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Good, Bad .......Ugly

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 People are just as good and just as bad as they always been That’s what I think, for what it’s worth Do they complain more?  No, I don’t think they do, they just complain differently. The subject matters of the complaints change with priority changes  Social media amplifies our perceptions of the complaints  We see more We think there is more  We therefore feel we need to comment more. It’s a cycle and one that is not always constructive. This need to comment is a double edged sword. I love comments on Going Gently but I don’t need criticism  When I say I don’t need it...I mean it literally....I just don’t need it. I know myself warts and all.  I don’t need someone to tell me an alternative view. I know the alternative view But some  do love to be experts on absolutely everything Even me Today, no matter who you are, you have a bigger voice than people once had.  You can say your piece to an audience of potential mi...

Carmen

 Dressing up in pink sequins With Bizet's Carmen's suite to brighten  my mood on this  Rainy day from R's rue https://ift.tt/3opIyp8

Negative

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Shirley and I were randomly chosen to  participate in our national "Covid-19 infection survey" run by The University of Oxford in partnership with The Office for National Statistics. The Sunday before last, a  phlebotomist arrived at our house in a shiny 4x4 vehicle and we had swabs and bloods taken on our doorstep. On Thursday we received our swab results and yesterday our blood results arrived. We were  "negative" on both counts. No current COVID infections and also no anti-bodies indicating past infection. Now that is a little strange. As you may remember, Shirley is a part-time practice nurse working at a health centre. She undertook identical tests at her workplace a couple of months ago and her blood sample indicated that she did have anti-bodies.  Was the initial test faulty? Have the anti-bodies left her blood system? Perhaps it simply tells us that testing is not 100% accurate. There will be other tests for us in the future - more swabs and more bloo...