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#91
Hate to break it to you but there's no such thing as Labour. UK has been a one-party system since Tory f'kin Blair :argh!:
#92
Quote from: Cain on March 04, 2020, 12:02:21 PM
A good thing we didn't think the NHS needed more funding or anything

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/03/icu-doctor-nhs-coronavirus-pandemic-hospitals

QuoteICU treats patients whose lives are at risk or whose organs have failed. Severe Covid-19 leads mostly to lung failure but also causes kidney and cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel) failure. All these are rapidly fatal without intense and prompt treatments only available in ICU. In simple terms, treatments include a ventilator taking over the patient's breathing while the patient is anaesthetised (placed in an induced coma), a dialysis machine cleaning the blood and drugs or machines supporting the heart and blood pressure. The reality of care is, of course, considerably more complex and highly intensive.

So let's look at some statistics: it is likely that more than 30% of the whole UK population will get Covid-19 – it may be as high as 60% in some estimates. Most will have no or mild illness but maybe one in seven will need hospital admission. Of patients in hospital up to one in five may need ICU care – that would be an unprecedented number of people admitted to ICU. As many as one in 50 of patients known to have Covid-19 may die from it.

ICU is a precious and scarce resource in terms of beds, staff and equipment. This is especially so in the UK. In 2012 the UK had about 4,100 critical care beds including ICU beds and "high dependency" beds which are a step down from full ICU care. Compared with other European countries the UK ranked 23rd of 31 in terms of ICU beds per head of population and 29th of 31 for all hospital beds. Germany has approximately four times as many ICU beds per capita as the UK and the USA perhaps 10-fold as many. Data from 2017 suggest little change. Most UK ICUs therefore run at or above 90% occupancy and often can only admit new patients only by discharging others – even when workload is normal. Covid-19 will increase pressures not only because of weight of numbers but because intermediate treatments for pneumonia and lung failure are "aerosol-generating" (ie they risk spreading the disease) so cannot be used and early recourse to ICU is required.

Increased ICU demands equate to each ICU bed being needed for approximately 100 more patients than on average in the epidemic period – at least 10 times the normal throughput and equivalent to needing at least another 10 ICUs in the hospital during the epidemic. Of course, this demand will be in addition to, rather than instead of, normal workload as the illnesses that usually require ICU admission will not go away during the epidemic. In Wuhan, ICU capacity was increased by over 1,000 beds in two weeks by building a new hospital, but this is not possible in the UK.

And on and on and on.

If only we'd had some kind of party, running on a platform of reversing the disastrous NHS cuts of the past decade...

This is the punchline where I get to watch all those dumb old fucks who voted against independence and then for brexit choke to death on their own phlegm :evil:
#93
On a conspiracy theory note, aren't you guys in the process of losing a deathmatch with china over ownership of the global economy? :tinfoilhat:

In other news. I am now owner director of a brand, shiny new VFX production company. Our* first gig is providing ultra-realistic renders of A-list Celebrities in various stages of plastic surgery for a TV documentary so no pressure. Luckily we're* working with an awesome sculptor who's handling the likenesses. We're* responsible for Hair simulation and grooming, skin texturing and delivering final renders for production. Super stoked and super shitting myself in equal measure. It's like a slow burn, mellow adrenaline rush. I'll take it!




* I'm an LLC now so I'll be mostly using the royal "We" from here in 8)
#94
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 13, 2020, 03:56:58 PM
If the human race was a horse, it would have to be shot.

If a horse was in the same state as the human race would you bother wasting a bullet?
#95
It's possible for someone to be on the right side of the argument and still be a complete fucking asshole.

Just mentioning it because it took me ages to figure this out for myself.
#96
What the OP is talking about is just another brand of prohibition. Prohibition of anything has only ever served to make it worse. Prohibition sweeps timebombs under the carpet where they still tick but much more quietly.
#97
Bring and Brag / Re: P3nT's Shoops
January 26, 2020, 11:46:08 PM
Nuke Your Parents!
#98
They are aware that "bong" doesn't mean that anymore? :crackhead:
#99
Quote from: Cain on January 14, 2020, 03:08:52 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 14, 2020, 02:52:56 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 14, 2020, 02:39:29 PM
Why would you aim at 2004, of all the years?

2004 was fucking terrible.

Well, yes.  To warn you about 2005.

Did I miss anything interesting from 2006 to now?

Nothing major, but, uh, if you could spike Donald Trump's cocaine, that'd be great.

Oh good lord jesus fuck, that's just made things worse  :horrormirth:
#100
Bring and Brag / Re: P3nT's Shoops
January 14, 2020, 06:31:08 AM
Best way to keep them docile in my experience
#101
Only Maybe Arts Lab / Re: IN SUMMATION
January 12, 2020, 11:26:33 PM
#102
Bring and Brag / Re: P3nT's Shoops
January 12, 2020, 08:08:05 PM

#103
I apologise for my complete lack of remorse.
#104
I'll take the Chariot if nobody else wants it 8)

#105
Bring and Brag / Re: P3nT's Shoops
November 18, 2019, 07:09:22 PM
Thanks man!