AIBU to think the government should have handed out a carepack for each citizen?

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They should have had protocol in place for a Pandemic. Could they not have supplied everybody with a mask, latex gloves, hand gel, hand wash and food vouchers for the old, people on benefits and low incomes?

They managed to give everyone a gas mask and ration book in WW2, care packs could be handed out at polling booths.

They could have made stores ration toilet rolls and pasta/rice. Basic shopping lists.
They could have given reassurance to everyone.
AIBU to think the government had enough time to get it's shit together and have a protocol in place, but they are bumbling along taking the lead from other countries.

Government can’t do everything. People still have to take personal responsibility.

If you want to have a mask that actually works, you have to be FIT tested, this needs specialist equipment and takes about 15 mins. The mask can only be worn once, and you would also need 10mins training in how to put gown, gloves, mask, visor on properly and take them off correctly to avoid contamination spread. Do it wrong and you might as well not bother.
Considering most people don't even know how to wash their hands properly, giving out the mask etc is pretty pointless. Let's keep the equipment for those who have to work with the infected for 10 hours a day.

Governments absolutely should be prepared for epidemics. This isn't the first one and it won't be the last.

They should have supplies on standby. Shops should have taken items like formula off the shelves and only sold one container per customer.

The UK government should have had plans other than 'stand by and watch the hospitals get overwhelmed, and tell people how sorry they are that their loved ones will die'.

Anxiety loves company, that’s all this is.

Soap and water and washing your hands under running water is the most effective way of dealing with the virus.

Feeding some people’s anxiety hurts more people in the long run.

It’s a silly idea. The masks and gloves would be useless after one use. These are all things you could have bought and had ready yourself, if you thought they’d help you.

You seem to be confusing our government with people who reject the Darwinian approach to survival!

Its called personal responsibility. You can provide your own family with these things

I agree. So many seem to be under the impression that the government should fund everything. We are all responsible for ourselves and it’s been known for weeks that this new germ would have implications so plenty of time for people to shop for the basics.

I think of the government showed they had some semblance of control or plan then everyone would calm the duck down........but other than Boris informing us some of us will die that hasn't happened so. 💁🏻‍♀️

Yeah all this BoJo is right stuff is mental. Why is he doing the opposite to every other country in the world pretty much?! Why are people defending him?
Because the idiots voted for him and can’t stand the “I told you so”
I have relatives in various other European countries, they’re all in lockdown and keep messaging worrying about us because we’re carrying on as normal

I hope the personal responsibility mantra includes not using tax payers money to bail out businesses hit by the coronavirus down turn.

Abso-fucking-lutely.

I mean, I’m on day 6 of self isolating and I’m in danger of running out of alcohol. WHERE IS THE GOVERNMENT WITH MY EMERGENCY SUPPLIES?

SomethingmustbedonewhatdoIpaymytaxesforwon’tsomeonethinkofthechildrenetcetc.

Its called personal responsibility. You can provide your own family with these things.

I went into the shop last night when they were just stocking up on bog roll and everyone was jumping on them like literal vultures. One woman had four 24 packs in her trolley, why? I saw her leaving, thought maybe I’d give her the benefit of the doubt if she was driving a massive car (might have lots of children for example) but no, she got into a small BMW.

It’s shit, selfish behaviour. People can’t sort things themselves because the idiotic panic buyers have decimated the stock.

The environmental cost of all those gloves & masks & plastic bottles in landfill is pretty awful to think about.

We don't need care packages, we need more hospital beds, ventilators and outreach for the most elderly and vulnerable who don't have family members to do it for them. Oh, and to not have a country where great swathes of the population were already in poverty and reliant on food banks, zero hours contracts, homeless, etc.

We're in the UK and are treated significantly worse than citizens in other European countries (such as the Nordic ones). So many aspects of life are worse here for either the working or non working, healthy or unhealthy person. Notice how we're doing things so "different" with coronavirus.. .. Because the experts say it's best we all become naturally immume! In other words, the government is doing nothing. Jacob Rees Mogg and the other cronies have all covered their own backs (children all have citizenship in other countries, all company assets moved to European countries and no tax paid from them to the UK, financially safe in every respect for themselves only)....

Imagine the government could stockpile 70 miilion carepacks just in case a very rare thing like a pandemic occurred - they'd be criticised for wasting money on a such a rare event, criticised if some of the contents went out of date , where would you store 70 million, who would manage it? Insurance it? Replenish my it? It's not a simple thing! There is a very good network of supermarket and shops who stock soap and we are blessed with clean running hot water in our homes. Those who can take care of themselves should we shouldn't need to be spoon fed! It's idiotic Ideas like this and attitudes like this by people who demand someone else takes responsibility that mean there is less resource to focus on those who really need help the infirm and homeless. Get a grip

Where do you suppose the government store the 67 million care packs “in case” of a pandemic that happens roughly once every 20 years?! Amazing.

Obviously nobody has read my other posts, so they won’t see that my son is stuck in Lockdown in Spain.
Obviously the care pack idea wasn’t thought through!
Understatement of the year!

And I do not give a flying fuck if I get Corona 🦠 virus, but I worry about my teenage son in Spain with severe asthma and my daughter with an ongoing kidney disease!
*So yes, I admit I didn’t think through the care plan idea!
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Please watch the Dr Berg video on YouTube about corona virus, he has good nutritional/ vitamin advice on what to do!
Sorry I can’t do links!

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I don't know anyone that didn't already have plenty of soap. Most people i know had hand gel or foam etc anyway & it's really not critical.

This sort of thing is so rare it's not cost effective for the government to provide things many people already have.

Wish I hadn’t posted it.
So many people going in on me!
Already admitted it wasn’t thought through!

OP we all sympathise re you son stuck in Spain but even with asthma he is probably not high risk as a teenager. Try not to panic.

but even with asthma he is probably not high risk as a teenager.

WTAF