Is the complacency of western governments gonna cost lives?
There is complacency of people too. Someone on here said that like China, the UK will be over the worst in a couple of months.
No way. All the countries which have achieved a reduction in new cases have quickly implemented rigurous testing and isolation proceedures. They were quicker to lock down too.
In Britain its already too late to avoid a situation currently worse than Italy is experiencing now. The virus has been here for weeks but schools and resturaunts shut dowm only friday. This will probably mean thousands more have the condition and are yet to show symptoms. NHS staff have not even been tested.
Less action now means more action needed later.
In addition, our government has been slow to transition to the war econony needed to keep basic services running at a time if crisis.
Radical solutions are needed and creative thinking. Hotels are going bust cos of lack of customers yet we are massively short of hospital beds so why not convert them into quaranteen centres for the mid risk infected? Why not spend money to convert factories to produce ventilators?
People are being laid off and cant afford rent yet we need manpower to do the things we need because our givernment is compmacent and has its priorities wrong. Unless you have a serious strategy for isolating the outbreak then you need a socialist style war economy to deal with the consequences of most of your economy shutting down.
All of these things will probably happen in a month anyway when the shit hits the fan but all of it should be done now. Speed matters. Being pro active helps!
Yet Boris the blowhard gets to do his press conferences and play pound shop Winston Churchll and our media praise him for radical action.
Im worried and pissed off.
No way. All the countries which have achieved a reduction in new cases have quickly implemented rigurous testing and isolation proceedures. They were quicker to lock down too.
In Britain its already too late to avoid a situation currently worse than Italy is experiencing now. The virus has been here for weeks but schools and resturaunts shut dowm only friday. This will probably mean thousands more have the condition and are yet to show symptoms. NHS staff have not even been tested.
Less action now means more action needed later.
In addition, our government has been slow to transition to the war econony needed to keep basic services running at a time if crisis.
Radical solutions are needed and creative thinking. Hotels are going bust cos of lack of customers yet we are massively short of hospital beds so why not convert them into quaranteen centres for the mid risk infected? Why not spend money to convert factories to produce ventilators?
People are being laid off and cant afford rent yet we need manpower to do the things we need because our givernment is compmacent and has its priorities wrong. Unless you have a serious strategy for isolating the outbreak then you need a socialist style war economy to deal with the consequences of most of your economy shutting down.
All of these things will probably happen in a month anyway when the shit hits the fan but all of it should be done now. Speed matters. Being pro active helps!
Yet Boris the blowhard gets to do his press conferences and play pound shop Winston Churchll and our media praise him for radical action.
Im worried and pissed off.
41-45, M
