Contagion 2020

[Currahee!]

This is incorrect. ICU patients have been getting shipped down to the borders for a few months now from across the central belt. Moreover, a and e has seen a return of people with relatively minor ailments, people that didn't bother over summer.

Even when the overall figures were low the bad cases were still numerous and persistent meaning resources to fight cases of covid have always been stretched.

I don't know if people are being moved to the BGH from other areas but I do know the BGH is full and have stopped all non essential operations so they can cope.

[Socko]

In brighter news, the Oxford vaccine works and is meant to be being approved in the next few days.

[Drederick Shanktum]

You'd be best giving the Oxford vaccine to school kids to get the numbers up quickly, give the wee cunts just one dose and that should stop them being vectors for it.

[Shteve]

do school kids still get the BCG? scarred for life after than injection.

Cunts are para about microchips now but I'm sure that's when they were introduced.

[pondlife]

do school kids still get the BCG? scarred for life after than injection.

Cunts are para about microchips now but I'm sure that's when they were introduced.

That the one you get around 9/10 yrs old, if so it had me moaning for months after. Utter bitch of a jag!

[Shteve]

it's the one that leaves a big dirty scar on your arm for life.

[Charlie Kelly]

I mean, I'm happy with a wee scar on my arm compared to having TB

[PHOODLE-OUt]

Mine never even left a mark.

[Socko]

Have to expect a wee scar when you're being implanted with a 5g microchip tracker eh.

[pondlife]

So why have I got one on each arm, is one polio I wonder?

Tested +ive for latent TB a few yrs ago; did the treatment over 6 months or so. Pretty shite having to go in evry week and get administered my pills, like a wee child. Got a 50 dolla gift certificate for the local grocery store for completing the course, like a guid wee laddie. pat. pat.

[2MatoFish]

So why have I got one on each arm, is one polio I wonder?  

Tested +ive for latent TB a few yrs ago; did the treatment over 6 months or so.  Pretty shite having to go in evry week and get administered my pills, like a wee child.  Got a 50 dolla gift certificate for the local grocery store for completing the course, like a guid wee laddie.  pat. pat.  

Stuff like that is a really effective way to get people to complete a treatment; a small outlay and saves the health provider lots down the line. My wife set up a programme a few years ag to give pregnant women a couple hundred quid if they avoided smoking for the 9 months.

Shite that it needs to be done for some folk, but free money for you.

[Walter Sobchak]

I mean, I'm happy with a wee scar on my arm compared to having TB

Was a crap dose one year.

I know 3 folk who got TB.

Cured with 6 months of antibiotics which make your piss beetroot red.

[Shteve]

I thought TB was a thing you got in like 1902 didn't know you can still get it in the civilised world.

[Charlie Kelly]

I thought TB was a thing you got in like 1902 didn't know you can still get it in the civilised world.

The wonders of vaccines  small price to pay for being controlled by Bill Gates

[Socko]

[Roger H. Sterling]

The wonders of vaccines  small price to pay for being controlled by Bill Gates

Hate anti vaxers.

[pondlife]

Stuff like that is a really effective way to get people to complete a treatment; a small outlay and saves the health provider lots down the line. My wife set up a programme a few years ag to give pregnant women a couple hundred quid if they avoided smoking for the 9 months.

Shite that it needs to be done for some folk, but free money for you.

Aye. in that neck of teh woods the incentive probably should have been greater but yes different way of looking at it for folsk that will benefit in both ways.

Was a crap dose one year.

I know 3 folk who got TB.

Cured with 6 months of antibiotics which make your piss beetroot red.

Wasn't told aboutthis and next moring I nearly shat myself when I went for my morning wake-up piss.Proper  

I thought TB was a thing you got in like 1902 didn't know you can still get it in the civilised world.

Been on the rise again lately, even in this country I believe.  We had a bit of an outbreak in northern Canada a few yrs ago but that's not really surprising considering the overcrowded living conditions, high rates of smoking and sharing pipes/pop cans when getting baked!  The area really suffered badly in the 50/60.  Remember first time I went fishing with a friend. he was probably a good 10 yrs my senior but as we bedded down for the night in a shitty wee cabin in the middle of nowhere he took his top off to get in his sleeping bag and there, couldn't miss it was a massive brutal scar on his back the full length from his shoulder down and outliming his ribcage.  When he was a child he spent a couple of yrs down in ontario at a sanitorium.  Loved his fishing. Tbf it was always a great trip to that lake and one of the trips I miss the most, so many great trips/stories.  

[Shteve]

getting a vaccine/blood taken etc is one of the very few things I'm scared of. fucking hate it man even though it's never as bad as you think I just hate it.

[pondlife]

getting a vaccine/blood taken etc is one of the very few things I'm scared of. fucking hate it man even though it's never as bad as you think I just hate it.

Depends. Some slide it right in like you didn't even know they're done it, others poke around nevere seeming to find a vein, murder!

[Christian Benorchgrevink]

Depends.  Some slide it right in like you didn't even know they're done it, others poke around nevere seeming to find a vein, murder!  

I've never had any issues. Given blood maybe a dozen times and had a couple of tetanus shots but the kids have been awful. Before they were born the wife was a support nurse in a health visitor team so she did all the immunisations and pre school jabs etc and twice has had to speak up to the nurses at our GP's for being so rough with our two. It's a wonder they're not scarred for life