"Imagine if you turned up today @christinarossetti19 needing acute care and the Hospital shrugged it’s shoulders and said “but we need even more time to prepare, you should have said sooner, not as if it is a global pandemic or anything is it now, come on dear, be reasonable” !!!"
Don't be ridiculous NotSoHappyNewTier. If I or anyone else presented at A&E in need of acute care, I might be waiting for hours to be triaged as they tried to clear the queue of ambulances outside, but they would do their best.
A day of school is not acute care.
Why is it so difficult for people to understand that's what schools are doing? Their best, in shitty circumstances.
My mum in her 80s was taken to hospital by paramedics one evening a few weeks ago. She was waiting outside in the ambulance all night, got a bed in A&E many hours later and was eventually admitted onto the assessment ward some 40 hours after she'd presented at A&E.
She nearly died because treatment was unavoidably delayed (she had sepsis as well as hypothermia, pneumonia and dehydration).
I'm still extremely, extremely appreciative of the NHS because it is doing its best in the middle of a global pandemic, as is the education system.