Read the Link please ...."this pooled excess mortality is driven by a particularly high excess mortality in some countries, primarily seen in the age group of 65 years and above."
So why not protect this age group by taking " special "care of this people in their own home.
Why not leave children in school, they are the least affected, assuming no negative medical history.
NHS. Didn't one want to privatize that years ago? Do the employees not constantly protest due to unfair working conditions, poor pay. Suddenly people think of what you need nurses and equipment for? The NHS is a fantastic facility when it comes to public health, why has it been so neglected?
Applause for nurses, a joke. How many have shitty employment contracts or are even outsourced to be rented to the NHS. Shame .. no?
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I've looked at the link.
Yes I realise most people dying of Covid-19 are over 65. This age group are indeed isolating at home.
Back to the questions I asked you: So if we just kept older folk at home and everyone else carried on as normal, do you have any idea of how many people would fall ill, how many of those would become critically ill, and what impact that would have on the NHS? Do you think only old people would ecome critically ill?
Also, the over-65 aspect you raise doesn't address the other big fact, which is many people have diabetes, asthma, heart problems etc, and most of these are in the rest of the workforce. So what happens to them?
By the way, we are the only country with an NHS, yet in Spain and Italy their hospitals are being overrun, despite Locking down. Our NHS has a broadly similar capacity to their health systems. The privatisation or otherwise of the NHS isn't related to the current crisis, it's immaterial.
You keep introducing spurious arguments which don't address the basic issue: if we just isolated old folk, there would be many tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people, millions of people contracting Covid-19. Even if a very small percentage of those became critically ill, the NHS would be overrun. ANY health service would be overrun.
Do you disagree with that, and if you do, why?
