kungfufighter wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:17 am
tombraider wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:59 pm
kungfufighter wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:06 pm
Typical embassy of a Tory government.
The UK needs nurses badly, but they have given the job to Cambodians to vet desperate citizens of the UK out.
Fucking atrocious. If this government have any witts about them, they will fix them up in first class accomodation and pay them well to help out over here. At least they could train the locals how to do the best job possible. Unlike the Chinese 'experts' arriving in their 200R masks.
Even if they were whisked out by the Embassy they would be coming back from Cambodia and then be told they had to spend at least 12 weeks at home, that is NHS advice and current, so they would be of no use whatsoever. Winwick hospital is also a Mental Health hospital so who is to say they would be of use? It isn't embassies responsibilities to wet nurse peoples poor decision making.
I have no time for the current mob in power but please stop trying to politicise everything. These people are in their predicament because they were too dumb to get out when they could. If I had been in their shoes and seen all the cancellations of planes and advice coming out of England I would have cut my trip short and flown home.
Fair enough on most points.
They would probably be tested and self quarantined for 14 days and tested again.
Did you know that if you work in a mental hospital for three years you're disqualified from jury service.
The embassy. The Tories. I'm afraid that the two are inextricably linked. They have trashed the embassy since they've been in power. If the ladies had worked in a general hospital or even a specialist pulmonary clinic, do you really think their experience at the embassy would have been any different?
Which points did I miss that your expertise picked up on? A friend of mine works in Health, he had been to Cambodia for work due to return 21st March, understood what was happening and cut it short by 4 days. The NHS advised on Monday he was high risk and to quarantine for 12 weeks. Presumably this information, according to your expert knowledge of the subject was incorrect and he should have been tested and given 2 weeks. Who would be doing the tests? Do you assume people are swabbing at the airport or maybe a medical team comes to your house?
As to your question would it make a difference if they worked in pulmonary or were RGNs, no and it has no bearing on what I said. You attached some misguided political point-scoring about them being ridiculously treated and should be flown home, first class. My point is their profession is irrelevant, they are dumb for not getting out when they could last week (as many others managed to do), it is not the embassy's responsibility to pick up idiots who were too busy having a holiday to pay attention to the world around them. Would you be getting in such a froth if they were workers in a Tescos who had behaved the same? Should the Embassy not be helping out these vital shop workers as well?
In fact as health professionals, you would assume they should and would have known the risks. Vietnam and Cambodia have been on the high-risk register for returnees since late February to England. So they would know they would have had a minimum 2 weeks quarantine on return before they went, so selfish as well as stupid.