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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by - Doing The Lambert Walk, Mar 12, 2020.

  1. ----HistoryRepeating----

    ----HistoryRepeating---- Well-Known Member

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    Best news this week!
     
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    Stay home to protect people or go to work to protect people? Choices.
     
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    Depends entirely on what work is. Healthcare, food, and very little else are necessary now.
     
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    Its excellent news, but I'm not sure if they have many ventilators in the private sector. They mostly do outpatient work etc. But every little helps!
     
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    It means more than that. We are now in it together.
     
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  7. timatoketchup

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    Food. It comes down to your own personal morals. Enough from me, I'm up at 3am to do it all again. Please pass on to anyone you know that attempting to buy too much will only hurt the wider community.
     
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    the problem is in the modern world is you have big chains of industry for all these things, everything is so intertwined.

    Healthcare needs healthcare equipment, which needs manufacturing which needs supplies and maintenance and transport and utilities and equipment of its own. so you need workers providing those supplies, maintaining the roads and utilities. and those companies need things too so it goes on. many important industries can survive on what they have for while, and some things wont be needed for a lot longer than others.
    but at some point you will need to get the entire web of supply chains running. i guess thats why the government kept going on about timing.
     
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  9. Osvaldorama

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    Official global figure for Coronavirus reaches 300,000 cases.

    97 days to 100,000
    13 days to 200,000
    03 days to 300,000
     
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    Don’t forget that the most important element, as always, is the fully qualified and experienced staff, the vast majority of whom will have been trained in the NHS.

    My wife, who since retiring from the NHS 5 years ago has been working as a nurse in care homes, is preparing to return as a Band 5 staff nurse, in order to free up the best-qualified nurses to supply the need in critical care. That’s how this will work. Ventilators are useless without people to work them.
     
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    Your wife is an absolute legend. Please thank her for stepping up like that. Gives me hope for humanity
     
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    Could be down to increase in testing in numerous countries?

    I don’t think the number of cases is really something to look at atm. We know it is widespread and basically everywhere. Just need to keep testing as much as possible to try and contain it
     
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    Don’t worry, I’ve already told her! :)
     
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    My sister is a vet - the animal health trust have given their oxygen tanks and ventilators over to the government.

    I only wish all those who had gathered for “one last drink up” at the pub last night, had had to sign a disclaimer stating that if they, or any of their relatives needed a ventilator, they were revoking their right to one, as the pub was more important.
     
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  15. thereisonlyoneno7

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    ..Wine.....

    ;)
     
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    Joking apart, I wish I had the skills to help/save people. It takes a different type of person it really does.
     
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    An extra 8,000 hospital beds across England, nearly 1,200 ventilators and almost 20,000 fully qualified staff will be available from next week.
     
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    It’s been said many times by better-qualified people than me, but the most brilliant surgeons, skilled scrub nurses, and cutting edge researchers in health care all give daily homage to the care assistants, porters, cleaners, maintenance staff, cooks and bottle washers who keep the place functioning. There really is no “I” in “team” in the NHS.
     
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    I really hope that the silver lining out of this crisis, is the gov finally paying nurses, cleaners and anyone else involved in the NHS what they are actually worth.
     
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    Just re-read my own post and WE ALL have those skills actually.

    Just stay in. Don't go out. Don't spread.

    It is the least we can do.
     
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