Over 10m vaccinations. This is epic !

It is going really well and as long as supplies of the vaccinations can keep up I think it will continue to do well.

"Perhaps they could use the Nightingale Hospitals that they wasted money on last year"

Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing.

"Its clear now they were just playing the political game with tax payers money."

You see conspiracy; I see cock-up.

Were the Nightingale hospitals ever going to be critical care? Had the first wave resulted in 50,000+ requiring hospitalisation, my guess is they would have been used. Those that stood the best chance of saving would have received critical care and those with little chance would have been given whatever help could be managed and allowed to die. But at least they would have been somewhere resembling a hospital and the NHS/Government would receive less criticism than if the no hopers were left to die on the streets.

Fortunately we never went there.

Matt Hancock is reported as saying there should be no regrets. So they wouldn't regret backing a vaccine which may or may not work and they wouldn't regret having too many beds that didn't get used.

I don't regret buying home insurance or life assurance I never used.

Edited by Chris M on 07/02/2021 at 17:15

"Perhaps they could use the Nightingale Hospitals that they wasted money on last year"

Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing.

It is indeed but why do we continue to employ the people who make these decisions when it was obvious to me at the time existing NHS staff were stretched in the existing hospitals. How anyone could think that with little warning they could conjure up many thousand extra critical care Doctors, nurses, care assistants etc was and still is beyond me.

IMHO they did it hoping the public would believe they were on top of the pandemic. Its clear now they were just playing the political game with tax payers money.

It was an emergency measure trying to mitigate a possible outcome of the hospitals over flowing and needing to find somewhere to put a lot of sick people all at one time. I think they knew it would be difficult to staff but expect resources from the armed forces would have been drafted in if required.

Don't think it is all as stupid as you think it was especially when you are dealing with a virus that at that time very little was known about and the government has to look at all options.