This Covid-19 virus crisis is truly dreadful, but the rank incompetence being demonstrated by politicians and the bureaucrats running the NHS are turning this crisis into a national disaster. Before anyone jumps on me for being ‘anti conservative’ I would be feeling exactly the same if it was any other government behaving in such a shameful manner.
The lack of preparedness in the UK during the emerging stages of this pandemic is unforgivable and these people need to be held to account. There is no excuse for not testing our emergency service workers, and every citizen in the country. Germany are doing it and so should we.
What makes me sick to my stomach is the vacuous promises and assurances that are just blatant lies with not even a grain of truth to them. Doctors, nurses, paramedics hospital support staff, the police, care assistants and other essential workers such as supermarket workers, delivery drivers, warehouse staff and millions of other people enabling us all to enjoy a reasonable diet while in isolation, they all need testing and protecting. They all need it now, not “in a number of weeks” as one ‘expert’ suggested. Every life matters.
We are assured that millions of face masks, gloves, eye protection have been delivered to hospitals yet they are either sub standard or simply don’t exist. It is a complete and utter disgrace that so many people are being put at risk because of stupidity, incompetence and abject greed through many years of lack of investment, privatisation and government cuts.
It’s as if the politicians reel off their statistics, completely detached from the facts, but the facts are that thousands of lives will be lost due to their lack of a cohesive plan of action. This catastrophic failure is going far beyond anything I could ever imagine a British government could create.
There needs to be a reckoning for this and my hope is that the British people will recognise just how many of our loved ones and fellow citizens have died needlessly, just because we have a government that has demonstrated that it clearly can not govern or protect us in any meaningful way. They are an absolute disgrace and they have to pay for this.
