Coronavirus

[Mike T]

With respect Mike, you are obliged to treat patients with unknown cause from Far Eastern viruses , to hepatitis, hiv, anthrax, sarin, chemical toxins , radiation, Ebola, you name it, and epidemics of any or all the above. Worse still a nuclear accident. There is inevitably substantively increased risk, some that can overwhelm supplies.
It’s an occupational hazard.

Farming, Construction, mining , logging and fishery workers all have substantially increased risk. It’s an occupational hazard for them too.

I’ve seen scores of reports from responsible personnel in various health authorities saying the situation is fine . A documentary would interview all of those too, to discover the pattern. They would Not just choose those activists with an axe to grind.


So I get the impression you have less interest in the true state of affairs than taking yet another pop at the government.

Whatever the true state is. Like Brexit, vs remain, you won’t get it from get BBC

The BBC was completely in breach of its own code of conduct to disclose relevant affiliations of speakers. For that alone it is in clear breach of duty.

Sure, NHS staff sign up to help/treat those with infectious diseases, but not with inadequate PPE. Dinner ladies' aprons, home made visors and masks, re-used kit.

As to taking "pops" at the Government - we are going to end up with the worst number of deaths in Europe, and probably the world when adjusted for population. They deserve a few pops.

One of the problems with looking at the rate of infection in NHS/Care staff compared to the general population is that when they become infected, they then go on and infect family/friends/neighbours/other key workers, thus diluting the rate. A lot of the infections in the general public will have started in hospitals/care homes. People in care homes have suffered badly - sending patients from hospitals to care homes without testing was a huge mistake.
The defence that all this is unprecedented does not work - it was predicted.