Any mention by UK government that:
๐ฏ๏ธ'๐๐ฎ๐ง ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ '๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง' ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ค ๐ ๐ฒ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐๐ ๐๐'๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐๐๐-๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ก.'
Credit to @yorkpress for reminding its readers. #Breathtaking@covidinquiryuk
#Breathtaking: Since 5 Dec 2023, the number of hospital beds occupied by people suffering from Covid hasn't been less than 2,500.
๐ฅ11-weeks where the number of people occupying hospital beds infected with this airborne virus averaged around 3,532.
No wonder the NHS is exhausted!
If you've watched #Breathtaking (I have), and found it compelling but harrowing (I did), then you'll be interested in this opinion piece by the author of the book on which the series was based (who also worked on the series), Rachek Clarke.
The key message: #NHS staff wee treated, and continue to be treated as expendable by the political class in this country.
Having now watched all 3 episodes of #Breathtaking on real-time TV, the Q. that keeps coming to mind, is how did they cope?
the patients, the #nurses, the #doctors and (yes, even) the managers?
made to deal with a situation made worse by a Govt. making it up as it went along, often making it worse due to a lack of concerted leadership, we sacrificed #healthcare professionals to #PTSD, ending over 400 of their lives...
a truly harrowing three hours TV which summed up our own shortcomings
I remember getting into a huge Twitter brawl with someone who insisted that regular folks were too stupid to know how to don a surgical mask.
When institutional authorities lie - telling people that masks are detrimental when the truth was the simply did have enough - not only is trust lost, for a long time, but also we arenโt motivated innovate and improvise.
How governments managed to convince so many people to overlook the basic laws of physics - any barrier is better than no barrier when the aim is to keep something out - still fucks my mind up. #breathtaking
I watched part 2 of 3 of #Breathtaking tonight (I can only do one episode per night). I wept copiously again. I wonder if disgraced former PM Boris Johnson has hired extra security yet? Just a thought.
Back to today, '#airborne transmission of pathogens has been vastly underappreciated, mostly because of insufficient understanding about airborne behaviour of #aerosols, and because of the misattribution of anecdotal observations'. @linseymarr et al. @NCBI https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8721651/
Here's Gaby Hinsliff expressing my experience of watching #Breathtaking last night, much better than I could... anyone who (still) thinks the #doctors are militant troublemakers, needs to watch this & understand the debt we still owe the people in the #NHS on the frontline of the #covid pandemic.
Watching #Breathtaking on STV. Not even 15 mins in & I can feel my blood pressure & anxiety levels rising at the sheer incompetence of Boris Johnson #Covid
[They] 'lied over and over again when they claimed that the NHS was not overwhelmed. We were rationing care; they owe every single one of the 1.3 million members of staff at the NHS a massive apology'. @metrouk.bsky.social
Good morning @evelynefoerster
We were looking at your Mountain Trails, so I found mine to show you.. We took a trip to Cape Breton Island, in my last OLD RV Camper, with two cats (then) and stayed at the Provincial Park https://parks.novascotia.ca/park/whycocomagh in #Whycocomagh area.
The towns, Cabot Trail and Beaches are all around, it was central for us explorers.
A little lead-in.. Avoid 100 series highways in #NovaScotia . They are for speed, not scenery or culture. Here's the only highway we had to cross
I like trees. I never knew how much, when I lived in a Tin Can (Ship) at sea. Now I can't get enough trees in my life. Covered in Polypores, supporting Mushrooms and providing necessary CO2 sink and air filtering. #ClimateChange strategy should always include planting more trees, I'm expected to plant 20 this year myself, most are grown from seed.