Question time Covid special

[Lily7050]

I am sure many people have watched the programme. It is just I have some questions that were not answered so hope someone here could shed light on.
It was mentioned during the programme that ambulances queue to hospitals to deliver Covid patients and some are even delivered in police cars.
I have never seen queues to my local hospital (SW London). Moreover I saw and heard more ambulances in summer than I see/hear driving around these days.
On another forum someone said that they saw empty wards when they were visiting their relative (non-Covid) in one of the hospitals. Another person said that I would not see queues of ambulances because Covid patients are taken to specialised infectious hospitals.
Ok, then why my local hospital has cancelled outpatients appointments and even urgent operations?
This means their staff is not really busy so they could help in Nightingale hospital that is not utilised due to staff shortage?

Another point is in the programme they kept mentioning 30,000 Covid patients in hospitals. After the programme I read that care homes do not accept their residents back from hospitals until they get negative test results. This can take 9+weeks even though people are not infectious 10 days after showing Covid symptoms.
I wonder out of 30,000 how many have to stay in hospitals 9+ weeks?

Finally, re. vaccine, they started from age 80+ group. I have read that older people do not respond well to vaccines and do not produce sufficient antibodies to build immunity. In addition some of 80+ now refuse Pfizer vaccine and want to wait for English vaccine. How is the whole vaccination plan going to work if everyone will demand whatever vaccine they fancy?

What do you want from posting this?

Are we given incomplete information making us to believe that ALL NHS staff is busy with COVID patients?

Are the beds taken mainly by care home residents who are mostly recovered from COVID but not allowed back to care homes because the way PCR tests work?

Is this all done to justify privatisation of NHS?

Will we see the benefit of vaccination over 80s? I have read in Portugal a lot of vaccinated elderly got infected after vaccination.

Do you think Mumsnet is a reliable source of information on any of this?

I think you do know what you want from this.

You want people to confirm those idiots who film empty hospital wards are telling the truth.

We know the situation. They are not tanking the economy to feed us some crap about overrun hospitals and theatres being turned into icu and staff being deployed to icu.

They just aren't.

To answer your questions

1. Don't believe everything you read on facebook, try watching and reading reputable news sites instead
2. Don't believe everything you read on facebook, NHS staff from other areas are being redeployed to covid wards, because that's where they are needed. There are therefore less people on other wards
3. Nope, once again don't believe everything you read on facebook. Do you not remember the care home crisis in the last lockdown? Besides, 9+ weeks is just not true, sorry
4. Really? For the last time, dont believe everything you read on facebook. Vaccination of the population is a process, if someone 80+ wants to turn down the vaccination they don't throw it way you know, just move to the next in line. The purpose of this is to vaccinate as many people as possible, not just those 80+

In short, if this is a genuine post op, read around a bit and use your critical thinking. If not, stop trying to pass this rubbish off as true and go away.