Redwood for the trees

For the last two weeks or so, people what been retweeting the wisdom of former stalking horse, John Redwood, regarding Brexit and Covid.

John Redwood has been an MP for over 30 years, has been awake most of that time, we sspect, and yet shows on a daily basis a cno almost complete understanding of the issues he actually votes for and creates laws and so on.

In a post over the weekend, he called on the Government to reopen the "Nightingale" hospitals, saying these should be used to reduce the burden on hother hospitals.

Now I will take this slowly, John.

Nightingales are just buildings with beds.

They have no ICU staff.

They have no ICU equipment.

Any patient transferred to one needs to come with at least four members of trained staff, and all required equipment.

Apart from that. Fine.

Nurses and doctors take years, nearly a decade to train. Beasic medical school, then work placements and then specialisation in ICU care. There is only a fininite amount of ICU staff, I am pretty sure they are all being used in the hospitals they usually work in.

If this is what he thinks about COVID, hospitals and staff, imagine his lack of knowledge in other areas like trade, fishing, poverty and so on.

The mind boggles, and yet its not going to change.