NHS — Lazy Staff, Inherent Incompetence, Yet Treated Like a Religion

The UK’s lockdown showed us all, including those clapping like seals every week for the NHS, how “overworked” NHS staff have been during this “pandemic” of a virus that has affected about 0.46 percent of the UK’s population of over 66 million people, and killed even less (0.06 percent, not to be confused with 0.6 percent) — and that’s if we ignore the fact doctors have been able to put COVID-19 as a cause of death without ever examining a patient. So overworked that they’ve had time to dance around in hospitals making Tik Tok videos. So overworked that the new hospitals were hardly used and essentially empty. So overworked that they have had time to abuse their NHS card to try to jump the queue to get a birthday present. So overworked that they’ve had time to sit on a seafront with a nice meal whilst ignoring numerous parking signs, expecting special privilege, and then not even getting their story straight (going from admitting it was a person thing to claiming they just wanted to support local businesses).

And now that the lockdown in England is virtually over (albeit with some draconian rules in place), the NHS is refusing to even see patients properly. Despite the fact that doctors make mistakes even when they can properly examine a patient, GPs surgeries are now insisting on telephone appointments. As are physiotherapists. As are various other areas of the NHS. And they are using COVID-19 as an excuse.

The reason they have a backlog of patients (which is the real reason they are insisting on telephone appointments, to try to get through patients quickly at the expense of patients) is because when the hospitals were empty, instead of pressuring the government to reopen them so there wouldn’t be a backlog, they were complaining about PPE (despite the tiny percentage of people the virus affects — and the vast majority have only mild symptoms or no symptoms at all) whilst insensitively messing around in Tik Tok videos. And yet people were clapping like demented seals (and some attacking those who were not clapping) for an NHS that they couldn’t even use for cancer operations and all sorts of other conditions, and that is now refusing to see patients properly.

But it shouldn’t be surprising. Despite the fact the NHS is treated like some sort of untouchable holy religion, numerous hospitals are in “special measures” (that means they’re crap and a danger to patients), NHS staff retraining consists of clicking answers to multiple choice questions in a room with other people who can help them cheat, and the NHS frequently performs poorly when compared against similar healthcare systems in other countries. And it’s not “free” — the taxpayer is paying for this. You can make the argument about this meaning that nobody has to choose between food or medical care as they don’t need insurance, but is that really so good if the service is poor?

And considering the fact the vast majority of people can’t even get proper NHS treatment now, you can’t even make the argument that the NHS provides medical care to everyone at the point of need. Trying to explain a condition on the telephone is not medical care — it’s a cop-out.

But even when the NHS was open, the service varied widely. Even down to the food — which in some hospitals was appalling and offered no choice. And the lack of proper cleaning of many of them meant that a hospital was the most likely place to catch MRSA.

And this is the organisations people treat like a religion? It’s pathetic. But at least if you saw a GP properly, there was a chance he/she would eventually figure out what was wrong. Now there’s hardly any chance — just like how NHS111’s helpline got things wrong so frequently (and dangerously) that they had to change to an overly cautious approach of sending people to hospital for no good reason. And every doctor, nurse, and other medical “professional” who is not pressing the government to get the NHS properly should be ashamed. But as they’re lazy and rather enjoy not actually helping patients, they won’t be.