Probably not. In-patient hospital care is insanely expensive.Originally Posted by Lewis
I looked into similar stuff before because we had a patient with renal failure who kept getting admitted because she was homeless and so would miss her dialysis. The cost of one admission would have easily covered the cost to house her for a year, and she was getting admitted every few weeks.
Last edited by randomlegend; 26-01-2022 at 04:24 PM.
By all accounts she had been in and out of there every few months for years. Let's just share the credit.
Kind of undermines your initial claim that the NHS killed her when it's evidently been the only thing keeping her alive "for years". Mate.
All the more tragic that it turned on her.
1-0 to the baby folder.
Exactly what proportion of annual tax revenues would it take to actually fund 'the health service' properly? Isn't it running at something like 20% of them at the moment [probably more]? Or is the answer that it's the same percentage, but we just need to double tax revenues?
The answer is always more than it currently is, regardless of the current level.
You would dramatically improve things by making the NHS budget and the social care budget more fluid. There is a HUGE amount of money spent on NHS care which could be avoided by spending much less on social care. There are people sit in hospital for weeks - sometimes months - who are medically well enough to go home but the social care to facilitate that isn't available/won't be funded.Exactly what proportion of annual tax revenues would it take to actually fund 'the health service' properly? Isn't it running at something like 20% of them at the moment [probably more]? Or is the answer that it's the same percentage, but we just need to double tax revenues?
Exactly right. My wife works on a surgical ward (amputations etc.) and they often have patients in for months post-op because they're not allowed to discharge them into unsafe housing (ie. they had stairs and losing a leg makes navigating them a bit difficult), and the community care teams are woefully underfunded so run at a snail's pace.
My aunt has made a decent business out of after care for the elderly who come out of treatment. Basically filling the gap as there is no public service that can help elderly people recover.
Is she operating some kind of half-way home? It's something to think about if, post-pandemic, there's a bunch of office space going under utilised. Convert them into care services, or something.
Last edited by Shindig; 26-01-2022 at 06:57 PM.
No - she just has about 4-5 staff who go and do home visits and monitor and care for those discharged.
Ah, that's a much more boring solution.
I turned up at the supermarket to buy my OFFICE sandwich this morning to find them dragging the mask mandate sign away, like a slain pretender from the battlefield, and putting up in its place one that says: "Please wear a mask if you can".
I wore one, like a cuck.
The last remaining head has gone. London has fallen. Every man for himself.
The time my head truly went was in April 2020 when I tried pulling the same trick (buying a sandwich in the morning) and they turned me away because I didn't work for the NHS.
What times we lived in. No masks of course until July of that year.
Rumour has it Giggles is going down to just the one.
I remember that. My Mrs came home from work once having been shouted at by one of our NHS heroes because another one of our NHS heroes had her kids with her.
I also remember an old lady being shut down for questioning the logic of opening the store exclusively to the NHS and vulnerable people at the same time. What a victory that turned out to be for her.
There's going to be some belting material for future films coming out of all this.
It's funny how so many people have been righteous about wearing their mask even in the last week but have jettisoned it today just because Boris said it's alright.
I wore mine this morning.
I'm a twit
It's funny to think that Wales was the latest to adopt the mask mandate (around September 2020), and yet I'm still told to wear one in pretty much every public place now. I went out for drinks this weekend and we weren't allowed in to one particular establishment if we didn't wear our masks for the 10 metre walk to our table. Madness.
It's been the way the whole way through. People want Prime Ministerial permission to do just about everything now. It's madness and we'd have laughed our arses off at someone predicting this 3 years ago.
In the Netherlands it's been more legal to pay for a hand job off some ropey Romanian than it is to get a pint in the last few weeks. Starting to open up bars/restaurants etc. now but there's still a 10pm stop in place
It's going to take some time for all this shit to fully subside, but we're at least on the right track now.
Same as before and no reason to change it.
Hospital patients down 2000 in a week. 110 ventilators freed up in that time, too.
There were about half a dozen masks in the supermarket, all of them on weak-looking women. It's over.
I saw a porno yesterday in which the fella was unironically wearing a mask for the whole thing while his female 'friend' did not. Peak covid.
My sister got her booster maybe a week or two before me and caught it when the rest of her household came down with it.
Hilarious indeed.
Y'see, when some governments are still trying to push that the boosters impact transmissibility, it kind of is.
See the SNaziP are actually trying to make these emergency laws permanent.
I'm still getting threatening "GET BOOSTED NOW" texts and emails. Relentless.
Meanwhile, email sent to everyone at work:
[Mr. Director of Athletics],
Since you didn't reply to my email, I can only assume you really don't care about safety or policy at the [University's gym].
Since I last emailed you, I have abstained from going to the [University's gym] to work out (despite my desire to workout everyday) as I don't feel it is a safe environment since no one enforces or follows masking policy.
After seeing [President of the Uni]'s remark that the weight room was closed due to lack of masking compliance, I had hoped that perhaps you were taking your job more seriously. As a result, I went to the [University's gym] at 8am this morning hoping to avoid crowds and work out in relative safety.
As I entered, the women's lacrosse team occupied every treadmill and not a single player was masked. Not one. Their coach standing directly behind the treadmills was also unmasked. When I asked her why her players weren't masked, she replied: "Well, I can't see them. How would I know if they are wearing masks?" I was so mad that I left the [University's gym] without even starting my workout.
Am I incorrect, that the policy of the [University's gym] is that everyone, regardless of vaccination status, must be masked? Is the [University's gym] some sort of mask-free zone? Or do coaches and their players have some sort of special no-mask privilege? Or do you simply not have management skills to control the operations of your facility? Or perhaps you just don't care.
In my last email, I sent a list of suggestions. Let me add one more: an hour block (or two or three) in the [University's gym] for faculty and staff ONLY with heavy masking enforcement. No student and especially no athletes can walk through the [University's gym].
I just want to workout. When can I do so safely?
Dr. xxx
Professor of Film/Media Studies
Wearing a mask on a treadmill? Are you mad?
Worth noting that the vaccination rate in the University is 95%+.
if you redacted the subject they taught, it wouldn't take anyone more than 3 goes to guess it from that email.
Yeah, it wouldn't be hard since it says it at the bottom.
Does redacted mean something different in Ireland?
No, I just can't read.
I edited it predicting someone would make the joke you did, I just must have done it between the time of you reading it and pressing reply.No, I just can't read.
An American professor of films (probably a woman as well going off the tone) is obviously going to be some sort of melt singularity. I'm surprised they left the house.
I fucking knew that part wasn't there when I first read it!
Incorrect, surprisingly.
EDIT: Or not, if you've met the lot that works here.
She sounds like she needs a good fucking seeing to.
Mwuhahahaha
Phwoar.
Masking in the gym ffs.
@Pepe, he even looks like a soppy melt in his photo.
You'd think with a name like Dr XXX you'd be more or a badass.
They're definitely more French than British.
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