It doesn’t help when reporters say that Charles had traveled over 100 miles to visit his father :!: Of course he did, his father was in hospital and most of us would have traveled that far to visit somebody we cared about.
We will all be told if he should die or the press will be there to show him leaving the hospital when he improves, but I am sure he doesn’t have to tell anybody what is wrong with him, just like the rest of us don’t!
The poor man may have an embarrassing health problem that he doesn’t want to share, or you never know, he may just have a minor problem and is teasing those who hope he dies!
I wish him well and hope that he and the queen can get some privacy when he is hopefully released from hospital!
The NHS can recruit here or did you mean we have a shortage of medical staff ?
There has been a huge upsurge in applications for nursing places this year .
He wasn’t exactly in the trenches he visited the trenches and was eventually allowed to work as a staff officier behind enemy lines . This was because they would not let the heir to the throne be in danger .
The rest were cannon fodder lions led by donkeys .
Nevertheless, he put himself in harms way…anyone who risks their life for another, is a hero in my eyes.
We have plenty of heroes in this country, especially at the moment with covid…they all deserve medals…anyone who lays their life on the line,for another,deserves one, imo.
Yes there is a temporary upsurge because more are interested in a medical career because of the pandemic, but the nursing bursary removal put many off and most staff in post do not seem to be trained or born here. A prime example being the nurses looking after Boris last year. They are specialised nurses. Some of these posts take years to train to that level.
There’s a lot of talk about heroism of armed services. Let’s not forget the huge number of people who weren’t in the forces but who put themselves deliberately I’m harm’s way to contribute towards the common end goal. Let’s not forget that many of these were not male adults, and also (for some of them) weren’t backed up by armed compatriates.
Yet, my friend’s daughter who is SRN registered, had been a practice and district nurse had an awful time when applying to work as a nurse during this Covid crisis.
The forms to be filled in, the hoops she had to jump, the criteria she need to fit into, she gave up.
She applied again and is now giving the vaccinations.
The thing about forms, as we all know, is that they start off clear and simple. Then someone spots a potential oversight, so more questions need adding. Then someone spots possible variations of answers to the new questions which will probably need exploring, so they add more questions which might solve this, …ad infinitum.
It’s a form (no pun intended) of godel’s axiom of incompleteness.
I always find it amusing when people get hold of official forms for them to fill in, printed in English, with the last page being a questionnaire about ethic origin written in a whole host of languages and texts. Only as an afterthought did it occur to the form providers to see if the recipient was actually able to read the previous 20 pages.
