Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "CNBC" channel.

When we have the flu jab the needles are quite short. Why do the Covid vaccine needles have to be so long and scary? It reminds me of vaccines as a child when big long needles hurt my thin arms. They seemed to take ages to go in, and in my imagination I thought they would hit my bone.
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@xx_splattysquid_xx8132 I'm fine. Going for my Covid vaccine tomorrow.
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I've always sought out the worst reviews to see what is the worst that's been said about the product and are they issues that would bother me. I also seek out reviews from independent sources on the internet about the companies. Another strategy is to avoid buying on line as much as possible or stick to known and reputable companies. The thing about poor spellings etc is that that members of the public do make spelling mistakes. A high volume of 5 star comments with no mistakes makes me suspicious too.
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Never spend on credit cards what you can't pay back within a month, or unless you desperately need something and have no alternative. If you are in debt you are not in control of your life, the finance companies are.
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Before getting far in this video, I'm guessing competition and profit based enterprises are not something that fits well with healthcare needs, and the tendency towards monopoly in order to push prices up is growing. Surprise, surprise. This video was made before the Covid pandemic took off and the idea that technology development means not so many hospital beds are needed, does not take into account that lots of beds might be needed in a pandemic.
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@montanagal6958 In the end all was fine.
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This government is a bunch of liars though. Can't rely on what they say.
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Etsy have lost any principles they might have originally had. Surely their appeal, in one respect, was that they are not like amazon and had a USP.
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You have to understand that the UK is always 'having a debate over how to reform the NHS' which is code for The Tories don't really approve of it and want to privatise by stealth (slowly and gradually) because they know any suggestion of privatisation of the NHS is a vote loser. The Labour Party does support the NHS so tries to undo Tory damage any time it's in power. The term 'socialised medicine' is not used in the UK. Only Americans use that term. I think they use it as a way of trying to create aversion to the idea of universal healthcare, free at the point of delivery, because the word socialist or socialised is not a popular term in the USA and creates a sense of fear. The Tories tend to allow waiting lists for non urgent NHS operations etc to grow because it incentivises people to turn to private healthcare in order to skip those waiting lists. The Labour Party, when in government, tries to bring waiting lists down in the NHS. During the period of Covid, private hospitals have often been contracted to do some non Covid NHS work, paid for by NHS funds, because it's not possible to expand NHS staff numbers quickly, because of how long it takes to train doctors and nurses, and because of Tory government unwillingness to fund expansion of those numbers. The Tories would rather the balance of extra work is taken on by the Private Sector.
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The quality of coffee that Starbucks serves isn't good. My daughter drinks her coffee black, so the taste of coffees is instantly comparable. In countries used to good quality coffee drinks, Starbucks would have to up their quality to get into the market.
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The British never refer to the NHS as 'socialized medicine'. That's very much a US term. Private Healthcare in the UK relies on staff whose training has been paid for by the NHS. Also if anything goes wrong with private healthcare, the patient will be transferred to the NHS because Private Hospitals don't have Accident and Emergency Departments. The NHS tends to be a political football with various governments having different beliefs and political stances on it and it has been subjected to many 'reforms', often for political reasons, which can be expensive. This is sometimes reflected in the length of 'waiting lists' for non urgent operations for instance. Under the last Labour government (ending 2010) the NHS had the shortest ever waiting lists and the highest satisfaction survey results. When the Conservatives came to power they abolished a number of treatment targets, and for a number of years gave NHS staff no pay increases, not even to keep up with inflation, and staff vacancies and waiting lists grew. Funding was also tightly restricted during the times of 'austerity'. The Conservatives have usually favoured private medicine and privatisation of the NHS (The Conservative Health Secretary for many years after 2010 was Jeremy Hunt and he had written a paper on privatising the NHS before being appointed). The Conservative government spent £3billion on a 'reform' that created many quangos, all to push for many NHS services to be put out to contract so private providers could get an increasing share of the pie. In the current Coronavirus crisis, the government would have been lost without a national service that can rapidly pull together and co-ordinate its response but the underfunding of the service over a decade has come back to bite the government. I hope that's a lesson learned.
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People who eat good home cooked food certainly spot cheap products that are full of fat and sugar. It will take time to convert a whole culture away from good food to crap food and I hope they all continue to resist this corporate crap.
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