O/T:- Are we over-reacting to COVD19?

[sidders]

The central failure of Sunak's budget was that it centralised money (and therefore power) so that central government had the say in where it was spent. There was nothing in this budget to improve the lot of councils; they are as damaged by austerity as they have been since 2010.
What's this got to do with COVD-19? The same applies, all decisions are coming from the top down. The situation In North Yorkshire - where so far we have just 4 cases is quite different from, say, Liverpool. Local councils and NHS regional commands need to be in place. The government's wholly inadequate response was hammered on Question Time last night, mostly by its ex-chief of Public Health. Jeremy Hunt has also had a pop at them.
Suffice it to say that Bozo has gone on record as saying that his fictional hero was the mayor in 'Jaws' who did everything to keep the beaches open.

[GranthamPie]

The central failure of Sunak's budget was that it centralised money (and therefore power) so that central government had the say in where it was spent. There was nothing in this budget to improve the lot of councils; they are as damaged by austerity as they have been since 2010.
What's this got to do with COVD-19? The same applies, all decisions are coming from the top down. The situation In North Yorkshire - where so far we have just 4 cases is quite different from, say, Liverpool. Local councils and NHS regional commands need to be in place. The government's wholly inadequate response was hammered on Question Time last night, mostly by its ex-chief of Public Health. Jeremy Hunt has also had a pop at them.
Suffice it to say that Bozo has gone on record as saying that his fictional hero was the mayor in 'Jaws' who did everything to keep the beaches open.

Yup... who to trust? Steve Barclay, chief secretary to the treasury or Professor John Ashton, former director of public health in the north west and former professor of public health at Southampton University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine?

Guess which one says the Government response is inadequate?

Loved the way the BBC tried to drown Professor Ashton out when he tried to alert people of the facts.