Genuine question for anti-lockdowners

[LucyLocketsPocket]

What do you think the government's motive for lockdown is?

To protect the NHS or something else?

@OhTheRoses

Never occurred to you that the staff may be dead, sick or just redeployed. A lot of NHS staff are one of those three. There may be a few clinically vulnerable who are working from home but IME they are telephoning patients. But maybe the staff of your service have left because some NHS staff are so fed up they are leaving - or maybe you are another bored student because there is an obvious step to take that you dont mention you have taken.

@alreadytaken I very much doubt they are dead or sick. If that were the case I assume the service manager would have mentioned it.

On what basis have you extrapolated I am a bored student and would you like to provide clarity about the other step I could take please?

Suckers need something new to witter on about now they are bored with Brexit. Making masks and lockdown political is the latest.
Time to put your big girl/boy pants on and recognise that we fix the economy with a proper and fully supported track and trace system . Lobby for that instead of bleating about your right to be an arsehole.

hamstersarse

"The inefficiency of the NHS is appalling. Awful. Shameful. And I can't help but think that privatization may actually be a better solution to the ever increasing demands of our population (sickest on record)"

That's not what most of my patients think- GP last Weds, bloods and CT scan (on a 10 days old machine) by Tuesday, specialist F2F appointment Thursday. That's 8 days.

The NHS may not be a paragon of 'efficiency', but frankly, the most 'efficient' thing to do is to let your patients die.

@Miljea in some respects I agree with you. Our GP service has run far better than ever before since 23rd March - the only issue is that it didn't always harness the internet and digital communications. However I would hope, if you are a GP, that you would agree that the nonsense going on in dd's adhd/asd unit is despicable. Expecting patients to take their own bp. We have a go monitor- presumably patients who don't have to go to their GP or a pharmacy thus increasing risks for other his and allied staff. I think it beggars belief and presumably does not comply with the CCG's commissioning contract.

They haven't locked down.

@annabel85 how do you know? Can you tell me the name of the facility. Their recorded message says they are shut.

I would describe myself as a 'reluctant lockdowner' rather than an 'anti-lockdowner', but anyway....

Basically I think much of it is short-termism, which is a chronic problem in UK politics generally. The immediate impact of rising Covid infections will be leading the news tomorrow. The medium to longterm social, medical, economic & educational impact of severe restrictions will take a bit longer to be felt, possibly quite a lot longer.