Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Okay...moving on.
I’m a little in limbo at the moment for reasons that may become apparent but two recent events have provided food for thought.

A week or so ago I was talking to a much younger friend of mine who is a selected ‘first responder’. He was recently called to an elderly lady in her nineties who had hurt herself as a result of a fall in her bathroom in a Derbyshire village about five miles from Derby. He rang for an ambulance and was informed that the waiting time would be ‘up to nine hours’!

Last night I had the misfortune to have to use the German emergency services for someone very close to me. The ambulance arrived within ten minutes. Initial diagnosis was made and the person concerned was in hospital and being treated within another half hour.
Fortunately the relevant EHIC does not expire till early 2023 and, despite us having left the EU, there was no reluctance on the part of the Germans to accept it.

It honestly gives me no pleasure to say this and I know it’s more about the NHS than Covid itself, but...compare and contrast. Is this the state of Brirain today and a reflection of how far we have fallen in recent years?
OK, a riposte. My brother in law who lives in Germany, and has done for donkeys years, fell down stairs, an ambulance was summoned and 6 hours later it arrived. Contrast that to my Mum who recently needed to go into hospital and an ambulance arrived promptly and efficiently.

Do I therefore conclude that this is "the state of Germany today and a reflection of how far they have fallen in recent years". No, I conclude that here is one unfortunate incident out of maybe many millions every year and not necessarily representative of anything.

Are you sure you havent been smoking the weed today rA, as some of your posts today seem to reflect an unbalanced mond!