There follows a guest post by Daily Sceptic reader Julie Sandliands, who was inspired by our recent post on spreading a little scepticism to write about her recent visit to the Covid time warp that is her local dentist. If other readers have more stories of spreading their scepticism amongst unsuspecting Covidians, email us here.
I try to be nice. I really do. When approached by a mask-wearing individual, jumping into a busy road in an attempt to keep a sensible social distance, I fight the eyeball rolling, tutting and shaking of head urges. I tend to look in the opposite direction whilst reverse counting from five to one. Mostly this tactic not only saves the other individual from my irritation, but also keeps my stress at a healthy level. Yes, your mask doesn’t protect me from either respiratory viruses or a decline in mental health.
However, it was an emergency visit to the dentist that tested my patience and even reverse-counting, repeatedly, had absolutely no effect.
A nasty abscess on a back upper tooth was causing some discomfort. However, it was a beautiful sunny spring morning, and despite looking like a lopsided hamster, all was well with the world.
As I walked into the reception area, two masked receptionists looked up from their screens:
Receptionist 1: You can’t just come in here.
Me, smiling: Good morning… Why not?
Receptionist 2: It’s to keep everybody safe.
Me, looking around: Safe from what?
Receptionist 2: Covid. It’s the rules.
Me looking around again: But there’s no one here apart from us!
Receptionist 2: It doesn’t matter, and you need to wear a mask.
Me: Sorry, I’m unable to wear a mask… Erm, so what should I have done, you know, to speak to you?
Receptionist 2: You should’ve waited outside and we’d have come and got you.
Me: But how would you know I’m outside to come and get me?
Receptionist 1, incredulous: You come in and tell us you’re here!
Me: Ah, I see. Do you want me to do that now or are you happy that I am here and would like to make an emergency appointment?
I returned that afternoon at 2pm, determined to be a nice person. I followed the instructions I had been given that morning; I went into the spacious, well-ventilated reception area and told the two masked receptionists I had arrived. I then went back outside and sat on one of the two plastic chairs in a narrow hallway. A couple of minutes later one of the receptionists appeared wearing: a mask, a visor, a plastic pinny and a pair of royal blue plastic gloves.
Receptionist: Do you have any symptoms?
Me, tapping my ear whilst cocking my head to one side: I’m sorry I can’t hear you.
Receptionist, much louder: Do you have any symptoms?
Me: Yes, I am in a lot of pain and the left-hand-side of my face is swollen.
Receptionist, even louder: No, do you have any Covid symptoms?
Me, slightly irritated and at the same volume: No, and I wouldn’t be standing here if I did!
Receptionist, reduced volume: Could you use the hand sanitiser please?
Me: No, it’s carcinogenic and plays havoc with my atopic dermatitis, sorry eczema…
Receptionist, handing me a blue surgical mask: Can you put this on?
Me: No!
Receptionist, irritated: Ah, you like being a rebel, do you?
Me: That’s an interesting choice of word, “rebel”. Do you mean like the harmless rebel student who never wears a school tie?
Receptionist, retracting the mask but at the same time raising her right hand, grasping a forehead thermometer gun: I’m going to take your temperature.
Me, huge sigh: I wouldn’t bother, I’m having a hot flush. Damned menopause!
Not another word was uttered. Twenty minutes later, tooth extracted and £122 poorer, I left waving cheerily at safely clad personnel, both of whom ignored my friendly gesture for yet another screen fix. Oh well, I tried. I really did! Perhaps, next time, a piece of cotton around the offending tooth tied to a door handle would be less painful for all concerned.
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Well done you.
What is the matter with these people?
An awful lot of people are sadists. Certain professions attract them. It’s why fascist dictatorships happen.
And some, often the same people, are intergalactically stupid
And will unquestioningly follow “the rules” even when the rules are obviously moronic.
Obviously Omicron. ‘They’ are laughing at us whilst the masses lap it up. Or should I say, vax it up! Yes I know it’s not a vaccine.
Last weekend we had a Whitsun Fayre. Lots of stalls selling artisan produce. They still had these stupid airport style barriers up so that people had to walk along the given route with Way In and Way out.
I am sure they did it to force you to walk past EVERY stall and increase the chance you might get tempted, instead of having the ability to cut across and just go to stalls of my choosing.
I’m afraid that, just as during my reluctant visits to an IKEA store, I insist on walking counter to the arrows projected onto the floor. Some supermarkets (again, visited under protest) still have floor markings which I happily ignore. The plastic screens separating the (valued?) customers from the checkout staff are more than enough to ward off any risk of catching a virus stupid enough to respect one-way systems.
Rules are made for the guidabce of men and the obedience of fools.
Guidance
intergalactically stupid
I like that.
Thank you very much.
I composed that one myself, to describe Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Use it freely.
You mean – like house painters ….?
Inflicting pain and wanting to keep everyone safe seems to be why they become dentists. I had exactly the same situation at my dentist last autumn. Generally, if you ignore them they go away and plague someone else, but you really do have to stand your ground.
The other problem are the acres of plastic screens still in place everywhere.
Undiagnosed mental illness.
I had similar demands during an attempt at a visit to the dentist early this year. I simply took my business to a practice that didn’t make access to the services contingent on complying with silly, unscientific rules.
They should have given you an appointment at 2.30!
They extracted the tooth whilst there was an abscess?
In my experience of several dental abscesses the routine is to give antibiotics until the abscess is clear, then treat.
Removing a tooth with an abscess comes with a higher degree of risk that is necessary.
Also likely to end in a visit to A&E for treatment.
Note to featured scepticism-spreader: I would seriously consider checking if this particular practice is genuine. Sounds more like you inadvertently walked into somebody’s household where their children were “playing dentists”
That’s British dentistry for you. Most of the time antibiotics will clear it, and worst case should be a root canal and a crown on the tooth.
I think I’ve sussed you out, cunt. You keeping tally, aren’t you, boy? Taking records.
An emergency dental appointment same day??
My late mother was a dental nurse. If I remember correctly (and assuming advice hasn’t changed) if it’s an abscess on an upper tooth they expect it will drain naturally.
Correct when I had an abscess I was on antibiotics for a week. It was not until a week after that the tooth was extracted.
It has not been a legal requirement to wear a face-covering (mask) anywhere in the UK since 27 January 2022. There is only guidance, and that means exactly that (not enforceable). If you are refused treatment (for not wearing a nappy) then they are breaking The NHS constitution (legal).
Come on! This cannot be a verbatim transcript of the conversation that took place, surely? No receptionist could be as obtuse as that, could they?
This sounds a lot like the behaviour of intimidating spotty high-school prefects who have been given the directive to bully their underling class of pupils into submission.
“It’s Covid! It’s the rules! Now salute and genuflect and do as you’re told.”
Unfortunately, it sounds pretty accurate to the behaviour my parents have experienced going in for emergency dental work. Dental surgeries seem to be particularly nuts. Even on the phone, the staff are brusque and demanding. And this week my folks, having booked their check-ups months ago, got told their appointments have been cancelled again.
Dentists seem to be going private en masse. We now have the worst of all situations: private dental care as standard, which in most countries would be part of a private insurance plan, not being accessible on affordable private insurance plans in the UK because of the NHS monopoly making it unfeasibly expensive…
Yeah what is it with dentists?
But I’m not sure I follow you: Are you telling me private dental care has been resorted to, to the extent that it is standard? I didn’t think it was THAT bad. I mean, people are en masse resorting to private dentists because of the impractically long waiting lists with the NHS practices that can’t service people’s more-or-less urgent needs.
I would have thought, with the vast number of people now gravitating to private dental care who would have otherwise secured treatment with the NHS, the situation would be the reverse of what you suggest, i.e. the private healthcare system having a monopoly over the NHS.
What is it with dentists Indeed.
Up here in Sturgeons Disney Land, our Chief Scientist who is the Flu Guru, is a dentist called Jason Leitch. A complete nutter who is trotted out daily as an expert on everything including football on the radio.
Oh, he’s still around is he? I haven’t heard from him for a while but then I’ve stopped reading/watching any MSM. I’ve never heard the term “Flu Guru’ before but I very much like it and will use it in future if you don’t mind. I expect he’ll be back come August when the vaccine pressure starts up again.
My routine dental check-up was cancelled as the ‘pandemic’ hit and I was informed by text that I would be contacted when they could see me again.
Time went by, never got another text, so a couple of weeks ago decided to check out whether they’d see me, especially as so many people are having real difficulties getting to see a dentist.
Went to their website and was pleasantly surprised to see that they are still seeing their current NHS patients and are happy to take on new NHS patients as well. Also they make it plain: no masks.
I gave them a phone call and left a message and an hour or so later got a call back with an apology for not having been in touch regarding the re-scheduling of the original cancelled appointment and asking if i could come in on June 15th.
Very cheery and pleasant as well.
I have to say I was actually not expecting that response at all.
The NHS (and allied services) seem to make a point of never mentioning face-nappy exemptions either in person or on their notices.
So I don’t think there’s any need to justify to them as a result!
“Can you please wear a mask” (I’ve omitted the question mark as the tone is always an order not a question)
“No”
Or if feeling particularly polite “No, afraid not”
They don’t usually challenge this – probably been told not to get into a debate. Of course, if they want one I’m quite willing to have one, and ask them to explain how the nappies can be said to work when it’s invisible in all infection stats everywhere. Same with antisocial distancing.
I got a letter to attend an NHS premises for a physio session. It told me that mask wearing was mandatory and that I’d be issued with a ‘proper’ one. Also, I mustn’t get there early (or late, come to that).
I duly attended (unmasked) and nobody seemed to bother. The receptionist (behind a screen) was unmasked, while the physio met me masked, treated me unmasked and then masked up again to see me out. I presumed that she wore it to placate the bedwetting colleagues who would otherwise object.
In the waiting area as I left were an elderly man with a mask worn under his chin, and a younger woman (worryingly overweight, natch) with a mask covering only her mouth. Both, one imagines, felt themselves somehow ‘protected’.
I hope you save these vignettes. See if you can find some Monty Python alumni to re-enact them in a movie. It would be a big hit … if we still had movie theaters.
so basically its deadly virus until it isn’t and someone changes their mind in which case its fine, is it me or are people getting dumber?
They are definitely getting more ovine, that’s for sure!
Unkind to real sheep!
Oor Woolly?
People are getting dumber. It’s not you, it’s them. I went to a U3A monthly meeting 3 months ago and 1 woman was sitting right at the back, covered head to toe, gloved, glasses, huddled up in fear. Why bother to go out? She used to be such a logical person. Vallance etc and the group who encouraged fear have a lot to answer for
Yes, the U3A. I went to an evening last week where the booking was made for several people and we all moved round during the evening to get to know people.
I had thought that this would be an ideal way to kickstart my social life having done nothing very much in the last two years. The first conversations more or less after initial introductions were about the war and how Biden was just an old man and Trump was terrible because he didn’t pay his taxes.I sat fairly quietly and uttered something in the realms of there being two sides to a story (didn’t want to rock the boat obviously).
We moved tables for the second course and I was again seated to the same woman on my left who immediately brought up the subjct of the vaccine. She turned to me and asked me if I had had it. I didn’t reply, mainly as I thought she was being rude and also because I hadn’t been quick enough to answer in a manner which would have silenced her. She then strongly berated me, telling me her daughter was a surgeon etc, etc and finally remembered some manners when the organiser returned to our table. She then continued the conversation with him, discussing how wonderful the vaccines were, she was due to have her fourth in two days and when was he having his fourth.
Incredible ignorance, the point is these people will never listen to anyone else, they are always right.
I shall be speaking to the organiser and letting him know my feelings on the matter shortly but in general they are all sheep in that organisation. Don’t bother.
A polite but clear “no thanks”, followed by a chuckle and a little shake of the head has always worked for me.
Masks are now a religious ritual. It’s a bit like taking your shoes off before entering a temple. No particular reason why, it’s just what’s expected of you.
As I’m not a member of the COVID cult and I don’t regard dental practices as hollowed ground, not to mention the fact I’m paying them to sort out my teeth, they can f*ck off with their rituals.
Even the basements?
Hallowed?
I’ve told this tale before but it may help illuminate what we’re up against.
Last year, I had a similar experience to this at the vets.
Long story short, during the ‘experience’, I asked the manager what she thought the Covid IFR was and she said 15%. When I asked the Vet, he said 5%. I set them straight but this is what we are still up against I suspect. There appears to be pockets of people (and probably large pockets at that) who still believe that there’s a plague like virus stalking the land and indiscriminately killing anyone it comes across regardless of how fit and healthy they are.
We’ve changed vets by the way.
It’s now been 27 months since official Covid was announced. Ask people how many people that they personally knew who were under the age of 70 died from Covid?
For most people, if they are honest, the answer is going to be zero. For some it might be one or two people. Two deaths of people under retirement age who died from Covid – one death every 13.5 months? For this mortality risk, we turned the world upside down?
I am 66. I don’t know anyone who has died from Covid. I do know a number of people who have suffered health issues as a consequence of being jabbed.
Same as me. I don’t know anyone who required hospital treatment because of it either. Two people I know apparently had the coof in 2020, but they both stayed at home and recovered within a week.
Mind you, one of these has had 3 jabs since, and has developed heart problems. He is waiting for an operation to insert a stent, but no doubt this is pure coincidence.
It’s quite the thing round where we live for gentlemen of a certain age to be waiting for a stent. A heart monitor is the accessory du jour and there are quite a few heart valves needing replaced too. We live in what is described as a leafy suburb and the vaccine uptake is very high as everyone is keen to conform.
I’m 75 and don’t know anyone who has died of covid. In Dec 20, however, I had an emergency op Our wonderful NHS ambulance service had an 8 hour wait. Luckily my doc told husband to take me ASAP to A and E . I had 4 hours to live!! So you’ll forgive me if I couldn’t give a fffff about covid and the stupidity of masks, distancing etc
Not just under 70 – straight question of ‘how many people did you personally know who died from Covid’. For most it will still be zero.
Zero for me.
I added the “under 70” description because I personally knew three people who died from Covid. They were all females. One was 70, one was 80, one was 81.
I knew three people who died from Covid (It’s possible one or more of these might have died “with” Covid not from it). But I didn’t personally know anyone under the age of 70 who died from this disease.
This explanation and details added, I agree with your statement that “most” people don’t know anyone who died form Covid. “Most” people would be 50 percent of the population plus one person.
Think about it. Most people are at or under the median age of about 39. These people don’t know many very old people. They would know their grandparents and a few elderly neighbors or church friends. So the people most likely to die – those 81 and older – the young people are very unlikely to have personally known.
Every Convid death is a mislabelled death – ie a case of death certificate forgery, as opposed to someone who legitmately died of a novel virus that doesnt exist nor that has ever been proven to exist. All they require for a convid death is a bent positive PCR test or other trickery. The convid deaths are an illusion – a very effective magic trick involving adjustments to a previously watertight death certificate registration process which was altered and made slack to engineer the scam. Yet another massive story which gets swept under the carpet – the changes to the rules relating to death certs. These are peoples deaths which are being screwed with here – a most sacred moment – and these deaths and the souls they represent are being routinely used and abused by the sick vile taxpayer-funded scumbags in Her Majestys Government to sell their lies about a novel virus so they can terrorise six year old children in to signing up for a clinical trial for a gene therapy bioweapon which causes their cells to make toxic proteins which were designed in a lab, plus its a gateway scam to lead into their other scams – like the abolition of cash – an ancient human activity which is about to be flushed away just because these scumbags (who use child rape as a bargaining tool) want the abolition of cash, so they can ruin and control peoples lives even more.
The Convid IFR is said to be 0.1 to 0.2 percent (the alleged super killer mega virus was confirmed as a nothing burger early in 2020 at the start of the scamdemic by the most qualified on Earth to make these assessments – see link for details) – same as influenza. Influenza went missing when convid kicked off. Therefore, the scammers want people to believe (and most people reading this site seem to be going along with this bullcrap) that influenza vanished because covid “knocked it out” and took over, but it just so happens that convid (supposedly a super mega like never seen before death virus spawned from the deadliest gain fo function bat virus experiments EVER) and influenza have the same IFR and affect exactly the same demographic. Maybe the lying scamming never honest in history pieces of filth running this obvious scam rigged the deck so that all influenza cases were relabelled convid. Its not that hard to see how they have done this. It doesnt make you a tin foil hat wearing loon to point out the bleeding obvious, just because its not what the duped morons and their scamming seniors at The Times or The Independent want people to think.
This issue of convid being a complete scam deserves utmost attention. Our world is being stolen on the back of a blatant scam. If you go along with their scam about a novel virus, when its so obvious that no such thing exists, it leaves the door wide open for future, more pernicious health scams – like the monkeyscam they are trying to hatch as we speak, being given credence by ALL the usual suspects. Convid is a fictional made up illness fabricated out of forged death certificates and an evil international terrorist agenda. Whats the UK death toll these days, have we hit a million convid deaths yet. Every single one of those convid deaths is a lie and a satanic violation of the life and souls whose death certificates have been fabricated, at the behest of scum like Matt Hancock. Look at how low grade the humans promoting this crap are – Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock, Neil Ferguson, Patrick Vallance, Chris Whitty, Dominic Raab……these people are crooks, common criminals just with money and power, not people to be trusted with anything of value, let alone freedom itself.
This article explains the death certificate protocol changes in the UK, including links. Please read and share it, because this is the kind of thing that is provable and can wake people up. The scammers in the government made criminal changes to the death cert procedures to facilitate death cert forgery AND they banned autopsies on convid deaths. Surely people arent so braindead that they cannot see how that wreaks of scam and agenda.
COVID 19 is a Statistical Nonsense
https://in-this-together.com/covid-19-is-a-statistical-nonsense/
Whever I ask that question I get a lie in response. Usually it is in one of two formats. For example:
I agree; skeptical follow-up questions would rule out most of these alleged “from Covid” deaths.
I still don’t know of anyone who has had the Great Plague, never mind anyone who has gone to hospital or died from it. Where are all these sick people l read about?
I’m 56. In 2020, post the arrival of covid, I lost (as in they died) 5 people known personally to me; a cousin, a schoolfriend, a current and two former colleagues. A stroke, cancer twice, pancreatic disorder and fatal climbing accident. I don’t personally know anyone who died, was in ICU or even in hospital nor required any treatment beyond a few days in bed with some Lemsip.
On another note, I can thoroughly recommend CJ Hopkins book ‘The rise of the new normal reich’. He gets it.
I recently went to the local chemist (national chain) when masks were required. All the staff were wearing them including the dispensing chemist; presumably the best medically educated. He was, perhaps deliberately, wearing his mask below his nose…the rebel.
Our doctor’s surgery is still plastered everywhere with ‘wear a mask’ signs. None of the receptionists wear one. When will the nonsense end?
When they find they have real problems to worry about, like perhaps having to spend half of their income on food.
Coming.
There will never be “the last booster”!
I like the one the Chinese takeaways print out which just says :
“WEAR FACE MASK”
…..with a picture of some creepy looking computer man wearing a mask.
Considering where it came from, they have some nerve…
Ugh, who goes there? I have been sourcing non Chinese places and goods for years ever since the fifties when a lot of cats went missing.
I’ve just been in Sainsbury’s and the young Asian on the checkout was in a full black mask and I couldn’t hear what he was saying. I asked him why he was wearing it and he said he’d just got used to it now.
I followed with a kindly talk about how dangerous they are to your health and said I hoped next time I came in he would not be wearing it.
I’ve never worn a mask in my dentist, even at the height of covid restrictions when they were dressed like there’d been an outbreak of Ebola.
I went again a few weeks ago, and though they still ask for masks, a polite ‘sorry I can’t wear one’ didn’t cause any problems, and at least some of the patients waiting weren’t wearing them either.
The dentists weren’t covered in PPE this time, however they still wore masks and face shields, but that was their choice apparently – not required any more. To be honest I don’t have a problem with dentists wearing masks or shields as dentistry requires very close contact with the patient and there are other, nastier bugs you can catch such as hepatitus and AIDS which the PPE might offer some protection against.
I was in an NHS hospital yesterday (felt like the Marie celeste due to the bank holiday, but that’s another story…), and they were still requiring masks, but no fuss was made of me not wearing one.
The dental practice I go to stopped pushing masks ages ago. The dentist, associated clinical room staff and hygienist have always – pre / post covid, worn a mask, face shield, gloves, apron during treatment and cleaned the chair etc between patients – normal, acceptable practice to me. What I do take umbrage at is the additional £15 added to hygienist treatment costs ‘for PPE’ when they are not doing anything different to their previous good practice.
Brilliant! Well done!
This dialogue ought. as they say, to go viral.
Why not put all those jobsworths in the stocks from 6:00pm on Friday evening to 6:00pm on Monday morning every weekend for the next six months?
And make them pay for the rotten fruit to be thrown at them.
My partner’s dentist may have a psychologist advising them.
When you walk in and you are asked “do you have a mask?
My partner says “no I’m exempt”. I’m asked and I say I don’t wear masks. Receptionist clearly isn’t happy but nothing else is said.
When I’m waiting for her another patient walks in and is asked the same question. When she says no they say they sell them for 50p but on this occasion they will let her have it for free and she puts it on.
There are some people out there who have loved every minute of it all and don’t want to see it end – they got off exploiting their ‘emergency powers‘ to bully people around. The masks, the social distancing, the restrictions, the testing, the vaccines and vaccine passports – they have absolutely loved this stuff and they find it hard to let go and never want it to end – this is their ‘Blitz’ moment. To you and I the face covering, the hectoring of the maskless, the limit on our freedoms it was all an abomination and yet there are a bunch of people out there who resist the return to normal lives again and want a life of restrictions and absurd rules to return again because their normal lives weren’t great to begin with until covid came along. A virus with a 99+% survival rate has been the most exciting thing to ever happen to them in their boring dull lives – they were in a rut before covid came along and yearned for excitement and meaning to their lives – the battle for survival against a deadly virus – getting out early to beat the rush of the daily queue for shopping -following the arrows on shop floors – the fight for the last packet of toilet roll – they’ve loved it all and don’t want it to end ever. They dismissed herd immunity because in reality they feared it – herd immunity meant going back to their hum-drum lives once again and nothing to show for their commitment of two years of meaningless self sacrifice – better to talk about the jabs instead – keep the jabs going – have a tatoo done where they were jabbed four times.
These people are pathetic – time to start filling their lives with something more meaningful – something that doesn’t hassle the rest of us.
Right on. We need to look at psychology to explain these deep recesses of human behaviour. For anyone unfamiliar, have a look at Prof. Desmet’s work on free-floating anxiety and mass formation psychosis.
Twats. Twats. Twats.
The early part of the story read like something out of M Python.
Next scene. Knives and AR-15 assault rifles. Calmness returns.
I am pleased to report that this is not my experience of the dentist. The Government needs to declare the panicdemic formally over and ban institutions from imposing local rules on the public when they lack the force of law behind them. Since the Covid crisis was largely invented in the Government communications department, surely they can now send out a message declaring the all clear?
Do not doubt there aren’t some accounts here who take notes against you and your “radicalised” comments. One account seems fishy and a bit too jovial.
This thing about ‘keeping us safe‘. It’s yet more utterly infantile rambling; it’s not thought out at all, and they somehow believe that all you need do is say something and it becomes reality/potent.
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And …
In the gov response to the petition regarding WHO Pandemic Treaty: COVID-19 has demonstrated that no-one is safe until we are all safe, ….
Just what the hell does ‘no one is safe until we are all safe’ actually mean ferchrissakes? It’s utterly nonsensical, and it infuriates me.
I drove my ex wife to an eye appointment. Neither of us wore masks. “I have sleep apnoea” she told them. ” l have cerebral function” I said.
Clearly they like the perceived control over us and won’t give it up easily.
I have carried around for 2+ years print outs of the most recent and damming empirical evidence about vaccine and mask toxicity and as soon as one of these lunatics says anything I hand them my evidence and ask for theirs… in 2 years I’ve never had anyone hand me back any evidence or even be able to cite their own. To say I have an ‘attitude’ is an understatement but hey-ho, I get to laugh last.
Brilliant….I
I live in Scotland and last week attended a meal in a very small private hotel as part of a 3 day wedding weekend – don’t ask, just don’t go… Anyway, we had to wear masks in the public areas but not in the dining room. Masks were provided when you entered the building and were worn for all of about 10 metres to get to the dining room then removed. The staff wore masks while serving. I did’t go to the toilet but masks would have had to have been worn then as getting there involved walking though a public area. It was just ludicrous but some people took it very seriously. Sadly I feel we’re in this pantomime for ever.
As others have said, it has all the hallmarks of a religious ritual.
It’s just a real pity that non-believers have to go along with it. I’ve just been to a local shop on a west coast island which has a fresh sign outside which says “No mask, no entry”. The staff person is behind a plastic screen and has a mask round her neck fo when she’s not behind the screen. There is no other shop for 17 miles…
Not legal surely?
I have a use a private dental practice that has been entirely sceptic from the outset . When I first went in 2020, the receptionist gave a loud sigh of relief when I made it clear I wasn’t a member of the cult, and we had a chat about the psychological warfare. Then I had a nice chat with the dentist and hygienist about what a load of bollocks it all was from a medical perspective. All procedures were normal throughout, except they were forced to wear a respirator for drill work. There were no screens anywhere, but they installed some new air filtration equipment (probably just an AC unit) to try and keep any zomby customers from shitting themselves.
Thanks for the giggle. Made my morning a little happier.
Excellent piece, very well written. Thanks for sharing. Makes my interactions with Specsavers last week seem positively hostile (but they deserved it).
Whats a dentist??? Moved back to Mid Norfolk 5 years ago from Hampshire .Registered with local BUPA dental place in Town. However they have not got enough dentists ,pre covid so no check ups etc. Now post covid I do need some work .Same situation. Thought I could go private. Tried a couple in town .Both have closed their waiting lists for private work as they have 200 plus people on them ?????
Nearest town with vacancies .on lists suggested is Skegness , only 70 miles away and a 2 hour plus drive. What a joke .
It’s a cult
So called ‘nice’ people make the best Nazis.
Excellent performance. I’m afraid I would have lost my rag straight away. I’ve now been banned from two vets for questioning their Nazi covid rules and in the last instance their common sense and intelligence, both of which they are meant to have an abundance. But sadly not in this case.
Back in January after painstakingly making the decision, I took my elderly sick Black Labrador Josh to be PTS. He was on his last legs poor old boy. As you can imagine I was in a fairly emotional state when I ‘phoned that Wednesday morning (in fact even now writing this is bringing tears to my eyes). I didn’t really take it in when the receptionist said I would have to take a LFT before I attended the surgery and told her I wouldn’t be doing any such thing. “Oh” she said reiterated the appointment time and bayed me good morning. Usually we aren’t allowed in without first reporting to the ‘laptop carrying’ receptionist in the car park and only then when we had the okay call from the vet. I was surprised therefore when the she came out and announced that we would have to have Josh put down outside whilst muttering something about my conversation with the receptionist that morning. Being in a bit of a haze I went along with it until we were ushered around the side and into a lawned garden. The vet informed me and my Partner that she would have to put Josh down under the threadbare gazebo were there was a filthy old vets bed on top of a patch of mud. She then left us in the freezing windswept rain whilst she went and “prepared” Josh. I don’t know what happened but something inside me snapped. My Partner and I looked at each other in total disbelief it was as if we were in another world. We decided that I should go into the vets and let them know how very unhappy we were and demand that Josh be PTS in a civilised humane way certainly not outside in the cold and rain under some grotesque piece of fabric in the mud. The receptionist was very sweet when I asked to see the vet and looked quite upset herself. The vet on the other hand was determined that I shouldn’t be there and that Josh was not (as far as she was concerned) going to be able to die in a dignified fashion. Either he died outside in appalling conditions with me and my Partner in attendance or inside alone with the vet, both of which were to us unacceptable. This despite the fact that all the rooms were empty and no one else was in the surgery. Reinforcement was called in the shape of another vet who only repeated the mantra. I was patronisingly given the option of going to another vet. This is when I questioned their supposed above average intelligence and the whole rotten corrupt covid narrative. Well you can imagine the rest! We ended up taking Joshy home. He lasted five more days. He even managed a couple of short walks bless him. He died the following Monday peacefully at home. By that time I had arranged for a specialist doggy cremation for him. It was all very well done with feeling and dignity. I had a letter from the vets a week or two later banning me but frankly I wouldn’t go back there for a million dollars.
Surprisingly I’ve never been banned from a pub but as I said I have now been banned from two vets practices that’s got to have some sort of Kudos – hasn’t it?
What a sad experience for you. I’m glad Josh passed peacefully and in a dignified manner in the end. You have to wonder who are the real sick animals at times!
Thank you you’re very kind.
OMG. Total sympathy. You must have been traumatised. That was beyond appalling and totally unprofessional. Can’t you report them to their professional organisation?
We’re facing the PTS scenario in the not-too-distant future and currently the vet still has a ‘one-person only per pet’ edict but I hope and pray that changes soon. I actually don’t know what the rules are for vets in Scotland (we live there) but there is an irritating message when you call about services taking longer “being post-pandemic” and I have no idea why that should be the case. We’ve still to wear masks and so do the vets and other staff. I’m so fed up of the whole Covid thing…
Thank you. Sorry to hear things are still bad “north of the border “. Sounds like you’re going to have a fight on your hands thanks to your wonderful leader! At least you’ve got David Scott (UK Column) a wonderful man.
Breaks my heart.
Truly fucking disgusting.
On the whole, I don’t regard vets as having the best interests of animals at heart anyway. If they did, then they wouldn’t be sooo bloody expensive, and have quite such a mark-up on their medicines etc. Pah!
Vets, doctors, police you name it my respect for them has gone out of the window in the last two years. It’s very sad apart from a few who’ve spoken out.
Well done. You did exactly the right thing.
Thank you.
Well done Julie for remaining nice and polite, and also for not giving in.
I had a tooth out early last month – no mask not questioned at all everyone else masked
Maskdroids – thoughtless automata.
I would have just said: “International conventions state you must provide fully informed consent for any medical intervention, including preventative, ie masks, and as no information or evidence exists for their effectiveness for stopping viral transmission, I do not consent.”
Great article Julie. I enjoyed reading it but feel so let down by my profession. It would be good to see dental practice personnel attending courses that use your experience to demonstrate how a dental practice should not go about dealing with patients who are only trying their best to cooperate and do the right thing.
£122 for an extraction? Did it involve use of a JCB digger or other heavy machinery?
And did it include a discount for needing to deal with the imbeciles in reception?
Same as vets, just a very lucrative job for most of them. Pirates trading in people’s pain/misery.
I left my to tooth during lockdown , rinsed with salt and water and it obligingly fell out by itself. Much easier.
There’s no point in being nice and non confrontational with such people.They are impervious to logic and common sense. Just treat them as mentally ill.
I fear you’re right 😔
I want to my dentist a few weeks back and had none of this obfuscation.
It was brilliant, no masks for patients, no thermodynamics just like the old days and they are regarded by the CQC as an outstanding practice.
Some people sadly live in fear………
In spite of the withdrawal of all CV-19 guidelines by the government last month the NHS is still implementing them. Currently at Royal South Hants and family member had treatment cancelled as declined LFT. It was only on getting stroppy on their behalf, quoting from studies from this site and a legal letter we had that treatment was re-offered while we waited. Others were not so fortunate – as we went through saw patients and their accompanying family member left in distress in lift/stairwell told it was Trust policy that no visitors were allowed not even into the practice waiting room.