Corona Virus Treatment

But, Jenny, I thought I had a contract with "Big G" that I would be immortal..........he doesn't welsh on contracts does he???

 

To be honest, I'm getting "irritated" by the now many Politicians, Doctors, Scientists, and the Media
telling us how they would have done it.
Viruses always get a head start as they can infect populations to a great degree without going on the Media and saying "I'm here!!". So, we'll always be behind by at least months before it is noticed in the first country and and then notified to other countries.
I would rather not contemplate whether or not we, in the UK, could have done it better and get on with taking notice of the advice given and recognise that the virus is now here and we have to take realistic steps to deal with it. Anyone who thinks that we can take control of the virus, stop it in it's tracks or cut down the mortality rate to a low double digit rate are, at best, misguided. This virus is, effectively, in control and without reasonable, considered, timely decisions being taken as they are now it would decimate populations to a far greater degree.
One thing that has come to mind, is that we have a Government that has such a large working majority in Parliament that it can pass emergency legislation without opposition. If we had been in the same political situation of mental morass as we were before the General Election, then any emergency legislation would have been opposed, on purely political grounds, by Labour, Lib Dems, and other parties still locked in to the blindness of their own political beliefs.

 

My Doctor, now in his 70's, has now just retired and I know that he will be back to help where ever he can. The Blood Nurse at my Surgery also retired at the same time and my information is that she is now helping out at the local Hospital. But, it's a personal choice and I think that's how it should be.
People tend to forget that Doctors and Nurses are human and that they suffer from the same ailments that we do, get older and frailer like we do, have various personal families pressures like we do. But is it right that we should be asking Doctors and Nurses, in their 70's, who are in the "at risk" category to expose themselves to the virus by being in close contact to those who do have Covid 19?

 

If only, Upsdaisy!! Not one, not one, country in this fragile, beautiful and dangerous world has been even one step ahead or even level with the recognition of just how contagious and dangerous to the elderly and those with underlying health problems this virus could be. The USA is so far behind it's in a dangerous position, with a President who, in the early stages of the spreading of the virus into other countries, called it a Hoax

 

That's good enough for me, Jiffy

 

I am just going with the flow

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Owl my son!