Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on ""Stop non-essential contact with others": UK government virus update, 16 March" video.

  1. Dear Prime Minister Johnson, Thank you and your fellow ministers for the very informative press conference for the British people. I am watching this videocast from Switzerland where the disease has made itself known for about two weeks. The authorities have closed the schools, etc. My message or suggestion to you is the following. Would it be prudent to set up ‘tent cities’ in key locations around your country where if there were a steep rise in people needing hospitalization, there would be ‘makeshift’ hospitals already set up with all of the necessary equipment, heating, cooling, medical supplies, operating rooms etc., ready to be used at a moment’s notice? There could be tents for the expected patients and medical staff already in place, food provisions, cooking facilities, sleeping quarters, recreational facilities, in short all of the things a hospital has. Now you have the time to do this and not be in emergency mode. It will probably not be necessary and it will be criticized as going overboard on precaution, but should you have to need even one ‘tent city’, it would save countless sleepless nights by overworked staff to set up the facilities in great haste and save your NHS system from burnout and put further people at risk of contacting the disease by having their immune systems taxed to the maximum. Good luck in your courageous work to save life.
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