Hundreds of patients in Glasgow are having face-to-face hospital appointments cancelled or rescheduled ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) which begins next week in the hope that this will help to clear up the roads. The Herald has the story.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said it would be increasing the number of virtual consultations and moving some face-to-face consultations to different times of the day in order to accommodate a “temporary increase in population” in the city over the two-week climate summit.
Patients began receiving letters over the past week notifying them of changes to their appointments.
It comes amid warnings that the event itself could trigger a fresh spike in Covid cases, piling preassure on an already overstretched NHS.
Health cheifs at neighbouring NHS Lanarkshire – where the majority of non-urgent elective surgeries have been paused since August – have now escalated its risk status to ‘Black’ and confirmed that a number of cancer procedures will be postponed. These will be rescheduled “as soon as possible”, they said.
One Glasgow patient with long Covid symptoms, who is due to see several specialists, told the Herald their face-to-face appointments had been changed suddenly to telephone consultations after months of waiting. …
[They said] that it was ironic patients were being switched to phone and video appointments to free up roads for climate deligates flying into Scotland who “really should have held their meetings virtually”.
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Clear the streets of these plebs, we need room for our imperial motorcades!
And our egos!
They don’t even feel obliged to pretend any more.
Jawhol..zis is a GREAT opportunity not to be mizzed fur ze RESET
The Mayor of London made Zil lanes for the Olympic Committee elites in 2012 causing mayhem for the rest of the populace. I can’t quite remember who the Mayor was.
if anyone can prove someone died as a result of this, johnson should be charged with at least manslaughter.
At minimum. What’s more important, the health of our suffering people or a talking shop for smug and privileged climate change activists that could be easily done online?
I think that you have answered your own question.
Krankie, after all the whinging bigot who can start a fight in an empty room is responsible for ill-health.
You are right. My blood pressure rises to astronomical highs when I see or hear her.
Johnson’s decisions on Covid, have already cost many tens of thousands of lives, but the smug fat boy is still waddling around scot free.
Its about priorities – there is important climate emergency virtue signalling to be done by the elites – besides the plebs are used to having hospital appointments cancelled and waiting months/years for medical care
they should all bog off and get their boosters, hopefully the death shots will work this time!
You mean they haven’t built Zil Lanes for the VIPs? Useless SNP!!
Another SNP fail then.
I expect that’s what all the ludicrously wide “cycle lanes” are for really…in the not too distant future anyway..
No the important ones will travel by eco friendly helicopter
If the climate religion is more important than peoples health then does that not tell you something about the covid religion? (ie it was never about health).
That’ll teach them to hold the eco bash in a failed state.
Not a chance; these people lack the learning genes!
You got to admire their priorities.
How do you have your haemorrhoids examined virtually?
In the old days you’d have used a photocopier and then faxed the image. Technology has improved though, maybe one of those virtual reality gloves. Hmmm, better have a discussion with my Dominatrix, I’ve been suffering withdrawal symptoms …..
I hope COP26 is a dismal failure, furthermore I hope the weather is freezing cold with no wind causing no wind power and an energy crisis in the UK at the same time.
What a colossal waste of time and money the whole thing is. There is no climate emergency and the whole thing is following exactly the same model as the pandemic response – because it’s being run by the same globalists.
don’t worry, the lights wont go of at COP26, they’ll just divert the hospital electricity supply to the conference – its all about priorities
…and they can burn the corpses of those who don’t get their treatment in time and subsequently die, to create free energy.
I believe it has been done in the past.
I read somewhere that they’ve had to get loads of diesel generators to charge their electric cars up! Honestly, you couldn’t make it up.
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1451870290921857026
https://twitter.com/sjdhatters/status/1451856785338421252
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1451857326835703813
it’s not ‘law’. Law is our ancient and inviolable Natural Law and Common Law. Decrees issued by politicians, and statutes enacted by parliament, are not Law.
video clip
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1451855896108322819
https://twitter.com/DanielScoland/status/1451434285928534016
That picture says more than many thousands of words ever could.
https://twitter.com/GillianMcKeith/status/1451223651118952458
https://twitter.com/Noconsent12/status/1451217352184549379
So after all the pain we have gone through to “save the NHS” the wicked sods are shutting it down so they can drive their cars without hindrance. I wonder if they are all virtuous electric models…
Look on the bright side – after several years of rat (the furry kind) infested streets, the SNP city council have finally got around to trying to do something about it.
Yes, a country on its knees insisting on carrying on with these shenanigans is truly no longer fit for purpose.
Whatever your feelings about climate change, holding this now, with Covid, the rise of online meetings, and a global energy crunch, it’s just dumb to meet in person. Although hard to hard offline personal talks you wouldn’t want public without meeting in person, and that is the real reason for the useless gathering.
For the people of Glasgow, my sympathies. Not just for Cop 26 delays but your poorly run NHS. But if you don’t want to hold your government responsible (at elections), I have to say this is your own mess. I’m sure the higher-ups figure another couple of days or weeks with that painful hip is worth the sacrifice to hold this meeting.
Wait a second; they just want it to appear more eco-friendly, don’t they? That’s what the CCP does when they host big events, ban cars to make it all look pretty and clean. Wow, just wow. Copying a tyrannical regime, can’t imagine it. I mean, who would follow the plans of the CCP that don’t actually change things overall just make the poor and ordinary suffer. Glad I’ve never had a government do that to me…oh, oh d@mn,,,
The people of Glasgow have voted this lot in (obviously not all of them did, but enough to make it happen).
An estimated 25,000 people will be involved in COP26, and guess what most of them will be flying in, staying in luxury, using gas-guzzling cars, clearing roads, denying locals heath treatment, costing taxpayers millions, emptying power stations etc…
Will they be subject to all the hassle we ordinary people have to put up with, of course, they won’t. Welcome to the PRGB.
I presume the members of the Supreme Soviet attending this disgusting boondoggle will be driven around in Zils.
Prince William, Kate Duchess of Cambridge and their three children were spotted at Heathrow Airport last week preparing for a half-term (jet) getaway.
The ones that were preaching climate change to the plebs at the recent Earthshot. One rule for us and another for them.. Hypocrites…
They have to keep hospital facilities clear in case Greta and her mates turn up and embrace Glasgow culture…