Last week, a paper was published in the Lancet that drew some alarming conclusions about the number of complications associated with COVID-19 hospital patients, generating a predictable number of alarming headlines. However, our in-house doctor has cast his eye over it and has spotted a number of flaws. Here is an extract:
My main criticism of this paper lies in the conclusions drawn from the data. The majority of the discussion section concentrates on the incidence of complications from acute Covid in hospitalised younger patients – defined as under 50 years of age. Yet only 12.6% of the sample size were under 50 years of age. Very little discussion is made of the other 87.4% of patients in the older age groups, who actually had the worst outcomes.
Major emphasis is laid on the incidence of renal complications seen in the younger subgroup and what implications that might have for the future health of the patients. Inference is drawn that such acute kidney injury may lead to higher risks of subsequent renal failure and heart disease in later life.
Yet the authors extrapolate those conclusions based on citations of other papers which do not reflect the subgroup of younger patients referred to in their own figures. In my view it is not reasonable to compare a group of patients under 50 experiencing transient acute kidney injury in the context of another acute disease with a cohort of much older patients having AKI after recent heart attacks (as in one of their citations). Equating the long-term outcomes from these two distinct groups is likely to be a flawed assumption.
I note with interest that the incidence of acute kidney injury as a proportion of overall complications in each age group decile up to the over 90s was remarkably consistent at between 32% and 35%. No distinction was made in the analysis between people requiring renal replacement with dialysis or filtration and those experiencing transient biochemical renal dysfunction that was correctable with intravenous fluid replacement and other simple interventions. This observation supports my suspicion that the parameters of ‘renal injury’ have been set too wide to distinguish between mild dysfunction of no long-term consequence and serious renal damage.
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Perhaps the first ‘extra billion’ or so for the NHS will be spent on employing Toilet Monitors to ensure that proper ideology is observed?
So a woman who does not want to share her toilet with a strange strange man is transphobic.
Remind me why I pay NICs again?
F me.
“Do not remove this sign”
REMOVE THIS SIGN
The real transphobia is revealed when women refuse to be raped in the toilet by males claiming to be transgender. If a rapist wants to identify as a woman, who are TERFs to interfere?
Anyone would think that single-sex facilities were originally introduced for some genuine reason.
“F me.”
Careful not to say that in a women’s loo, or you might find it happens.
Yes I noticed that. Rather touchingly TPTB felt it necessary to put “do not remove this sign” which for me would be an open invitation
Although I do remember the case of that pensioner in Yorkshire who removed a LGBTQ (or similar) sticker and had the police turning up mob handed at her home.
I’ve removed quite a few of this sort of thing in the last few years
Women are “transphobic” if they do not want to share a toilet with transgender colleague, NHS staff have been told.
The inquisitors fly in, red robes flapping, and scream “Heresy! HERESY! HEEEERESY!”.
what percentage of the NHS workers do you think are trans? if its in line with the rest of society its less than about 1 percent, and yet all this money is being wasted on placating a miniscule segment of society, whilst people who are sick suffer and die. Its time the NHS was broken up and privatised, I am sick of having to pay for something that calls itself a health service when its priority seems to be political
Yes, it should be them going to get ready in the bloody broom cupboard. Women, hold the line!
Maybe the answer is for all the women to self-identify as brooms and pee in that broom cupboard. That would change the policy PDQ!
Or maybe women in the NHS should identify as dogs and openly pee and poop in the corner of the bosses office, up their desks etc, if Ms Pritchard complains she can be accused of being discriminatory against Furries. Match fire with fire I say
I was thinking of the NHS managers as the wokust inquisitors, and the ordinary common-sense workers as the victims of the wokust inquisition.
While 1% of 16-24 year-olds self identify as trans, according to the 2021 census (using a controversial question which confused rather clarified). Across the population the figure was about 0.36%. So, about 1 in 270 people.
Nobody will expect that!
I see what you did there.
How is that going to go down with Muslim members of staff?
Who cares. It is bad enough for all women, it is not only Muslim women that care about their privacy.
1, They say they are underfunded, when they can spaff money on this sort of brainwashing trash. Perhaps someone could have a word with Ms Pritchard and remind her that the role of the NHS is to treat people who are unwell, not to preach political propaganda, if she wants to do that quit the job and become an elected MP.
2 It mentions the module has been pulled and will be replaced with another! Why? more money wasted, just don’t replace it at all.
3, These token, frankly incompetent women who it always appears are running organisations that are failing and always because of WOKE rubbish, they are ruining the chances for many women who are competent, who are good at their jobs, who have the sense to know what a woman is, who understand what the role of the business they work in is, they unfortunately are being tarred with the same brush of rank incompetence by the appointment of these Stepford wife, robots who are DEI placements, and who parrot the accepted psalms of the WOKE minority.
Excellent comment – well said.
I think that Amanda Pritchard is a perfect example of the women I keep referring to on here when I call them backstabbing traitors, because this is them in a nutshell. And how much you betting she identifies as a bloody feminist?
Imagine being a woman but being found guilty of sex discrimination against women. WTF kind of mental gymnastics are required to make that make sense??
And I’d be firing right back at them, ”No, YOU are guilty of sex discrimination by not upholding your duty of care towards your female employees and ignoring your responsibility to safeguard our right to privacy, dignity and safety when in private, single-sex spaces”, then I’d go off and find out my legal rights. Mind, what sort of person would work for the NHS now, given that we’ve seen exactly how they behaved during the scamdemic and what sort of people they are? Watch and see which Trust is the first to bring back masks this winter. Don’t we all remember the cultist mask-Nazi battleaxes, forcing everyone to muzzle up?
I just think only people with no scruples and without an intact moral compass would wish to work for such a hideously unethical and captured organization now. I could never forgive or forget how they all behaved and the iatrogenesis and general cruelty they demonstrated. They’ve literally gotten away with murder and even for those not directly responsible there was an awful lot of complicity going on, so forgive me if I show sod all in the way of sympathy for any of the rubbish workforce at this point. Nothing wrong with my memory.
”What people are calling “gender dysphoria” is not a medical condition. It is a manipulated state of mind being engineered by powerful, monied people.
It is literally cult indoctrination lacking a single charismatic leader, for which technology and social media has taken the place.
Follow the money.” Jennifer Bilek.
Precisely!
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/29/nhs-tells-staff-that-women-are-transphobic-if-they-do-not-want-to-share-a-toilet-with-a-transgender-colleague/#comment-989196
Belief in the legitimacy and the utility of ‘the state’ is an indoctrinated cult (and I mean each word precisely). If you work for such an organisation that coerces their staff to accept a grossly under-tested mRNA inoculant. If you work for an organisation that is funded with money taken via the threat of force (yes, taxation is theft), that put people on a death pathway because it was believed hospitals were going to be over crowded, that says a woman can have a John Thomas, that, that, that, well I could go on and on. If you work for such an organisation, you should leave. Find a more appropriate organisation to work with. If you stay, you are selling out, and you have to look inward at who is at fault.
Yes, it’s like they say how you can judge a person by the company they keep. Well I think you can get a pretty good impression of a person by the company they work for too. I’d have gotten the hell out of Dodge a long time back.
I did.
When this sort of stuff comes up, it always seem to involve ‘men’ who have become women and wish to invade women only spaces. Are there any cases of women who are desperate to use mens toilets and mens changing rooms?
Probably a silly question, but the fact that it is, should in a balanced rational world raise profound questions about the whole trans business. In such a World we would have a clear rational, biologically based understanding of why we need women’s only spaces? And we would have a clear rational definition of who is qualified to use them.
As it is we seem to be living in a world where style triumphs over substance, If you look a bit like a woman, you are now entitled to be treated like a lady, whatever your underlying biology. Whereas the biological differences between male and female humans are huge profound and immutable.
That’ll end well…
About 20 years ago at the hospital where I worked we had a similar problem. A surgeon decided he was after all a woman and the female medical theatre staff were asked about changing facilities. We flatly refused to have him in our changing rooms even after his surgery. A separate room was provided for him, subsequently, more recently another male doctor has decided he is in fact a woman. He is also not allowed to change with the female staff.
Managers can I expect bully nurses much more than they can consultant doctors. That the nursing union will go along with this travesty is the real issue.
I is no medical expert. But surely someone who has gone through 7 years of medical training should know the difference between a p*nis and a v*gina? I can.
Amanda Pritchard of the NHS, Ms Vennels of the Post office, the useless Cressida Dickless of the Met, that ghastly woman from NatWest – are they related? I think we should be told.
Who is “the NHS”
It’s always the NHS never an individual or a department. Anonymity gives them the confidence to advocate such nonsense
Exactly as Brian Gerrish (UK Column) always says it’s very important to personalise the decisions that are made. That way you can make more in roads as they then know they as individuals are being watched. Makes them think twice about making stupid decisions.
So the individual has the choice to use the facilities matching how they identify. What about women who identify as not wanting a man in their toilets? Do they not have a choice?