11-10-2020, 11:15 AM
Point Dekka?
12,949 Covid Hospital patients
128,051 non Covid Hospital patients
The health service overrun - is it? - if it is it's because of treatment of illnesses left to lay fallow for 8 months because Covid is supposedly the only thing you can die of.
My wife's breast screening has been cancelled again along with a million other women - say BreastCancer org - who also have not had screenings. Screening 200 women sees 1 women's life saved (as per NHS data).
I'm not going to go hyperbolic here because that would be silly but that's 5000 lives potentially. That's one well known, well screened illness. Wait till we get the cardiac and cancer deaths stacking up because of missed appointments. And yet I'm not supposed to mention proportionality or cost benefits of a lockdown because some already vulnerable people may die.
12,949 Covid Hospital patients
128,051 non Covid Hospital patients
The health service overrun - is it? - if it is it's because of treatment of illnesses left to lay fallow for 8 months because Covid is supposedly the only thing you can die of.
My wife's breast screening has been cancelled again along with a million other women - say BreastCancer org - who also have not had screenings. Screening 200 women sees 1 women's life saved (as per NHS data).
I'm not going to go hyperbolic here because that would be silly but that's 5000 lives potentially. That's one well known, well screened illness. Wait till we get the cardiac and cancer deaths stacking up because of missed appointments. And yet I'm not supposed to mention proportionality or cost benefits of a lockdown because some already vulnerable people may die.