Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post
Always nice to see the old favourites resurfacing. I've always had a soft spot for the infectious diseases one because it sounds so convincing. Why else would the government downgrade it, right?

But the reason was that anyone infected with a virus/disease on that list (ebola, monkeypox, etc) had to go to a specific treatment centre which would have soon been overwhelmed, so downgrading it meant that ordinary hospitals could treat it.

So you don’t think that Covid has overwhelmed the NHS , and they don’t have specific Covid wards making bed capacity reduced ?