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It seems we are at last getting a few judgements on how "the leadership" have handled the coronavirus crisis. The first of them was about the decisions made concerning care homes:
The decision to allow hospital patients in England to be discharged to care homes without Covid-19 tests at the start of the pandemic has been described as "reckless" by MPs. In a highly critical report, the cross-party committee said the initial decision to allow untested patients into care homes was an "appalling error".
The next was about allowing untested arrivals into the UK:
The spread of coronavirus in the UK could have been slowed with earlier quarantine restrictions on arrivals, a group of MPs has said. The Home Affairs committee said a lack of border measures earlier in the pandemic was a "serious mistake". Citing evidence from scientific studies, they said it was likely that thousands of infected people then arrived in the UK before full lockdown came in 10 days later. It is highly likely that this contributed to the rapid increase in the spread of the virus in mid-March and to the overall scale of the outbreak in the UK, they added. The failure properly to consider the possibility of imposing stricter requirements on those arriving - such as mandatory self-isolation, increased screening, targeted testing or enforceable quarantine - was a serious error.
This isn't some left wing source trying to make political capital, it's the conclusion of a cross-party group of MPs. It means that thousands of people have died before their time due to the incompetence of the buffoons who are supposed to be running the country.
Boris Johnson should be facing manslaughter charges on the grounds of gross negligence.
The decision to allow hospital patients in England to be discharged to care homes without Covid-19 tests at the start of the pandemic has been described as "reckless" by MPs. In a highly critical report, the cross-party committee said the initial decision to allow untested patients into care homes was an "appalling error".
The next was about allowing untested arrivals into the UK:
The spread of coronavirus in the UK could have been slowed with earlier quarantine restrictions on arrivals, a group of MPs has said. The Home Affairs committee said a lack of border measures earlier in the pandemic was a "serious mistake". Citing evidence from scientific studies, they said it was likely that thousands of infected people then arrived in the UK before full lockdown came in 10 days later. It is highly likely that this contributed to the rapid increase in the spread of the virus in mid-March and to the overall scale of the outbreak in the UK, they added. The failure properly to consider the possibility of imposing stricter requirements on those arriving - such as mandatory self-isolation, increased screening, targeted testing or enforceable quarantine - was a serious error.
This isn't some left wing source trying to make political capital, it's the conclusion of a cross-party group of MPs. It means that thousands of people have died before their time due to the incompetence of the buffoons who are supposed to be running the country.
Boris Johnson should be facing manslaughter charges on the grounds of gross negligence.
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