[Oldeconomybuyer]

[KarlInOhio]

Take back private hospital beds 

How can NHS take them "back" if they never belong to the socialists in the first place. That's like me "taking back" the money in your wallet. Very, very Newspeakish.

[LouieFisk]

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BREAKING: UK reports 342 new cases of coronavirus and 10 new deaths, raising total to 1,140 cases and 21 dead

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“We must use this opportunity to double or triple the number we euthanize! Death to anyone over 50!”

[Lurker]

Mighty fancy words there. Could have saved some breath and just said “steal them”.

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[oincobx]

When you have shortage of bedd you can go one of three ways - ration by first come first served, ration by the highest bidder, or ration by some other criteria such as age. Italy has opted for age and the UK currently has bidder for the moment.

[MayflowerMadam]

Instead of using existing hospital/beds, just commandeer some of those “ghost malls” that are languishing and waiting to be useful.

If China can build entire hospitals in a few weeks’ time, refitting malls should be easy enough.

[VeniVidiVici]

"It can't be right that we have plush private hospitals lying empty waiting for the wealthy to fall ill, while people are left in dying in hospitals for the want of a bed.

Welcome to Socialism. And I'm sure there are folks on the Coronavirus thread that would agree with the author of the article.

[null and void]

We MUST eliminate private hospital beds! The risk of having a larger percentage of private hospital patients survive is unacceptable!!!

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[StormEye]

Lets have the government "take back" private homes.
Can't have all that bedroom space wasted on
those healthy home owners and their families. We can
start with Buckingham Palace then move on to those
other mansions of the rich and famous. After that comes
the houses of the middle class folks.

[Brian Griffin]

Probably not one of these beds has a ventilator to go with it.

The beds are for elective operations on otherwise fairly healthy people.

The NHS is where the really sick get treated in the UK.

[Winniesboy]

There would be noting particularly difficult or exceptional about this, since there's long been plenty of mutual sub-contracting between local NHS Trusts and private hospitals (mostly BUPA). The private insurers hire private rooms in NHS hospitals, and hire NHS equipment staff and facilities for procedures which their local private hospitals aren't equipped to deal with. (I've had personal experience of such an arrangement.) Conversely, NHS hospitals hire private hospital beds for some routine procedures when there's an excess demand.

So I would expect this simply to be replicated by a larger deal.

The real crunch issue is likely to be over staffing rather than bedspace.

[Winniesboy]

It's now happened. Most of the 8000 private hospital beds in the UK have been made available to the NHS for Covid19 cases.:

Thousands of extra hospital beds and staff