Everything is an outcry at the moment, there'll be an outcry if schools go back in September there'll be an outcry if they don't go back. There is an outcry over electric picnic not going ahead there'd be outcry if it was granted a licence. As you say there will be high cases in winter but do you think it will lead to hospitals being overwhelmed with covid patients? Or will we see loads in hospital with other ailments broken leg, concussion or any number of things that can send you to hospital only to test positive for covid while in hospital? And have no covid symptoms which is what we are told the vaccines will do stop you being sick or have only mild symptoms.
People out crying about out crying to be fair.
Oh without doubt there will be a surge in the winter. the hope would be less people will die or experience of the illness be less chronic, but for sure we will see increased admissions and deaths. Will we be overwhelmed? We had to reconfigure the hospital last year because we didn’t have enough staff to man the service, two weeks before Xmas, the surge after nearly broke us because everyone wanted to have a normal Christmas “living with COVID”.
Whether people die or live, doesn’t change the fact that people will be in and out of the health service, there’s nothing for us to do when someone dies, so the fact less people die from a purely surge planning point view is irrelevant, in many ways long term chronically sick people are more problematic for service provision then someone receiving end of life care.
The vaccines help but as we are seeing the virus is far from gone, any health care professional who told you it would eliminate deaths and chronic illness is spoofing, they help certainly, to a very large degree. Look at this way, you worry about not dying, we worry about that and also what to do to best care for you when your chronically ill sitting in a bed for three months and all the other cohorts apart from peope who have contracted COVID.
Id honestly love some people to spend a week in work with me.
