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[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (6 children)

It's like when North Korea threatens to nuke us once a year, so we send them rice.

The NHS just wants more funding, and threats like this is unfortunately the best way to guarantee that funding.

Just like when the federal agencies blow up a trailer in the middle of nowhere to justify expanded federal terrorism budgets.

[–]RuckFeddit 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I think it's more the push for privatization of the NHS. The NHS has been in a bad state for a long time and officials act as if their hands are tied.

[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Stakeholder capitalism.

[–]RuckFeddit 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

That's another term I was unaware of. Yeah that's it. Like Deutsche Bahn in Germany, where are you going to point the finger at a 50/50 private government owned company? it's a total conflict of interest especially in this day and age.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, exactly. Also, with the current credit based debt system the US runs on, their will always be cyclical doldrums and economic crises. But the most saddening of things is that stakeholders must create new, parasitic niche markets to keep the economy afloat with each passing manufactured crisis.

Debt and personhood now becomes a commodity through data-pharming personal information and Impact vs. values scores.

[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Or remote fly a brand new military airliner into an abandoned field to justify new and improved billion dollar planes and equipment.

[–]jet199 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The hospitals are actually emptier this year.

The government recruited loads more staff in the summer and bought loads of new equipment.

Their main problem now is so many staff are now off sick. This is not unusual, it's possible to be off on full pay stick leave for years in the UK gov, but it's likely that many of them are catching covid at work due to continued bad practices particularly lack of social distancing between staff. They are so scared of catching it off patients they pile on the PPE and wash 10 times then take it off and all have a cup off tea together in a tiny staffroom. You can clearly see this kind of behavior in footage from the staff themselves and the news, which is probably why camera crews have now been banned in UK hospitals.

The trouble is this is killing people and causing a scare which is going to get us into lockdown again. The majority of people now in hospital with covid went in for a different complaint and caught it in hospital but because this fact isn't being publicised people assume it's spreading round their community or schools.

[–]discountmeat 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

We are in dire needs of more hospitals! And more fast food and wars while you are at it.

[–]369 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's odd how 2020 was the year picked to close down the world due to the perennial virus...
I'm sure it's just a coincidence though.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

in dire need of money since hospitals are all empty

[–]AcceleratedWallops 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is a thing everywhere....They estimate they'll need 100 beds, so they have 115 just in case, turns out they only need 80, get yelled at for having too many empty beds and wasting money, next year cut to 100, whoops we actually needed 105, rinse and repeat.

If you ever on the side of caution you are wasting money; if you tighten up, you are endangering lives. This is not unique to the NHS.

And for any dumbasses who want to say "just keep a few foldup cots in the closet", in a healthcare context a "bed" is the physical equipment as well as staff and nurses to handle the patient.