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20 November (Part 1) - Testing times

Felixstowe RoadDoes one gradually get used to this lockdown which our mad government knows is based on false statistics? Businesses and life as we have known it is being recklessly thrown on the scrap heap.

I have not been to a pub or restaurant since the beginning of March. Not been in a shop other than Sainsbury’s since June, been on a train maybe half a dozen times in eight months and a bus slightly more.

Can’t visit friends and not seen one for six weeks or so and find myself not really caring any more.

Some people I know are clearly obsessed with or distressed by it all while the only emotion I feel is total, absolute and quite likely eternal hatred of Boris Johnson.

However one of many messages on the subject prompted me to wonder if I should be more worried about the Covid fiasco than I am and I poked around the net for up to date data.

A month ago Bexley was second least affected borough in London and then the numbers started to climb.

The graphics below show how we are faring ward by ward, and that so far 213 Bexley residents have died with Covid on their death certificates. Approximately 100 of them in the past seven weeks. Tragic as that is I would guess the figure is exaggerated or at the very least is not the whole story.

A lady I knew for 72 years was taken to Brighton Hospital with a little problem; the hospital infected her with Covid 19 and gave her a much bigger problem. She died. But what really killed her? Poor heath care in my opinion.

Another lady of my acquaintance was given a hospital consultation this week by telephone. She has very little hearing and gets by with a mixture of shouting and lip reading. The hospital knows she is deaf but insisted telephone was all they could do. Now she hasn’t really much of a clue of what was said. All she knows is that they discharged her.

Another friend was told two months ago he is in urgent need of a heart monitor. Still waiting. Yet another was diagnosed with a heart problem at the beginning of the year. Something went wrong with the test and he was put down for a repeat. Covid came and he is still waiting. The National Health Service is failing in far too many areas.
Ward cases

If Covid disproportionately affects ethnic minorities how is it that Thamesmead East is the best place to be in Bexley?

Corona Statistics

Source: https://coronalevel.com/United_Kingdom/England/London/Bexley/

 

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