To the people who are on lockdown in other countries

[Natsel84]

What do you think of how the UK are dealing with it ?

Slow on the uptake, and I fear it will cost lives.

Quick on the uptake when it comes to finding money, though

Quick on the uptake when it comes to finding money, though hmm

Surely that's a good thing?

Sure things could have been done better. It isn’t hindsight wonderful? Imagine the logistics of dealing with something like this. I wouldn’t want the job that’s for sure

The short term measures to help financially- good (am in the US, the land of Trump and no NHS)
The slowness in locking down and lack of medical preparation- bad

Does anyone have an experience of how Sweden in managing it? I thought the stopped large gatherings & encouraged social distancing quite early but I’ve read a couple of things recently (the guardian or torygraph probably) that suggests they might be being more hands off than many places?

Are they doing a lot of testing & contract tracing?

British expat here.

The only person around who wasn't utterly baffled by the UK's initial handling of things is the fucking psychopath who's also sharing emails arguing for locking up the elderly and infecting everyone else because it's affecting the value of his bloody stock portfolio. (Best moment of an otherwise craptastic week: when our boss told him in no uncertain terms to keep the "Nazi bullshit" to himself, please.) Literally everyone else I know thought BoJo & Co. were completely batshit!

General consensus now roughly boils down to "better late than never".