It might poop on your parade, but actually he didn't. You might like to read this:-

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These are general guidelines about candour, but they also cover a worker's right to speak out.

"you do not try to prevent employees or former employees raising concerns about patient safety – for example, you must not propose or condone contracts or agreements that seek to restrict or remove the contractor’s freedom to disclose information relevant to their concerns".

So if a health care worker justifies their speaking out by saying they are concerned of the consequences for their patients (and what other reason would they have) then they are free to do so.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Total BS. There has been understaffing for decades. There has been no "fear-mongering" at all. There have been prescient warnings which have resulted in sensible precautions being taken to try to flatten out the impact of the pandemic.

Now we have both a stressed and tired NHS staff, some of whom are finding it too much and taking either a break, or finding less stressful roles.

Now we face a new variant, said to be highly transmissible, and able to, sometimes, evade the vaccines. This is forecast to result in a surge of infections, which in turn will result in a surge of compulsory self-isolations, for both the infected and those in the same household.

NHS workers are also people. They will be caught up in this too, which will exacerbate the staffing crisis, increase the stress, close wards and postpone procedures.

The unvaccinated just make things worse, when they could so easily help to make things better.

We all have to accept to do things we don't want to sometimes. Either because of a law or because someone else's needs are greater. This is the latter. Just do it!

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

He was right on the first 4. It was only in 2009 when he didn’t state ‘’up to’’ that he got it wrong.

COYP

That might be his last pandemic prediction before retirement. Go out on a high, or a mistress in an open relationship during a deadly pandemic.

COYP

Nope. ‘We could expect’ is not what was said.

If we had no social controls in place that figure may be accurate

When you have managed in crises you know that you have to react very fast and very hard. You can always ease off once you have a better assessment of the situation. The consequences of an under reaction are far too serious to take risks

Some on here would barely touch the brakes just before the motorway pile up.