[News] Covid response ‘one of UK’s worst ever public health failures’

[Fat Boy Fat]

The biggest travesty about this whole sorry affair is that it should never have been allowed to be a single party/policy crisis. We should have adopted a cross party government with the best minds forming policy and practice.

The problem though, was the government (Boris), clearly believed this wasn’t serious and wouldn’t happen here, until it was way too late and was then caught like a rabbit in the headlights of a fast approaching pandemic, unable to move out of harms way, not knowing which way to run for safety.


When this is all done, or at a point where we really can “live with it” - I predict “lessons will be learned”, we will stock up on PPE, testing systems will be financed and other measures improved, until no further immediate pandemic occurs, then we will gradually withdraw funding and lose interest and get caught with our pants down - again!

But as the graphic in this article demonstrates, we were at the back of the curve in pretty much all responses to the looming crisis. We certainly weren’t leading from the front or learning from what was going on elsewhere!

https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-what-are-the-lockdown-measures-across-europe/a-52905137


Edit: didn’t mean to reply to myself, but post #178 by Heathgate... doh!

 

[Audax]

My issue with some of sage (whitty and vallance didn’t do this) is they were happy to be on sage, yet talk to the press every 5 minutes - do MOD staffers do this?

Believe this was a reaction to the government failing to share the advice properly - especially early in the pandemic, it was taking weeks (if not months) for the minutes of their meetings to be released. It's supposed to be a couple of days, so that government decisions can be scrutinised and challenged.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Johnson, hiding away and painting in Spain, just like Winston Churchill.
Meanwhile the Government are running around like headless chickens saying the first thing that comes into their heads and spewing out lame excuses.
Where is the deputy PM?
Rest assured though, the Government is 'getting on with the job' (number 3 on my bingo card)

 

[Wrong-Direction]

I'm thinking about going and running a chateau in France

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[Fat Boy Fat]

As a genuine question, what IS the UK’s worst ever public health failure?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

As a reward for this, and breaking up two families;

Matt Hancock appointed UN special envoy to help Covid recovery in Africa...

On the day the UK Government was found to have presided over “one of the worst public health failures in UK history”

 

[hans kraay fan club]

As a reward for this, and breaking up two families;

Matt Hancock appointed UN special envoy to help Covid recovery in Africa...

On the day the UK Government was found to have presided over “one of the worst public health failures in UK history”

Those lucky Africans will be sleeping more easily in their beds tonight, knowing Matt is on the case.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

As a reward for this, and breaking up two families;

Matt Hancock appointed UN special envoy to help Covid recovery in Africa...

On the day the UK Government was found to have presided over “one of the worst public health failures in UK history”

This a joke?

 

[The Clamp]

As a genuine question, what IS the UK’s worst ever public health failure?

Scotland.

 

[A1X]

As a reward for this, and breaking up two families;

Matt Hancock appointed UN special envoy to help Covid recovery in Africa...

On the day the UK Government was found to have presided over “one of the worst public health failures in UK history”

I look forward to seeing how well that protective ring he'll throw around the continent does...

 

[Thunder Bolt]

This a joke?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58890485

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58890485

FML

all corrupt

 

[Thunder Bolt]

FML

all corrupt

And still getting paid as an MP.

 

[The Clamp]

And still getting paid as an MP.

It’s like in some remote room in The Palace there is a “crazy ideas machine”. When they need to generate some spin or come up with a fix they send some intern down to pull the arm on the machine and see what it spits out.

“Make sea-lions responsible for fishing quotas”? Yeah okay.
“Force the children of people on benefits to clean abattoirs with their tongues”? Fab
“Give Matt Hancock responsibility”? Sure.


This country is so ****ed.

 

[Baldseagull]

As a reward for this, and breaking up two families;

Matt Hancock appointed UN special envoy to help Covid recovery in Africa...

On the day the UK Government was found to have presided over “one of the worst public health failures in UK history”

Matt does have a lot of useful connections though, made during his time drinking at the Cock Inn.

 

[Audax]

Interesting take on the current "blame the poor scientific advice" angle:

https://twitter.com/ReicherStephen/status/1447989081430953991

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Interesting take on the current "blame the poor scientific advice" angle:

https://twitter.com/ReicherStephen/status/1447989081430953991

1. As today's report makes clear, the failure to respond quickly was the worst public health mistake of recent times and costs many thousands of lives. A large part of the justification was 'behavioural fatigue' - the notion that people would be incapable of coping for lonG

Whitty mentioned lockdown fatigue as a reason for delay.

We are seeing a lot of back covering and positioning now - Reicher is on both sages I believe?

 

[Fat Boy Fat]

Interesting take on the current "blame the poor scientific advice" angle:

https://twitter.com/ReicherStephen/status/1447989081430953991

Very difficult read, damning on so many counts - increased majority at next election!!!

 

[nicko31]

Interesting take on the current "blame the poor scientific advice" angle:

https://twitter.com/ReicherStephen/status/1447989081430953991

Its the usual story from the Vote Leave Tory cabal its always someone else's fault. They never take responsibility for anything.

One day the public will wake up....

 

[sydney]

Shame the Tories didn’t listen to him when he demanded a lock down last Autumn to prevent huge rises in Covid and thousands of subsequent deaths.

They also ignored the advice of SAGE over this and their hands are covered in blood. Much like Boris’ hands when he was holding the pigs head whilst Cameron ****ed it during a Bullingdon initiation. What they did to that pig, they’ve been doing to our country for over a decade.

I personally think there should be more made of this ....i mean shagging a pigs head , really ...? You have to stick your cock in a dead pigs mouth to become the P.M of GREAT BRITAIN......Extraordinary....!!