O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[swaledale]

I agree balance is everything, RA. Tell me where Swale has given the government any credit, unless you class admiring the government for not getting in the way of the scientists and the NHS, as being credit.

Unlike myself and yourself, who have praised and criticised the government at times, just with different thresholds on both.

My succinct reply on the whole issue would be this

We have very high death rates from a global pandemic and the government’s handling of that pandemic shares the same marks of ignoring the science, promising big and delivering late and small. What is saving us at the moment is that when the scientists dig in their heels even this government does the right thing (late), that UK science (not under government guidance or leadership) has delivered vaccines and that the NHS has been too strong and wonderful an institution to allow us to die in even greater numbers. The bright spots in the pandemic are the areas where government has been unable to cock it up and where public service has remained the bedrock of how the system works despite this government’s incompetence.


Now even a broken clock is right twice a day! I give Johnson and this Government some credit for the success of the vaccination programme so far? But only up to a point, they took a gamble, it paid off, sometimes lady luck smiles on even the dimmest of epople and Johnson is very dim!

The Eu were more cautious in approval (which may be a good thing) and very slow in procurement but the end game may be the same. but if people forget the utter incompetence that has gone before this point then I'd say they deserve the government they get.