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They can't police it. I believe they will mainly be policing groups of people such as those youngsters seen on the news today still hanging about in groups and paying no attention to distancing. Idiots.

Just wait to see if you get a written letter through the post from your surgery.

Spot on. They come from the mobile company after a request from the government. I am with EE and I got one. Hubby got one a while after mine. He is with 3.

What did the text say exactly? I had one headed "Gov.UK Coronavirus alert." It just seems to be a generic one sent as a form of advertising the Gov.UK Coronavirus website to draw people's attention to it. Or at least that is how I read it. There is a similar thing pinned on Facebook. All GP...

No, nothing here, but not really expecting one unless they know something about our medical conditions that we don't!!

The sun is shining and it is warm. At long last Spring seems a little bit nearer. As we are in lock down but can have outdoor exercise in the form of a walk, or a run, or a cycle, once a day for a restricted period of time (length of time not qualified in the instructions), we decided to start...

I think much of the panic buying and hysteria depends largely on where we live, and the average ages of the local population. In my quietish neck of the woods with a large percentage of pensioners it doesn't seem too bad. Certainly not compared with what I see on the media about circumstances in...

I have had a lurgy for about 4 weeks now. It started with a tight chest and some slight huffing and puffing when on my brisk walks, but nothing that made me need to stop walking and no difficulty breathing. It then became a sniffly cold, runny nose, sneezing. The cold went but left me with a...

Further to my daughter being sent home from work at the local job centre due to asthma and put on special paid leave for the duration, she had a visit from her boss today. The list of vulnerable people that are being sent home includes ANYONE that has a BMI of 40 or above, whether or not they...

My daughter is a client adviser in our local tiny job centre. Today she was sent home and told to stay at home until the end of the pandemic. Her works medical records show she is asthmatic and hence in a vulnerable group. This is the Civil Service. Apparently it isn't a local decision, it is...

Lots of heavy duty swear words going on in this house. Currently looking at the terms and conditions of cancelling our 3 pre-booked cottage holidays, and have put daughter on shopping alert. One thing about it, the House of Lords will be empty. :)

And now it seems likely that all over 70s will be told to stay at home, whether ill or not, within the next 20 days, and this could last for 4 months. Oh joy and thrice joy. I do hope this is fake news.

Thanks for the tag @Antje77 . Sorry to be late replying. I haven't been around recently. Yes, I was one that did a lot of research on reasons why the HbA1c can be unreliable. There are a lot of informative webpages if you have a Google. Some forms of anaemia are the most common reasons, also...

We did our usual weekly big shop earlier. No empty shelves that I could see. Just no sanitisers or paracetamols. Plenty of loo rolls, soaps and the usual food stuff. However ..... Shock, horror. NO RED WINE BOXES, and that was the same in the other 2 local supermarkets (Sainsbury and Tesco). We...

Someone way back in this thread said thermometers would be the next thing to be out of stock. Last night I advised my friend she needs a thermometer as she has lung disease. She immediately went on-line to the main Boots website. All sold out.

When you are due for your next lot of blood tests, ask for a full lipid panel to be included. The total cholesterol is meaningless.

Masks? I understand that all they do is protect other people who come close to you. They do nothing to protect the person wearing the mask. Am I wrong? Plenty of toilet rolls in our local Sainsburys, also tissues, hand gels, soap and anything else. Why do people want to stock up on toilet...

Yes, you must find out. Ask for a print out of the blood test results. Your GP is quoting the old guidelines. The guidelines now advise GPs to look at the ratios. You can't work out the ratios without the full lipid breakdown. Did the GP try to prescribe a Statin aswell as the blood pressure...

Who told you your cholesterol id elevated? 5.6 total is pretty average. However, the total is meaningless without the full breakdown of how the total was arrived at. Do you know the breakdown? (LDL, HDL and triglycerides). I have no idea why a supposedly raised cholesterol should warrant blood...

What made me smirk was the announcement by the makers of Corona Beers that they had experienced a massive downturn in sales due to people believing it caused the Corona Virus.