Just seen the government boasting of spending an extra £46mio (yes, that is million, not billion) on the Corona virus. So, that would be about .046% of what HS2 will cost us to combat a major threat to our lives and lifestyles.
Why are we talking about a lack of intensive care beds and not building more? I know we are not China who can build a hospital in two weeks but, given that we have 2 months, surely we should at least try?
And I know we are not a manufacturing nation but we do have some manufacturing. Again, I would have thought that factories should be retooled to produce essentials for combatting the Covid 19 threat, such as testing kits, medical oxygen, basic medicines etc.
It kind of seems to me that we are not even trying to get ahead of the threat but responding very lackadaisically. Have we actually made the decision to let the virus blow through us and take out 5-10% of the elderly (minimum, considering, as things stand, many will get no treatment) or are politicians too blinkered to actually really understand and accept the statistical modelling as reality?
Shouldn’t we be cancelling things like HS2 etc for the foreseeable future and forming the equivalent of a UK Manhattan project, gathering our best medics, mathematicians and engineers from all around the country with one goal in mind: minimise deaths from this virus? We spent billions in 2008 bailing out banks, this threat, IMO, is at least equally serious.
I would love to understand from real experts (of whom there are many on here) why this is not happening.
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