"enjoyed IGDV a lot".
The sleeve notes are a gas.
There was a memorable Simpsons episode in which the song featured. At a funeral IIRC.
"enjoyed IGDV a lot".
The sleeve notes are a gas.
There was a memorable Simpsons episode in which the song featured. At a funeral IIRC.
Or perhaps just being a pratt. (I thought I'd say it before someone else did.)Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Perhaps I should also clarify that Randy Newman did not attack people of diminutive stature. His song Short People, was intended "to poke fun at people who are short-tempered and small-minded, which is quite the opposite of the literal meaning. A lot of people didn't get the joke and thought of Newman as a bigot. Many radio stations refused to play it."
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/rand...as%20a%20bigot.
#allheightsmatter
Watch it and find out. He's a very reasonable, measured bloke with a wealth of experience. He's not on there as a politicised person.
One of the issues he faces in his specialist field is that the referrals for cancer have been half the normal limits and another thing he says is that where it has started to get back on track it is in such as breast cancer where they can be COVID secure and still make the checks necessary, which isn't quite so easy for some forms.
Even where they are now handling referrals, the are handling less cases because of the Covid procedures they need to follow, so they are almost certainly still getting further behind at the moment in terms of handling cancer referrals and moving those that need it on to treatment.
Around 1,000 day normally get a referral for cancer screening which I assume is an England figure although it could be UK wide. We are over 150 days now, so somewhere around 75000 people haven't been screened that would have been in a normal year.
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
This is a fun bit of conspiracy theorising if it didn’t have a little suggestion of truth, we are being softened up for the colossal drop in living standards that inevitably has to come in the West.
https://off-guardian.org/2020/09/06/...ze-it-and-why/
Last edited by Wetherby whaler; 11-09-2020 at 07:54 AM.
Brilliant
Prof Sikora has been a shining light of relative positiveness over the whole period of covid and I like him a lot. Without trying to misrepresent him (and without being arsed to watch an hour long video with him in) from what I've seen (on twitter) he's been more critical of some of the recent localised lockdowns and meeting up rules than perhaps the original lockdown itself, which was as much as anything triggered due to the worry of the NHS being overwhelmed. And of course he has, as a cancer specialist, been championing the importance of avoiding increased cancer deaths in the cause of minimising covid deaths - at the minute we're averaging 5 covid deaths per day whilst the equivalent 'normal' cancer death rate is something like 450 per day!!!
That said he is always reminding everyone that we (including him) still don't know enough about covid and that caution and patience is needed. He's also not the world's greatest fan of the NHS either...
Interesting graphic.
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to counter the one the Dept of Health put out yesterday that makes it look like current cases are at the same level as in April and has led to headlines such as
"Covid infection rate in Croydon hits highest level since May"
https://insidecroydon.com/2020/09/09...vel-since-may/
which is completely misleading, I'd even go as far as to say criminal.
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
THe first graph, based on backwards crunching the numbers, is quite probably correct. March and April there could've been c 100,000 real new cases a day - only hospitals were testing (after the tests nationally spluttered to a grinding halt) and the reported figures were miles out at c 6,000 new cases a day.
That said, the sheer number early doors does demonstrate just how out of hand covid can get if given a completely free reign. More proof if any is needed that the current system of social distancing, mask wearing and safety measures in public hubs and family meet ups is still the best way to go
