Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
I think it is a bit unfair to blame the ministers. If you had been in charge/responsible for doing something about covid what would you have done? I think you would ask people who are supposed to be experts what they thought should be done. Remember there was a terrific head of steam because the media were full of stories about Wuhan. The images of new panic built hospitals and thousands of people dying from a disease that had a high transmission rate from person to person.

The basic plan was sound. Shut down isolate and keep safe. There was a major problem for all who were in charge of the NHS. They had failed to take action to prepare the country for a pandemic which they had proved during an exercise, was needed. Everyone of them was guilty and they all knew it. I think that's why they created the approach that they did. Nicola said they were going to crush the virus , kill it. This got compliance. I don't believe that this was a lie designed to win compliance. I think they thought they could suppress it.
Virus peaked 2nd week in April, everything since then has been bull.

I'll give you some more.

They believe they will be criticised for the covid 19 deaths but that they will get away with the indirect consequences of their brutal counter measures: the cancer deaths the lonlieness and mental breakdowns, the poverty and job destruction, the public and private bankruptcy. Truth is the first victim of this process but it is not very high on this Govts agenda.

Having got itself into a pattern of coercion, the govt does not dare to change course, for fear of discrediting it's own past decisions.

As i say, take a bow.