To be actually angry Matt Hancock is on I'm a Celebrity

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I can't actually believe the bare faced brass for him to be on the programme.

I was a manager of a care home during the height of the pandemic. I remember the outright lies he personally broadcast to the nation. How he told everyone there was a "protective ring" around care homes when we couldn't even buy PPE. How they said that tests were available for people living in care homes when this just wasn't true. How the policy was to discharge to care homes from hospitals.
How over 300 pieces of guidance were released in just 2 months. How a conscious decision was made to finslly allow care home staff to wear masks at 1130pm on a friday night. How we were left to send masks in taxis to other care managers in outbreak because none could be got. How our normal PPE suppliers were told to divert stock to the NHS. How my staff couldn't buy basic groceries because they were routinely told they were not "essential workers"

I have so many painful memories from the early days of the pandemic. I won't share them, I don't want to trigger anyone as I understand everyone had it hard and has experienced awful things. But suffice to say I was so traumatised by what happened, I have left nursing as a profession. My heart is broken. I literally have a montage of the worst bits I think about every day.

To see this man parading on TV, laughing and joking, earning an obscene amount of money for frivolty whilst nurses are striking for a fair pay rise after all of his very public failings that cost people's lives, all the while when he is supposed to be serving his constituents during a cost of living crisis makes me so angry.

AIBU?

so much bullshit on these threads.

When do you think that Covid started? It wasn’t reported by the Chinese authorities until January 2020, and even then they claimed it was a mild illness.

yeah, I am agreeing with you. People post any old shit

Op you are 100% right and I feel exactly the same.

Dec 2019. Guidance was released just before Christmas.

I stand by my comment about H and the govt not preparing - we could see what was happening in Italy and the govt did nothing for ages - while the rest of Europe was shutting their borders and going into lockdown, we were still having large sporting events and concerts and carrying on as if everything was fine. I remember phoning my dc school, the week before lockdown because I felt it was too unsafe to send them and I think half the other parents were doing the same, it was the football clubs who decided to cancel matches, but the govt were not making these decisions. How many people died because Cheltenham (iirc!) went ahead?

Actually no, I am wrong it was just after Christmas in January. My own timeline a bit muddled, apologies.

I agree about all that but don't hold it against any one politician. By Feb half term it was too late. We didn't do anything then, what was the point after that? Stable door. A lot of later lockdowns and rules were driven by huge public pressure. So I mostly blame most of the people, for example, on this thread

What guidance, and where? The Chinese authorities reported a novel coronavirus on the 12th January 2020. They had identified it in December, but it hadn’t (apparently) widely spread, so it wasn’t reported until the 12th Jan.

Please see above-I said my timeline was off and I was wrong. I believe ot was reported 31 Dec 2019 and the guidance first came out in January. Sorry for any confusion.

Boris Johnson went on holiday several times whilst parliament was sitting

No problem. 😊

How do 16% think you're being unreasonable?

This!

Midlife crisis very much. He’s a pathetic man.

I cant stand how they are all chatting with him, why arent they ripping him a new one.

I was just thinking exactly that

It's all matey and crawly-bum-lick now

Even boy George seems to be talking to him. Has he lost his mind??
I dont get it. Peacecand harmony is one thing but they are letting that fuckwit away with what he did.

Are you talking about the campmates?

@Mege2 i was one of those people who lost a close family member with no hospital visits allowed. I do not blame Matt Hancock for that personally. The person was elderly with underlying health conditions.

The hysteria here is ridiculous but then again, this is MN with its ever changing narrative.

@Billstopay absolutely agree with your comment.

We seem to be in a world where blame has to be attributed - the pandemic was awful and unprecedented, there was not blueprint to follow. I disagreed with lockdown but I don't blame Matt Hancock.

I am willing to bet if a Labour politician went in, nobody would be half as bothered.

Lots of people that were probably school bullies on this thread

Definitely. There is a very nasty tone.

I'm just watching Question Time & second question in is about Matt fucking Hancock, I'm sick of hearing about him, he should be sacked.