COVID19

[Mellsblue]

By way of giving the UK govt a break from endless (but well deserved) criticisms...

In Scotland, which we know is run by the much more competent Sturgeon with much more clear messaging, ummm:

- 73% of the population of care homes are thought to have the virus but the health Minister can't detail what guidance is given to care homes for dealing with that
- the govt have no idea what our R value is or how it's calculated (or at least, won't tell us)
- Critical Care Consultants in our largest A&E unit have to take to social media to get a response from the govt about actually providing some PPE
- it turns out there was a known outbreak at a conference on 26-27 Feb in Edinburgh which kicked everything into gear so that we banned mass gatherings .... 3 weeks later on the 16th March
- we're at 2500ish tests per day. Yes BJ has been getting pelters for struggling up to 100,000 per day. We are on 2500 per day.

If you're one of those who looks to Sturgeon as a better leader than Johnson, perhaps try and look past the style and spin and look for any substance or actions from her administration.

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This substance or actions?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68032233.amp

[Donny osmond]

Do NOT get me started. The number of times I've had to put my phone down, turn off the radio and sit in a dark, quiet space to try and control how angry I am at that fwcin woman and all her lackeys and the fwcin idiots who chose not to see her for who she really is.....

[Mellsblue]

Do NOT get me started. The number of times I've had to put my phone down, turn off the radio and sit in a dark, quiet space to try and control how angry I am at that fwcin woman and all her lackeys and the fwcin idiots who chose not to see her for who she really is.....

Tell me this is fake.

https://x.com/agentp22/status/174845513 ... MV3j-SK8yQ

[Donny osmond]

It is not fake, no.

[Which Tyler]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -nhs-covid

[Son of Mathonwy]

Hope this isn't the next pandemic. But if it is, are we prepared?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ ... -the-congo

Trump will certainly be well placed to nip any of that vaccine nonsense in the bud with RFK.

[Which Tyler]

‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10

The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
The document also has stinging criticism of a “toxic and chaotic” culture inside Boris Johnson’s Downing Street – which it said the then prime minister actively embraced – in which the loudest voices held sway and women were sidelined.
Detailed in more than 750 pages across two volumes, the findings of the second part of the Covid inquiry’s hearings on how the government handled the pandemic paint a consistent picture of delay, inaction and an apparent inability to learn lessons.
ARTICLE CONTINUES...



‘Chaotic and indecisive’: key findings of report on UK’s Covid response under Tories
Second pandemic report focuses on decision-making, organisation and messaging by senior politicians including Boris Johnson

Here are the key points from the inquiry’s findings:
- There was chaos in No 10
- Decision-making was too slow
- Vulnerable people weren’t protected
- Messages were confusing
- Politicians didn’t understand the science
- There was no support for experts
= UK should prepare for next pandemic
SEE ARTICLE FOR DETAILS



Covid report lays bare Boris Johnson’s complacency and lack of leadership
Damning analysis finds former PM failed to act with urgency and was disengaged in early stage of the pandemic



Dominic Cummings ‘poisoned the atmosphere’ of Boris Johnson’s No 10, Covid inquiry finds
Report from inquiry’s second module also says Johnson as PM ‘at times actively encouraged’ chaotic culture

[Son of Mathonwy]

‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
‘Chaotic and indecisive’: key findings of report on UK’s Covid response under Tories
Second pandemic report focuses on decision-making, organisation and messaging by senior politicians including Boris Johnson
Covid report lays bare Boris Johnson’s complacency and lack of leadership
Damning analysis finds former PM failed to act with urgency and was disengaged in early stage of the pandemic
Dominic Cummings ‘poisoned the atmosphere’ of Boris Johnson’s No 10, Covid inquiry finds
Report from inquiry’s second module also says Johnson as PM ‘at times actively encouraged’ chaotic culture

No great shocks but nice to have it confirmed in writing what a lethal shower of shit the Tories were under Johnson.

And hopefully some lessons will actually be learned.