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Mixed feeling about this. The NHS should be funded to run some of these services. However, it a good way for people to contribute. Still worried about a slippe
by bmsleight_ 7y ago
Mixed feeling about this. The NHS should be funded to run some of these services. However, it a good way for people to contribute.
Still worried about a slippery slope - free at the point of need. No relying on extra support. If we need it pay people to do the job.
- thomasedwards 7y agoIt’s a global epidemic. The NHS is funded to run all of these services, but not when 1.5 million people have been asked to shield themselves.
- bmsleight_ 7y agoThen supply more funding. People are being made redundant, this should not be just for a person that is boring being inside.
- rubidium 7y agoCapitalism isn't the answer for everything we encounter in life. Being human is sometimes required.
- rexpop 7y agoCompensating workers isn't Capitalism. Compensating owners is.
- thomasedwards 7y agoThe Government is providing 80% of your pay to anybody not able to work. Self-employed measures are being announced soon. Redundancies are limited in comparison.
- grey-area 7y agoInstead of or as well as doing that, they could pay people for volunteering to help the nhs. The other measures you mention are very costly in comparison.
- Traster 7y agoThey're actually not funded to run these services. Before this crisis the NHS was routinely failing to meet minimum standards.
- celticninja 7y agoit should be, it isn't properly, we can try and fix that after we have helped people.
- drak0n1c 7y agoMaybe they don't want the overhead of interviewing and taking on full employees expecting long-term employment at this time. I don't know if UK employment laws allows this (they are pretty strict) but perhaps they can issue a stipend for temporary volunteers who show up consistently.
- Consultant32452 7y agoThese workers should fall under the same classification as other "gig economy" workers like Uber drivers. Whatever the relevant labor laws are in the UK, the government should be subject to them also.
- _jal 7y agoIt is a pandemic. There is no reserve of uninfected, refreshed people. I suspect a part of the reason for the call is to communicate that we are not in normal times and the idea of paying someone to make your problems go away doesn't work. Help or get out of the way, your payment will be a slightly less broken country when this is past.
- gorgoiler 7y agoInspiring words. I wish yours was the topmost comment on this post.