Silly Question: can I go sailing next week when the weather settles down?

[Hacker]

We have a large military that could staff it. Covid care is fairly basic and could be taught quickly to scale up with a few fully trained people for unusual things that come up. As large part of it is observation and providing oxygen and soldiers could easily handle that to take pressure off of hospitals. That may even allow hospitals to capacity for other treatments back up to scale.

You really don’t understand clinical care, do you.

 

[lustyd]

more than you understand emergencies I'd imagine. Field hospitals have been used for centuries with military support in all kinds of scenarios. soldiers are generally already medically trained for considerably worse scenarios than covid.

 

[Hacker]

Bad luck, I suspect I’ve forgotten more about emergency health care planning than you ever knew.

 

[JumbleDuck]

However even in the mad fish-woman's fiefdom a Police Officer can't give you a £1000 penalty any more than he can give you a prison sentence so I'll call you out on that...

You are quite right. The maximum fixed penalty is only £960, not £1000. See The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions) (Scotland) Regulations 2020

That said, it looks as if the second penalty should have been £120, unless I am missing something. Perhaps she was reported to the fiscal the second time.

 

[lustyd]

Bad luck, I suspect I’ve forgotten more about emergency health care planning than you ever knew.

Yes let's assume you forgot, that seems easier

 

[Blue Sunray]

more than you understand emergencies I'd imagine. Field hospitals have been used for centuries with military support in all kinds of scenarios. soldiers are generally already medically trained for considerably worse scenarios than covid.

Yep getting shot/blast injuries are arguably worse than Covid, but about as useful as saluting when dealing with CV19.

Still they say laughter is the best medicine and you are obliging on that front in spades.

 

[lustyd]

My point was that they can be trained on the day to day aspects of a large room of covid patients very quickly in order to assist the medical teams. The vast majority of covid patients in hospitals right now are stable, on oxygen and just being monitored. Thats a lot of effort, but it's not complex. There is also a percentage that needs dedicated medical teams. It would be better if those dedicated teams were not burned out from long shifts doing the legwork.

I get that you're purposefully ignoring all of this so I won't bother continuing with this thread. I hope this is over soon though because those medical professionals are leaving the profession in droves right now so we're going to need options pretty soon.