Woooooooaaaaaah!
Good Lord, there's some almighty chips on shoulders here.
1. I buy my own strips.
2. I invited debate on scientific elements of testing, NOT financial matters pertaining to strips.
3. Anyone purchasing their own strips is free to choose to participate or decline, I did not hold a gun to anyone's head, nor suggest anyone "waste" NHS strips.
4. We are all entitled to the same healthcare and what people do with their prescriptions is entirely their business, nor are they answerable to self-appointed strip Police or NHS zealots on this forum or elsewhere. If they want to test drinks to avoid errors, they are perfectly entitled to do so and do not have to justify their choices.
5. Sugarless Sue, Cugila and any other commentator whom cannot participate in a debate without hijacking it and wandering off onto wildly irrelevant tangents, please decline from such behaviour - it is neither warranted nor appreciated.
6. We only gain knowledge in health matters through experimentation - if you cannot reconcile this concept with peope's freedom to choose how they interface with that process, deal with it in the appropriate manner, which is categorically, not, by leaping into new member's threads to rant and rave. Speak as "straight" as you'd like, but kindly have the civility and manners to do it in the right place, which is not this thread.
7. Before again implying that I am wasting resources, I shall thank you to bear in mind that as a business owner, I pay a six figure sum each year in taxes. I also generally use private healthcare (despite being opposed to paying twice, I do recognise there are others in greater need), where feasible and have contributed many thousands of my own money to numerous charities. When you can say you do the same, feel free to call me wasteful for inviting a simple experiment amongst participants whom feel able to spare a single strip to help a new member out. As for all these implied people struggling to get strips on prescription, there are just as many selling their prescription strips for profit, yet I see no such vitriol aimed their way.
8. For those whom are struggling to avail of strips on the NHS, there are processes that can and should be followed to rectify matters. Complaining bitterly on the internet is not one of those processes and is unlikely to effect any remediation of matters. Use the infrastructure, ie political and legal channels. Ranting at new members about cost of strips is hardly constructive and does the forum no favours.
Finally, a good whisky needs no mixer
Toodle pip....back to topic, no?
