I am beyond angry at our government and the lack of dynamic organisation from the outset.
I honestly don’t know why we didn’t get the heads of the Military - RAF/RN/Army in on this with emergency planning at the outset - all that professional expertise, all well versed in exercising, initiating and delivering dynamic actions and all manner of disaster planning and decisive decision making on what we, the the country and we the public needed to do.
I honestly expected them to all be round a table with the government early on, each talking through their ideas before formulating the best joint dynamic plans for the way ahead for the country.
(I guess because my background, (in decades past), was military - and I expected a short bullet pointed plan of what we all as citizens should do....not the wishy-washy way that information has I feel been presented to us)
Yes we had that advantage of being an island - and we messed that up.
I absolutely can’t get my head around the lack of appropriate PPE for medical staff at every level - I sit in utter disbelief and despair at the scenes we are seeing in the media where our clinical and front line staff seem to have no option but to carry on, directly in the face of oncoming fire, putting their own and their families lives at risk regardless - just through the inexcusable and shocking lack of PPE materials.
Again military planners would have been “on” this from day one, getting UK companies on board to start immediate mass manufacturing at that stage.
(I suppose I am relating it to old military service - where you would never simply “assume”, in a slapdash manner, that a situation was safe - until proved otherwise. Rather, you would dress with appropriate PPE until such time as it was actually safe to remove it, not the opposite way around)
We as a country should have been proactive.
The lack of organisation for testing and shockingly low levels of testing offered to medical staff so far leaves me beyond speechless at the incompetence of it all.
Everything seems slow, reactive and un-dynamic, I lack confidence in what is being done.
I suppose, on balance, it is hard to even realise that most of this pandemic so far, has happened for this country in the short space of just one single month - at the beginning of the the month I was carefree, in the sun on a beach somewhere in the Canaries - not knowing that in the space of 3 weeks we would all be home, fearful and in total lockdown.