Michael Orchard

NHS Programme Manager, Coding Hobbyist, Reluctant DIYer and Absent Gardener.

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@AllEarsNet We have had a nightmare trying to book ROTR. Staying off site simply can't get it, all last week and yesterday and today. Wait times over 2 hours consistently. Genie plus really not working for this. We are asking why not use a virtual queue?

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@_katiesharples That's a long way from living on a beach Katie Sharples 😉

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@ffriesagain1234 @SmudgerLite @asherjbaker @LBC @mrjamesob

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@sueperkins @Channel4 I Loved this series. Can we please have more @sueperkins @Channel4 . Sue this was so interesting, fantastic and humble exploration of a subject with some hugely insightful points for me. I wonder, are we happier when we are less anchored to our 21st century lives?

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@CarolineLucas Progressive coalition. We have no counter to right wing and traditionalist nationalism. Our vote is split across too many partys, we will struggle to regain power in a FPTP system Vs a single Tory party capable of galvanising the traditionalists and nationalist vote

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@laemmerbiss @BankUnlimited @asia_mobility @tripperhead Not to mention the additional 2 "blanks" that would still put him seriously ill in hospital with potential for long Covid symptoms which we still don't fully understand. Never understood why people think 2 in 100 is ok odds, they would never take a risk that big with their lives

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@2591Kate @PippaCrerar But Kate, when your hospitals are clogged by people who exercised their choice to spread Covid and you or others who choose not to can't access services in an emergency (heart attack, car crash, stroke). The problem is pandemics are about collective responsibility not personal

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@EmmaFox62817887 @PippaCrerar But..... when I can't get into my local hospital because other people have "chosen" to mix and spread Covid how is that fair? I chose not to, that doesn't stop other selfish people clogging the NHS for others that need it does it

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@iainmartin1 Imagine the same principle for seatbelts. Crazy thought, I know

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@07985Bill @helen_barnowl @IH8FakeNews @BradleyKay1966 @DavidLammy @PritPatel It's shit being bullied. It's shittest to be bullied for a physical characteristic you cannot change

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@YwanC @theoldbloke @VolumeRose @kevinsamuel @brianmoore666 @carlheneghan By reducing hospital covid admissions you can continue to operate other services as much as possible. Financial burden of not treating Covid is more insane

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@YwanC @VolumeRose @theoldbloke @kevinsamuel @brianmoore666 @carlheneghan The death rate argument never holds up. Deaths lag cases by 2 weeks or so. Correction not ALL East Asian countries have excellent t&t. Lockdown is nuclear option when other measures fail. Some countries do better at other measures

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@VolumeRose @YwanC @theoldbloke @kevinsamuel @brianmoore666 @carlheneghan Do nothing scenario is quite literally that, allowing unchecked growth. Sweden did not do nothing it did little

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@VolumeRose @YwanC @theoldbloke @kevinsamuel @brianmoore666 @carlheneghan Cases currently surging in Sweden.

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@VolumeRose @YwanC @theoldbloke @kevinsamuel @brianmoore666 @carlheneghan Lockdown is crap, unfortunately in the UK now is required. No one is going to do well in a pandemic. The cost now is always going to be less than an ongoing death rate of >5% as a result of allowing exponential growth unchecked + ongoing LTCs for many people in years to come

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@YwanC @theoldbloke @VolumeRose @kevinsamuel @brianmoore666 @carlheneghan Believe what you want. Hope you never have to be in a position of needing intensive care and not being able to receive it because capacity and capability doesn't exist due to over demand. You would of course have bad outcomes in that situation

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@YwanC @theoldbloke @VolumeRose @kevinsamuel @brianmoore666 @carlheneghan You are swapping your source now?

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@YwanC @VolumeRose @theoldbloke @kevinsamuel @brianmoore666 @carlheneghan @BallouxFrancois @ClareCraigPath Agreed, interesting how @BallouxFrancois doesn't understand the fixation on Sweden either

[Michael Orchard @twitmicky]

@YwanC @theoldbloke @VolumeRose @kevinsamuel @brianmoore666 This does not support your assertion that the NHS wouldn't be overwhelmed. The ranking of restrictions to liberty interventions seem to be highly effective according to their data