Making the news today....

[Mark J]

On 06/12/2022 at 13:33, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

wow!  I guess this really shouldn't come as a great surprise.

Could it be the case that kids are succumbing to Strep A due to their immune system being compromised by repeated exposure to COVID? Or is that an unhappy coincidence?

[Will C]

Or maybe there immune system is buggered due to masks and a lack of contact  with germs and are now paying the price for it?

[Johnsond]

2 hours ago, Mark J said:

Could it be the case that kids are succumbing to Strep A due to their immune system being compromised by repeated exposure to COVID? Or is that an unhappy coincidence?

OMG 😳 Are you serious ??? Doctors and scientists are coming out and giving you the answers yet you create a theory out of absolute thin air Mark ( my own thoughts are I genuinely hope none of those kids were dragged in by their parents to receive the totally unnecessary experimental vaccines)  . I know you are not stupid or lacking education but seriously !! 
ps 

what happened to follow the science??. 

Edited December 9, 2022 by Johnsond

[Johnsond]

2 hours ago, Will C said:

Or maybe there immune system is buggered due to masks and a lack of contact  with germs and are now paying the price for it?

I’ve two grandkids, one born just before the lockdown madness started and one half way through it, since we got back to something resembling normal and they started mixing with other kid etc both of them have been ill multiple times in particular with chest/respiratory infections. The health visitor with 25 years of experience has stated she and many of her colleagues are seeing the same thing, she in her own words spoke of not having ever seen anything like it. I’m pretty sure she’s no “ Moonbat” 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

3 hours ago, Mark J said:

Could it be the case that kids are succumbing to Strep A due to their immune system being compromised by repeated exposure to COVID? Or is that an unhappy coincidence?

I don’t know mate. Is there even a way to correlate frequency of previous Covid infection against likelihood / recorded incidence of Strp A or even death from Strp A. Hell, I don’t know. 
 

Here’s what I do know though, some of the people I know that are testing themselves for Covid frequently are getting positive results frequently. 
 

I only tested when I had to as part of pre-op checks this time last year (3x gen anaesthetic ops) I don’t know if I’ve had Covid or not since then because I don’t test. 
 

No test equals no positive result. Seems to work for me. 

[Johnsond]

Strep A antibiotics skyrocket as prices 'hiked up to take advantage' of demand

APPLE.NEWS

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The cost of antibiotics needed to treat Strep A has skyrocketed - as industry professionals claim...

Somethings don’t change, that will be those wonderful pharmaceutical companies so many applauded not missing an opportunity again. 

Edited December 9, 2022 by Johnsond

[GarethM]

It like the American debacle with insulin.

A patent given to the people by the Inventor  for the token $1. Effectively produced like brewing beer, jacked up the prices in the USA $100 Vs Canada $12.

 

You don't have to wear a tin foil hat to know when the world and his dog and treating you like the village bike.

[trigger_andy]

1 hour ago, Johnsond said:

Strep A antibiotics skyrocket as prices 'hiked up to take advantage' of demand

APPLE.NEWS

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The cost of antibiotics needed to treat Strep A has skyrocketed - as industry professionals claim...

Somethings don’t change, that will be those wonderful pharmaceutical companies so many applauded not missing an opportunity again. 

 Both  my wee ones down with Strep A symptoms. In and out of serious fever for near on a week now. Put on not the regular 5 day antibiotic course but a seven day course. 
 

Our local Surgery used to be 6 full time Doctors. It’s now down to 1 doctor and one nurse, oh, and reception where you you have to tell the lassie on the phone your private details.   😳 

 

And some bright spark stated my daughter won’t get a Mortgage 🤣

[Mesterh]

22 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

 Both  my wee ones down with Strep A symptoms. In and out of serious fever for near on a week now. Put on not the regular 5 day antibiotic course but a seven day course. 
 

Our local Surgery used to be 6 full time Doctors. It’s now down to 1 doctor and one nurse, oh, and reception where you you have to tell the lassie on the phone your private details.   😳 

 

And some bright spark stated my daughter won’t get a Mortgage 🤣

Earninng the vast sums of money that you do, not that you don't like to talk about it, I would have thought that you would have gone private?

 

Joking aside, I hope your kids get better soon.

 

I can't fault our doctors tbh, straight in to be seen if needed after a very brief phone call, and private hospital treatment if necessary. Post code lottery tastic.

 

[trigger_andy]

6 minutes ago, Mesterh said:

Earninng the vast sums of money that you do, not that you don't like to talk about it, I would have thought that you would have gone private?

 

Joking aside, I hope your kids get better soon.

 

I can't fault our doctors tbh, straight in to be seen if needed after a very brief phone call, and private hospital treatment if necessary. Post code lottery tastic.

 

Cheers.  

 

We are private through my employer. Thankfully for the wee ones it’s not been tested yet. Mentioning their age always gets you priority with the Surgery. 
 

But the speed in the degradation of services offered is an eye opener. I can only assume the other Docs have gone private, they were not retirement age that’s for sure. We’re in a small bit fairly prosperous Scottish market town that is generally trouble free. If we’re seeing this here I can only imagine how it is elsewhere. 
 

Thankfully I just use an app that puts me right through to a specialist who basically asks for my insurance number and what I’d like him/her to do. 😁