So angry at the Government this evening

[Moonme]

I’m SO mad. I haven’t been on this board for months and I was feeling really optimistic about life feeling like it was returning to normal.
It is criminal that they have let this variant in. It’s literally ground hog day. Playing politics with public health to do trade deals (because of bloody Brexit) with India.
I know there is hope that the vaccines will do there jobs but we shouldn’t be in this position. This wasn’t inevitable. Arggh so cross

I think Boris and crew really need to keep enforcing masks.

Yes, it's extremely frustrating.

Agreed - the government once again lost the plot, insisting on PROOF of a risk from the variant, before taking measures to prevent it - of course by the time such proof arrived, it was too late to do anything about it.

Other people love it though, they keep voting for more of the same incompetence. I don't get it. People are thick. He's just doing his best, my bum. It's disgusting. Makes me laugh how many people voted for Brexit to keep control of our borders, yet they'll happily absolve that giant blond tit of any blame when he leaves them wide open to any old variant. Idiots.

I’m relieved that all the posts about reversal etc weren’t correct

Lieing fuckers!!!!!

I agree, disappointing but not surprising at all.

I thought for months now if you fly in you went to hotel for two weeks? I don’t understand how it can get in if people have been in isolation. Or was it on no need isolate countries when it’s billions of people!

@Akire only ‘red zone’ countries but Indian wasn’t added when Pakistan was.

*India

I missed the response to why it wasn’t added earlier

What did they say?

@MarshaBradyo Spaff, waffle, look the other way, erm...dog ate my homework

@MarshaBradyo

I missed the response to why it wasn’t added earlier

What did they say?

The excuse was because at the time, the variant was not a variant of concern.

(Don’t shoot the messenger )

But mainly that they’d deemed it ‘not of concern’ which is odd as India had huge cases and they added Pakistan to red zone at that time

We were too late putting India on the red list.

Issue is its here initially via international travel.
But I assume lot high increased cases are now community transmission they not all come back from India.
So further restrictions now is closing stable door when horse has bolted.
India varient there's actually 3 is in the UK.
Its not in any specific area its a few areas a fair distance apart.
We know localised lockdowns failed in the UK in the past unlike Australia which truly do heavy localised state or city lockdowns even sealing off flats.

Another things is some reports say India varient 60% more transmissible than the Kent varient which overtook the original covid varient.
We know last year international travel let Spanish varient in and made autumn winter really bad.
That annoyed me.

How many days does India travel have quarantine.
As I'm sure I read reports from Australia that the Kent varient b117 escaped as the quarantine period was not long enough think they reduced to 10 days then increased back up to 14.
Maybe that's case with India varient the quarantine period is bit sufficient.

@Moonme

But mainly that they’d deemed it ‘not of concern’ which is odd as India had huge cases and they added Pakistan to red zone at that time

It was shocking and embarrassing tbh. We commented about it on here.

news.sky.com/story/covid-19-the-three-days-in-april-that-may-have-fuelled-uk-outbreak-of-indian-coronavirus-variant-12306393

So, basically, we spend five months (at least) in lockdown, putting our lives on hold or worse, and the f**ckers in charge can't even be arsed to shut the borders properly. I share your fury. We will be back in lockdown in no time. Soooo infuriating!

The fact he just waffles when asked a direct question shows me he has no idea what he's doing or why he's done what he did.

The Indian variant for in because they didn't red list it soon enough and people are still queuing next to non red list people for hours.

Their incompetence over the most simple things is astonishing

[quote Moonme]@MarshaBradyo Spaff, waffle, look the other way, erm...dog ate my homework[/quote]
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Scarily accurate

@Whatafool123 that’s what I feel like. WE all sacrificed so much and we had pretty much levelled it off.
Johnson is incompetent, never on his brief, doesn’t care about details and isn’t a leader. This is what we get because of that and so we are potentially back to where we started.

So op, you don't fancy centre parks then? 😉😂😂😂

@itsgettingwierd he waffles when he lies. It’s a classic tell

@JamesAnderson 😆

It is never ever going to end!