I can't see how the NHS is going to cope with the number of new cases, +administering the vaccine+ the normal winter pressure + the backlog of referrals which have been deferred due to Covid. Surely it will reach breaking point in some areas.
I expect a way will be found, but it will probably be a desperate business. Patient care first - finding enough ICU beds somehow. Finding staff from somewhere to operate the Nightngale hospitals. Getting vaccinations done next - a relatively simple procedure in itself. Find and draft in anyone who can do it, and everyone necessary to handle the logistics. For a while I'm afraid everything else may have to wait. That will have severe longer term consequences. But the NHS cannot be allowed to collapse. A full national lockdown may be needed soon, with very simple rules. I wouldn't object to seeing the army mobilised to help the Police, though that is a very grave measure to have to take. Issue them with police equipment, crash course in how to use it, and get them out and about. Some yobs like to try their luck assaulting coppers, but maybe they'd think twice about taking on squaddies. And all these f**king insane demonstrations in London have to be stopped before they start. Piers Corbyn and his loony chums should be placed under house arrest.
Shameful behaviour by the teaching unions. Advising their members not to work today because they think schools are not safe.
Disingenuous of The Sun today to say teachers are wrong to want schools closed. It says (rightly) that Children hardly ever suffer even mild Coronavirus symptoms. But it completely omits the massive problem of Children being super-spreaders of the virus. Once the kid has it, everybody gets it. Teacher, siblings, parents, grandparents. Everybody. A doctor on the breakfast news this morning said a kid having Coronavirus is like giving them glitter to play with. It will end up everywhere. The Government's efforts to set up a home learning network for all school age kids has failed. That isn't surprising - it is a massive task. But their failure is not the fault of teachers. Or the vulnerable relatives of the kids who may bring the virus home if they go to school. Their lives are not a price worth paying for our society's failure to adapt to the fact that schools are not safe from COVID19.
Perhaps the people responsible for printing this nonsense can follow the s**** wandering around shops and boarding public transport without coverings, then give an opinion.
Hopefully Boris will follow the Sweaties lead today and get the schools closed down. Then ensure the oiks are kept indoors.
Enormous credit to @The Elfsborg Sparrow for braving his hazardous commute to North London today by public transport I thought of him briefly in between my 2nd and 3rd cup of tea in bed this morning.
Don't have enough energy for that mate. Got enough to have a nose on message boards you'll be pleased to know.
Just heard an “expert” Professor Something on Radio 4 make the incredible comment “it’s the young generation I feel sorry for” over this new national lockdown. Ha ha ....you silly dopey bastard ....are you having a laugh ? Have you walked through a town centre lately ? Who do you think is spreading it
