British army coronavirus propaganda operation suffers setback
News that the makeshift Nightingale hospital in London has only treated 51 COVID-19 patients in its first three weeks of operation has cast serious doubts about the nature and objectives of the military planning behind it.
The temporary field hospital – designed to exclusively treat COVID-19 patients – was built by the army on the site of the old ExCel arena in London’s Docklands area.
Built with much fanfare – with the full weight of the British military propaganda machine behind it – NHS Nightingale has the capacity to hold up to 4,000 COVID-19 patients.
The army man behind the construction of NHS Nightingale, Colonel Ashleigh Boreham, drew a comparison between the construction of the field hospital and the Battle of the Somme, a notorious battle in the First World War in which hundreds of thousands of combatants were killed.
That comparison, regarded as wildly exaggerated from the beginning, has now been exposed as a grave disanalogy, possibly the worst of its kind in 21st century Britain.
In view of the fact that only 51 patients have been treated at NHS Nightingale, critics of all political stripes will doubtless condemn the whole project as a waste of time and resources.
However, it remains to be seen if any of the major political parties can muster up the courage to hold the army accountable for this expensive vanity project.
A similar situation is prevailing with the other army-linked field hospitals across the country, all quickly built to ostensibly relieve pressure from the National Health Service.
The Telegraph reported on April 08 that the British military had drawn up plans to build 17 specialized COVID-19 field hospitals, nine of which had already been approved by the government.
The scale of the military operation behind these projects is staggering, with the Telegraph reporting that a Covid Support Force, comprised of 20,400 service personnel (from all three branches of the military), effectively taking charge of the construction and management of facilities.
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