The unnecessary deaths in care homes

 

Subject: The unnecessary deaths in Care Homes

Having listened to a barrage of first hand experience on BBCs 'Any Answers', regarding the forced admittance of old people, patients in hospital, into care homes without any testing or concern about the effect of sending someone who was infected with Covid 19 into a home where many frail old people lived, each extremely susceptible to picking up the virus, that a case of manslaughter should be laid at the door of decision makers both in the government and also those who headed National Health England.

3000 people a day were dying unnecessarily, 3000 a day, that's war time proportions for a combat zone and it was allowed to happen willingly on the assumption that hospital beds would be required for the predicted surge in Covid patients and because an alternative plan hadn't been thought out and the consequences must have been deemed acceptable since frail people are about to die anyway.

It humiliating to think that these leaders who regularly appear on our television screens, people at the apex of power and yet lacking a semblance of common sense or a modicum of crisis management are the very people we are asked to trust in matters of governance and leadership. The sad horrible fact emerges that these old people were collateral damage as the NHS readied itself for the influx of patients from the general population with Covid. Any temporary provision would have been better than sending them into care homes. Hotels, army camps, old unused wards in a general hospital, anywhere but into a care home.

It's when you listen to the men and woman in the street, the retired doctors, the owners of care homes the relatives of the dead, that you discern the truth, not from the panelists on 'Question Time' like David Davis who was and is prepared, then and now to lie about the whole debacle as if lying were an alternate truth. The professional of liar, previously known as members of the political class has reach its zenith with the current government. Hancock and Johnson blithely bat away the accusations as if the facts of so many deaths were nothing to do with them. Who was it to do with then.

There's a strange paralysis at work here, that unless it's down in print with an official stamp of provenance anything will  be denied, conversations will be defined as a balance of opposing opinions and opinions as we know carry no weight. If you have the brass face to deny everything which has, or should have your finger prints on it, being in charge surely must carry some weight, it must allocate some responsibility for the actions taken otherwise we are in the world of Alice in Wonderland but of course we’ve been there before !!!