Coronavirus, where did the UK, go wrong

It should then read, a long time ago 

It was when we started to take the NHS for granted and reduced the amount of money we invested in the system despite everyone but the politicians warning of the potential dangers this could produce.

So for too many years, it managed on a shoestring lurching from one crisis to another more patients waiting in A& E than it was able to treat not enough medical staff and wages that never reflected the stress and dedication that they applied to their profession.

Surely this couldn’t be because some politicians used private health services instead of the health service and were unaware of the problems, or perhaps saving money was more important than saving lives?

And now we have a shortage of PPE again this is something that has its roots in the past.

Go back to when we were great at designing and manufacturing in this country long before Japan, Taiwan, and China started to encroach on the UK market it changed when some owners of companies realised that if they bought from abroad at low prices and then sold on at higher prices they could make a fortune. To start with foreign products were of poor quality but they improved and gradually and over many years the UK manufacturing shrunk and all those small local companies closed because there was no need for them and all the skilled workers went into other trades, retired or died.

Most thought and said as did the NHS workers, that one day they would be needed and then it would be too late.

Now that all the world is after the same items that time has come and it’s too late.

While we have some extraordinary clever engineers we no longer have the capacity to produce the products that we once did.

There are some very innovative machines in factories now and some are faster and more accurate than humans and while at the moment they require programing this will change.

But there will come a day when a manager asks one of these machines to carry out a specific task and the machine turns around on its six-axis stand, stubs out the woodbine it was smoking on the back of a passing worker ignores the screams and says out the corner of his collet. ‘don’t worry mate I was leaving anyway. Then you know that your not part of this new world.

To be serious why do we not assess what is going to happen before it does.

I think I know the reason.

And Thank you NHS

 

As a postscript I have produced two concept designs for corona masks they are quite unusual which means its another thing that I won’t make any money from.