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Mervyn and Trish wrote: 16 Jun 2020, 14:23
Onelife wrote: 16 Jun 2020, 14:12
Manoverboard wrote: 16 Jun 2020, 13:40

It also has a long list of serious side effects making it of doubtful value for you golden oldies ;)
Here’s hoping we never find ourselves needing to use it but the Golden Oldies will have a better chance than they would otherwise have had according to the scientist. Apparently, its being rolled across all hospital’s tomorrow.

Btw…I’m a spring chicken compared to a Dorset turkey:wave: ;)
A lawyer for my mate Moby wishes to inform you he resembles that remark....
Yeah, watch it gobbler Onelife ... Read it if you dare ...

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Manoverboard wrote: 16 Jun 2020, 14:50
Mervyn and Trish wrote: 16 Jun 2020, 14:23
Onelife wrote: 16 Jun 2020, 14:12


Here’s hoping we never find ourselves needing to use it but the Golden Oldies will have a better chance than they would otherwise have had according to the scientist. Apparently, its being rolled across all hospital’s tomorrow.

Btw…I’m a spring chicken compared to a Dorset turkey:wave: ;)
A lawyer for my mate Moby wishes to inform you he resembles that remark....
Yeah, watch it gobbler Onelife ... Read it if you dare ...

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I know...its been a few years since we last met and he was on his last legs then :lol: ...he's a tough old bird is Moby :thumbup:

Read it if you dare [/url] ...

"Short term local treatment of inflammation" (severe conditions) so if you were on your last legs with covid would you be sticking with your tried and tested Paracetamol? ;)

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Onelife wrote: 16 Jun 2020, 15:21
Read it if you dare ... would you be sticking with your tried and tested Paracetamol? ;)
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Now be a good girl and read ALL of it rather than just the bit for wimps :lol:

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Onelife wrote: 16 Jun 2020, 15:21
Manoverboard wrote: 16 Jun 2020, 14:50
Mervyn and Trish wrote: 16 Jun 2020, 14:23


A lawyer for my mate Moby wishes to inform you he resembles that remark....
Yeah, watch it gobbler Onelife ... Read it if you dare ...

:wave:
I know...its been a few years since we last met and he was on his last legs then :lol: ...he's a tough old bird is Moby :thumbup:

Read it if you dare [/url] ...

[fade]"Short term local treatment of inflammation"[/fade] (severe conditions) so if you were on your last legs with covid would you be sticking with your tried and tested Paracetamol? ;)

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I see your up to your old tricks Keith.......flashing again
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Stephen wrote: 16 Jun 2020, 15:52
I see your up to your old tricks Keith.......flashing again
But only with a short term inflamation ... ;)
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Stephen wrote: 16 Jun 2020, 15:52
Onelife wrote: 16 Jun 2020, 15:21
Manoverboard wrote: 16 Jun 2020, 14:50

Yeah, watch it gobbler Onelife ... Read it if you dare ...

:wave:
I know...its been a few years since we last met and he was on his last legs then :lol: ...he's a tough old bird is Moby :thumbup:

Read it if you dare [/url] ...

[fade]"Short term local treatment of inflammation"[/fade] (severe conditions) so if you were on your last legs with covid would you be sticking with your tried and tested Paracetamol? ;)

:wave:

I see your up to your old tricks Keith.......flashing again
I can highly recommend it :D

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BBC's report regarding the breakthrough of the Corona Virus drug ... Dexamethasone :thumbup:
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Manoverboard wrote: 17 Jun 2020, 16:55
BBC's report regarding the breakthrough of the Corona Virus drug ... Dexamethasone :thumbup:
If it gets your endorsement then its got to be ok ;) :thumbup:

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Onelife wrote: 17 Jun 2020, 20:12
Manoverboard wrote: 17 Jun 2020, 16:55
BBC's report regarding the breakthrough of the Corona Virus drug ... Dexamethasone :thumbup:
If it gets your endorsement then its got to be ok ;) :thumbup:
I'm just posting the information in case of need ... :wave:
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I dare say we all keep an eye on the Corona Virus figures from time to time be they deaths or new cases but I thought I would share with you the way the Spanish Authorities do their calculations, based on a phone call between family and their rellies in Galicia, Spain.

They have been taking their ' for any reason at all ' death figures for April, say, 2019 and then they compare those with the same month in 2020. Then they attribute the difference to Corona Virus deaths and publish the up / down trend based on that information.

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That's pretty much the excess deaths sum we're doing though we're comparing to a five year average rather than one previous year. Experts are saying we'll need to look over a period for the full picture as they expect deaths might be lower than normal after the peak because the virus may have accelerated the death of some vulnerable people rather than being the sole cause.

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It's now being suggested that lack of Vitamin D could be a factor in higher death levels, which could be one reason why the UK death rate is higher than southern european countries.
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towny44 wrote: 18 Jun 2020, 09:05
It's now being suggested that lack of Vitamin D could be a factor in higher death levels, which could be one reason why the UK death rate is higher than southern european countries.
If one is over 65 years old then one's Doctor should tell one to take a 10xx rated Vitamin D tablet every day, including during the summer if one doesn't expose much of one to the sun .... well, our Doc told us that.
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Another ' incident ' in Bristol, this time an enslaved African male's headstone has been vandalised ...

Another item for a museum presumably. :thumbdown:

ps ... described, I think I am reading it correctly, as a ' Negro servanttoy Right Hon... etc ' :shock:
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towny44 wrote: 18 Jun 2020, 09:05
It's now being suggested that lack of Vitamin D could be a factor in higher death levels, which could be one reason why the UK death rate is higher than southern european countries.
It’s also a theory that’s why BAME suffer more because they don’t have the same levels of Vitamin D , due to Skin colour,apparently it doesn’t absorb the Vit D from the Sun.Thats what I was told anyway, right or wrong..?? I don’t know.
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I won't get it then. Suns out I'm out :thumbup:

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Lucky you.....piddling down here.
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screwy wrote: 18 Jun 2020, 09:58

It’s also a theory that’s why BAME suffer more because they don’t have the same levels of Vitamin D , due to Skin colour,apparently it doesn’t absorb the Vit D from the Sun.Thats what I was told anyway, right or wrong..?? I don’t know.
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No it didn’t, Amazing,eh.
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screwy wrote: 18 Jun 2020, 10:43
Lucky you.....piddling down here.
It should have read IF the sun's out etc.

Trying to brighten up with lots of cloud around at the moment. More rain to come before the day is out though according to Mrs Beeb.

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Ray B wrote: 18 Jun 2020, 10:53
screwy wrote: 18 Jun 2020, 09:58

It’s also a theory that’s why BAME suffer more because they don’t have the same levels of Vitamin D , due to Skin colour,apparently it doesn’t absorb the Vit D from the Sun.Thats what I was told anyway, right or wrong..?? I don’t know.
Didn’t stop them all in a rugby scum to get their new Nike's.
Reminded me of the cheap handbag sale onboard ship. I presume they will find some excuse.
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This is Barbeque weather up here.😂
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screwy wrote: 18 Jun 2020, 11:48
This is Barbeque weather up here.😂
Old Ham Burgers rule, eh ............. :lol:
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It hasn’t stopped raining all morning here in beautiful Shropshire :thumbup:

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The BLM/Slavery thing is starting to get out of control, in my view. It started quite rightly after a black man was murdered by a white policeman. He was no angel but did not deserve that. But now it has spread to anti-slavery, pulling down statues and renaming buildings. Firms are making "slavery payments" to BME causes. Even my old college, Imperial, has dropped its Latin motto because it has imperialist overtones. Will it change its name next?

In the context of modern morality slavery was wrong. We also treated our own countrymen and women and children badly in the industrial revolution. But much of this country's prosperity was built on slavery, imperialism and the industrial revolution. Changing names won't change history and we can't go back. I bet many of those wringing their hands now wouldn't change things if they could, knowing they'd be much poorer as a result.

Are we now going to give all the money back and if so to whom? Are the Rhode's Scholars going to give back the money they've had endowed by a slave trader? Are we going to boycott the many public buildings build on the profits from the exploitation of slaves and our own workers in Victorian ages?

Are those who've come here because they believed this country offered them a better life, or are the descendants of those who did so, going to return to their homelands because that better life is built on the immorality of the past?

I'm betting the answer to all those questions is no.

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