The vast vast majority will survive without hospital treatment.Originally Posted by BCram
https://www.oscr.org.uk/media/1778/2...leo-report.pdf
I think all local government Arms Length External Organisations have been facing the same problem. They get help through their charitable status but they have been hammered by the independent status which puts them outside direct funds from government. I agree it seems wrong that a local authority facility is not available but they really are between a rock and a hard place. It isn't at all unique to Islay and I don't think your local operator is really deserving of your criticism. You just have to look at all the problems being faced by businesses like gyms and bars to realise that the level of activity that is permitted by the social distancing laws make it possible to trade at pre covid level and as a result they are all potentially loss making.
They are not milking it IMO. They are taking the only course of action that gives them a possibility of continuing to operate. The hope was that the virus could be defeated and this would happen by the end of October. Given the spectacular announcements coming from China and S.Korea that they had control of the virus in April this must have seemed a reasonable bet. I think even Nicola and Jason realise that this isn't going to happen. The vaccine is still some way off and the test and trace system is finding people with the virus. What they need is a realistic change of approach. They haven't got one and the more testing they do the more the numbers of suspected cases goes up. We have lost sight of the number of deaths, don't seem to have any understanding of what the death rate is for these latest cases. If the vulnerable people are looking after themselves there might be cause for optimism if those who are contracting the virus are surviving without hospital treatment.
Govts have got to admit they overeacted.
They won't.
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