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But that wasn't what was implied in the post I was specifically responding to.

Where's your evidence that 'it's not uncommon' for life or death decisions to be made due to lack of resources?

And there are increasing numbers of people dying from covid. Why do people keep banging on about it being one or the other but not both?

No, it's both. The problem is dealing with what is the immediate bigger problem.

Charming!!

To be fair, they are anticipating problems. Look at ventilator cases, on 18 Sept, there were 138 ventilated patients across the UK. Today there were 975, nearly a 7 fold increase. It would be abject neglect by a government if they waited until the beds were full before taking action.

I very much doubt that your friend was told categorically that 4th Nov would see the start of national lockdown. The stats at that time whilst increasing didn't suggest the country needed a full lockdown hence all the local restrictions. It may well be there were several models looked at and...