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Thread #167208   Message #4040794
Posted By: Steve Shaw
19-Mar-20 - 07:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: New rules for the coming pandemic
Subject: RE: BS: New rules for the coming pandemic
Right.

I've watched Johnson's press conferences. I've watched him bumbling along, clearly totally out of his depth, clearly not understanding what's going on. I watched the confounded idiot Hancock on Question Time, alternating between bumbling-fool mode and nodding-donkey mode.

This government is actually killing people. There should have been testing, at least of NHS workers, preferably of everybody with any symptoms. South Korea is testing five times more people per day than us, and they're knocking the thing on its head. As it goes, we don't know who's got the thing, who's had the thing and who hasn't. We can't track down contacts. Sick doctors and nurses are passing on the germ to patients, because they don't know they're harbouring it. We've told kids hoping to get to university that they can't go to school any more, but we haven't told them how they're going to be assessed. There are millions of people who are suddenly going to be laid off, but we haven't told them as yet how we're going to stop them from sleeping in cardboard boxes in doorways this time next week. It's bloody shocking, it is. And it's Tory Britain, to the nth degree. They run down the NHS. They mercilessly strip local councils of their funding. They promote the gig economy and zero-hours contracts but they won't support the millions who are forced to live that way when they're suddenly shafted by their "employers." Gimme strength...