Quote Originally Posted by VanDerHoorn View Post
Yeah wrong numbers. Actually 6000 in hospital at the moment https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

Whatever the number the principle is the same; instead of restrictions to keep the NHS at capacity it would be more logical to increase NHS capacity,
Bud, the figure you have quoted is a daily figure of admissions and the total number in hospital i am seeing is 8008, although it is the BBC that is reporting that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274

I do agree with the principle of what you are getting at, but how do you increase capacity? It frustrates me when i hear politicians expecting someone to click their fingers and all of a sudden, all those Nurses and Doctors that have been trained over the years can magically turn up and set the equipment to work.

The harsh reality is that we only got through Wave 1 by releasing final year nurses early, retired ones coming back and cancelling the majority of all other activities. Now the NHS is still trying to operate as much as normal, it does not have as many final year nurses because their education has been interrupted, the retirees are split between the vaccine effort and retired again, and there has been so many nurses leaving that getting all the migrant nurses back would not put a dent in the shortfall!