But it seems the message isn?t out there on jabs. Here?s one chap from ICU who should be put on TV in the middle of Strictly
As I pointed out in June when my appendix burst, there's a good chance that I wouldn't have got seen in time had there been a Covid peak at the time, and I would likely have died in an ambulance or on a trolley, waiting to be seen by an A&E team - as people
are dying now of other ailments than Covid.
Last week I had a brief episode which I thought
may be a complication, with massive pain on the same site, and 111 advised me to go go to A&E for a check-up - at 8.30am. I was meant to be working at 8, but my colleague told me hospital was much more important, and drove me straight there, and then waited in the van outside in case we could get back to work. I was processed immediately, but was then put in a queue to be seen, and by 10.30 I had to send my mate home, as he'd now waited two hours - for which I was immensely grateful. However, I didn't actually get to leave until 13.00, with an all-clear, and a diagnosis of a
probable twisted intestine causing a massive back-up.
But from the time I arrived, there must have been a hundred more people turned up with various ailments (not including obesity, which was more than 50% of the attendees), and it was non-stop chaos - the brief chats I had with the team convinced me that that they were running on almost empty, and by the time I left I would have hugged them all if I could have, I was so grateful that they saw me at all.
But this is the point that I keep trying to make - it's not necessarily the Covid that's the problem, it's the impact Covid has on everything else. They can factor in car crashes, pub assaults, lightning strikes and, yes, burst appendices, but only if they're
not clogged up dealing with unvaccinated chumps. I have a family relative who can't be jabbed due to auto-immune issues, and I'd really like to meet up with them soon due to their parent recently dying, and the only way I can do that is by not getting infected myself in the interim. Our club recently had a social event where a large number of visitors caught 'the cold' that's currently going around, despite me opening every bloody door in the building every ten minutes due to the numbers present. Good job I did at least that, it seems, or there would probably have been even more.