Do You Blame Boris Or The Whole Government For Letting The Indian Variant In, Then Letting It Seed Itself All Over The Country? .

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I blame both.

They all need to do their fucking job and stop letting this happen.

You?

There are currently no Covid patients at all in Edinburgh's biggest hospital. Vaccines work.

Why the meltdown? Over what? The vaccine breaks the link between 'cases' and serious illness.

Morris what's the prevalence of the Indian V there though??

I blame the lot of them

Yes - Boris and his government are culpable for letting British variants infest Europe, and for failing to stop other countries' variants taking hold here.

Travel has been allowed far too freely in my opinion. People should not have been allowed to fly for leisure or business reasons - foreign travel should have been restricted to urgent compassionate reasons only (e.g. visiting terminally ill relative) with robust quarantine on arrival back in the UK.

It’s absolutely disgusting. When I read that Boris wasn’t travelling to India but a delegation, some with Covid, were in the Uk, my blood boiled. The government had opportunity to close the border but no they cocked this up as per usual. Now we are all facing another potentially severe variant and things could have been different. My whole family had Covid and I’m still unwell with the after effects. It terrifies me to think that we could get ill again. It’s all so depressing. Boris definitely knows more otherwise why did he hold the press conference yesterday?

I blame both the government and of course leader Boris. All this talk about holding an enquiry onto what went wrong last year, yet they are currently making the same mistakes. Why can they not be proactive instead of always reacting? Then it is too late. In any other line of work these hapless politicians would be out of a job for their gross ineptitude. I'm furious that we could all see they needed to immediately quarantine anyone travelling in from India, yet as always they decide to wait.

@MorrisZapp

There are currently no Covid patients at all in Edinburgh's biggest hospital. Vaccines work.

Why the meltdown? Over what? The vaccine breaks the link between 'cases' and serious illness.

Here's the Warwick modelling on what a more transmissible variant can do assuming vaccines offer complete protection:

And SAGE says there are still too few adults vaccinated to prevent a large surge.

(About 46% of the population is still completely unvaccinated and only about 29% is fully vaccinated so herd immunity can't help us.)

Here's the link to the minutes of Thursday's SAGE emergency meeting about the Indian variant @MorrisZapp

www.gov.uk/government/publications/sage-89-minutes-coronavirus-covid-19-response-13-may-2021/sage-89-minutes-coronavirus-covid-19-response-13-may-2021

Yes I absolutely blame the government. The border control issues have been massive throughout the pandemic, but this is the worst so far.

I'm also angry with the people who were on here telling people that having a meeting of 7 people in their garden would be prolonging the lockdown, when nothing we do makes any difference compared to the actions of the government

I blame the government and also the travellers who brought it in.

But the government have not taken proper action on borders since this all kicked off last February.

I blame the virus mainly. It's a virus, it is doing what viruses do.

No I blame the people who went to india, rushed back before the quarantine hotels, didn't isolate and aren't having jabs

Completely blame Bojo and his cronies! I flew back from the US end of January when my (extended twice) visit visa to see my fiance ran out. The only time I felt unsafe in the whole trip was in the heathrow arrivals area, surrounded by literally thousands of people from the Indian subcontinent travelling back from weddings (in a 3 hour queue there's time to chat before anyone says anything)
Should have been redlisted weeks before IMHO

I blame Boris. He is so inept and keeps on making these catastrophic decisions.

The issue is that his decisions are costing lives and personal freedoms.

@gottakeepmovin, absolutely.

Boris was an idiot to let the Indian flights continue without proper, supervised quarantine of every single person.

People in SE Asian community who refuse to be vaccinated are adding fuel to the flames.

Boris.
I agree with bunsy.
But think everyone changing countries all year has been selfish.

Imo you shouldnt quarantine in a house with others who arent quaranting. It doesnt work. I mean so say mum/dad gets back from a trip and kids carry on going to school the whole time. (Though of course that too is boris' fault as even in primary if they had masks that might be less a problem.
But others will have relatives over who stay in the house again with kids still going to school and parents to work.
If my dsis come back from abroad she will stay with my parents (cev/over 70) which is silly in itself. Though her kids may well be less risky to my dparents than mine even after a flight as theirs at least have masks and distancing at school.

Yes i agree too we shouldnt have been letting infected people out either.

I don’t like Boris or the government, but no, I don’t blame them.

I think people are vastly overestimating the power of a government to control an invisible respiratory pathogen.