Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Well there’s an unholy alliance if ever there was one. Good though that people of such different persuasions can set aside such differences to occasionally agree.

I completely agree with your second paragraph but beyond that I’m puzzled.

Clearly you make a fair point about the impact on the NHS, but to suggest that ‘it probably won’t result in many more deaths than usual’ makes no sense at all to me, as the figures and scenes that have emerged from both Italy and Spain over just the last month or so would suggest.

You do actually ‘stop it’ by slowing down the ‘rate of transmission’ allowing time for a vaccine to be discovered and developed. The trick then is to make such a vaccine universally available rather than just another means to make a vast profit.

That last sentence may be naively idealistic on my part, but then I speak as one who believes that it shouldn’t take a crisis to bring about free on site parking for NHS workers, and is still coming to terms with the most right wing PM since Thatcher apparently embracing a philosophy more akin to Communism.
Welcome to the alliance. Your points here have agreement as well.

1. They could be avoided. Our point though is more about that there is no such fuss, when deaths on this scale have and are occurring every year. The people dying in the main, would probably die from other things around, including normal flu.
2. As the link I left earlier said. Half the population could already have the virus, but you are not seeing half the population being really ill, never mind dying. It will sort itself out over time and a flu type vaccine. Keep calm and carry on.
3. I'd go even further than your statement. Why just NHS workers? Anyone going to a hospital isn't doing it for fun? I still get jibes(yes I'm on about me) from friends telling me, I cost them £20 a time whilst they were sat around my bed. The real sting is the exhorbant rates they charge as well.


Any way, here's a statement for the laugh.


Charles has self isolated at Balmoral with COVID - 19

Andrew has self isolated at Sandringham with JENNIFER- 15

(ducking for cover)