O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[Andy_Faber]

I have no PPE experience either but I think I would have looked at places like the other 2 large EM cities where they have the sort of expertise necessary to produce PPE. One has centuries experience in producing lace and lace products. The other has thousands of small clothes factories. Moving to PPE production would not have been anything like q quantum shift for them.

It's not rocket science. Just takes a little bit of thought.

Just to demonstrate that there are no easy answers, I presume you mean those two EM cities where many of the ‘factories’ employ women at significantly below minimum wage and in some cases pay directly into their husbands’ bank accounts, two amongst many transgressions constantly being chased by trading standards and other agencies. I get that info from a friend in the (lace) industry who’s customers (he’s a designer) actually considered ‘inshoring’ work to U.K. recently because the U.K. pay rates are lower than their usual ones - in Turkey...

So, popping our NHS into PPE made in Leicester using modern slavery and making rich businessmen richer? Shall I tell Nurse Lovelock?

Just making a point that ‘it’s complicated’