Back in the day when “mass testing wasn’t appropriate for a rich country like us” (Harries, 2020), did we ever get round to adding those missed at the start?
Lorraine is a bit camp for my tastes. Then again I sometimes sit through Andrew Pierce’s daily attempts to defend the government.
Okay thanks. yeah him and Kevin maguire are like a comedy double act now. don't be fooled by it, Pierce is a bloody good journo.
People can compare stats with other countries or choose not to, either way, this country has handled the pandemic appallingly, many decisions resulting in deaths. They do seem to have pulled their finger out regarding vaccination and full credit for doing so. Unfortunately the number people will always remember is that of the lost souls to this awful disease. I truly am shocked that certain members of the cabinet still have a job.
This is terribly sad but unfortunately people make their own choices........ One family in Derby, England has been left devastated after four members have died as a result of COVID-19 after meeting up for Christmas Day. The family had been isolating for ten months before Christmas in the hopes of spending the holidays together when the Government allowed for households to meet. Darren Fisher, his parents Pat and David, and his Uncle Michael Wilson all tested positive with COVID, with a number of other relatives still fighting the disease. https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/ukne...ristmas-day-meet-up/ar-BB1daOIs?ocid=msedgdhp
Not really difficult if you use the excess deaths method. I agree it is not quite so accurate because it is an average comparison to prior years without accounting for any other factors. But it does exclude all of the multiple definitions that different Governments have used.
We normally have 7-8 family over but thought it was too risky so it ended up just me and my Mr's. I don't get why people risked 1 day after spending so many months isolating?
I’m not saying it’s the sole reason before you go windmilling but shouting down Keir Starmer as a grinch for suggesting Christmas mixing was obviously going to be a disaster and grand “Boris Battles Experts to Save Christmas” headlines may have not been a good thing.
But people were still free to make their own choices........ people didn't have to socialise they could have used their own judgement and concluded that maybe it wasn't best to meet up in the circumstances......
It may not have been, but there were plenty of warnings before Christmas (even from Captain Hindsight) and the NHS and plenty of stuff on the news. I remember it was the time when the new variant was here and cases were on an alarming rise. We spoke as a family and thought common sense was to give Christmas a miss and when all this crap is over celebrate then... however I do understand how some people feel. What bugs me is there is plenty of blame going on but while we are supposed to be in Lockdown we have seen 400 people at a Jewish wedding/ 1200 people at a rave/300+ at a house party in Kensington/150 in some northern social club and countless more that I keep reading about. It is the sole responsibility of the individual to abide by rules but most of all, use common sense. Our large death rate is due to many factors and many people ignoring guidelines.
They seem to particularly like attending funerals in co wexford......fresh from an outbreak before Christmas there was another gathering in a house in enniscorthy where 200 people were at a wake..... Also 40 odd employees at a meat processing plant in the county have tested positive.....
