Quote Originally Posted by mickd1961 View Post
You’re completely missing the point.

You can’t make a vaccine in readiness for a virus that hasn’t yet happened for starters.

With regards to the NHS or any country’s health provision......you can’t possibly fund say 100,000 extra doctors and nurses if a huge number of them are only going to be needed every 100 years.

On the news the other day it was saying that at one hospital trust 600 staff including doctors and nurses were off with Covid.

I accept we should have more doctors and nurses and some extra health provision but none of us would stomach an extra 5% tax just to cover a once in a century eventuality.

I do think respiratory issues are the most likely ongoing issue though.

My solution would be to increase the number of these types of facilities even if they were mothballed at times.

I’d also train and keep on retainer pay an army of private citizens who had trained in this area of nursing.

A bit like being a reservist for the army for use in times of crisis.

There’s no simple way to deal with these sorts of things.
I’ve never ever suggested or believed that you could have a vaccine ready for a ”to come pandemic” (plain stupid to believe that). Someone else is missing a point if someone has read that into my comments.

But, countries that cope with this ”better” than others, have better ”equipped health sectors”, as Germany with 30 ICU beds per 100 000 people (Sweden have 5...). To not understand that is also to completely be missing the point.

Standard of health sector together with prudent and well measured rules during the pandemic (because they are needed too) will determine much of how a country and population in total cope with this, and then I include all health aspects, not just C-19.