Posted on 03/14/2020 9:16:15 AM PDT by Mariner
LONDON—On Thursday, Boris Johnson delivered the most chilling warning from a British prime minister since Winston Churchill prepared the country for potential destruction during World War Two. “I must level with you,” Johnson said, looking like a man who had just emerged from a doctor’s office after receiving a terrible diagnosis. “Many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time.”
His message was stark, and somehow seemed to hit even harder coming from a man who has built his political career on flippant clownery. The novel coronavirus can no longer be contained in the United Kingdom, he said, and all that can be done now is to mitigate the worst effects of it to give the doctors and nurses in the country’s already creaking national health service a fighting chance to save as many lives as possible.
But the strict containment measures now familiar around the planet—population lockdowns, prohibition of mass gatherings, and travel bans—were notable only by their absences. Johnson’s government has diverged with the rest of the world and decided to take a much less draconian approach, and his scientific advisers have admitted the strategy could see as much as 60 percent of the population catch the coronavirus.
In point of fact, Britain is effectively encouraging a potentially deadly virus to spread to the majority of the people who live here. Remember, the U.K. is one of the only European countries which is still allowed to send flights to the United States under President Donald Trump’s travel ban.
The logic goes like this: if a large section of the population is exposed to the coronavirus now, it will likely help people develop a level of immunity, and then Britain will be in the best possible position to defend itself from a...
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And, of course, keep on running most of my mail straight to the recycling bin. :-)
Wouldn’t a through wipe of a debit card eventually bugger the magnetic strip on the back?
Daily Beast so their interpretation is not to be trusted.
What this will ensure is that there will not be enough resources to care for the sick. Slow down the spread, have more resources to care for the ill.
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Just got a message that the ban has been extended to include The UK and Ireland.
Chilling. Insanity.
This will probably kill most of their elderly.
Your reply helps me to understand why medical schools exist and why nurses and respiratory therapists are licensed professionals. Anybody with a keyboard and internet can do it, tidal volumes, PEEP and O2 saturations notwithstanding.
This will be interesting.
The death toll from the 2003 European heatwave was a preview of coming attractions.
Thanks for the update...good news.
Culling the herd, they call it.
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Do patients on the national health plan still have to wait six weeks for an appointment
I thought that contracting Covid-19 did not give one immunity. Has that been restated by a reliable source?
Rats! restated—retracted
This is the $64 question. Everything depends on if this is true or not.
It sounds like you have experienced the NHS system and managing ventilators. It sounds like Nautinurse has a grasp of the clinical situation. I’d love to see your CV.
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