermint oil, and is OTC. I think the manufacturers have stopped making it though. If you visit some really old people they might still have some from before the war. I remember my landlady in 1982 dosing me up with it - wow! Z the IVth posted:We're trying to fast-track our telephone service but I warned all my colleagues that our clinics were going to be turned into a ward and we were about to be re-drafted as FY1s when the poo poo really hits the fan. What is a FY1?
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Mar 9, 2020 21:40
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if Trump gets coronavirus I will laugh until I pass out
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Mar 9, 2020 21:42
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Random Integer posted:"Its like the flu" is an analogy thats going to cause a lot of problems because most people think the common cold is the flu and have never experienced the real deal. Yeah, there's a lot of that. The method I heard recently to teach people if it's the flu is this - Imagine someone text you right now and said they'd left £50 in an envelope for you on your front step. If you don't go right now, someone else will probably find it. If you don't have the energy to get up for the money, it's the flu.
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Mar 9, 2020 21:44
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If you’re really in pain you can go over the recommended brufen dose of three times a day (not the paracetamol though , ever)
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Mar 9, 2020 21:46
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:If you visit some really old people they might still have some from before the war. I remember my landlady in 1982 dosing me up with it - wow!
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Mar 9, 2020 21:47
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:What is a FY1? A doctor in their first year post university (foundation year 1). Typically ward dogsbodies, doing bloods, lines, and all the medical admin work like making referrals, requesting tests, writing discharge letters.
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Z the IVth posted:We're trying to fast-track our telephone service but I warned all my colleagues that our clinics were going to be turned into a ward and we were about to be re-drafted as FY1s when the poo poo really hits the fan. My partners are split between thinking this will happen and thinking it will be swine flu all over again.
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