@LastTrainEast We are the country most affected by Covid in Europe! Where have you been for the last 9 months? Other countries have handled it better eg South Korea and Germany. The problem is Johnson is ineffective in a crisis. Want more proof that he’s crap?
-He missed 2 COBR meetings on 24th and 29th Jan to discuss the emerging Covid crisIs, because he doesn’t do detail don’t you know.
-31st Jan, 2 people on the UK test positive for the virus and the NHS declares a level 4 critical incident for the first time
- On the same day the UK was invited to join a European scheme to source PPE but he declined, because that wouldn’t look too Brexity now would it?
-He misses another COBR Covid meeting on 5th Feb, because... reasons
-12th Feb, he missed another COBR meeting.
-14th Feb, he runs away to Chevening (taxpayer funded residence) to sort his divorce out before he can announce his engagement to his pregnant girlfriend.
-18th Feb, he misses another COBR meeting
-29th Feb, day after first British death and NHS warns of severe PPE shortages, Johnson then chooses to announce his engagement that day from Chequers.
-2nd Mar Johnson finally attends a COBR meeting
-3rd Mar Scientists urge the government to tell the public not to shake hands. On the same day Johnson says he went round shaking hands with Covid patients🙄
-7th Mar he goes to a six nations rugby match, no precautions taken at all
-9th Mar, France and Ireland ban large events. UK, business as usual
-10th Mar, 250k people go to Cheltenham Festival which leads to a spike in cases after the event
-11th Mar Global Pandemic declared
-Spain closes schools etc due to the spike in cases and 3000 Atletico Madrid fans allowed to fly in to attend the match V Liverpool, which then leads to a spike in cases on Merseyside
-12th Mar, the UK stops Testing and Contact tracing to follow a strategy of Herd Immunity. The government’s projection was that this would kill quarter of a million people. Nobody else in the world was doing this apart from Sweden!
-13th Mar, Johnson lifted restrictions on people arriving into the UK from Wuhan, Italy and Iran! Why? Just Why?
-13th Mar, due to lack of PPE(although we could have joined the European scheme in January), NHS staff were told to wear less PPE and reuse current stocks!
-14th Mar, 5000 allowed to go to a Stereophonics gig!
-15th Mar Germany closes it’s borders, Ireland closes it’s pubs
-17th Mar France goes into lockdown
-18th Mar WHO says contact tracing is key but by now the UK has already stopped contact tracing in favour of herd immunity
-19th Mar the government tells Care Homes to take in elderly patients that have Covid which leads to a spike in Care Home deaths!!
-20th Mar the government says the NHS has enough PPE but the NHS says they have acute shortages putting NHS staff at risk, which leads to the spike in deaths of NHS frontline workers.
-20th Mar Johnson says he’s going to see his mother on Mother’s Day but on 22nd Mar, he says people won’t be allowed to visit their mothers on Mother’s Day. The first of many, many, U-turns to come
-23rd Mar we go into lockdown
-27th Mar Cummings & Johnson have Coronavirus. Cummings breaks lockdown rules but gets to keep his job, in the process eroding the public’s trust in the government.
-7th April UK has only done a fifth of the number of tests that Germany has done
-18th Apr The government tells us that 400k Turkish PPE gowns are meant to arrive the following day, but they don’t
-21st Apr. An investigation uncovers that UK PPE manufacturers offered to help the government weeks ago but were turned down. I’m guessing that ministers already had these lucrative contracts earmarked for their friends as we later found out. Instead millions of PPE items were shipped to Europe hmm]
-22nd Apr, the government announced that it will resume contact tracing. Better late than never, however a few weeks later they abandon the Track and Trace app. Other countries went straight for the Google/Apple one and seemed to have better success with it, however the government declined to use it despite being told by Apple that the UK app violated their Privacy policy so wouldn’t work with IPhones. In the end the government abandoned their App and went with the Google/Apple one months later! Yet another U-Turn
- 22nd April, those 400k PPE gowns finally arrive but fail safety standards so cannot be used. By the way, these were ordered from a TShirt manufacturer.
-5th May, the UK has the highest death toll in Europe!
Do you want me to carry on?