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I'll keep an eye out for it!

I’m very sorry to hear that. I do hope this is a catalyst for change as well. It certainly feels like people have been hit harder by this incident than previous TRA incidents (or any other disaster caused by negligence in Taiwan). I think many Taiwanese know someone who was either on train 408...

For another internation example, Taiwan HSR has the following typical dwell times: With this distribution of entrances/exits: (as of 2017) With 12-car single deck trains and seating for just under 1000 people. Boarding is assisted with queuing lines for each door. Platform edge doors...

Again, you should stop focussing on deaths as a measure of the problem. The media are not claiming the NHS is under pressure because of deaths. Nowhere did I claim to be talking about deaths. The statement I quoted is not about deaths. It's regarding Covid hospitalisation. And the figures are...

Because my premise is that only 2.2m (I thought it was 1.5m, I stand corrected) would not stop the rest of the vulnerable group from being hospitalised. It must be remembered that Covid will affect many who aren't clinically extremely vulnerable, or who aren't even vulnerable at all, as the data...

Because the staff required right now are ICU staff, not retired GP's or gastroenterologists? It says so in the article, if you ignore the usual anti-red tape stuff.

How so? Because it's 1/4 people shielding instead of the rest of the population? The rest of the population haven't been shielding, though. Shielding is a much more restrictive measure, especially compared to the tiers we have "enjoyed". If you are shielding you cannot go to work. To shield...

First proposal seems to be a non-starter given the amount of vulnerable people. Is it possible to get an idea for how many households would need to be split apart? It's not just a case of younger people vs elderly either. The 15m vulnerable will be a broad spectrum of ages. Second proposal...

Only because in my opinion there's an element of "fairness" around a national lockdown, and those in the shielding category have already had it the worst so far. In addition, the challenges of ensuring those who are shielding are also shielding from the rest of their household who aren't just...

That graph is hardly evidence that the NHS is inefficient just because spending increase (of course it does, with inflation, growing population and an ageing population making it almost a given). The argument that the NHS is somehow an outlier for inefficiency globally, or that it is actually...

It's perfectly possible to both believe the seriousness of the Covid situation whilst also being aware that we wouldn't be in such a serious situation if the government had been more adequately prepared and the NHS hadn't been suffering from a decade of underinvestment. In fact, once attention...

Gov.uk on shielding. Clinically extremely vulnerable people in Tier 4 should be shielding. And anyway, the point of shielding was never to reduce the rate of transmission by a meaningful amount.

I am optimistic that they won't be - at least not to the point where they can no longer function. Why? Because of measures that have been taken and will be taken to ensure it doesn't happen. As demonstrated in the first wave.

Ignore "new" strain or otherwise. You need only glance at the data to see why there is concern. We see just this morning that a major incident has been declared in Essex. I'm sure it wasn't declared for fun. Has there been any other method demonstrated to reduce the rate of transmission as...

I don't think anyone would disagree that all of those factors are contributing to the situation. Of course the pressure isn't solely due to "the result of the virus mutating or otherwise getting out of control." Why do you feel like you need to be convinced that's the reason? Whatever your...

Yes, it seems laughable that when the tiers clearly weren't working through the autumn to supress new infections that anyone thought that the tiers would work through December.

From what I understand of last time when this happened, it's not a case of the stored oxygen running low, but that of the volume of oxygen that the system can deliver at any one time. Essentially the piping of the hospitals cannot cope with the flow rate being demanded. With your first point...

It is being widely reported that the reason the London Nightingale Hospital isn't being used is due to the lack of staff. I googled "Nightingale Hospital" and found all major news websites reporting on this. Even so, hospitals have been told to start preparing to use them. Not unusual for...

I remember during the first wave there was a similar lack of reporting from hospitals in areas that were suffering, and there were similar comments then. If the BBC have had coverage in between then it will be because it became practical to arrange as there was no longer a crisis. I assume the...

Yes, I'm sure there are. If you are talking about smartphones, again not an expert but I would have thought you wouldn't a) take your personal phone into a covid ward in the first place and b) definitely wouldn't take the phone out and expose it to virus. It's not your typical a&e full "beds in...