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It's bitterly ironic that everything we as the populace sacrificed since March 2020 has been to "Save the NHS".

It's fantastic that it's now even acceptable to talk about the downsides of our collective responses to Covid, something we can thank those trailblazers for.

Then why is the UK in particular doing so badly with this? A more-likely scenario is that this is the outcome of prioritising Covid (and avoiding Covid) over all other healthcare since March 2020, which has been a relatively unique factor with how our NHS has handled the pandemic.

>that's not what anyone wants. People want the NHS to work, to be funded and managed appropriately.

No, they want cost-effective healthcare. Almost everywhere else in the world uses a mixed public-private model for healthcare, which IMHO keeps a lid on the excesses of government spending into the money pit of fully-public healthcare.

I tried that, at least until the supposed quality of FB Market placed seemed to average out to Gumtree/Craigslist levels.

It had some odd results - for a long time, it would only suggest accounts from central Africa as potential friends. Then it quite suddenly switched to likely-looking people from my own country, and scarily interspersed with people that I really did know.