Covid-19

The logic problem I have is with all this 'flattening the curve' being taken by many as they will avoid it.     It's a virus - almost everyone will get it eventually and most will have mild or no symptoms.      Some will have it bad - whenever they get it..      In the early stages, the hospitals were kicking the patients into respite or care homes - guess where almost all of the fatalities have been?     

There's also the misuse of PPE - I worked in the nuclear industry so you can equate spreading radioactive contamination with spreading a virus - you need to be scrupulously clean when dealing with it or is gets around very easily - and with poor hygiene standards in most hospitals and care facilities, it's a time-bomb..

The whole testing thing seems stupid - you can be tested clean on Monday and get infected on Tuesday - and with a two week incubation, it makes it a joke.   How can you test the millions of people everyday?     The lockdown makes no real sense either - sunlight and vitamin D are known to help your immune system so depriving people of that makes things worse.

The whole vaccine thing sounds suspicious too - there is no vaccine for all the other viruses over the years - AIDS, swine flu. avian flu, SARS etc. - so why do people think there with be one for this?   Are you going to live in your basement forever?   Never see your family again?

Would you trust a Microsoft Anti-Virus?      Gates can't protect his own lines of computer code - so why should we trust this Pro-Eugenics / Population Reduction Megalomaniac whose previous vaccines have a monstrous record in the third world?

I'm really uncomfortable with all the civil liberty grabbing too and the heavy-handed policing - that is strangely inconsistent in different cities - the police seem to have blind eyes where it suits their agenda.

"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."

Very valid points - I think much like the testing is for reassurance and show rather than having practical value. Authorities need to be seen to act in order to maintain some degree of public confidence. This said I do think sensible precautions help - such as shielding the most vulnerable. 

Absolutely agree - shield the infected and vulnerable - but imploding your economy by locking down healthy people?    Utter madness,    But it's a great way to have a recession and blame it on the Boogeyman.

While some people are still happy-clapping on a Thursday night, it's been shown in a German study that the UK has it worse than most *because* of the NHS - it's slow, dinosaur ways meant it couldn't react fast enough to a changing dynamic where all of the semi-private systems all over the EU worked much better and were able to adapt quickly.

Not so much of a sacred cow, really.

Absolutely agree - shield the infected and vulnerable - but imploding your economy by locking down healthy people?    Utter madness,    But it's a great way to have a recession and blame it on the Boogeyman.

While some people are still happy-clapping on a Thursday night, it's been shown in a German study that the UK has it worse than most *because* of the NHS - it's slow, dinosaur ways meant it couldn't react fast enough to a changing dynamic where all of the semi-private systems all over the EU worked much better and were able to adapt quickly.

Not so much of a sacred cow, really.

The only issue with identifying those who are infected is that many are asymptomatic so those who appear fit and healthy could be infected and putting others at risk - so there’s a fine line really - on one side you’ve got killing the economy and on the other killing people... finding that centre line where you do the least damage to both people and businesses is tough. I think you just need to look to the United States who took social distancing less seriously to see that there are done benefits but as I said a lot of it is just for show - like the daily briefing - every day the message barely changes... so I have mixed feelings. 

I think the NHS has done okay but the problem with it and I’ve said this for ages is the fact that there is way too much middle management. Cut them and spend the money on the shop floor so to speak... doctors, nurses, mental health, machinery etc. Sadly the inefficiencies only get shown up when excrement hits the fan. I think after this we need to restructure the NHS so money is spent where it’s needed and we need to pay nurses a lot more fairly as the middle management aren’t exposed to risk, do little work (because the nitty gritty duties happen below them and the major decisions above them), yet get high pay.... things need to change. I’m reluctant to call out the NHS as strongly as you have because I still think we have a better system here than in many countries but yeah it does need some heavy investment.