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Not a lot to say about myself. Worked as GP in valleys, then public health something to do with data of health events. Ignored mainly, you're advised to do the same. Meanwhile if you fancy seeing what I'm thinking this is quite a good place happy to be corrected as I don't know as much as I think I do. It's a common male fault. 🤣

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appassionato, to palestine
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Gaza on brink of deadly epidemic outbreak

Oxfam’s staff in Gaza are describing piles of human waste and rivers of sewage in the streets. They said people are also drinking dirty water while children are being bitten by insects swarming around the sewage. All of this makes conditions ripe for the outbreak of epidemics, including Hepatitis A and cholera, the charity warned.

@palestine
#Gaza
#epidemic
#Oxfam

epistatacadam,
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@appassionato @palestine and infectious diseases do not recognise political borders or front lines. It might be wiser for IDF to withdraw and let aid and electricity back in.

ChrisMayLA6, to Health
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Maternity care is in crisis:

Zoe Williams concludes:

'It’s not a story of one bad apple, or one bad chief executive, or one bad institutional culture, or one underprivileged area. In 2022, 80 of the country’s 193 maternity units were deemed unsafe by the Care Quality Commission. That definitely wasn’t the austerity promise, not even in the small print: creating a country not safe to give birth in'!

One more dimensions of the Tories wrecking of the NHS


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/13/the-birth-trauma-scandal-is-not-about-one-bad-apple-one-bad-culture-or-one-bad-area-its-about-the-mess-of-austerity

epistatacadam,
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@ChrisMayLA6 it's also part of the tick box approach healthcare. If you train professionals to act as providers of care/advice to individuals tailored their needs, but then insist that they deliver (bog) standard care aimed at a mythical Mean patient, then as day follows night the probability that any person receive excellent care is very close to zero. So costs rise as outcomes deteriorate.
Healthcare is complex and humans keep it safe, if permitted to; procedures may prevent them doing that.

glynmoody, to random
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Rise of drug-resistant superbugs could make Covid pandemic look ‘minor’, expert warns - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/13/superbugs-antibiotics-drugs-antimicrobial-resistance-infections-pandemics-sally-davies farmers mainly to blame, of course: "More than two-thirds of antibiotics go into farm animals"

epistatacadam,
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@glynmoody I suspect we should consider the centralised sewage system as at least partly to blame, too! Where do all the antibiotics go after all mammals have taken them? And don't we put lots of bacteria to grow there too? Evolution will pressure the quick survival of those bacteria best fitted to the sewer environment.....with constant supply of low levels of antibiotics.

Not sure what the solution is but always remember if you point a finger at anyone there are three pointing back at you!

epistatacadam,
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@glynmoody and the outflow from sewage goes into ... Which is used by animals that get infected so need treatment by antibiotics so yes farmering is a problem but is it a consequence of our profligate use, rather than the source of the problem.
I'm also unimpressed by the mass incarceration of animals as the most profitable way to rear them. And act as incubators for infectious diseases....again the fault is the human end.....

cstross, to random
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  • Looks out window at: three bus stops, 2-5 pubs, a row of restaurants, and a busy shopping street at ground level *

Reader, those things were all there before I moved here. They're a big chunk of the reason WHY I moved here. 17 years ago …

epistatacadam,
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@cstross my small town has a thriving high street umpteen coffee shops, plus Fromagerie, an ice cream parlour and numerous restaurants, and a greengrocer and three butchers, two bakers! Plus the usual chains. We walk to town most days, to see what's going on. Unfortunately housing is expensive so young people are driven away. Would love to see housing drop in price. But I'm old and decrepit so no one cares what I thin. 😆

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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"The Green Party is becoming a dustbin, a repository not only for climate activists but for disgruntled hard leftists leaving the Labour Party, and some fairly unpleasant Free Palestine activists as well."
Peter Mandelson to Matt Chorley on Times Radio, yesterday

epistatacadam,
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@Thebratdragon @gruff @fkamiah17 on the basis of the latest recruit JRM is hard left compared to her! And very keen on destroying Trade Unions.
I am always told you can judge a person by the company they keep. Fortunately, here in Wales we have two progressive parties, neither of which are HMG or HMLO.

Wen, to environment
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Bird flu outbreaks in cattle will not affect supply, Americans told

http://archive.today/2024.05.02-184845/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bird-flu-outbreak-us-virus-spread-cattle-cows-mgbnwwn9f

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Scientist and animal/human health workers are worried, but the public is told ‘nothing to see, nothing to worry about, move on’.

The massive power of agribusiness is threatening the world we live in and also (for those who don't really care), our health by incubating new and dangerous illnesses.

epistatacadam,
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@Wen I expect their intensive inhumane feedlot system of mass produced beef is almost certain to reduce animal health and the density of the 'herds' almost guarantees any infections will pass swiftly through the herd.
And their given hormone supplements to grow faster.
Why anyone thinks US beef is good, totally baffles me. The pollution it causes is enormous. Free ranging big herbivores are an environmental plus, but force fed dense collections are a disaster waiting to happen.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Tomorrow morning the Home Office starts to round up the migrants they expect to try to send to Rwanda... I saw round up, but actually they're expecting to pick up (some of) their victims when they attend regular/scheduled meetings with officials.

These currently 'free' migrants will then be detained ahead of flights to Rwanda.

(again) if the money spent on this viscous & inhumane policy was spent on integrating migrants into British society, it would be much more cost effective!

epistatacadam,
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@ChrisMayLA6 and beneficial to us all. This policy has no merit at all. It costs us tax payers plenty, for which we see no short term or long term benefits. Spending the same to integrate them all would improve public services, and give us both financial and social benefits of unimaginable value. It's an evil policy, born of gross stupidity, and totally without merit.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Excellent news today:

The case against Trudi Warner for contempt of court (for holding up a placard outside a court reminding a jury of their right to find not guilty on the basis of their conscience), has been dismissed as 'fanciful' today (after a years wait).

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/22/judge-throws-out-case-against-uk-climate-activist-trudi-warner-sign-jurors-rights

epistatacadam,
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@ChrisMayLA6 funny it's not being reported on BBC news. It's not everyday the solicitor general gets told by the courts that his case is fanciful. Clearly a case of performative legal action similar to the SLAPP process. Perhaps, he should be forbidden from bring any more actions, by being declared a vexatious litigant?

epistatacadam, to random
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My company this afternoon in the garden.

Wen, to disability
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Rishi Sunak to strip GPs of right to sign people off sick

http://archive.today/2024.04.19-062257/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-sunak-gps-sign-people-off-sick-ill-rr353jstv

GPs face being stripped of the right to issue sick notes, as the prime minister says doctors are too readily writing people off as unfit for work. Specialist teams linked to the benefits system will instead assess the sick and decide how best to keep them in work.

Be afraid, very afraid. Those will be the same private companies who have already stripped benefits with no due concern.

epistatacadam,
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@Wen GPs will be glad to be rid of the task. However, as someone who has had my share of illness during my working life, I was glad I could get someone who knew who I was and what I was who could give me impartial advice on return to work.
I fear for the younger people in the UK. I wonder if he's ever had a life threatening illness: Physical or Mental?

JeniParsons, to random
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgyr68lrr8o

epistatacadam,
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@JeniParsons I really don't understand why WG, NFUC, WFU don't get together to switch Welsh farming away from the post 1960's 'maximise output and reduce quality' approach, back to the regenerative sustainable approach that preceded it. The cheap food subsidies drove the changes then, we could use the same mechanism to reverse it. Oh, and forestry on prime land isn't the answer! But pasture with trees could be part of it. As could improving the wool by breeding, to better suit modern markets.

epistatacadam, to random
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Fascinating to hear Sir John Bell saying we needed to invent a new branch of the NHS to undertake Community health care.
Funny he forgot to mention that when founded, in 1948 the NHS was a three legged stool, the hospitals (secondary+ care), Primary care, AND community care. The original design was sound, but the focus moved from looking after people, to providing treatment for illnesses, has led to the neglect of both Community care, almost gone now, & Primary care, on it's knees.

suearcher, to dysgucymraeg
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pawb. Dyn ni'n mynd i'r siopa, ac wedyn, i'r gwaith ym Manceinion. Gobeithio, bydd hi ddim yn bwrw glaw...

everyone. We go shopping, and then to work in Manchester. Hopefully, it won't rain...

epistatacadam,
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@suearcher @NormanDunbar almost as rare as a dry day in Swansea!

glynmoody, to climate
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Strasbourg court’s Swiss climate ruling could have global impact, say experts - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/13/swiss-climate-ruling-global-impact-european-court-human-rights "Decision by European court of human rights around vulnerability of older women to heatwaves marks significant shift" let's hope so...

epistatacadam,
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@glynmoody I'm not holding my breath until a government leader is incarcerated for it. Then watch the global approach change.

Geri, to random
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Tobias Elwood says the UK will be involved in a nuclear war within 5 years

Horseshit

epistatacadam,
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@Geri well in that case why is government worried about paying public servants more eg social care, NHS, and balancing books, if world as we know it is ending in 5 years. The paper/electronic money we have now will all be gone in the first flash of gamma rays. So government will depend on very local arrangements. Groups of 200 to 500 or so.

sheepnik, to random
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Right, I'm off to pretend I know things.

epistatacadam,
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@purplepadma @RolloTreadway @sheepnik I liked the old 10p a day unlimited travel on all buses in my county...
It might have been 50p, but it was a trivial amount, so everyone used the bus, but privatisation saw the end to that...

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    @DrALJONES it's going to be interesting when ICJ has it's hearings, as subsequent cases may result in cases against US and UK. US of course will claim it's outside ICJs jurisdiction, but visits to ICJ nations will be off if arrest warrants issued. Russia USA Israel who else has failed to sign up?

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    Dear white women who vote for fascists, is it not evident to you that they don’t like you EITHER?🤔

    epistatacadam,
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    @DebR @realtegan @StillIRise1963 some of them may be in controlling environments with the threat of violence if they don't vote as "their man" tells them to.

    epistatacadam,
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    @StillIRise1963 @DebR @realtegan Generally true, but as we know some stole election machine data. However,whether it's true or not is not relevant if you believe 'your man" can find out and beat the hell out of you & your children if you crossed him, would you risk it? I wouldn't, and having seen some poor women who were in such relationships it's horrifying how rarely the injuries are visible to most people.
    Don't underestimate the power of threats of violence, or abandonment!

    Geri, to random
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    More than 900 people were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting because of faults in Horizon.

    Had it not been for the heroic (and I do mean that word) works of AlanBates many would not have received justice

    Sadly, 251 postmasters wrongly accused of stealing from their own tills passed away before receiving final compensation.

    We should honour their names somehow.

    xx

    epistatacadam,
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    @Geri I think you meant "were hounded to death" not "passed away".
    Some killed themselves, some tried and failed, but all were destroyed and labelled as untrustworthy to their community, so they "sent to Coventry".

    epistatacadam,
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    @Geri as per vanity fair we need to return to honest straight talk in public. A lie is a lie, not an alternative fact. It remains true that the PO board lied to all who would listen to them, so did Fujitsu, and the prosecution witnesses in court.

    ChrisMayLA6, to random
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    Why when the NHS is in crisis does the 'solution' seem to be increased private healthcare, but when the railways hit crisis point, it was finally the state that had to step in...

    The solution to constrained funding is not to introduce more suppliers who by their very market character need to make a surplus out of any available funding....

    And yes, in Wes' terms... if saying that makes me a middle-class Leftie - then so be it!

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/08/middle-class-lefties-wont-stop-labour-using-private-sector-to-cut-nhs-backlog-wes-streeting-says

    epistatacadam,
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    @ChrisMayLA6 when will politicians finally realise that a) the staff working in private providers were trained by the NHS and can only do more for private providers if they reduce their NHS work
    & b) the policy of reducing beds since 1990, has steadily increased the chance of overload and hence long waits.
    c) Speeding up discharge will make next to no difference as the main bottleneck is getting most patients in not getting them out.

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    @DrALJONES anyone still thinking the IDF is a moral force, needs to read this report from Harrez. It is clear they have no care for any Palestinian welfare, even if they present no threat to anyone.

    DrALJONES, to uk
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    @DrALJONES I wonder why UK government continues to support those who oppress Palestinians, and giving them even more weapons to harm them with? Makes no sense to me.

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