That whole fucking cabinet should be rotting in a prison! They were told & knew what this was doing to people & they didn't give a flying fuck! All they wanted to do was protect their bottom line. It was only when they realised "Furlough money" would end up with their mates & donors they did that!
I do believe that we were monitoring and testing for it and were about 1-2 weeks behind mainland Europe, but weren’t alerting the public. I happened to be in France at the end of Feb and a friend told me to avoid crowds and public transport…
My 85 yo mum, in Scotland, was admitted to A&E on 1st Jan 20 with very similar symptoms but was diagnosed pneumonia. Transpired later that she had been in contact with someone from Germany at Xmas who had Covid.
Johnson refused to believe that he might have to stop acting like an overgrown schoolboy and start behaving like a Prime Minister. He's essentially a selfish and lazy man who thought he could wing his way through the pandemic. Understanding the science and acting on it was all too much trouble.
Well no, of course not. It was terrifying for those of us who were older and realised that we had been abandoned. I am only now understanding the psychological trauma it caused me alone & afraid of becoming ill.
I feel the same. DNR notices on older patients' medical notes without consent has left many of us fearful of becoming ill and needing hospital care. The trust has been lost.
And absolutely NOBODY said "Let the bodies pile high" ... but that graph does look ... a bit ... like a high pile of bodies ...
But at least we didn't let ANYTHING get in the way of our glorious Elephant in the room.
Having left EU to supposedly control our borders!! Whilst many other EU/EEA countries used temporary restrictions to protect against Covid UK kept its borders open. I rarely heard that comparison made at the time. Four years later we're still talking about immigration like it's 2016.
A few years ago I lost friends & followers for pointing this out. Apparently it was anti-British to be alarmed that the UK was doing worse than many other countries.
Me too. I was told I was anti british because I live in France and compared the French restrictions to the UK restrictions. We had to use an app to log our time outside & were restricted to a certain radius of our homes.
Yes - I keep getting told I can't see Britain from outside it. The opposite is true: the place can't be seen properly from inside. I wish people would understand that the UK is just a fairly successful European country with a shameful past but a bright future, if it unites with the continent.
Couldn't agree more. I've also had people who voted to remain (allegedly) that my opinions on the UK aren't valid because I've chosen to leave and it's not fair that I live in an EU country but they aren't allowed to! It's quite bizarre.
You believe that ten years of tory governance WASN’T responsible for deprivation and overcrowding? He may not have been the pm for all those years, but he was a driving force in the government so bears some responsibility for the shitshow during which covid hit. 1/2
Overcrowding has been an on-going issue in the UK for decades, not just under Tory rule.
Don't think that I am for one moment minimising his utter failure as PM, I'm not. While it's nice to be able to pin the blame on one odious individual/ government, it's much more complicated than that.
I will never forgive Johnson and Handcock for the fact that my sister died after they allowed people to go from hospitals to care homes without a Covid test.
The UK has yet to implement stringent restrictions seen in countries like Italy and the United States, which include shutting businesses and putting regions into lockdown.
"We are just being entirely science-led, we're not doing the things that are happening elsewhere just because it seems like a popularist [sic] thing to do," Mr Shapps said.
He wasn't the only one.
The late Christopher Meyer demanded foreign governments that locked down to listen to British scientists, who apparently didn't support lockdown rather than their own scientists.
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But instead of using that advantage to minimise its impact, he laughed at the Italians and claimed it wouldn’t happen here because we were superior.
But at least we didn't let ANYTHING get in the way of our glorious Elephant in the room.
Really?
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This concludes deprivation & overcrowding were major factors in driving Covid mortality, not factors over which Johnson had any control, however an earlier paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95699-9#Sec6) suggests the late lockdown by Johnson was significant.
Don't think that I am for one moment minimising his utter failure as PM, I'm not. While it's nice to be able to pin the blame on one odious individual/ government, it's much more complicated than that.
See this:
https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/long-term-plan-for-housing/
The last time the UK built >300,000 homes in a year was 1977 (see Table 3a).
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/datasets/ukhousebuildingpermanentdwellingsstartedandcompleted
So issue of overcrowding in UK has been going on for literally generations.
I am sure BJ screwed it up somewhere else as well. Maybe it was the mayor in jaws line that indicated his sense of seriousness
The UK has yet to implement stringent restrictions seen in countries like Italy and the United States, which include shutting businesses and putting regions into lockdown.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-uk-response-driven-by-the-evidence-not-populism-says-minister-11958203
The late Christopher Meyer demanded foreign governments that locked down to listen to British scientists, who apparently didn't support lockdown rather than their own scientists.