25 November (Part 1) - Two little ones
The National Covid Service
I seem to have become a part time Uber driver entirely by chance. Four times in
just ten days and a fifth time a week earlier I have taken a friend - different
ones - who either needed A&E in a hurry or had an appointment to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
I don’t know whether that is within Johnson’s damn fool Covid rules or not and I don’t
really care. In one case the hospital had insisted that buses should not be used
and I judged that it was a medical emergency. Anyway; to the point…
For a 10:30 appointment one patient was not seen until just after 4:30 and the
other waited from 10:45 until 17:20. The NHS has become a bad joke.
On the cases reported here previously the cancer patient with an appointment deferred
from 20th March has still not been given another, the friend with heart failure
diagnosed in July and who was recommended for 24/7 monitoring is still waiting and the
one with suspected heart problems due a test at the beginning of the year has
now been given an appointment for next month. It is easy to conclude that the NHS has become a killing machine.
From the Office of National Statistics. Click for source.
Not absolutely comparable but in the winter of 1999/2000 there were 48,000 excess deaths due to influenza and 44,000 in 2014/15. Not one pub or hairdresser was closed down by tyrannical decree and no brute in a blue uniform bundled old ladies into the back of vans.
Fly tipping
For a short time I thought that Bexley Council must have been very much on the ball yesterday because
the rubbish
deposited by a dawn dumper on Saturday had gone. However when putting some
cardboard and a baked bean can out for recycling this morning I realised that
some kindly soul had lifted the Transit criminal’s rubbish into the big wheeled bins. So now we not only
have rubbish illegally dumped but the legal stuff is contaminated.
Fly
tipping appears to be getting worse. Ten days ago there were four separate
heaps dumped along the stretch of Abbey Road on the northern perimeter of Lesnes
Abbey. It must have been removed because yesterday there were only three - different ones!
We should perhaps be grateful that it wasn’t dumped in the woods where removal
becomes much more difficult but that is exactly what has been happening just
across the borough boundary beyond Falconwood Station. It’s Rochester Way which
leads to Oxleas Woods. Cans, crisp bags, used nappies, car components, building
materials and dozens of discarded face masks litter an area served by four bus
stops and only one litter bin. A concerned resident is calling for more bins,
warning notices, more responsibility to be taken by Greenwich Council, CCTV and for
her Petition to be publicised here.