Re: For every eminent pathologist producing illicit videos there are thousands of medcis Archived Message
Posted by dan on November 21, 2020, 7:58 pm, in reply to "Re: For every eminent pathologist producing illicit videos there are thousands of medcis"
The benefit or harm is cumulative. The more people who take risks on top of the government's sham non lockdown the more transmission there will be. Governmental intervention would be unnecessary if we had a functioning health system and acted collectively to protect each other. Covid seems to have a higher fatality than flu and is more contagious - more people catch it and in a shorter space of time - all together meaning hospital systems become overwhelmed. It's November. ICUs in several parts of the country are full - No new ventilators have been purchased and we are not far from having to use anaesthetic machines. The ICU mortality will go up again when we do. Apart from ventilators the hard limit on ICU capacity is availability of trained nursing staff. There is usually 1 nurse per patient. I found out last week that staff expansion plans derived over the summer rely on a large number of ICU nurses making themselves available to agencies to volunteer for extra shifts for no more than standard pay. We are massively short staffed because many European nurses have returned home in the last year. The idea that nurses who have been under the cosh, short staffed and often already working more than their contracts to make up for the large cut in their real terms pay over several years are going to offer to step up and work in makeshift wards in bin liners is laughable. This has always been a problem of logistics, of coming up with a collective actionable plan to cope. Ed's pathologist blithely asserts that we should be protecting the elderly - apart from locking them up in perpetuity that's not possible if all else are spreading the bug around as a usual winter cold without being prepared to take responsibility for others health. The government and the naysayers both are making our jobs harder. It's not possible to fight misinformation with more misinformation. Cheers, dan
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