27-07-2021, 09:27 AM
(27-07-2021, 08:48 AM)DeepBlue Wrote: Gaffer, how can you complain about the thousands of other problems caused by the hospitals being overstretched by covid cases ????
You were opposed to the measures being introduced to reduce human contact and hence reduce the hospital numbers for Covid, which just about managed to prevent them from being overrun in most places. If you had had your way nothing else would have been treated in any hospitals and the problems you are highlighting now would have been many times worse with a broken NHS less well placed to deal with the backlog.
You are absolutely right that Covid is probably no longer the biggest health problem faced by the country, but without measures like isolation & mass testing we have seen it has the potential to multiply exponentially and fill the hospitals again ... its a bit worrying that this week, just as we can see the light at the end of the tunnel with case numbers decreasing day on day, hosipitals are warning that they are still seeing cases increase day on day.
People 'taking personal responsibility' is not what we need right now if that means people only worrying, or not worrying, if they themselves catch it. What we need is people taking 'community responsibility' and testing regualrly then isolating if they are positive. The testing capability to do this is there now with the end being in sight now is not the time to throw it all away and put at risk a further increase in untreated cancer, dementia etc cases.
That is, as usual, cobblers Deep.
The numbers of people who die because the NHS has become a ‘single condition’ service will far outweigh the numbers who died of (or more often with) Covid.
We now have an effectively two tier system where the relatively well off are paying privately for routine procedures, everybody else has to join the impossibly long queues.
What should have happened, as I’ve said many times, is that the vulnerable should have been shielded and not transferred willy nilly between hospitals and care homes. The young have been at virtually no risk from Covid from the word go, so the economy should have remained fully open so we didn’t run up the obscene bill that will take decades to pay off.
Now we have this ping fiasco which encourages people who are at no risk to isolate, it relies on Bluetooth which can go through walls, the virus cannot. Pretty much all the ‘vulnerable’ have had two jabs, that’s as good as it’s going to get.
The ‘cure’ will turn out to be far worse than the disease itself.
It’s been a shitshow from start to finish, now they are talking about ‘passports’ and tests in order to live a ‘normal’ life. That is definitely the thin end of the wedge and should be resisted. If we had to rely on people like you to do that we might as well roll over now.