Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: john m on May 24, 2020, 12:44:32 pm
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Big Dommo called over this morning with some smoked Kippers and Home distilled Gin that Peggy Cummins from the Flats made in her bath ,drinkable but you wouldnt finish the second pint .He was explaining the Virus ,screens and other stuff .He says "I see you put one of them screens into the car .Did you source the plastic from the bus shelter like Billy The Bastard did for his Mas Shop he got 6 bits from the 3 bus shelters near the Flats .I said no I foraged a bit from a factory in Tallaght for the price of a few smokes" .He then said "They are fucking useless anyway .Think of the virus like a fart .Ya have them screens in your car or Billies oul ones shop .Some cunt comes and rips a shite stinking fart .If you can smell it it got you same with the virus but just like the fart the smell dissolves in the air and after a few minutes you wont notice it ,you will forget all about it .
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it's all a loada bollocks.
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Your right doc,it truly is a load of bollox,but the problem now is,Kens mates in mount stare after setting a precedent,and any driver who does not provide a screen is fukked. F,/N and Ebbs ,are after fooling the punters into thinking these screens are protective from the virus,even though you,and I both know they are not,but as long as the public think they are,then it comes down to either,getting one,or get no work.ANOTHEF example of dispatchers costing ya money
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sorry daly I was actually talking about the virus malarkey itself.
it's all a loada bollocks.
therefore everything pertaining to it is bollocks also.
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FROM A DOCTOR WORKING IN BROADGREEN HOSPITAL: KNOWS A GREAT DEAL MORE THAN ANY GOVERNMENT MINISTER....VERY INTERESTING READ
"To all the people on here threatening to unfriend people, or wishing a second wave of COVID on people, for daring to go out in the sun, you really need to think about what you are writing, and a lot of you are health professionals as well.
What was the aim of lock down? What did every single health "expert" say was the reason to justify a lockdown? And why do we have a Flu season at all? And why have we continued to have a steady incidence rate despite being in lockdown? And why are thousands of elderly people dying in nursing homes?
The reason we had lockdown was to "flatten the curve" or buy time to increase ITU/crit care beds. Well with 4 nightingale hospitals mothballed and 50% of hospital beds lying empty, I think we have achieved that.
Not one "expert" worth his salt will tell you that we can stop a respiratory virus, and if they did they would be lying or I am deluded and we have no common cold or Flu cases every winter. So with a fifth of the country likely to have already had the virus and a health service with a massive amount of level 2 and level 3 beds, we are more than ready for a second spike, as it stands. Remember we cannot lock down forever and we need to come out, which brings me on to the Flu season.
Why do we have a flu season? The main reason we have a Flu season is because as it gets cooler people coop up and spend more time in close proximity, the population becomes denser and therefor it's easier for a virus to travel, also people tend to eat less fruit and veg and see less sunlight and our natural defences are slightly depleted, sound familiar?
The longer we stay locked down, the closer we will be to the next Flu season, so essentially you will be hitting a second spike as people begin to mix, late summer early Autumn which will be just as the next Flu seasons hits, so a second spike will lead nicely into a third and if you want to overwhelm the NHS then this is the exact way to do it.
Lastly why are so many elderly people dying of COVID, well it's largely down to the paranoia that people are displaying on platforms like facebook. GP's are not assessing elderly patients face to face, they are not being taken to hospital or they are terrified to go to hospital incase they get COVID, so they stay at home until it's too late.
Strokes are down up to 70%, where have these patient gone? MI's down 50%, Hospital attendances down 90%, where are all the falls?? But why do they all have COVID signs?
Well anyone who has worked with elderly patients, and I suspect lots of you have, will know there are multiple reasons an elderly person can develop a pneumonia (COVID symptoms). They might fall and be in pain therefore not fully expand their lungs and develop atelectasis and then pneumonia.
They may have reduced mobility, due to quarantine, and become constipated and this may push up on the diaphragm and cause atelectasis or cause them to vomit and aspirate leading to pneumonia.They may develop urinary retention and UTI, secondary to constipation, and become bed bound, causing more time in a prone position and develop a basal collapse of the lungs and again atelectasis and pneumonia. The fact that they have reduced mobility may even mean they spend more time in bed or just sitting, which again is enough to cause chest infection/pneumonia.
Strokes may not present (they aren't) and develop swallow issues and aspirate leading to pneumonia, MIs may present late and develop pulmonary oedema with a secondary infection again leading to pneumonia, and many may have a cold or a Flu (which is down 95%) and go on to develop a pneumonia.
All of the above reasons would cause a patient to have COVID symptoms and will kill elderly patients if not treated, and all of them are enough to be classed as a COVID death currently. And this is why so many nursing homes are being decimated, it's as much through fear as it is through COVID.
Before you campaign and sign petitions to lock yourselves and your family away, remember also that lock down has consequences.
The first 2 reasons are clear above, the elderly will become frail, not be treated and die in their thousands, and thousands of people will not attend A&E at all, or until it's too late and again will die. This is before you factor in the 60 thousand cancer patients that will lose their lives because of missed screening or delayed operations. And then there is the burden on mental health services and the deaths caused by domestic abuse or suicide. And that's before the biggest killer by far which will be austerity.
We are heading for the biggest recession in 300 years, the last one has cost an estimated 500000 lives, why will this one be any different? And even with the lock down measures prolonged, will we have saved any lives any way, as our frail residents face a second and third spike in quick succession.
I understand that you my be scared and its overwhelming being constantly bombarded with negativity and fear, but before you completely isolate yourselves and fall out with loved ones and friends, ask yourself is lockdown still working, and what are the potential benefits of staying locked down versus, carrying on with some semblance of a normal life?"
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" Dont pick yur nose " .......yur ma used to say
..that's how ya get it ....an rubbing yur eyes ....
An kissing nurses ....
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And scrolling through ermys post from a doc in Broadmoor Hospital.
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Hal If Nursing homes and hospitals are so dangerous then why do less nurses and doctors than patients die .Does the virus know the difference or something .There must be some other contributing factor .Same with the material they make masks from really clever cloth can let molecules or oxygen get through so people dont suffocate but can recognize and stop the molecules of virus .Did you know Hal more people killed in the Yemen Civil War that all the people in the world who died from the China Cold .Im reviewing my opinion that China used this virus to hit the US economy .Im now thinking this virus just happened and the US and others used it to try destroy the China Economy .
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Hal If Nursing homes and hospitals are so dangerous then why do less nurses and doctors than patients die .Does the virus know the difference or something .There must be some other contributing factor .Same with the material they make masks from really clever cloth can let molecules or oxygen get through so people dont suffocate but can recognize and stop the molecules of virus .Did you know Hal more people killed in the Yemen Civil War that all the people in the world who died from the China Cold .Im reviewing my opinion that China used this virus to hit the US economy .Im now thinking this virus just happened and the US and others used it to try destroy the China Economy .
Cause the old an sick ar more likely die from it ....wats up wit ya dismorning johnny ? ::)
An the virus needs a vehicle to travel ide say ....in which case it Id be droplets of spit an mucus coming up after a cough or sneeze or talkin .... dont tink it floats around on it's own in the air like a balloon or sumtin .....
Tune in next week wen I'll be explaining why cider and beer mixed blows the head off ya and why men have nipples
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Occi did you read the piece .It basically says older people are being put in jeopardy by inactivity .A lot of these nursing homes old people go from bed to armchair they are not allowed to walk around due to social distancing .It also asks in reality how many are dieing from the actual virus or just virus like symptoms .Think it was the Rodent asked how many taxi drivers driving high risk staff for half wages from nursing homes and hospitals actually got the virus ?Unless this is the most educated Virus in the world ever and can distinguish between race and accents then why is the death rate diffferent in different countries .It must be how each country operates lockdown and the common denominator world wide seems to be older people in lockdown do less well than others .WHY?
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Hal If Nursing homes and hospitals are so dangerous then why do less nurses and doctors than patients die .Does the virus know the difference or something .There must be some other contributing factor .Same with the material they make masks from really clever cloth can let molecules or oxygen get through so people dont suffocate but can recognize and stop the molecules of virus .Did you know Hal more people killed in the Yemen Civil War that all the people in the world who died from the China Cold .Im reviewing my opinion that China used this virus to hit the US economy .Im now thinking this virus just happened and the US and others used it to try destroy the China Economy .
Cause the old an sick ar more likely die from it ....wats up wit ya dismorning johnny ? ::)
An the virus needs a vehicle to travel ide say ....in which case it Id be droplets of spit an mucus coming up after a cough or sneeze or talkin .... dont tink it floats around on it's own in the air like a balloon or sumtin .....
Tune in next week wen I'll be explaining why cider and beer mixed blows the head off ya and why men have nipples
Your in great form today rofl
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The novelty of free paid holidays is startin to wear off lizzy .....now I realise why every teacher I knew socially was an alcoholic
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The novelty of free paid holidays is startin to wear off lizzy .....now I realise why every teacher I knew socially was an alcoholic
+1 ... it won't bother me when I have to return, fear of the disease was never my reason for staying home, it was always the free money.
Now I have masks, screen. sanitiser, stickers telling passengers what to do, I'm in my own little bubble taxi
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The novelty of free paid holidays is startin to wear off lizzy .....now I realise why every teacher I knew socially was an alcoholic
No point in going back to work Octy, unless your a 'Lickey Arse' FN ambassador or have Gold FN status, there is No work on the Streets or Ranks, the only work out there is with FN and the ambassadors and Gold star drivers will have it all snapped up before you see it.
Things might get worse when the Covid 350 ends and all the drivers return.
Untill the pubs re-open your best bet is to stay home because you will do well to make 350 working the streets.
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The novelty of free paid holidays is startin to wear off lizzy .....now I realise why every teacher I knew socially was an alcoholic
No point in going back to work Octy, unless your a 'Lickey Arse' FN ambassador or have Gold FN status, there is No work on the Streets or Ranks, the only work out there is with FN and the ambassadors and Gold star drivers will have it all snapped up before you see it.
Things might get worse when the Covid 350 ends and all the drivers return.
Untill the pubs re-open your best bet is to stay home because you will do well to make 350 working the streets.
Yea I'm thinkin the rest the year off ...mite move in wit the ma rent me gaff out again....mite sell few me daimler shares ken
.thanks for working tru the pandemic an keepin them relatively stable whilst I sunning meself an porkin the owlone next door ;)
I see the on the mend now ...lookin good lol