Damn. Sounds like there’s not enough money in the NHS budget to pay for more staff. Don’t know too much about UK politics, but Cole-Hamilton sounds like a good dude.

It's one way to lower the immigration figures to please the Tory heartland, but not the most efficent, imo.

It doesn't actually say how long the wait is. What kind of wait are they experiencing in Scotland? And what kind of procedures are 1 in 6 Scots performing on themselves due to these wait times??

> The wait was so long that it actually made more sense for her to risk travelling back to a war zone to see her doctor in Kyiv and so she did.

Americans go to Tijuana all the time, but it's actually way more dangerous than Kyiv is right now, if you crunch the numbers:

• Tijuana's murder rate is 0.13% per year (the official 2019 numbers)
• The war's danger to Ukrainian civilians was 0.11% in 2022 (based on the highest estimate I've seen of 40,000 civilians killed out of about 36,000,000 currently there)

When your location is out of range of field artillery, as Kyiv is right now, you are statistically much safer. Some say you are safer in Tijuana if you are a tourist, but I'm not so sure, personally. It's certainly something they tell the tourists though.

Neat! Overall I think you're about right.

> The war's danger to Ukrainian civilians was 0.11% in 2022 (based on the highest estimate I've seen of 40,000 civilians killed out of about 36,000,000 currently there)

This is only the odds of dying from the war, you can still get murdered in Ukraine for reasons unrelated to the war. Is the murder rate in Ukraine lower than 0.02%? From some brief googling, it looks like the official rate is 0.006%, so from that you're less likely to be killed in Ukraine that Tijuana.

There are two wrinkles I'm not sure how to handle, however. First, most of the people murdered in Tijuana aren't foreigners, they're murdered because of conflicts between local gangs who don't want the attention of foreign governments. Second, the murder rate in Ukraine right now is probably higher than the official percentage. Unfortunately, the murder rate typically goes up when a country is in war since resources are scarcer and there's some degradation of the social order.

Again, nice analysis!

> most of the people murdered in Tijuana aren't foreigners

But most people in Tijuana aren't foreigners either. I'd like to see a breakdown by visitor/local but couldn't find one. For all I know, tourists could be more likely to be targeted, because they have the money, but not the street smarts.

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Best dental care I ever received was emergency dental care in Ukraine.

It's not handled on a case by case basis. The EU designates countries as 'dangerous' and from there on out its member states are required to provide asylum.

This does have the result that ocassionally refugees return back to their country of origin to visit family or even go on vacation. Which is a bit dubious indeed, but such individual actions are not sufficient to revoke refugee status.

Tijuana, like most hoods in the US, won't kill you if you mind your own business and stay civil. Head down, no attempts to do something illegal, all that common sense stuff

"Don’t know too much about UK politics"

"Cole-Hamilton sounds like a good dude"

Point explains opinion.

And yet, you provide no explanation as to why I’m wrong. Typical tactic of a person with a dog shit opinion. It’s so terrible that he wants [checks notes] working healthcare.

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Normally yes, if the refugee status was granted on the basis of "persecution by the government or wider society" since one wouldn't normally visit a place you're going to be persecuted.

For refugees of war, it is granted for different reasons.