Re: For every eminent pathologist producing illicit videos there are thousands of medcis Archived Message
Posted by dan on November 22, 2020, 8:15 am, in reply to "Re: For every eminent pathologist producing illicit videos there are thousands of medcis"
Non functioning doesn't mean it couldn't be made to function. I am suggesting as I have done for months that a proper response is even now possible. The only purpose of a real lockdown is to buy time to set up that effective response. Without the implementation of solutions a sham lockdown is merely a partial brake on the death rate which allows us to continue some semblance of an operational health system, but that is about it. Vulnerable people will get ill in the same numbers eventually. I've been saying the same thing for 6 months - you know that. We still have one of the most comprehensive primary care health systems in the world. The country is divided into 10,000 GP practices each with a robust data system recording the details of their patients. Groups of practices are organised into larger units. £12Billion would give each group of practices £5 million, a huge sum of money at local level - I think less would be needed - to set up a local test and trace hub - which has happened in places anyway. It just highlights the extent of the robbery that that amount is what has been given to corporations so far. The Nightingale units should be used as diagnostic centres to keep vulnerable patients away from hospitals whilst maintaining cancer investigations. They had the resource - mobile CT and endoscopy for instance. If the US central bank can materialise $6 trillion out of thin air to give to businesses it could have given the money instead to the people - $20,000 to every man woman and child. Even the same sum paid per family would sort out the economy The same could be done in the UK, but that requires a belief in MMT and Keynes. When I said as much in the spring you said it was pie in the sky. I could write all day about things which could be done to change the current reality. It's never too late to rip up the script and to implement a plan which will get us out of this mess we're in. The reason it's not being done is that the solutions require a comprehensive investment in people, an approach to which our rulers are fundamentally opposed. By contrast, you've been advocating a laissez faire approach, and nothing else, which is effectively what the government is more or less doing plus added theft and sham lockdown. In order to push a business as usual case it is necessary to pretend that this illness is a mirage - the theme of the posted video. I have concrete proof it's not, in front of my own eyes. The Great Barrington Declaration proposes that if we absolutely isolate vulnerable people for three months the illness will sweep through the rest of the population and then be gone for good due to herd immunity. Sunetra Gupta knows she's bluffing in the promotional video when she says mathematical models show it will just disappear. The video Ed posted advocates for this strategy. It's pathetic specious nonsense. The bottom line is, even as we stew and die....we've been lied to by government pretending to act whilst screwing us over and also by the Koch funded deniers who are claiming we don't need to do anything. It's exactly the same as the fake dichotomy proposed as debate on global warming. Unless you accept that there is a problem that needs to be managed, and unless you can propose a solution other than let's return to a status quo which is already gone and which was already killing tens of thousands of poor people a year you've effectively got nothing to say. Given you've been a scratched record for 6 months I expect you to carry on bleating about impossible calculations I need to do.
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