The photos and videos of stations and roads as people leave London is ridiculous. Probably the same people who mocked the Italians fleeing northern Italy in the first lockdown.

Absolute fucking cunts

What a complete shambles it is back home.How the fuck did it get to this stage?

alistair then engineer a situation on a Saturday night where thousands flock to the same places in a frenzy. The stupidity is breathtaking.

Maybe it was intentional?

Kells77 So basically like us most days even without covid then. My Tuesdays used to be turning up at work at 0730 and then dicking around until negotiations about who would get the last ICU bed were over (usually an operation for throat cancer vs an operation for oesophageal cancer). Then we would both get a bed and start our ops at 1030 and then finish really late.

But we have some of the lowest ICU beds per head of population in Europe.

“There’s a bit confusion around that. Maybe SoCal is different, but up here we have the space, the issue is properly trained ICU nurses. They’re also holding off some beds in case of, like, catastrophic car crashes or shootings. It just going to take a ridiculous amount of management and triage.”

Also us every day. We can have more beds but there are not nurses to staff them. A sisngle ICU bed requires 7 WTE nurses. 5000 ICU beds in a nightingale hopspital. Where are you going to magic up the nurses and doctors.

Plus covid is not like polio and a single system disease. You can’t just put on a vent and hope. They get bad stuff going on with multi-organ failure. I haven’t done ICU for 5 years. I reckon I could manage about 15% of the patients we had on our ICU in the peak. I can do blood pressure and ventilation and basic micro. But managing the kidneys and strokes and weird clotting and all the other stuff that people had before they got covid and ended up on ICU would be beyond me. Again, where are you going to magic up that workforce from.

    Residents in tier four are being asked to stay at home unless for essential journeys.

    My sisters 40th and Christmas are essential journeys so I’m gravy baby.

      Good post Benson.

      Some of the conspiracy merchants could do with reading

      Smallman1 is Ed I think normally your incessant optimism is a thing of joy but you are starting to grate a little. They are not fucking essential. By any stretch of the imagination.

      Why don’t I put it another way then, essential or not, I’m going to them.

        Smallman1 I am not sure if you are being sarcastic or not but if true, the arrogance is suffocating.

        The level of maturity being shown here is of a petulant 13 year old who has zero conscious or respect.

        Mama Smalls is no longer picking up the hand reared turkey in West Sussex for Christmas and we’ve had to swap it out for a myriad of M&S options for the big day.

        Tough times etc etc.

          She’s moving to Australia at the end of the year.

          We social distanced and celebrated respectfully.

          Mad_Cyril

          If it’s warm enough to roll up your Top Man blazer it’s warm enough take it off.

          P Barney Barnes.

          I hope it and its family all gather for the holidays and they all get COVID.