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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
As this entire requirements document is all about CV, the "health team looking after you" should only have discharged patients who were not CV positive. It was a professional step that they missed out.
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Nope, sorry. Does not follow. “No longer need care in hospital” is not synonymous with “No longer Covid-19 positive”, no matter how hard you squint at it.
The simple explanation here is that government could not mandate testing because government knew there weren’t enough testing kits available to do it. The hospital would have rapidly filled with elderly bed blockers, most of whom were Covid-19 negative and safe to discharge but with no means to prove it in law. In a worst case scenario the Nightingale hospitals would have begun to fill not because the regular facilities were overwhelmed by Covid but because they couldn’t discharge people back to nursing homes quickly enough.
In these circumstances government did what its paid to do - take a difficult decision based on a calculated risk. Our democracy allows us to decide whether this speaks to their general competence, next time we go to the polls.