At the beginning of all this I thought Whitty was pretty good - calm and authoritative. But the results are letting us down and the nail in the coffin will be the inevitable ‘everyone wear a mask’ climb down. Have to admit I couldn’t stand Sally Davies, the epitome of hectoring public health professionals, but it would have been interesting to see how she dealt this this.
"The idea that the prime minister skipped meetings that were vital to our response to the coronavirus I think is grotesque,” Gove said. He then confirmed that Boris missed 5 meetings. I tell you what is grotesque Gove. You prioritising a test for your daughter over frontline NHS staff!!!
Think I believe the Times report more and more. It actually doesn't surprise me one bit. Incompetence has led the way throughout this and will continue to do so!
Totally this.....he comes across as a genuine, caring bloke who’s been shoved into a limelight that I feel he never really wanted. I really like him.
You do realise that when Ian Holloway comes back to the helm for his 4th or even 5th stint in charge he will have to take you off ignore then so play nice. What was the question again, I'll ask it.
Now that actually did make me laugh out loud All answered (or not) in Ellers usual way I do only talk about him ‘cos he’s got me on ignore....having a childish mind it amuses me.
Was it Whitty or Vallance that have us the 20k deaths good result figure, which is now like an albatross around their necks? I think it was Vallance. Whitty was/is a proper doctor and epidemiologist as well as a public health leader which is always reassuring. It must be really hard for these professionals to decide whether the ‘hang on and try to do at least some good’ urge outweighs the ‘resign in disgust’ impulse. Too late now. They can share the glory of a decent result or be complicit in a failure and all points in between. They have chosen quasi political careers. I’ll have sympathy but perhaps not too much.
I actually think Vallance comes across as a good person as well. Can’t remember who gave those figures but I would be pretty sure it wasn’t just him that came up with the figure.......it must of been a group of them surely ? Even if they are ****servitives.........I still have a lot of respect for them.
Buy Gilead shares. Their drug remdesivir, which was originally developed for ebola, is showing good results in getting COVID19 patients out of intensive care very quickly. Now recruiting patients for trials in UK after these results in USA, especially Chicago. Gilead is the company which turned HIV from a death sentence into a manageable condition, created a cure (a ****ing CURE) for hepatitis C, and is pushing hard in these viral disease areas, where they are miles ahead of their commercial competition. I, like a complete ****wit, turned down a job with them in about 2004.
Sally Davies was one of the (main) reasons I left science and her Athena Swan proceedure, which I was heavily involved in ...until the light bulb moment of " I do not want this **** anymore". But for a crisis like this, she would have been tremendous...and her hectoring would/could have been appropriate. Boris, Hancock and Raab would all be hiding behind doors now.
Good, I thought I had totally misread her public persona from your original post! Sadly I think she would have been sacked if she scared the boyos too much. Though I suspect Raab spends a lot of time hiding, he looks scared out of his wits.
Can I agree with Stan over this Buy Gilead...won't be cheap as you missed the boat by about 5 days....but I still think they will be on the up. Once trumpy gets of promoting the mefloquine train
Sadly it is completely viable to dig and find some level of failure in anything of this scale. That doesn’t mean we can reap any joy from it with so many deaths. Nobody in this wants to see this many deaths. Glory hunting reporters do seem to manage that somehow and look to build their persona along the way, like Keunnsberg and her wannabe Peston.
