I agree that it seems totally unfair, and in some cases has shortend peoples lives, but this is part of the fact that it was known that the NHS couldn't cope with the increase call on its service if there was a pandemic because of underfunding.
So they were left with clearing most other hospital services to make room to treat Covid-19 patients.
And from so many studies of past pandemics it is known that people who would normally not die from a medical condition, do die when resources are focused on the pandemic.
ie this is rationing of the health service (which was already happening). But doesn't explain why they built these Nightingale Hospitals which have hardly been used. Why when they had these they were sending suspect Covid-19 patients back to care homes. Why (in the early stages) ambulances would frequently say someone wasn't ill enough to be taken to hospital, with fatal consequences.
So not doubting the work of those in the Covid-19 wards and ICU, but they were basically only dealing with those who had been filtered through a rationing system, often based on age, and some have suggested race.
In 2016 when the Government did an execise on how could the UK respond to a pandemic and got the answer not very well, they did nothing. Other European countries who did similar exercises did respond, eg Switzerland who stockpiled equipment etc., that would be needed.
No doubt next year or sometime figures will be published of the excess deaths, ie those who wouldn't have died in normal circumstances, but nothing will change.
And as I said, all those working with Covid-19 patients, who are bearing the brunt of the virus out break, must know at the back of their minds that as they do this someone else who could have benefited from their care is not getting it.
The Government, and the media who have colluded in covering up (when you think of the screaming headlines about Spanish Care Homes with people found dead) what has been going on, are part of selling us the NHS as brave fighters against the virus, whereas they have been put in the position of someone giving out water in an area of drought, saying to older people, and people with disabilites, please dont bother queueing for water.
Mencap's response to NICE's guidelines on how to decide whether to treat "frail" patients www.mencap.org.uk/press-release/mencap-responds-deeply-troubling-new-nice-covid-19-guidance
These guideline led to some GPs sending out DNR notices to older patients to sign.
So it does wmake you wonder how many people who could benefit from a home visit from a nurse have not been prioritised whilst a trans patient does. eg some people being cared for at home by care assistants may also need medical treatment that they cant access because they are self isolating.