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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
coppice:
--- Quote from: bd139 on April 25, 2020, 09:31:35 pm ---Lucky. My mother had her chemo cancelled. The hospitals are pretty dead here. I reckon it's going to turn into a shit show beyond all proportion yet.
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It already is a shit show. Have you noticed how much non-corona related deaths have risen in recent weeks?
james_s:
I don't get why chemo would be considered non-essential. Here they stopped all elective procedures, as far as I was aware something like chemo was not considered elective but I thankfully have not had a need to find out.
nctnico:
--- Quote from: james_s on April 25, 2020, 09:58:04 pm ---I don't get why chemo would be considered non-essential. Here they stopped all elective procedures, as far as I was aware something like chemo was not considered elective but I thankfully have not had a need to find out.
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My guess would be that some judgement is made on how urgent a treatment is. We are not being told the full story; it is not like urgent health care has stopped. The whole point of the lockdowns is to keep health care going for all treatments needed urgently.
bd139:
--- Quote from: coppice on April 25, 2020, 09:41:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on April 25, 2020, 09:31:35 pm ---Lucky. My mother had her chemo cancelled. The hospitals are pretty dead here. I reckon it's going to turn into a shit show beyond all proportion yet.
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It already is a shit show. Have you noticed how much non-corona related deaths have risen in recent weeks?
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Indeed I have. I actually think the long term (10 year picture) the lockdown may have a worse body count than letting the virus do its thing. That's going to be way easier to bury in statistics when eyes are turned to the task at hand which will here will be Boris' second coming and be all of us being told to do our part through austerity to pay off the temporary concessions everyone had...
--- Quote from: james_s on April 25, 2020, 09:58:04 pm ---I don't get why chemo would be considered non-essential. Here they stopped all elective procedures, as far as I was aware something like chemo was not considered elective but I thankfully have not had a need to find out.
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It's purely an overplanning shit show. They transferred nursing staff to covid-19 care which is a one way transfer for infection control reasons. This left the department with minimum staff. Then a couple of the staff got sick so then the department had to close. The covid-19 staff are sitting around doing fuck all most of the time because they are nowhere near capacity, despite the shite being shown on the BBC (half my family is in NHS and has confirmed it directly at three different hospitals).
For the folk outside the UK, the NHS is untouchable here after being a political pawn for decades. You can't criticise it or the staff even if there's bodies everywhere from a gigantic fuck up.
coppice:
--- Quote from: james_s on April 25, 2020, 09:58:04 pm ---I don't get why chemo would be considered non-essential. Here they stopped all elective procedures, as far as I was aware something like chemo was not considered elective but I thankfully have not had a need to find out.
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I saw a short interview on the news with an ICU doctor who was puzzled by the large drop in the kinds of emergency patients they normally see a steady steam of. Maybe COVID-!9 is magically stopping all other emergencies from occurring. Maybe those people are going directly to the rising non-COVID19 deaths figure.
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