Original Post: 10/4/2020
Government Strategy, any chance of one please? Well for a couple of days now, the Government has declared that I am “Extremely Vulnerable” to getting this virus thing, so my further total lockdown is to last 12 more weeks at least, with NO walks, going to shops, NOTHING. So I have LOADS of time to write music, drink, eat (fortunately not THAT hungry at the mo, but I’m hoping I get on a Supermarket list for the Not That Able….I need huge stocks of beers and tonic…).
Meantime, the daily Government briefings are getting blander and blander, this week distracted by our esteemed PM being in MY HOSPITAL (St Thomas’) but fortunately getting better. So I decided, along with daily chats with buddies who also are extremely concerned about the UK’s strategy, and let’s face it, today we’ve had the highest daily death toll yet, in Europe, and the whole Testing, PPE, Ventilators and CONTACT TRACING thing is in turmoil.
The issues may I believe be summarised as follows:
1) EVERYTHING is 2 months late…nobody in the UK even considered preparing for a major epidemic in the U at the start…we now (10 April) have the highest daily fatality figure in Europe..we will end up being the most devastated country in Europe it is suggested…
2) There has hardly been any real sensible numbers of testing….of ANY sort. Ramping up? Not VERY much because we don’t have the kits or infrastructure (kits/locations/labs/strategy) to do this properly…the so called “experts” on the daily government briefings aren’t in fact scientific “experts”, they’re more management psychologists….the Scientific geniuses on the advisory panel to Public Health England are kept totally quiet…
3) We didn’t learn anything from the Far East…the majority of UK Medical Experts are disgusted by the fact that NO Taskforce has been put together to do Testing followed by Contact Tracing…That is the ONLY strategy that will work…almost every successful country has done this…we didn’t lock down and “cordon sanitaire” as recommended by WHO…hence there have been more and more local spreads….because of hugely “decimating” all local NHS facilities and medical labs, we’ve ended up being slow, and more and more frontline workers are dying as a result……unforgivable I say.
4) Testing kits and PPE are hardly made in decent numbers in this country. We should have copied Germany 2 months ago and acquired huge supplies. IT’S A PANDEMIC for Heaven’s Sake….
5) We are BOTTOM of the technological use in the Hi-Tech World regarding Contract Tracing and apps, months behind the Far East….
6) Virologists state that the CONTACT TRACING is going to be the MOST IMPORTANT thing here, as it is in the Far East…..Public Health England aren’t even releasing the important data for the spread of the disease and locations etc…it’s regarded as being “too sensitive”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=05-jbrHRmrs&feature=emb_logo
Finally, THE COVID REPORT (link above) is a new YouTube channel series featuring discussion involving British experts and commentators, which I personally believe is what should happen at EVERY daily Government Press Conference….no pussyfooting, shillshallying or willywaving….Tell Us The Truth.
NO letting up of lockdowns yet please, don’t even go on about it silly journalists…deaths are about to hit Thousands/Day so for goodness sake, just let’s get our act together NOW. It’s arguably already too late, and I’m gonna have to sit this one out for another 12 weeks at least…
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR….more soon…comments below!