Fascinating documentary from Channel 4 on how the government lost control of the virus resulting in the current lock-down.

And how the tories are spending billions on their private chums and getting nothing but trouble.

They appear to just trust people with no experience at all, bung them any amount in hope something may work.

In fairness the strategy has limited the extent of initial economic damage compared with other countries... but now it appears that the argument ‘well it worked in Sweden’ is about to be binned. Fastest rising hospital case rate in Europe, and having to rapidly introduce accepted lockdown protocols. Herd immunity eh. Just goes to show if we’d tried that here it would have been catastrophic.

The economic impact in terms of reduction in GDP has been pretty much the same as other Scandinavian countries - they just have a much higher case and death toll in comparison.

I watched that Dispatches on C4 last night. The most interesting bit was when they showed the self testing samples arriving by the box load. Some of the samples had leaked out of the tube onto other tubes they were packed in with therefore contaminating those making them false positive. I have always been a bit sceptical of the daily figures and this did nothing to ease those suspicions. Sending box loads of samples on a long journey to Ireland seems a hinderance to the whole process I thought it would be more regionalised.

I can understand your point - it would be cheaper. However, think about it - do you want to tell your friends, family and colleagues you gave them Covid 19? And would anyone? I wouldn't - I'm already quite unpopular with some of them!