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Originally Posted by nffc
Though it's clearly an issue internally, I'm not totally convinced that NHS staffing levels due to sickness absence etc (or maybe just unable to fill vacancies) should ever be used to decide whether to lock the country down. Even though patients need to be treated it would be like closing the country down because Tesco couldn't get anyone to deliver stuff to their shops.
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I’m not sure how it’s different from any other barometer in which demand exceeds supply.
If Tesco didn’t get stuff to their shops I’d go to Asda. Or make do with what’s in the cupboard. If I were laid out on a surgery table after a car crash I can’t get up and get treatment elsewhere. Or make do with the fact I could treat myself.
If there’s a good reason to not have restrictions, it definitely isn’t underinvestment in the NHS after a decade of austerity.