Hi Guys,
What a b****** this virus is.
Being an ex pat, it gives me pain that there are so many fatalities.
Our deaths for whole country is around 90.
First thing our government did was stop all international flights. Kept cruise ships away (except one) Most of our break outs originated from cruise ship Ruby Princess. The locked down all states, no travelling. schools on line and thats it.
Stay safe.
Mike

Also nice to be criticised by both left and right

We didn't ... and then "led by science" our government took another three weeks to notice almost every other country was doing it. We're still letting people into the country unchecked and now we're talking about easing some lockdown measures for the rest of us because, we're not absolutely sure but, we think only the equivalent of three full planeloads of people are dying from Covid-19 each day. Impressive eh?

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

This thread would be quite quiet if it wasn't for HOL's pair of commies who are using every opportunity to bash the government

I just re read that one and it was a genuine question. You could have loosed on me but you didnt. Fair play sorry bout that. Lucky we arnt all as clever as me or we'd all be stupid

'twas ever thus with politicians.

After being slow out of the blocks in testing the government set an ambitious target personally I don't think we should get too hung up about the numbers. I am still not convinced what good this will do.

For instance if someone self isolates by the time they have an appointment and get the test results back they will probably be free of the virus anyway. What we really need is an instant test.

As to the numbers what should really matter is from now on we are doing mass testing on a daily basis and to try and ramp up the number continuously.

As to the lies well each government has their on way of recording these numbers. Belgium has a high death rate because they include "suspected" deaths which we don't. Others do or don't include deaths outside of hospitals.

As others have said we shall have to wait for the inquiry before we know how well or badly we have done.

One final point it has been suggested if Corbyn was in power they would have done better than the Tories I don't believe that.

If we can agree for one moment that the government has followed the expert advice then Corbyn would have done the same thing and probably made the same mistakes. The argument that Labour would have put more resources into the NHS and so be better prepared only works if Labour had been in power for at least 5 years.

I accept that the Tories have underfunded the NHS but a 3 month old Corbyn government would not have time to turn the NHS around.

Anyway whatever mistakes have been made in the past I prefer to focus on the here and now rather than the wishful thinking if only the voters had ...

Edited by Badger11 (02 May 2020 12.28pm)

One more point