How did Britain get its response to coronavirus so wrong?

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As the warnings grew louder, the government was distracted by Brexit. On testing, contact tracing and equipment supply, there was a failure to prepare

By late December last year, doctors in the central Chinese city of Wuhan were starting to worry about patients quarantined in their hospitals suffering from an unusual type of pneumonia.

 

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Must be all the antisemites in the Labour Party, wouldn’t you say, the Guardian?

None of this was an accident

This photo is amazing

peterjukes If only we knew earlier. Here's Boris Johnson's school report 👇

Because the Brexiters are in charge and they're driven more by selfishness than collective good. Also, they're Brexiters; not exactly the sharpest pencils in the box

chenweihua Negligent leadership.

chenweihua Cause the U.K. can’t manage it’s way out of a wet paper bag with its upper class twit class system handing out management roles. When the “herd strategy” was active the U.K. was the global laughing stock. Now the U.K. is paying for that strategy with higher death rates.

Up next on 2020 Or 1984…

Arrogance

The power of nightmares -

'Wrong' must be justified based on clearly defined & measurable criteria: direct deaths vs future deaths arising from job/economic loss (e.g. suicides), short & long-term costs to the economy, level of personal & national indebtedness, loss of businesses, education on hold ...?

That photo looks so dystopian

Because he was following Trump steps downplaying coronavirus threat.

Arrogance, greed, exceptionalism. The same way they always get it wrong. Easier to see it now as the timeline is compressed.

Maybe gathering in the 100s to clap for the nhs is something to do with it spreading? Maybe?....

Fllow Trump

Maybe because you were all busy writing shit about Spain instead of minding your own business?

Because they think they are better than the rest of the world?

Largely because the entire cabinet are chosen on the basis of 'saying the things Johnson wanted to hear about brexit' rather any actual ability. They're incompetents.

Matt_CAFC Because in Germany and elsewhere in Europe peoples health come first before profits.

He’s called Boris Johnson!!

Arundhati Roy told German DW News that Modi Government is planning a genocide of Muslims in the cover of COVID19, in a similar way as Nazis did to Jews..! I appreciate her but she is late in the game...

its very simple, It didn't close its airports, pandemics are caused by AEROPLANES. no aeroplanes no pandemic.

BS.

Incompetent leadership?

The land that gave us JamesBond, in the movies, failed to use his services in real-time. No time to die: you live only once!

compassion_heal The Torries the morons failure of the government not a surprise at all in WAY pasting 15k in deaths now and stlll rising today. Global Warnings ignored in the new year January and in February.

Two words: Johnson. Hancock.

Herd immunity didn't work out well.

How It was misled by the communist regime of China, dumb*ss

They voted Tories

We among those countries with highest death rate and lowest cure rate. Every asian countries doing better although we claim we have the best medical coverage.

A Government fixated with appearance, rather than function

Unwillingness to listen and learn from others, EGO! 'We were the imperial superpower', but CV19 didn't know this. It was very fair in dealing with humans, rich or poor or white or black or brown or yellow, PM or homeless, royality or commoner, the same treatment! coronavirus

Not Britain, but 10DowningStreet BorisJohnson DominicRaab. They heard only elderly & vunerable affected & saw £££s. Poor planning & management. Wanting to prove they will handle it better, they're failing. Knowing it will break an underfunded NHS giving more reason for private

Co-ordinated with Trump?

Hire a clown, get a circus.

I'll give you a hint...

JOHNSON, CONSERVATIVS TRUMP

Perhaps was not a good idea to go against Corbyn

Because of the centralised nature of the UK's biotechnology industries, London and Birmingham's huge reliance on just in time import dependancies, the Left rejecting and then accepting of lockdown measures, global shortages of testing materials, PPE and ventilator equipment.

🐂 💩

It repeatedly elected a bunch of money obsessed psychopaths into power?

Government incompetence

This a.m, buying a few Sunday papers (left & right) & join a short queue. Bloke at till loudly declaims Boris and Govt. re cv19. Woman on till ...'Utter rubbish, I like Boris, imagine Corbyn in charge, bloody catastrophe, right, next.' His eyes meet ours. FAIL Nervous laugh.

Maybe by not adopting the findings of Exercise Cygnus? I might be wrong, but I won’t know unless they’re published.

Simple...

Because of the more severe epidemic situation, it can put more pressure on China. So do n’t want to control?

In the same way many nations did...misinformation and conflicting views. But in a few months we will have wished that they had stuck with the hard line and protected the vulnerable. The costs will continue to grow even as ‘Covid-19’ cases decline. The free money will run out.

Herd immunity was the plan. Didn’t work out well.

How have news completely misread the feelings of normal UK citizens. You’re history 👇

Most likely because it’s filled with people who thought voting for this thing ⬇️ sounded like a good idea 😐

beacause of who is in the Government they are all lazy and useless

This is just an attack - pure and simple and the tone detracts from the message so much that it’s not worth reading

State of this bullshit. “Jan 14th is a key date” : first case outside China - but won’t mention 2 days earlier the WHO stated there was no clear evidence it was transmittable. Guardian Group travels further down the toilet.

Becoz he trusts WHO and CCP.

Media asking a question over BorisJohnson crimes instead of accusing him Could this be because he supports UK militarism

Because most people only care about the economy....?

When this is all done and dusted I want a public enquiry and to see minutes from meetings in feb where due attention was paid to PPE provision. If not then people need to go to prison.

It was your oafish Brexiteer. We can all see it from New Zealand but can you?

Hmm dunno... Maybe by having a totally inept government led by bojotheclown

The virus isn’t even over to come to such conclusions. But even if something positive came out of our response, this machine will still naturally report it negatively.

Nothing to do with this nitwit

Incompetent government and its leaders

UK was too busy with Briexit and overlooked what have happened in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan since 2019.

More concerned with leading a xenophobic and career furthering (for BJ) agenda than the welfare of citizens. Ideology and economy before public welfare. Exactly what the idiots of this country voted for.

Because it has a government of buffoons

We didn't. The headline makes a bias statement whilst asking the wrong question. Leftwing people must be so deeply deeply unhappy. Its such a shame.

We’ve been saying that UKGovernment is gonna mess it up since early Feb Weeks of prep time squandered. Then herd immunity plan. Gov only started Half Listening when 400 scientists wrote to Gov about Dumb strategy Hold to account: Vallance, Whitty, Harries, Powis, BoJo, Hancock

You guys have to look at the bright side. The current government has set a bar for how incompetent and ill-managed a government can be. Any latter government can really work hard to stay away from that bar as far as they can. It's good for the UK people in the long run.

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We put businessmen in charge of everything

Why aren't we all wearing masks?

The answer has 2 words. The first one is Borris

The Tories prioritised austerity and bReXiT. A pandemic was going to happen sooner or later, they knew that but didn’t prepare.

How is still managing to run, given the increase in complete drivel? It was bad before 2020, but has reached new levels in dire content.

By following the U.S.' lead. You guys always fall for that and it always backfires terribly.

How goes the Guardian get everything wrong?

Because 10DowningStreet are IDIOTS. 🤯

That whole “take it on the chin” business was where it started to sound worrying

Easy, they have copied Spain

Because whatever it did would be wrong in the eyes of the guardian?

Because we have a government that works on blind optimism and only listening to a very small group of advisors. Expert advice and opinion is ignored and actual details glossed over. Thousands of lives lost through sheer incompetence

Haven’t a clue

Please except the mistake will be happening and that what we can learn it from. If we don’t know what death is then why are we worry . Be good and except the thing as they . If the house is smoky you don’t have to staying in it.

Government and reliance on the state.

Brexit total

By Joris Bohnsoning it?

Smart and immune government.

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