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@barbarian said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Going forward, care homes everywhere ought to be configured to enable quarantining when a pandemic hits in future. That means in the UK an end to homes being reliant on sharing workers, in particular agency staff.
Needless to say it will be a major exercise.
It's a nice idea but impossible to implement. There are thousands of nursing homes here in Aus, each with hundreds of staff. Given the nature of the work it would skew female (I'm guessing) and many of those nurses and carers would have families of their own.
So some sort of quarantine for that many people for that length of time would be straight out impossible, IMO.
I'm not sure we're really disagreeing.
With the current haphazard methods of provision of elderly care, and a range of facilities from the hospital-like to B'n'B, prolonged quarantine would be near impossible for all (but possible for some).
The lesson from all this should be that pandamics can and will happen despite all the wonderful medical advances over the last 100 years.
Hence the need for EU-14 to regulate future care homes so that they can quarantive if and when required to in future.
It's a massive undertaking, with very substantial cost implications.
However, lockdown until vaccine is simply unaffordable in most scenarios.
