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     Dover Pilot wrote:
    Next month perhaps they will float the idea of protecting nursing homes by not sending them NHS covid patients.

    'It also emerged last week that Public Health England (PHE) warned in February that elderly people should not be discharged from hospitals to care homes if there was a serious risk of passing on the virus.

    However, a letter sent to care providers from NHS England and the government on 19 March, which aimed to free up hospital capacity, ordered “the safe and rapid discharge of those people who no longer need to be in a hospital bed. The new default will be discharge home today    ”.'

    'Figures released by NHS England show 25,060 patients were moved from hospitals to care homes between 17 March and mid-April...'

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/07/more-than-half-of-englands-coronavirus-related-deaths-will-be-people-from-care-homes?CMP=share_btn_tw

    Admittedly this is the Grauniad chipping away while (still) endorsing 'lockdown'. But I sense, as the wreckage from this colossally nocuous panic policy mounts up, their bums will be squeaking for their part in it, and they won't be looking forward to the public enquiry that'll be headed by Jonathan Sumption.

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