I didn't ever intend this post to be about ethnicity but it is very interesting, and a bit disturbing, to see how many people read it that way? My intention was to show that taking the powers from Hospital staff, police, ambulancemen and firemen is having a disastrous effect on the organisation and the 'normal' patients. Why oh why in the modern day world is it not acceptable to either segregate or refuse to treat these people ?
As Sharpe points out it is a very poorly managed organisation, especially managers on huge salaries that are ruining it by draining the resources. As I look out the window across the fields to my local hospital I feel safe in the knowledge that the man in charge of it has a good firm base, his previous position was as a manager in Asda (Walmart), good medical background there.
No one but no one should be running a medical organisation unless they come from a medical background, full stop.
The results as you say of this paranoia running around we need to discuss, it should not be ignored, and it is sad it has become that way. When people feel they cannot freely discuss a subject then that is free speech gone and censorship applied. However all of that is something else and not what the post was about, very interesting to read the responses, Pete we all expect, but surprised how others picked up the thread, I'm keeping an eye on Canada.