Captain Kirk
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A different thread on Corona, teasing out some common sense ideas for intervention/ assistance.
I’ll wager a bet that any response will be crippled by decision makers not thinking about the asset they have sat primed for WW3. We can all be retrained, many quite quickly to be useful in days, if not hours.
Matt Hancock has just said a ventilator needs 5 nurses and a doctor. There aren’t the nurses for that, but that can’t be an answer, then add in doing it in a hotel because of the lack of beds. I have no idea how long it would take to train a ‘helper’ but if you can service an aircraft in a dirty environment you can probably be of use.
I’m choosing that as an example, but there will be many more jobs we can be trained to do quickly, but they’re concentrating on riot control and guarding fuel and food shops. Where I am there’s no issue, apart from toilet rolls;it’s working. They may need more assistance with trucks, but many of us have 7.5t on our licences., which is at least better than nothing. The appetite will soon be there, but they are not ‘forward leaning’,as they love to shout-and asking for volunteers, or even thinking beyond policing/ prison guarding/ defending infra. Personally, I’d help out at a hospital or drive vans to deliver... we’re not about to fight WW3 after all, this is potentially more dangerous. It affects our parents, their parents and our kids.
The problem with any of this is JPA auditing a cup of coffee or a sandwich, if you did claim, or a mileage claim.
The JPA/ training / admin (even to a war zone you get to run round like an idiot for a day or so, and that’s streamlined!)
Expecting a panic in a few weeks, to go and defend a petrol station.
I’ll wager a bet that any response will be crippled by decision makers not thinking about the asset they have sat primed for WW3. We can all be retrained, many quite quickly to be useful in days, if not hours.
Matt Hancock has just said a ventilator needs 5 nurses and a doctor. There aren’t the nurses for that, but that can’t be an answer, then add in doing it in a hotel because of the lack of beds. I have no idea how long it would take to train a ‘helper’ but if you can service an aircraft in a dirty environment you can probably be of use.
I’m choosing that as an example, but there will be many more jobs we can be trained to do quickly, but they’re concentrating on riot control and guarding fuel and food shops. Where I am there’s no issue, apart from toilet rolls;it’s working. They may need more assistance with trucks, but many of us have 7.5t on our licences., which is at least better than nothing. The appetite will soon be there, but they are not ‘forward leaning’,as they love to shout-and asking for volunteers, or even thinking beyond policing/ prison guarding/ defending infra. Personally, I’d help out at a hospital or drive vans to deliver... we’re not about to fight WW3 after all, this is potentially more dangerous. It affects our parents, their parents and our kids.
The problem with any of this is JPA auditing a cup of coffee or a sandwich, if you did claim, or a mileage claim.
The JPA/ training / admin (even to a war zone you get to run round like an idiot for a day or so, and that’s streamlined!)
Expecting a panic in a few weeks, to go and defend a petrol station.
