I know you think that the Tour de France is full of cheats but there is honour among those thieves and some of the greatest honourable moments you will see in sport.
The Tour de France respects the yellow jersey and so the rider who wears the yellow jersey only carries it for a short while, it is the jersey that is respected.
If the yellow jersey ‘gets a mechanical issue’ like a puncture or a broken chain, the Peloton stops and waits for the yellow jersey.
The riders in the Peloton beat the yellow jersey with their skill and their fitness and their endurance and their strength.
They don’t win by default, by a 'mechanical'.
That is the way with rivals, it is to be inspired by your rivals to be better than you were yesterday.
A couple of days ago I had a fascinating conversation about the possibility of opening my Dental Practice next week.
I have FFP3 masks, I have someone to fit those masks to then give me a certificate to say that’s fine.
I have a CQC contact who will tell us that we’re able to open and I think that I can get my indemnity company to agree (not confirmed).
I can get gowns and I have a protocol to open up.
I am completely private and I’m not beholden to the NHS so I can step outside of those guidelines and do the best for 'my Patients'.
And so why not?
One of the reasons is that I stood up in front of 100 or more General Dental Practitioners in Nottingham last May to talk about collaboration and the importance of collaboration amongst us.
I do not think that it’s a clever idea for one Practice to open and to ‘get the jump’ on everybody else.
Through the other side of this there will be enough Patients for all of us and I think the smartest thing we could do would be to open at the same time, on the same day, with the same message of safety and security for Patients.
I’m not naive enough to think that will actually happen but in an ideal world that would be the way a profession would do it.
Blog Post Number - 2352
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