The UK is a country where the people cannot keep themselves safe unless there are specific, black and white law, with enforcement and punishment for every conceivable situation.
With grown ups it ought to be possible to say "it's a virus easily transmitted, mostly by air, so take precautions".
But no, people need rules. Which they will then protest about and insist are outrageous. Or perhaps not strict enough. Or perhaps not precise enough. Blah blah blah blah.
An entire Establishment (Government, NHS and all other organisations) was greeted with a situation it had never met before that needed urgent reaction.
The Government listened to scientists and medical experts and as far as I can see tried it's hardest and did it's best.
It didn't have the PPE it needed. And that is Johnson's fault? What utter garbage. That's what happens when you have an entire electorate that wants everything for nothing. An electorate who wants every budget cut but still every facility and service provided.
And all along the way it has been sniped at, abused, second-guessed, sneered at and generally criticised, mostly in the form of it's leader, by people who knew no better, would have done no better and would have achieved no more.
Even now they are being fought by anti mask people, anti lockdown people and yet being attacked for not locking down faster etc. etc.
It is pathetic, snivelling tripe. It is nothing to do with trying to learn from mistakes, it is nothing to do with trying to help or suggest. It is related solely to point scoring. Either to sell newspapers or win votes.
Ridiculous and they should be ashamed of themselves. All of them.
Nobody in the UK died for lack of hospital care. What more could any Government achieve?
The virus is going to spread no matter what. Unless you were seriously considering total lockdown until a vaccine is maybe available. All you can do is try to ensure that it doesn't spread so fast it breaks the NHS. The Government, no Government, can stop you getting it, they can only try to delay it.
Of those who catch it some are going to die. Currently there is nothing the Government, or anybody else, can do about that. Just offer as much care and treatment as possible and wait to see if they die.
I shouldn't think Johnson has done a great job, more than anything because he's a crap politician with no experience of managing a pandemic.
But neither has he completely cocked it up.
The political grandstanding is laughable and the media sensationalism is worse. I have no words for the Oompa-Loompas protesting that the precautions offend their rights. The world would be better off if they caught a bad case of COVID-19. One way or the other that's shut them up.
Nobody has got it perfectly right, because you can't.
The virus will spread
Some will die
There is no vaccine.
It's not difficult to understand.
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