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As Mike Tyson once said, "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth". These cool (and callous) calculations will be forgotten the second the hosp

• Zenst 7y ago
  That is why they are already planning for overload and with that, having extra buffer layers. Hotels, emergency hospital bed spaces from army, etc etc, already being put in place. Then need for ventilators, many companies been contacted to step up and see if they can make more as many will be needed beyond what any country has. So plans are afoot. Cool calculations involving the facts that people will die, happen more often in many walks of life without being questioned. Kinda how insurance policies work. If those calculations show less people die overall then how can that be bad - yes it's involving human life but you have to look at the big picture and not just yourself. I'm about 50% likely to die from this given my health and age, if I'm one of those stats that is in the death count, then so be it, I'll die I certainly won't be blaming the current planned approach by the UK and has much going for it, time will tell but hey - worst case We are an Island so you can all set up navigation warning buoys if it all goes pete tong (sorry British Humour included and slang "pete tong" sames as going pear shaped, going wrong...).