Roskov, Book 24 by Wolak Geoff

Author:Wolak, Geoff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

The big guns arrive

In the morning, Blair arrived by plane with his team, and with The Queen arriving on her own aircraft we were set for the official opening. Crowds gathered, TV crews in place, and The Queen cut the ribbon at the first nursing home, Blair and myself at her side, and we escorted her inside and to a Phase One café, where we sat to gossip with the old residents for half an hour.

Upstairs, we met a large group of wheelchair-bound pensioners, another long chat about their needs, finally to the hospital ward to chat to medics, but they had three early customers in beds already, one old lady having fallen down, two with more serious conditions.

The Queen chatted to each old lady, lifting their spirits as the TV crews filmed, and when ready we moved on to the management offices, the senior staff introduced.

With The Queen heading off home, we sat with Blair and Brown and discussed figures here, and our site manager showed Brown a projection, a five year savings projection, some big numbers seen.

I told Brown, ‘Those figures are low, because we can’t add in the cost of local crime and policing, or the full cost of local council care, and the NHS can never work out quite what a bed in a ward costs. So the figures are low when you take the full cost per pensioner.’

He nodded. ‘A full half of the savings seen benefits local councils, which we subsidise, so that’s good.’

Blair turned his head to me. ‘Any data from the AIDS hospice in South London?’

‘The first batch of keen test subjects will finish their treatment next week, then we’ll see, and the figures will be more accurate because we have six hundred men in the programme.’

Brown noted, ‘Who may return to the kind of lifestyle that got them infected in the first damn place!’

‘Yes, an issue,’ I agreed.

‘Can they be re-infected?’ Blair asked.

‘No, it has no effect. But if young gay men think there’s a cure of sorts they’ll worry less and have more dangerous sex.’

‘Well at least we can treat them now, once every six years. Within two years we’ll have treated them all at least once.’

I told them, ‘No more hospital beds taken up, a great saving down the road, and they go back to work and pay taxes.’

‘No one else cured?’ Blair asked.

‘No, just the girl, and maybe because she was a kid. But some are said to have been cured 90%, which adds on six years at least. In time, ten years from now, we’d need just one place like south London, to treat those in need. We’d see no more late stage people.’

Brown noted, ‘It will save somewhere between six to ten thousand hospice or hospital beds by then.’

‘Where we at with inflation?’ I asked him.

‘Headline retail inflation is up, other inflation factors are steady, rental prices are not rising. House prices are rising due to optimism instead of actual house sales.’

I began, ‘We’ve added sixty-eight

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