The logic of our leaders

comment by PointyBirds (U21890)
posted 12 hours, 40 minutes ago
comment by Magnum (Stopping the 2) (U22391)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Miller - Bounce Game Champion (U9310)
posted 19 minutes ago
I think another factor is next to no testing.
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Hardly anyone is testing positive in Africa. They're doing much better than us.
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They’re going to have to find a way to estimate numbers without blood tests there.

By less the veins down in Africa.


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Pointy is a toto fan 😀

comment by St3vie (U11028)
posted 14 hours, 43 minutes ago
At what point does it all stop then?

Do we teeter on the brink of a lockdown everytime a new variant appears?
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Genuine response; it stops when we have a functioning healthcare service that has the supply that can meet the demand. Without increasing supply, we need to suppress demand.

comment by bmcl1987 (U14177)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by St3vie (U11028)
posted 14 hours, 43 minutes ago
At what point does it all stop then?

Do we teeter on the brink of a lockdown everytime a new variant appears?
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Genuine response; it stops when we have a functioning healthcare service that has the supply that can meet the demand. Without increasing supply, we need to suppress demand.
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Is that ever going to happen now? The supply (not just covid) is ridiculously behind already and they are losing staff, more stressed and sick then ever, whilst not being able to pay their bills...i can't see the end of this imo.

comment by AFCISMYTEAM (U14931)
posted 33 minutes ago
comment by bmcl1987 (U14177)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by St3vie (U11028)
posted 14 hours, 43 minutes ago
At what point does it all stop then?

Do we teeter on the brink of a lockdown everytime a new variant appears?
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Genuine response; it stops when we have a functioning healthcare service that has the supply that can meet the demand. Without increasing supply, we need to suppress demand.
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Is that ever going to happen now? The supply (not just covid) is ridiculously behind already and they are losing staff, more stressed and sick then ever, whilst not being able to pay their bills...i can't see the end of this imo.
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This will pass, but it will exact a toll before it does. WHO estimates over 5.2 million deaths worldwide already and this figure will grow.
bmcl 1987 is correct in the UK at least, if you cannot ratchet up supply, which to be fair they seem to be trying to do, then you have to suppress demand by taking preventative measures, or a mixture of both.

Could have spent all that furlough money on temporary hospitals etc rather than locking up the country.

Mmm, fair point, but deciding who gets what is always a political decision.

But, here is what happened in Sweden when they didn't lock up the country. 'The highest number of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths in the Nordic countries as of November 4, 2021, had occurred in Sweden at 15,015. Denmark followed with 2,722 deaths, Finland with 1,185, and Norway with 922'.
Sweden has approximately double the population of Norway and Finland.

comment by Timmy (U14278)
posted 16 minutes ago
Could have spent all that furlough money on temporary hospitals etc rather than locking up the country.
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Who would work in the hospitals?

We have an army reserve or TA, a fair question as a country we could ask is why don’t we have a healthcare or NHS reserve? It is something that would take years to develop but I’d be supportive of it as a way as a country that we can respond to extreme strain on healthcare services.

comment by bmcl1987 (U14177)
posted 41 minutes ago
We have an army reserve or TA, a fair question as a country we could ask is why don’t we have a healthcare or NHS reserve? It is something that would take years to develop but I’d be supportive of it as a way as a country that we can respond to extreme strain on healthcare services.
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Excellent idea. NHS Reserve.

If you know a pandemic is going on, any sane leader would have diverted funds towards your health care system to deal with it.

Not us.