I spoke to 2 departments at our local hospital today. Maternity who were worried about a covid positive patient with lots of vulnerabilities being in hospital but also couldnāt really be discharged safely. Theyād had to change one ward to a covid ward. The other was a nurse who deals with safeguarding who reported it was ridiculously busy. She gave me A&Eās number to ring as she couldnāt get hold of them. Funnily enough neither could I.
It is too much for them. There is no let up.
We (the government) are not doing enough at the right time. Wasted months on leaving EU negotiations when they should have concentrated on this completely. Just seemingly not even looking at other countries who appear to have got it right. If I hear āitās a hard job for themā I may internally combust. It is, no doubt, but there are expertise and other places doing much better.
I have covid or government induced Touretteās these days.
And whilst I canāt abide this shitfuck of a government, its why getting as many vaccinated with The OX/AZ asap is criticalā¦ even a single dose reduced hospital admission to almost zeroā¦ that will relive stress on the systemā¦ I say this as someone whose family is undergoing cancer therapyā¦ therapy delayed by several months through all of this.
No issue with as many people getting it if that is the evidence for one of the vaccines but not so sure on the other one. But also just the scale of rearranging appointments and the impact on those people.
I know I shall be ok (fingers crossed) but if itās not ok for those 500k vulnerable people and some of them do end up in ICUs. Well we will see. Fingers crossed it wonāt happen.
And to be honest Iām glad the C_S family have not had to call on the NHS - though until today we werenāt sure with Mrs C_S.
Regardless, I have every confidence in the NHS and am well pissed off that our esteemed Government could have spent more time and effort getting it right, but, and at the risk of incurring the wrath of Pap, they could have diverted time and resource from their Brexit efforts to do something useful for the nation.
This isnāt exclusively a Tory problem. Look at Keir and his mates and theyāre pretty much behind anythng the government wants to do.
It isnāt exclusively an English problem. For all her bluster, Sturgeon, who letās remember has control over her health system and a bigger per capita budget, is one of the most fucked up places.
Itās not exclusively a UK problem. Systems of governance have failed elsewhere and even those countries that initially did well have gone on to do worse.
Iām not letting anyone off. Far from it, because there is a problem. The problem seems to be that no matter where you look in the democratic world, you are usually looking at an entrenched political class thatāll usually get paid a load more money than the people they represent.
Itās a rigged game nearly everywhere in the world. Not only are we no different. Weāre one of the worst. The dark subtext of the flailing of Jeremy Corbyn is ānothing is going to change, you cuntsā.
Quick update on the state of play at SGH. Itās fucking busy. About the same levels as the Spring. 30+ patients ventilated. Patients are younger than the spring. This is without the expected christmas bump.
So it looks like I am somewhere in between 28m and 38m in the queue for the vaccine - which assuming 1m per week and 70% take up means I am getting a shot somewhere between jan 22 and July 22
So I have a plan - if I become morbidly obese then I jump up into the top 10m which means I would be done by May, go on a crash diet and have my holiday bod for August
And the great news Is that thanks to Christmas I have got off to a flying start
