Regular readers of this blog will understand that have little time or respect for the UK’s National Health Service. You can search back using the term ‘NHS’ to find why I’m so opposed to and disgusted by the NHS but suffice to say that rather than my opinion being based on here say, my view has been informed by seeing how piss poorly the NHS has treated my friends and family.

This piece from the Duff and Nonsense blog based on a Daily Telegraph article makes for interesting reading. It has come to light that in one of the areas where covid has had such an impact in the UK, the North West, with regards to increasing cases of people being exposed to infection that this infection or evidence of past infection has not come from normal Britons going about their business, but from the NHS itself.

Read this, weep and get angry. It appears that a large number of covid infections were not acquired in pubs or shops or any other venue, but were hospital acquired. This doesn’t surprise me as the NHS has been the main vector of other infections in the past, such as MRSA.

Duff and Nonsense said:

Blighy’s self-imposed mini-Auschwitz completes its deathcamp status by becoming the country’s top Covid super-spreader …
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/09/government-urged-pause-new-restrictions-cases-covid-caught-hospital/
Imposing more new coronavirus restrictions would be “too hasty”, scientists have said after figures revealed that up to a quarter of patients currently in hospital with Covid-19 caught the virus after being admitted.
Across England as a whole, 18 per cent of patients in hospital with Covid-19 tested positive for the virus for the first time seven days or more after admission. The proportion was highest – at 24 per cent – in the North-West, which is under imminent threat of further lockdown measures.
What that’s saying is the restrictions we are experiencing and the ones we are considering applying are a waste of time, because the problem is not the ordinary folks going about their business following the rules dutifully.  But rather, the NHS staff – the ones you leant out of your window and applauded on a Thursday night – are the ones not following or implementing Covid security, so much so that up to a quarter of Covid sufferers in hospital acquired the disease while in hospital.

From what I’ve seen and experienced in and with NHS hospitals the fact that covid is now a hospital acquired infection fits with this claim that 25%, a significant amount, of covid infections are hospital acquired. Like all other nationalised industries whether they are current ones like the NHS and education, or ones from the past like steel and car manufacturing, these industries are run not for the benefit of customers but for the benefit of the staff in those industries. The NHS is a nationalised industry and one with a long and grisly reputation of not treating its customers like customers should be treated. After reading this do you still feel like cheering the ravenous and dangerous monster that is the NHS? I know I don’t.