Quote Originally Posted by Oracle View Post
Like last weeks times article , and all the Brexit coverage it will be a massive distortion with a grain of truth.
There’s always a lefty somewhere in NHS willing to lie. It is as reliable as death and taxes.
There is a reason the media are the least trusted group in the present crisis. Called crying wolf.

I prefer listening to those whose day job is sourcing ventilators and PPE.They are aghast at the coverage.


Tell Me. what do have to say about EU? now you know one of the NHS biggest suppliers of PPE, which was ordered before any other country, refused to deliver because macron stole it. That is one of repeated incidents round the world, so I am led to believe by those who do the job?

Had YOU placed the order in feb, would you be expecting to have to go again to world markets to order elsewhere in March? only to be let down again? Would you blame Hancock for the failure to get it, or the french, or just accept there is a shortage,

Like every other critic , everything is easy for those who don’t have to do it.
We would have lost the war with the attitude problem shown by our NHS now.

The media want to mourn a few tens of (sadly ) deceased nhs workers.
What about mourning the other 20000? Across all professions?

One thing is for certain: with the decimation of the only true key workers in private sector business who make the cash everyone spends , we will struggle to support NHS at present levels. As history shows there are always doctors who can be bought if you “ stuff their mouths with enough gold” to quote the man who started NHS, The problem as always is paying for them. Even more difficult now the prima donnas have shut the economy in case they get overwhelmed. NHS was set up because doctors charged the ordinary man 3-5 days wages to see them. Nothing has changed.

I have every admiration for the doctors around the rest of Europe and Portugal in particular , who do it on far less salary, they have far less resources, they accept the problems Of limited supply and they just get on with the job, they don’t spend every waking hour attacking the government that pays them.

Read Portuguese media and doctors interviews there. It is a breath of fresh air.
Mmmh. I like you Oracle (although you skulk behind anonymity)
and as an intelligent and educated chap of broad experience you are an asset to the Forum - but I think what I admire most is that your views are always moderate, well balanced and expressed in such an even - handed way.