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The Old Ruminator
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Go effing caving.
A_Northerner
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Rob said:
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Speleofish
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This is not attributable.... We're down to half the number of Covid patients on ICU we had at our peak. There is a huge queue of people needing surgery who want to use those beds. Fortunately, we've had far fewer major trauma cases than usual (no cars to collide with each other - though those who have crashed have tended to be exploiting empty roads to go very, very fast before the final Ooops). What I don't understand is where all our 'normal' emergencies have gone - they haven't all got Covid.
Bottom line, if you're quick, you can get your accident in quickly and there'll probably be a bed. This is a one time offer - it won't be true in a week or two...
Bottom line, if you're quick, you can get your accident in quickly and there'll probably be a bed. This is a one time offer - it won't be true in a week or two...
pwhole
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One important factor, probably overlooked, is that there are no pissed people in town centres any longer. Every Friday and Saturday night most urban hospitals are full of the walking wounded from a night's drinking. Add in all the drinking-related violence happening at home and you've got quite a busy A&E. I remember watching a documentary where a nurse said to camera, after another night of chaos "If there wasn't public drinking, none of this would be happening, and we'd manage quite well".
Take all the pubs and nightclubs out of the equation, all the drunken drivers etc., and then all the people too scared to go to hospital who are possibly dying at home instead - I suspect that's what's happening mostly to the numbers. I presume most street-gang related knife-crime is also down, on the grounds that most of the potential perpetrators are having to sit watching TV with their mums instead. Probably better for them - and everyone else. As long as they don't stab their mum.
Take all the pubs and nightclubs out of the equation, all the drunken drivers etc., and then all the people too scared to go to hospital who are possibly dying at home instead - I suspect that's what's happening mostly to the numbers. I presume most street-gang related knife-crime is also down, on the grounds that most of the potential perpetrators are having to sit watching TV with their mums instead. Probably better for them - and everyone else. As long as they don't stab their mum.
