Respirator Supply & Demand Dilemma!

If you have enough ventilators where are you going to find appropriately trained staff? The vast majority of nurses do not have a clue to even set up a ventilator never mind how to care for a patient safely. This is not a slight against nurses, I was one in an ICU unit.

We'll be fine; Johnson is recruiting thousands more nurses [oh, hang on a minute....].

This has been coming since January, why are they only looking now? Where is the planning? Why are we floundering so much?

The BBC4 pandemic programme said a pandemic was top of the governments list of disasters. So why is the government acting as if they've been taken totally by surprise. And, as for America closing down the department that deals with pandemics well, words fail me....

Matt Hancockup ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=roNlgIY9QKw

Well at least the gov are talking the talk - now...

Glad to hear that a new dedicated hospital with 2 wards of 2000 capacity each.

Four thousand - Wonder what percentage of the population that is?

Why does everything have to be a dilemma OP?

I was thinking of “Queue jumping dilemma”, “Holocaust movie dilemma”,etc.
#justasking

Just my thing

You are welcome to use it

Anything else you object to Mawb?

Mawb

How do you feel about the thread topic - Am I still over-reacting?

My son is a paramedic, on ambulances in London. Today they took the ventilator he uses on the ambulance, for use in hospitals. He also still doesn't have proper masks with filters.

Trump has placed the burden of acquiring equipment on the hospitals- Like they aren't already stretched thin already-

Like the tests, it's the same lip service- Everything is on its way- Trucks run goods back and forth across this vast country day in and day out in a timely manner on schedule- And yet .. There shortages persist ..

He's a piece of sh't ..

A dilemma:

'A problem offering two possibilities, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable.'

So there is not much point in asking us really.

I find the repetition of Dilemma frankly a turn+off, it is overkill.
The subject is of course important, it may be a crisis, but it is not a “dilemma” - “ a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially ones that are equally undesirable”

I could say the same about your posting, so let's not fall to nit picking.

Considering all the "Lurkers" threads I don't see it as overkill, and expect more "dilemma" threads in the future.

Try and self-isolate yourself from them.

I self isolated from the Lurkers' threads too.

I don't understand your post ananimous, you can buy respirators on Amazon. Do you mean 'ventilators??'

ananimous Tue 24-Mar-20 20:28:36
I could say the same about your posting, so let's not fall to nit picking

the same ? .

GrannyLaine

Persevere, and you'll get it in the end.

Respirators being brought in from the national stockpile have rotted elastic, come to find out .. At the 11th hour ..