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Old 07-07-2020, 14:54   #4432
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
I’m not really sure what your stance is here, Paul.

Is it that the Government should just let coronavirus spread uncontrolled (which even they recognise is a bad idea)? Or are you just arguing the point because it’s me?

I think if you leave the fact you disagree with me on almost everything (especially politics) to the side and concentrated on the public health angle you’d accept things have moved on since the start of March and we know much more now than we did then.
I would agree with you that we need to 'control' coronavirus if that was feasible, jfmzn, but it's not. Carrying on as we are, we will get spikes all over the place ad infinitum. The virus can only be controlled by slowing it down until a vaccine is found, and we don't know if a vaccine will ever be found. We cannot go on disrupting lives and the economy like this. Sooner or later, the public is going to signal that enough is enough.

Protect the vulnerable by all means, and of course. But the virus really does needto spread or it will never be gone. That is one thing that most of the public is beginning to realise, and they will behave accordingly.

The spike in Melbourne is pretty worrying. If they let it get into New South Wales, the most populous of the Australian states, it will start all over again. They thought that they had nipped it in the bud. They haven't, and nowhere is safe from this.

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Originally Posted by ianch99 View Post
Why harsh? NHS England were following Government policy:

https://fullfact.org/health/coronavi...mes-discharge/



In summary, the Government instructed the NHS to transfer patients from hospitals into care homes without testing to see if they were infected.
That is how you read it, but do you expect the government to lead the NHS by the nose? It is a professional body and as such, they should have ensured that no infected person left hospital. Bloody hell, ianch, you really have a slanted approach to politics!
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