Opinions on how the Government have handled the coronavirus outbreak

[NSNO2021]

With Dido in charge what could possibly go wrong

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[karatestu]

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#DeathSecretary
The day our excess death rate goes over 60k, this c*nt can't stop laughing. Subhuman.

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With Dido in charge what could possibly go wrong

Ben Bradshaw is Labour MP for Exeter.

Ben Bradshaw
@BenPBradshaw

Dido Harding just told me on an MPs’ conference call that Test, Trace & Isolate won’t be fully operational at local level till the end of June. Not sure where that leaves Johnson’s promise of a fully operational “world beating” system by Monday.#Covid19UK
10:51 AM · May 28, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

[CN211276]

https://www.uneca.org/covid-19/pages/dashboard

Never mind the the Government keeps feeding us. this is the true picture. Notable that the four countries at the top of the list are lead by complete eeediots.

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https://www.uneca.org/covid-19/pages/dashboard

Never mind the the Government keeps feeding us. this is the true picture. Notable that the four countries at the top of the list are lead by complete eeediots.

We're not exactly keeping the best company, are we?

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Boris Johnson accused of launching a broken test and trace system before it was ready to distract from Dominic Cummings scandal

The government has been accused of panic-launching its coronavirus test-and-trace system before it was ready in order to distract from the Dominic Cummings scandal rocking the Conservative Party.

The new contact-tracing scheme suffered from major technical problems on Thursday, with staff unable to even log in for most of the day and many only notified the night before that it was going live and that they would be needed.

Meanwhile, the government’s test and trace tsar admitted to MPs that the whole system would not actually be “fully operational” until the end of next month – with still no date set for the launch of the supposedly “world-beating” app promised by the prime minister.

Contact-tracers working on the programme told The Independent that when they finally managed to log into the system at the end of the working day, they were presented with an empty page that contained no cases to review.

“The only explanation for the government announcing and launching this scheme when it was clearly not ready is that they wanted to try to persuade the public to ‘move on’ from the Dominic Cummings scandal,” said Labour MP Ben Bradshaw, who earlier in the day had participated in a conference call with Dido Harding, the government’s test and trace tsar.

“There is a pattern here of the government overpromising and underdelivering, more concerned about fighting negative headlines than the virus itself. All that does is further erode public confidence and trust in the important public health messages and make it harder for us as a country to move out of lockdown safely”.

Other MPs privy to the call confirmed that Baroness Harding had told them that the system would not be entirely operational until the end of June – four weeks after the government is planning to relax national lockdown rules.

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Talking of distractions from Dodgy Dom, how about the lockdown restrictions being eased, despite the fact that the government's own alert-level chart saying that they should not be. We're still at LEVEL 4, and restrictions were not supposed to be even partially lifted until we were at LEVEL 3, and the "R" Number, or Rate, still seems to be between 0.7 and 1.0 from the most up to date figures I can find. It should also be noted that the R Number is given as a national figure, being the average of all areas, so it could be much higher in some regions, and lower in others.

[luckyredfish]

It's looking more and more likely that we're in this for the long haul , until a vaccine or an effective treatment is found . The way the government has dealt with this has been a total shambles from start to finish . I don't even trust our supposedly chief scientists to get it right . The only scientist I trust are those who are independent of government . I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to work out that there's going to be a severe second wave of Covid 19 and we could be right back to the start .
Herd immunity by the back door ?

[karatestu]

I no longer take any notice of HMGOV. Anyone intelligent enough knows what they have to do to avoid getting infected and keep this virus under control. Just because shops are open (and more on the way) it doesn't mean you have to go to them. Apparently somebody has found a way to enable pubs to open. Anybody rushing to go there is imo off their heads.

My family and I are still on the same level of lockdown as before and will be for the foreseeable future.

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Even if there is not a second wave I can't see the infection rate going down with restrictions being lifted and the example Demonic Dom has set. Three scientists have broken ranks today saying restrictons should not be lifted. There are 8,000 new cases a day in England alone in the wider community! Restrictions should only be lifted when a workable track and trace system is in place and this will be some time. There would be more chance of this if the infection rate was lower. I suspect the Government has not followed scientific advise throughout, instead following the advice of someone who completely ignored the lockdown. If restrictions came in in February/early March we would not have this shambles.