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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Apart from Boy George, I doubt that anyone else in the camp can claim that their mistakes harmed other people on a massive scale.

This isn't just for you Mock...but for those who think the same as you. Your post just prompted me to respond....

In a completely devastating situation like an unprecedented killer virus - what would you have done?

It is the beginning of the pandemic and testing equipment is still not readily available, (as is the case in many countries), crucially, you are not told early enough that hospitalised but asymptomatic people can actually have the virus. (The high court has confirmed this).

You are pressured to free up chock full hospital beds for critically ill patients immediately.

Do you keep the elderly (and don’t forget, other patients too) with no virus symptoms in those beds and let already critically ill patients die?

Do you recommend that those elderly with symptoms who are released into care homes should be kept in isolation (this was the guidance given).

That is the dilemma you face - what would you do?

(This is my understanding of what happened from what I have read in articles like the British Medical Journal (not tabloid hysteria).
(Many countries in the world had exactly the same care home/critically ill patient problem in those early pandemic days, with similar results as the UK).