Absolutely damning indictment of this Government's response.

Agree with that. I don't know what the answer is to that but it certainly is worrying to think we have very little trustworthy news.

 

There lies the problem

 

The media were reporting this early, despite the very limited information coming out of China and I genuinely struggle, unlike Trump, to see what the WHO did wrong throughout this. I'd just call this deflecting and diluting the blame for the mess the UK is in.

 

The only thing that surprised me in this article is that we sent 250,000 units of PPE to China shortly before becoming desperately short of it ourselves.

The UK government has been too slow in taking decisive action at every step of the way. Allowing flights from Wuhan to the UK to continue well into March is the most negligent failure of them all.

We’ll probably get a Boris’ ‘greatest hits’ video like the one literally wheeled out by Trump, and dimwitted masses will lap it up.

 

Nobody can say that they were misled about the character of this prime minister. They knew he would always look after number one first, that his ego is bigger than all of us up together and that he would run at the first sign of gunfire. He's probably recuperating in a cupboard in chequers while his nanny brings him his tea.
You knew that his inclination is always to big it up at public events that give him opportunities for a shag rather than attend vital cabinet meetings.

 

If the government did the right thing from day one. All the do gooders would be up in arms calling the U.K a prison run by strict border control and xenophobes. Instead the government went for the coomba ya lets all hold hands approach and instead of putting a few disgruntled tourists noses out of joint it's burying 15000 and counting.

 

We’ve also forgot that it’s Thatcher’s fault that there have been 40,000 deaths in Italy and Spain! Bitch!

 

What a silly response

 

This hasn't come through a few tourists though has it?

 

People on Twitter selecting blame by saying it would have been much worse had it been Corbyn

 

Wow, here we go. You get these responses like this whenever there's a truth told about the government's incompetence.

 

Every government in the world has been incompetent.... but of course, it’s mainly Thatcher’s fault.

 

It should make for the best daily briefing yet if the correct questions are asked. I hope Gove chairs it.

 

No... in usual times more than half a million people per day fly in and out of the country... currently it’s around 15000.

 

The WHO were probably guilty like the rest of us, of being taken in by the reported numbers in China. And the claim before that the it wouldn't transmit human to human. The infamous statement that preliminary investigations in China showed that. I think that was mid January.
Now of course from a scientific standpoint that just means no proof published to the contrary. Unfortunately to most of us laymens we heard that and thought "nothing to worry about"

 

We should have been one of the easiest places on the planet to protect, with us being an island.

 

In theory... but what cut off do you make for getting people back from holidays, business trips, etc. The world is a lot smaller than it used to be.

 

And yet, this huge story is not on the BBC news page.

Nor has Keir Starmer referred to it. He has done a column for the Daily Mail though.

Xmas. Turkeys. Votes.

 

We could have banned flights from China knowing that's where the virus was. We could have made it compulsory anyone coming in to the UK had a test and if it showed they had it be put in isolation instead of being able to go where they wanted untested thus spreading it.

 

To be fair, it is referenced on their Coronavirus Live News Feed page:

"UK government under fire for 'missed opportunities'
The UK government has been accused of missing a number of opportunities to lessen the impact of the coronavirus.

The Sunday Times reports that Boris Johnson missed five meetings of the emergency Cobra committee as the health crisis was looming and the government is accused of losing weeks in the fight against Covid-19.

The government is facing criticism over its preparedness for the crisis, over testing, the timing of the lockdown and personal protective equipment.

Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove told Sky there were aspects of the newspaper report that were "slightly off", and would not be drawn on accusations that the UK sent 266,000 pieces of protective equipment to China.

Shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, was damning of the senior minister's comments.

Mr Ashworth told Sky: "Michael Gove's line that one or two aspects of this story are off beam is possibly the weakest rebuttal of a detailed expose in British political history."

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