> Literally building a brand new hospital.
We built multiple temporary hospitals in the UK too. And albeit not so widely reported, temporary morgues.
To be honest I assumed a whole bunch of countries were doing this...
We built multiple temporary hospitals in the UK too. And albeit not so widely reported, temporary morgues.
To be honest I assumed a whole bunch of countries were doing this...
I'm not sure the UK emergency Nightingale hospitals were actually _used_, since (obviously) you can repurpose a building but you can't just find a few thousand healthcare staff at short notice. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56327214
I’m not one to show much support for the current government but the negative (media) reaction to these hospitals not actually being needed was pretty short sighted.
We should be thankful that the hospitals were there and even more thankful that they weren’t needed.
There were more obvious things for which to hold the government to account.
Samples of sick people were recovered for researching that strain of influenza by locating large graves which had been created where it remained cold enough to preserve the bodies. Until I'd heard that and lived through last year, the gravity of it all totally eluded me. It takes a lot before people start burying the dead in trenches; it's perhaps second to the worst case in which we can't even manage that. A scenario common to war but nothing else I can think of.
I've been so isolated from these kinds of circumstances for all of the pandemic, but I try to remind myself that it's exactly why lock downs and masks and all the hassle are actually completely reasonable. The alternative is incredibly dark, evidently.
However, it’s really difficult to be proactive here as avoiding an issues means people assume it isn’t a problem. Shutdowns likely saved millions of lives in America but as people are only aware of the downsides they see not the horrors that where avoided.