Just to back this up with some numbers. So there's about 50000 people in the Hebridean islands off the west of Scotland, most islands have at best a couple of b

Just to back this up with some numbers. So there's about 50000 people in the Hebridean islands off the west of Scotland, most islands have at best a couple of beds where the best you can hope for is the local GP can put you on oxygen. There is 1 air ambulance and 2 coastguard helicopters covering this region. If half the population gets it that is 25,000. If 1:20 of those need hospital treatment that is 1250. The protocol for critical care 'Big Sick' situations like breathing difficulties is immediate medevac by air to either Glasgow or Inverness. Lets say a typical helicopter evacuation might be possible to complete in 2 hrs. 1hr fly out, land, transfer casualty to chopper. 1 hr back to drop off at hospital and clean up. So one chopper can do 12 evacs every day. 1250 requiring evacuation for breathing difficulties requires a helicopter to be in operation continuously for about 100 days 24/7 to meet the demand. That is a best case scenario as many parts of the Hebrides are more than a 2 hr turnaround, aircraft maintenance, crew rest, enough trained crew to cover 24 hr operations, etc If you go to the islands and you've got it and you end up requiring hospital treatment, you will be much more likely to die from it as there will be no capacity to medevac you in time.