Would it be safer for people who has recovered to volunteer?
Not all the jobs are contact, some are delivering medicine or telephoning. Everyone can help in some way.
The NHS is looking for up to 250k volunteers
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#32Wouldn’t it be more appropriate just to hire people and set them to work in the NHS?
It’s way past time the government stopped messing around and just hired all the spare labour - which can then be directed to assist the NHS or directed to stay at home as required.
When there are so many people without work that want it we need to stop QE’ing Gilts and start QE’ing workers hours instead.
All this could be done with an off the shelf PAYE system and a few scripts to generate the BACS file to hand over to the BoE.
It fixes the layoffs, redundancies and the lack of work for the self employed and it will automatically back off when things recover.
Pay people and they spend it - keeping the economic circulation ticking over.
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#33How does one find out if they are an at risk group? Edit> I’m asking. See if I can volunteer to help
The NHS are currently texting and sending letters to everyone classed as at risk. If you're at high risk, you will be contacted by the NHS by Sunday 29 March 2020.
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#36The government needs to provide PPEs for volunteers, this should be a must.
Do you honestly think you need PPE to phone someone from your home? Use your common sense.
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#37Mixed feeling about this. The NHS should be funded to run some of these services. However, it a good way for people to contribute. Still worried about a slippery slope - free at the point of need. No relying on extra support. If we need it pay people to do the job.
It is a pandemic. There is no reserve of uninfected, refreshed people.
I suspect a part of the reason for the call is to communicate that we are not in normal times and the idea of paying someone to make your problems go away doesn't work. Help or get out of the way, your payment will be a slightly less broken country when this is past.
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#39Wouldn’t it be more appropriate just to hire people and set them to work in the NHS? It’s way past time the government stopped messing around and just hired all the spare labour - which can then be directed to assist the NHS or directed to stay at home as required. When there are so many people without work that want it we need to stop QE’ing Gilts and start QE’ing workers hours instead. All this could be done with a…
Contract hours, minimum pay, tax implications for pensioners, availability. Sometimes things are more complicated than just writing a script. This is quicker and can be disbanded just as fast.
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#40Wouldn’t it be more appropriate just to hire people and set them to work in the NHS? It’s way past time the government stopped messing around and just hired all the spare labour - which can then be directed to assist the NHS or directed to stay at home as required. When there are so many people without work that want it we need to stop QE’ing Gilts and start QE’ing workers hours instead. All this could be done with a…
I agree. The cost will be minimal compared to the truly gargantuan package of measures announced so far, and would be a great way to help the self-employed now looking for work (who currently get nothing).