Respirator Supply & Demand Dilemma!

A dilemma:

'A problem offering two possibilities, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable.'

So there is not much point in asking us really.

Trump has placed the burden of acquiring equipment on the hospitals- Like they aren't already stretched thin already-

Like the tests, it's the same lip service- Everything is on its way- Trucks run goods back and forth across this vast country day in and day out in a timely manner on schedule- And yet .. There shortages persist ..

He's a piece of sh't ..

My son is a paramedic, on ambulances in London. Today they took the ventilator he uses on the ambulance, for use in hospitals. He also still doesn't have proper masks with filters.

Mawb

How do you feel about the thread topic - Am I still over-reacting?

Anything else you object to Mawb?

You are welcome to use it

Just my thing

Why does everything have to be a dilemma OP?

I was thinking of “Queue jumping dilemma”, “Holocaust movie dilemma”,etc.
#justasking

Glad to hear that a new dedicated hospital with 2 wards of 2000 capacity each.

Four thousand - Wonder what percentage of the population that is?

Well at least the gov are talking the talk - now...

Matt Hancockup ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=roNlgIY9QKw

The BBC4 pandemic programme said a pandemic was top of the governments list of disasters. So why is the government acting as if they've been taken totally by surprise. And, as for America closing down the department that deals with pandemics well, words fail me....

This has been coming since January, why are they only looking now? Where is the planning? Why are we floundering so much?

We'll be fine; Johnson is recruiting thousands more nurses [oh, hang on a minute....].

If you have enough ventilators where are you going to find appropriately trained staff? The vast majority of nurses do not have a clue to even set up a ventilator never mind how to care for a patient safely. This is not a slight against nurses, I was one in an ICU unit.

As a nurse in the 70's we were already making decisions on who to treat or not and who would ultimately pass away, so this is nothing new.
On reflection now, I should have spoken up but was young and following guidelines. However I actively participated so it haunts me.

I think the government is running to catch up. The NHS is already in crisis. Self isolation for the over 70s is the only solution for now.
I think we can rely on that generation to do the best they can. The shame is that the country can t do more for them.

The BBC4 programme said that a pandemic was at the top of the governments list of bad things that might happen, and plans were in place if it did. So why are they behaving as if it's a total surprise to them. The programme said it was not a case of 'if' there's a pandemic but 'when'.

There are not enough operatives to cope with the demand of 111 in a crisis such as this.

These older people were once children, too...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaPBzhEsCL0

People cannot get through to 111 - What the hell is going on?

Published: 27 May 2019

virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-019-1182-0

A simple cash investment in our UK company that makes respirators would have been a decent plan.

A shabby end to the lives of people that worked their whole life for this country.

With their profits before people agenda, the death toll is going to be much higher than necessary.

I heard about Corona-19 last year, Boris has known for longer than the general public, and had time to stock up, but has not bothered.
Collateral damage. Each tax break has a human cost now.

You may like to cluck about what word is correct to use, - I am more concerned with unnecessary loss of life due to penny-pinching, and over-confidence in a buffoon led government.

When it is a loved one waiting to be turned away from respiratory help, suddenly I'm woke!
I am fuming.