Unfortunately a lot of the Doctors and nurses (other professions too) that train in the UK leave once qualified for better opportunities abroad, so it’s not a simple as training more people, you have to make the job more attractive with better pay and conditions to improve retention. we need to invest in more than just training.
We have the same issue in the US. The trained doctors and nurses don't go into education because they can make so much more money at the hospital or elsewhere. Professors jobs are all being moved to being adjunct positions, instead of a tenure tract with benefits, etc. They take a huge pay cut and loose benefits if they decide to teach.
For the first time in two years I am seeing young people wearing masks in my area. There is a significant shift this week. I don't know if this is because families made threats of being banned from a family Christmas if they didn't get with the programme.
Pleased to see the queue for vaccines was all the way down the street when I drove past today.
I wasn't. It was bloody cold to be queuing outside. In fairness though I think I caught the time when staff were taking lunch and they still got us in and out quickly and efficiently. I even got asked for my phone number by the jab lady.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
My daughters friend has just come out of hospital, been on a ventilator, they needed the bed so sent her home but still gets hospital treatment, don’t know what that means. She’s an anti vaxxer, thought she was young fit and healthy and would be ok. She wasn’t.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Under 25s in the UK have helped to make this crisis much worse. Last year/Christmas the local cohort generally seemed it ignore all warnings - didn't mask, socially distance or take it seriously at all. Locally we were expected to somehow indulge them, and say, "well they are young and stupid and know no better". But I'm angry about it - streams of house parties and raves in lockdowns, no second thought for other people on public transport, whie thousands of people were dying. We can't pretend they are not a major disease vector and shrug when the don't want to vaccinate because they feel it somehow Covid doesn't affect them.
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She’s an anti vaxxer, thought she was young fit and healthy and would be ok. She wasn’t.