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News and Comment November 2020

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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.
Excess deaths

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 tippingFly 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.

 

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