27-07-2021, 08:48 AM
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.
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.