The NHS – Fallen hero, ailing and sick.

Thank you to the Truth Reporter for submitting this opinion piece to UNN.

This article will be hard to read for some, I can assure you it was hard to write. To have to write a critique of your employer under a pseudonym because to do otherwise would render you unemployed and unemployable is a dire state of affairs to be in. 

I am sorry to have to inform my readers that the NHS you had up until March is no longer there, it has been taken away from you. All the clapping and the rainbow posters were just a distraction to convince the public and to some extent the lower echelons of the staff that everyone was pulling together to avert a national crisis and that we would soldier on, push through the gloom and emerge in the sunny uplands. Not so.

Despite Mr Hancock’s cynical attempts to stop the flood, the truth is leaking in under his door and filling the hallway. Public Health England’s cynical manipulation of the death statistics for COVID are only part of the deception. To count anyone who died having previously received a positive COVID test result as a COVID death regardless of the actual cause- be it electrocution, meteor strike or civil unrest just exposes how low these people are prepared to stoop to shape a narrative of fear.

Now we are treated to the news that you will have to book to come to A&E and that simply arriving at hospital unwell is no longer justification enough to receive treatment. You will have to be triaged, prioritised and put in a queue and maybe if you look ill enough, someone will come and take a look at you.

All this to prevent harm from a disease with a case fatality rate that is way below 0.5% – we are confronted with health bosses saying that they cannot allow ill people to just turn up to hospital in case someone with COVID infects an elderly person. This statement sounds rather weak in the context of around 1 in 3750 people in the population currently having COVID. 

Consider the mathematics for a moment. If we use these figures and assume you’re sitting in a cubicle in A&E – statistically 3750 people would also have to come into contact with you before you met someone infected with COVID – and that is assuming the myriad screening/testing and triaging methods have all failed. Even if you were unlucky enough to be sneezed on by this rare infected patient then your chance of dying if you were to contract COVID would be 1 in 200 –  so the combined probability of dying from attending your local A&E would be approximately 1 in 750000. So basically you’re in more danger driving to the hospital than going inside.

The talking heads continually parrot the line ‘we’re following the science’ – this is probably the most crass and morally bankrupt lie ever told. When people say ‘the science’ what they actually mean is ‘don’t argue and do what you’re told’ – ‘the science’ is not static, any true scientist worthy of that title will tell you that science acknowledges that evidence is subject to constant review and scrutiny. There was a time when ‘the science’ said that the sun orbits the earth – and to say otherwise meant you got executed. Yes, it looks like the age of the unchallengeable orthodoxy has returned. 

I think it was about 3rd year maths when we were taught that to obtain a combined probability from two other single factors you multiply them as fractions. That’s how I obtained the 1 in 750000 statistic above. This is where the politicians want to have it both ways. They don’t like it when you take their statistics and come up with your own answers using the most basic of mathematical procedures but a shaky statistical model cobbled together by a government advisor which has more holes than Swiss cheese and a track record of being wrong by orders of magnitude must be worshipped and obeyed without question.

So on the basis of this melange of claptrap the NHS has been throttled back to tickover and you’ll have to like it or lump it. Elective surgery is all but unobtainable, cancer treatments are now subject to a labyrinth of hoops and hurdles to overcome before you can get it. Mental health care is now delivered over the phone or video link. 

In previous articles I have described the outpatient clinics with socially distanced seating decimating the capacity of departments, there is no way anyone can convince me that you can ever process the numbers of patients using these social distancing measures, you simply cannot move people in and out of an area quickly enough without having them congregate in some marshalling point and of course COVID has taken that option off the table. 

The cold hard truth is that there is no way that social distancing and ‘COVID secure’ measures can coexist with the previous capacity of the NHS in terms of patient numbers through the system. It’s just not possible – but no one in the NHS will admit it. Well I’m admitting it now.

Inside the NHS machine there is an eerie calm, reminiscent of the excellent drama ‘Chernobyl’ in the seconds after the explosion the control room is silent and only the flashing lights and a few flying dust particles give any evidence of the carnage outside.  Again like this drama, most of the workers are unaware of the catastrophic failure and the few that try to draw attention to the scale of the problem are ignored, castigated or simply expelled from their positions. 

Like the soviet disaster, the public are the last to be given any real insight into what is going on and are left to soak up the misery whilst being propagandised that every possible measure is being taken to secure their wellbeing when in fact the top brass are expending their energy passing the blame around like a very hot potato and trying to preserve whatever status and privilege they had before.

I am not high enough in the food chain to tell you categorically where the blame lies, you can be sure it starts somewhere in government but the NHS top tier management are complicit and instrumental in keeping the regional and local level staff in the dark as to where this trajectory leads whilst handing out a plethora of useless and contradictory instructions to keep inquisitive people distracted whilst the scenery is changed behind them. 

As ever I have the same advice for my readers, it is time to practice self reliance and start to plan how you would cope without the crutch of the NHS to lean on. Improve your diet, work on your fitness, work on your mental wellbeing, limit your dependence on alcohol or medication.  If you have long term health concerns then pay close attention to the care you are being given and do not be afraid to make a fuss if you are being fobbed off with excuses and platitudes.  They may close your service but make absolutely sure you have to be dragged out of the building kicking and screaming – do not go walk quietly into the chamber – you only have one life. 

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