Private hospitals don't have many ICU's. Few people realise this, but if you have an op privately, there are few specialised staff on-site if something goes wrong afterwards and not much in the way of specialist facilities. The surgeon has left the premises as little as an hour after your op. If you develop complications, you will be taken to an NHS hospital.Since the govt is not trying that hard to prevent it, fairly soon there will be a massive CV-19 epidemic in this country. At that point, health services will be overwhelmed and the critical resources which we will be short of are those to cope with bilatereal interstitial pneumonia - ie ventilators (hi tech respiratory assist devices at £5k a pop) and 5 qualified staff per bed to cope with the patient.BUPA, Virgin etc can't do a thing about this. If someone wanted to do something about it, it would be the government, instituting rigorous contact tracing and social distancing to damp down the epidemic. Instead it seems Cummings wamts to use us all as guinea pigs for some pseudoscientific mass experiment in which we are all part of some mathematical model in which 60% of us get the disease but somehow stay away from anyone over 70 years old or wih a respiratory complaint, cardiac issue or immune system disorder. This isn't going to end well.
Michael Winstanley ● 2431d