IMHO one of reasons, amongst many others, that they have messed up is the constant message from media, social and mass, that they are incompetent giving all and sundry perfect reason to totally ignore everything they say and in bargain claim to not understand their confused messages.
You know, like footballers need telling not to have parties, Jeremy Clarkson needs telling not to see his family whilst suffering covid (3 days after a positive test),parents need telling not to go into school with kids after positive tests, folk need telling not to burn 5g masts down, folk need telling ignore the BS anti vaxers and covid deniers and reminded not to go in hospitals taking pictures of empty corridors, I could go on and on.
Its not the government it's our society and social media such as this has helped make it worse.
Giving folk reason to question government at times like this is wrong. Telling them to ignore the government is appalling.
So, yes Government has made mistakes but so far we, ve kept infection to under 3% of population. Imagine how we, d be had it got to 10...???
I wonder how many lives under mining Government message has cost? And then when more lives are lost... We blame Boris.
I’m sorry Zlatan but they have made the mother of all **** ups out of this pandemic.
They had all the warnings they needed back in February and March. They watched from this island as the disaster unfolded in Italy, but did nothing other than pursue a fatally flawed herd immunity strategy which let the virus in and get a strong foothold.
They failed to protect the most vulnerable in care homes. Even I saw that coming and commented that it would rip through those places like a bush fire. The government policy was to send untested and in some cases, known infected people into care homes without telling the staff.
The government ran down stocks of PPE to dangerous levels and ignored countless warnings from inspectors that they had insufficient to deal with a pandemic. We know what happened next, The Health Minister’s pub landlord mate, a jeweller and an accountancy firm made fabulous profits trying to scratch together basic PPE supplies.
They failed completely with test & trace. The App - useless. The jockey - useless. Manual contact tracing system - useless. World beating system by June 2020 - useless, not happened. Operation “Moon Shot” - useless, not happened. Kate “Bingo” Bingham- useless, upon appointment immediately sold commercially sensitive vaccine procurement information for personal gain.
Masks. Don’t wear a mask, wear a mask if you want to, you must wear a mask unless you don’t want to. FFS, get a grip.
The stay at home message- useless. They gave Dominic Cummings privileged access to No 10 Rose Garden so that he could look the nation in the eye and tell them a pack of lies. The eyesight test fiasco is what I refer to. The government then backed that up by saying to the nation, shut up little people, doff your caps and believe your masters. We want to hear no more of it. That was a catastrophic move and I think it is still influential in people not following lockdown rules.
Late with the November lockdown- useless caused more damage than necessary to both the economy and public health.
Boris’s five day Christmas spread-fest was still on just 4 weeks ago. He was again too late cancelling that. Plans were made, food had been purchased, many went ahead because of indecisive, unclear messaging.
Even this week on Monday morning the government were saying schools will stay open because they are safe. By 4:00 pm the same day they were saying, schools are unsafe they must close. WTF!!!
Boris Johnson is allergic to tough decisions. He wants to throw a celebration party to mark a fictitious victory all the time. He just wants to be Good News Guy. He waits until all his options have disappeared and he is left with only one choice. He has personally killed tens of thousands of people due to that strategy and character trait.
Michael Hesseltine summed him up perfectly when he said, Boris Johnson waits to see which way the mob is running, he then sprints to the front shouting, follow me.
This government has tried to balance health against economic wealth and has screwed up both. We are perhaps the second or third worst performing country in the world on both counts.
All we can do is hope they make a better job of the vaccine. It will be difficult for them to make a bigger **** up, but they are full of surprises.
