Life on the front line.

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I really feel for you lot in the NHS who are having to deal with this Dubs.

The problem is though that instead of one leak that we’re trying to plug, this disease is creating a colander with too many holes and not enough fingers.

I still see no other way around this other than to ramp up health provision and staffing to deal with it until maybe a vaccine is created.

The actual death rate is staggeringly low at around 0.012 across the whole planet so the mathematics involved in wrecking the world economy do not make sense.

A new respiratory unit and the requisite number of staff to be able to cope within a huge number of additional destinations throughout the country may be the only way forward.

You talk of “apathy” which is in effect “battle fatigue” throughout the country........it will be this that brings things to a head.

As humans we are not conditioned to living like this and the dam will burst over the next year.

If the Government are so insistent that infections/deaths are to go through the roof this winter than as Mick says simply increase funding capacity and a start could be to reopen/build/create more Nightingale hospitals. They built the last lot quick enough. But my suspicion is they know they wont be needed because capacity will be there anyway. Let's face it the numbers of deaths are not like the heights of April /May and the NHS did cope and also managed to introduce some nice dance routines on TicTok although i admit that may be a rather unfair comment and shouldn't be applied to all NHS workers.

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If the Government are so insistent that infections/deaths are to go through the roof this winter than as Mick says simply increase funding capacity and a start could be to

Are you aware Phil that opening beds is not the answer on its own...an ICU nurse takes time to train up...unless you would like a complete idiot pushing buttons or not, on the life support machine of your loved ones?
Hopefully all the extra cases wont turn into the numbers expected and that most of them will just have mild symptoms for a while and then recover.....
But the after effects are not to be taken lithely either...A number of my work colleagues have not returned to work 7 months later...Still struggling to go about a normal life...