- Joined
- Oct 9, 2015
- Points
- 148
- Model of Z
- 3.2
I was watching the news about the Nightingale Hospital being rapidly converted from the exhibition centre in London and I was amazed to see a fleet of ambulances sitting idle on the car park. I assume that the crews were helping with the conversion works. I cannot help but wonder what they would have been doing in more normal times, and if it isn’t necessary now why was it then? Nearly all routine procedures have been ceased until further notice which I totally understand, but why in mortal times is the NHS expected to operate what is basically a free taxi service for non emergency patients using very expensive vehicles manned by two highly trained para-medics? Why are we expected to fund non essential plastic surgery for vanity reasons. Why are pregnant woman from abroad allowed to fly here in the late stages of pregnancy to take advantage of our NHS service and get a dual nationality passport for their child without paying a penny into the system.
Amazing how all these drains on our NHS can be stopped at the drop of a hat when there is the political will to do it but come the end of the crisis our elected representatives in the commons will probably sink back into their usual state of ineffectiveness.
I could rant on about how cheap words are and how the promises of financial help for all the affected are now melting away in the reality of huge queues of skint zero hour workers applying for universal credit and the self employed on more than £50k a year getting no help but a paye employee on £100k a year can claim £2.5k per month.
I could sit in wonder at a government that praises the NHS at every press conference but continues to expect them to work with insufficient ppe and fails to test them for the virus, only conducting around 9,000 tests a day while Germany can manage 500,000 a week.
All the horrendous numbers of deaths around the globe would have much more meaning to me if we were given comparables to set them against. What were the number of deaths during the winter months in the UK over the last 5 years, especially among the elderly and more vulnerable groups? The figures are out there and easily found. I have done so and they make for interesting and eye opening reading, especially year 2014/2015. Sorry for rambling on but I think cabin fever is taking hold.
Goodness knows when this madness will be concluded but I look forward to seeing you all out and about in happier times, tops down and cruising.
Tony.
Amazing how all these drains on our NHS can be stopped at the drop of a hat when there is the political will to do it but come the end of the crisis our elected representatives in the commons will probably sink back into their usual state of ineffectiveness.
I could rant on about how cheap words are and how the promises of financial help for all the affected are now melting away in the reality of huge queues of skint zero hour workers applying for universal credit and the self employed on more than £50k a year getting no help but a paye employee on £100k a year can claim £2.5k per month.
I could sit in wonder at a government that praises the NHS at every press conference but continues to expect them to work with insufficient ppe and fails to test them for the virus, only conducting around 9,000 tests a day while Germany can manage 500,000 a week.
All the horrendous numbers of deaths around the globe would have much more meaning to me if we were given comparables to set them against. What were the number of deaths during the winter months in the UK over the last 5 years, especially among the elderly and more vulnerable groups? The figures are out there and easily found. I have done so and they make for interesting and eye opening reading, especially year 2014/2015. Sorry for rambling on but I think cabin fever is taking hold.
Goodness knows when this madness will be concluded but I look forward to seeing you all out and about in happier times, tops down and cruising.
Tony.
