| 27,000 extra deaths from not locking down soon enough on 23:54 - Mar 18 with 260 views | jeera |
| 27,000 extra deaths from not locking down soon enough on 23:48 - Mar 18 by Swansea_Blue |
The complete lack of redundancy in the health service was flagged as a major problem right back at the start of the pandemic. Years of 'efficiency savings' have stripped them of the ability to be flexible and cope with the unexpected (or even just the normal expected annual peaks it seems). And that's different colour consecutive governments too (at least in terms of bed capacity).
We have the same thing at work. We run so lean that one extra job or someone going off on holiday for a week completely screws us. But that's what happens when the bean counters rule the roost. |
The answer also being that paying one of those bean counters could actually fund at least 2 part time functional members of staff probably? |  |
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| 27,000 extra deaths from not locking down soon enough on 08:56 - Mar 19 with 224 views | WeWereZombies |
| 27,000 extra deaths from not locking down soon enough on 23:48 - Mar 18 by Swansea_Blue |
The complete lack of redundancy in the health service was flagged as a major problem right back at the start of the pandemic. Years of 'efficiency savings' have stripped them of the ability to be flexible and cope with the unexpected (or even just the normal expected annual peaks it seems). And that's different colour consecutive governments too (at least in terms of bed capacity).
We have the same thing at work. We run so lean that one extra job or someone going off on holiday for a week completely screws us. But that's what happens when the bean counters rule the roost. |
You got an uppie despite the bean counters jibe. I recently watched Stephen Sackur's HARDtalk interview with Margeret Heffernan, author of 'Uncharted'. She lays the blame firmly at the door of the idealogues (Dominic Cummings got singled out for a special mention). It is true that there are accountants who know the price of everything and nothing of value but there are still some of us who realise the importance of keeping something in reserve, of not having everything connected up to everything else (so that critical points of scrutiny do not get missed with the result that when one domino falls then all the other dominos tumble with it; see also sense checks.) |  |
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