Letter to my GP:

Dear Sirs,
I’ve no idea to whom I should address this as the text message I’ve received simply says, “The GP”.  How impersonal.  I therefore have no choice but to leave this, similarly, impersonal.
 
The text message I received this morning refers to a request… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Cont:

Well, I won’t use the appropriate two-word response but let’s put it this way, if you think I would sit here waiting two weeks for this, you don’t know me at all, then again, you don’t know me.  Thanks but no thanks.  I wouldn’t pay you £160 to do your duty, the one you… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Many years ago now, 2011 to be precise, I followed every step of my intellectual hero’s journey with oesophageal cancer. He died in December of that year. He hadn’t recognised the symptoms, not everyone gets them and like almost all sufferers, his was diagnosed late. 1/ Christopher Hitchens was a rare and special man in my life and his death was a blow. For nearly 18 months I had been ignoring or playing down my own symptoms. Barely two months after his death, I wrote this about my own experiences:

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So I awoke this morning to discover that the US compound in Erbil, Iraq (housing a new Consulate) was hit by multiple Grad missiles launched from near Tabriz in Iran. No US casualties reported. A map below to assist geography. 1/8 There appear to be various theories, from pirate action by Iranian separatists to Iran claiming the missiles were targeting secret Israeli bases. Interestingly, Biden had let it be known he was trying to buy Iranian oil to make up the shortfall from sanctions on Russia. 2/8

The Devil’s Drug
So, five or more years ago, my wife was diagnosed with Pulmonary fibrosis, a potentially fatal condition. The cause, which the medical profession has known since the day I was born: Nitrofurantoin. That was the same year it was licensed by the FDA.
@Atul_Gawande This antibiotic is widely used. She had been taking it for five years. No one had done any kind of follow up, even though this is recommended, as a precaution against PF, after one month. She had been under investigation for almost two years for pulmonary issues.

Since receiving “that letter”, I’ve had tears rolling down my face while my furrowed brow aches, horribly. I’m questioning why. I had zero expectations so why?
It’s the death of the gossamer thread of hope, I think. With that letter, all hope of a civil end to this evaporates. 1/ I am, apparently, at war with my government and, that ultimately means, with my own state, my own country, the nation I love.
I’ve committed no crime but my rights and my freedom have been taken. I am a leper in my own home. 2/

I recently wrote to my MP. It’s true that I provided more opinion than was pertinent to my question but I felt just as strongly that it needed to be said. This ignoramus has been my MP for 24 yrs, not that I would vote for him - or any other. He’s a New Zealand dentist, by trade. He’s an obnoxious idiot by profession. But he’s my only route to the mechanism of government so in that 24 yrs I’ve written to him 5/6 times. I’ll post my email to him and the response received today, and let you be the judge. The best that can be said is that he took the time…

SARS-Cov-2, a quick explanation:
1. Developed in a laboratory in Wuhan funded by US taxpayers under the direction of Tony Fauci and his “Gain of Function” cult.
2. First transported to Lombardy by Chinese migrant workers in September 2019.
1/ 3. For most healthy adults it represents no threat at all. Some will have no reaction whatever, some will suffer symptoms varying from a mild cold to a bad dose of flu. (Mine was the latter).
4. Older people and those with a damaged metabolism lack sufficient t-cell immunity 2/

Had a visit today from a young man, and his delightful and intelligent partner. We first met 20 yrs ago when he came to me looking for a holiday job, before starting Uni. He claimed he was a programmer, didn’t mind what programming I asked him to do, as long as it wasn’t... ...”web programming”. I explained that might be a problem as within ten years, there wouldn’t be any other programming. He shrugged and we shook hands. After a very short while, I came to realise I had that rare thing on my hands, that rarity known as genius.

Folks, I'd like to listen up for a moment, if you would.
I'd especially like you to listen up if you're male and doubly so if you've had treatment for cancer at any time in your life. For everyone else who uses the NHS, I'd like you to listen to, so that's everyone, then. 1/ I want to tell you stuff no one tells you. I want to alert you to ask questions, to find answers and to take no crap from the medical profession, especially the NHS, lying down, if you'll pardon the expression.

As some of you know, I contracted lung cancer back in 2012 2/

Yesterday I was at my local TESCO’ store buying a large bag of Winalot dog food for my loyal pet and was in the checkout queue when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog.

What did she think I had, an elephant? So, since I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her: that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Winalot Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn't, because I ended up in hospital last time, but I'd lost 2 stone before I woke up in intensive care with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.2/4

@Conservatives @UKLabour @LibDems @HouseofCommons

To all Honourable and Right Honourable Members of Parliament, please hear this:

In 2015 all Tory, LibDem and Labour MPs stood on a manifesto that promised the people an In/Out Referendum on leaving the EU. @Conservatives @UKLabour @LibDems @HouseofCommons Parliament voted by a substantial majority to hold a Referendum by 544 to 53 in favour.

Back in 1985, there were two major topics of conversation, amongst others I'm sure. One was the enduring famine in Ethiopia which, night after night, brought us memorable pictures of starving children with distended bellies by Michael Buerk 1/ In stark contrast, the second item was the continuing inefficiency of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Economic Community (EEC). As a result of subsidising inefficient farming industries, particularly in France and Italy but also in this country 2/

A thread for the tediously bored.
Bored on a Sunday afternoon, bored with the constant downward spiral of service, quality, professionalism. I've been having some trouble getting any common sense out of my local water company @SES_Business @SESWater 1/ They've been taking our money but failing miserably to account for it, in the sense of sending recognisable invoices and other basic stuff like that.
This extract from their annual accounts may be the reason: 2/