NHS really deserves more credit, even for the small things.

@whowasthatmaskedman There wasn't a "Mask in site or on site. praise where it's due naturally, as long as they look after me.

@senghenydd I hear you. Living a a place that supported, masks, lockdowns and vaccinations for so long, I can tell you that although we do get new cases now,it isnt many and they are not severe. Wife and I both just got Covid top ups and will fet the Flu vax after easter..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman It's just as well to keep up the vaccines I seem to get a different vaccine on every visit from Moderna then Axha Zeneca then Astra Zereca the latest is Spikevas XB3 the World Health Organisation are planning for the next pandemic so having all these vaccines should protect me from the next pandemic should one occur.

There's concerns Covid-19 came from a laboratory it was manufactured if that's the case then it's only a matter of time before we have another pandemic.

@Barny52 Everything is better when it is free.

@Entwistle it's completely free in Wales too, but I am staying in England for a couple of days, so I needed to get it here.

@ArishMell What you may not understand I see the wealth and I also see the wealth, I live in a very independent country. One harder to keep together in distance, I'm sure Ireland, Scotland could have found their wealth in independence easier, but they were a larger threat to England. You make me want Canada to become dissident from the UK if you can't recognize it was a practice of colonizing countries England ever thought it was superior.

@thewindupbirdchronicles I see what you mean: the situation may be similar.

It's not a matter of class in the old way though. Even the very existence of traditional "class" these days is rather doubtful, and often exaggerated for campaigning effect. The more common cliche now is not "working class" but "hard-working families" - but both mean only that the family's income is from wages or salaries... so at Minimum Living Wage or senior Directors' level?

Regardless of background or bank accounts, people anywhere are naturally loyal to their own countries. Usually this is fine but separatist demands are often a peculiar tangle of politics and romance, and overlook practicalities.

Those include the need to co-exist even at simple day-to-day levels with the original nation; while also having to pay its own way without that nation's financial and practical support. "Day-to-day" level can be as simple as individuals crossing the notional border for school, commuting, shopping or socialising.

The overall hazard is of impoverishing both the"old" and "new" countries, and in many ways far beyond just money.


(I cited the EU because a nation's membership involves paying enormous fees from its own taxes, then receiving directed subsidies for industrial, cultural and scientific purposes. The subsidies are [i]all [/i]tax-funded; as are the[i]bloc[/i]'s (secret?) running-costs. If they total more than the "subscription" the country is a nett recipient, but if not, the country is a nett contributor. The UK being one of the few latter was one of many reasons that many Britons voted to leave the EU - but in a very close overall vote with strong and sometimes surprising regional divisions.)

@ArishMell Maybe. But I'm not sure highlighting the classes part works with what you are promoting. Canada, a sovereign nation, yet under the commonwealth umbrella, has universal health care regardless of where you live. It promotes to me Ireland and Scotland would do better without being under the guise of England and it's less about class other than somehow your words promote England is above. If you had not placed them under your rule, how would we be seeing we helped you, you must thank us for we are benevolent to be seen?

It's a privileged attitude. I'll thank the UK for once giving us Independence as we figured it out better.

@PleasurePunch I just picked up two presentations yesterday for a total of $0

@SooperSarah You drew some good luck your way too ;=) Congrats!