I agree with most of your post RE, the thing is we all have to suffer/sacrifice in order to overcome this. My sacrifice is being completely isolated with no human contact until further notice.R.E92 said:mcbutler said:That really is a pessimistic opinion my friend, all hospital workers - armed forces etc are on 24/7/365 pay because it's the only way to do it. How on earth could you account for a nurses/soldiers etc hours at this time.R.E92 said:I know it's an unpopular opinion but hospitals are quieter than usual and all the staff in the NHS are still getting paid. My concern in these times are with people that are self employed or on zero hour contracts that are seeing their incomes disappear and their savings vanish.
Also remember that you probably don't see the 'coal face' in the hospitals, just the A&E etc.
I am self employed but guess what, like many I am insured, don't believe the media hype.
Stay safe..
There's a lot of people out there working hard and not getting any freebies or applause from it. My parents are farmers and it's business as usual for them, still knee deep in s**t during lambing time working 18hr days 7 days a week and still getting next to nothing for the end product.
People complain about NHS staff not getting paid enough but to people like my parents, the idea of £25k+ salary, pension and working only 40hrs a week is living the dream and it's all funded out of their pockets. This isn't something like MERS with a 40% fatality rate, to a healthy person this virus is no more dangerous than common influenza.
I apologise if this seems like a negative view of the NHS, it's not meant to be a downer on them, rather a reality check that the country is currently being held up by the farmers, lorry drivers , shop workers and plant operators on power stations, sewage works and water treatment plants. It's even more crazy when news outlets start comparing NHS workers to war heroes who fought in the first and second world wars.
Personally I would choose anything before being in the same room as someone carrying a lethal virus.
Any healthcare professional will tell you quite sternly that it is not the same as seasonal flu, this is repeated day after day by medical staff on the TV.