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Oh dear, @Wonko, what a palaver for no helpful change. :cry: :mad: :mad:

OH got a message from our GP yesterday asking him to enrol in the Principle Trial on Covid. He filled in a form to sign up, then got told he wasn't eligible. Shrug and roll eyes.

While it sounds as if Liverpool CCG has done a good job, speaking as somebody living in Liverpool, it's bloody useless. We rang our GP to ask if I could be put on the vulnerable list as 1. I was over 70 2. OH is approaching 75 3. I have high rates for PIP of both Mobility and Care and I'm...

OK folks, this isn't about getting food, but there have been a few posts about getting sanitizer as well as food so this seemed a reasonable place to put it? Last couple of years OH has given me a couple of bottles of expensive gin (Warner's) for my birthday. So I joined their email List, as...

Oh, I "hear" you on that! I never answer my phone anyway as don't want to get scammed. :rolleyes: But something like this could be run via WhatsApp maybe? Can upload photos if needed, and it's basically text based. Not sure how good privacy is if it needs to run in a group. Or how it could be...

They've done this in Ceredigion too. (Apologies for all the adverts in the linked article!) Some interesting graphs about the surrounding authorities compared to Ceredigion.

Hi @Wonko, we couldn't get hand sanitiser either, but OH is using surgical spirit when he goes out. He also uses it on our front door handle (into porch, left unlocked for deliveries) and door bell. And anything he feels needs swabbing down. Carries it in a small plastic box with him, with a...

As promised, here's a rather belated review of the food box we had delivered on Sunday. It's a box of mixed meat, veg and fruit, from a place called Farm to Fork. Delivers in Manchester, Stockport, Liverpool and Wirral, haven't managed to find out if it delivers elsewhere. A box for 2 people is...

Sending you strengthening vibes and a hug, @TheBassist. :hug: It's all such a blithering waste of time and energy. Really loathe these dreadful people. Good luck with the Mandatory Reconsideration. :emoji_four_leaf_clover:

Jees, just noticed that the Older People were only over 65. No hope for me then - over 70. Though I don't think my kids would leave me to the mercy of any trial run by or bigged up by MS - think I educated them about him as well as SW.

I think he said they've recruited two and a half thousand patients in Medical Wards (where you have to be very sick to be admitted) and most of them were cognitively impaired or had dementia. So how could they give informed consent? Oh, of course, their relatives would have given it. They don't...

I just got refused priority from Waitrose after getting in touch with them, as I can't prove I'm over 70. I might get back to them and argue this with them in view of your post @Tao Fogger - surely the government can prove I'm over 70, and also that I have top rate of Care and Moving Around (or...

Parsley is slow to germinate. Apparently it has to go down to the devil seven times before it can do so! ;) 250 seeds for your mixed salad will probably last you the whole summer. Each seed will grow into a whole lettuce, or I suppose you could cut and come again. Even with that I imagine you...

When @Graham was looking into making a cognitive test I suggested he looked at the Stroop Test. I've tried doing this test, and it's mind bogglingly difficult! :rofl: I bet ME/CFS patients will do worse than the general public. Not much use for colour blind people though.

And that newspaper article cites the Bristol creepy one's research into LP too, to try prove it's a good idea to do this research. :rolleyes:

'Llamas are the real unicorns': why they could be our secret weapon against coronavirus

I subscribe to the UK Government "announcements". Mostly I just delete unread, but I have just been looking at the latest one on the "Scientific evidence" for re-opening schools for years R, 1, and 6...

I see that Paul Garner is in Liverpool. Notorious for some of its ME so called research. I was actually diagnosed by Fred Nye (Infectious Diseases) and he was really helpful. He used to spend a lot of time helping patients to get the benefits they were entitled to. And then he joined the enemy...

I've tried to keep up with this thread, but struggle quite often. So apologies if this has been posted already - I just saw it posted by a friend on FB, and thought it was really interesting. ‘Finally, a virus got me.’ Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects on facing death from COVID-19

Shame the UK gov can't be bothered.