O/T:- There is a God

[queenslandpie]

There's no such time when you should not be able to criticise the Government. Anything else is totalitarianism.

If Corbyn's Labour was commandeering this crisis, would the extreme, far-right nutters on here be saying "We have to get behind the Govt" or would they be laying into Corbyn, whatever he did?

Just for starters, this is the Government that has systematically run down the NHS at every opportunity and is on course to condemn 1000s of people to death through its mishandling of this pandemic.

We need to have influence for when the next pandemic or call to war comes around by electing a Government that truly represents the people and not just big business. We have to keep holding the rich and powerful to account. Let's continue.

How would you have handled things differently?

[the_anticlough]

How would you have handled things differently?

The quick reply is that the knowledge of the virus' severity was known to all and there was still ample time to act in order to minimise the impact and to save lives. To do what other countries had already started doing. This is not the power of hindsight, the information was there.

But what did the likes of Johnson and Trump do? Only look at the problem from the economic angle not the human (not a surprise). There should have been shutdowns and restrictions way, way earlier. Even the tory press was reporting that flight-loads of passengers were arriving from Italian hotspots and walking through airports unchecked. Schools should have closed. Work from home and social distancing measures instituted much earlier, the NHS properly equipped. It's very well-documented, Queensland, the govt has been behind the curve every step of the way.

The 'herd immunity' phase of the response was crazy. Let it run rampant, 'you will lose loved ones' but whatever we do let's not disrupt the economy (this has been the running theme in everything Trump has said too).

Unlike other saner countries, we have had the great misfortune to be governed by people who are not in politics to safeguard the well-being of the people, but rather to run the economy and the country for the benefit of the rich and powerful.

It'd be funny, if it wasn't so tragic. Members of this Govt being in charge of the greatest public health crisis for 100 years. What? We're supposed to look after people? Totally alien to them.