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Really sad to hear this mate. I liked your post but fk me doesn’t really seem apt.
Lots of heartbreak stories all through the pandemic but it was new and we really were not prepared.
In hind sight we could have done better but most did their best at the time.
The Tory spivs did alright out of it.
Never forget.

 

todays news was they were too busy focusing on Brexit at the expense of literally everything else to do any planning. Another example of the winning we are doing

 

Last week a close relative (60 yrs of age and was ok to a good degree physically apart from the leukaemia diagnosis many yrs ago. then the onset of covid) had their 6th covid jab. They are in Hospital tonight (admitted today) still suffering the effects of long Covid. And what appears now to be a chest infection (unconfirmed at mo). Unable to walk 10yds. Lungs damaged. For at least the last 12 months. Contracted Within weeks/days being given the all clear from leukaemia.
Also after covid restrictions were completely removed.
It's still out there and there is a 2% chance of another pandemic this year according to scientists.
I'm not scaremongering or taking sides. But it hasn't gone away and folk are still getting it. some dying from it.
Anyone feeling vindicated on what occurred
Please bear that in mind. Pointscoring shouldn't come into it. Lessons will be learned. If nowt else.

Their partner was one of the very first to go down with it (hospitalised march 2020 and the very first at YW among the entire workforce to be diagnosed) and still suffers to a much lesser degree with still having long covid . But amazingly didnt pass it on to any of the rest of the family. At home. And they were even together when the suspected contamination arose on a flight home from Mexico.

 

Lockdown was awful but the alternative was worse. A sensible government with some adults in the room might have come up with a better way. Like shutting the borders that we took back control of instead of letting the virus in.

 

You've essentially just said the alternative was worse unless we did something better?

 

The alternative at the time was to do nothing - which Johnson wanted to do at the start - remember him bragging about shaking hands with COVID patients and talk of herd immunity? "Something better" could have including closing the borders - which they refused to do, who knows, lockdowns might not have been needed. Also using a proven track and trace system - which we already had or buying the better German one for £1m, could have reduced the need for lockdowns. Instead we blew £37bn on Dido Harding's fantasy system.

 

I still can't compute that we spaffed £37bn on Track and Trace.

 

I can't compute that.

What did they spend it on?

Where did that money go?

Was it spent on anything useful or did it fall into peoples offshore bank accounts?

 

I’m surprised Nicola wasn’t blamed for the missing millions.
That would be another handy deflection from pursuing of the real criminals in Westminster.

 

Apparently, a lot of it was actually spent on testing - all the free tests had to be bought from somewhere and paid for. I don't have the exact figures though.

 

Psyops & the nudge unit, added to arms length censorship of social media & broadcast media works it would seem. The absolute hubris and pig headedness in refusing to acknowledge that what they believed to be necessary (and revelled in it on occasion), might actually have been less than useless is quite telling.

You made the point early on and it's quite pertinent - for a bulletin board occupied by folk purporting to represent mainly left of centre , socialist views (with one or two extreme exceptions) the willingness to subject fellow citizens to draconian illiberal and downright fascist laws and restrictions because they thought it appropriate is bewildering and quite enlightening. As long as you believe in it, then anything goes. If nothing else, shutting schools should result in jail time for those championing it. Or at least endless nightmares.

That's fine, but just wait until those self same edicts are brought in against something you believe in.

Bad faith everywhere.