Non - Pandemic

Locked down too late?

Sounds like Boris and co thought it was a joke and who didn’t care if older or vulnerable people died .

Well till he got COVID.
 
Mark WFC said:
Locked down too late?

Sounds like Boris and co thought it was a joke and who didn’t care if older or vulnerable people died .

Well till he got COVID.
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'Rishi thinks just let people die'

Sir Patrick Vallance kept a diary throughout the pandemic, submitting it all as evidence to the inquiry.

One of the most damning revelations brought up during his evidence this week was Sir Patrick's account of an argument between then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his former aide Dominic Cummings.

Sir Patrick wrote that arguing against a lockdown, Mr Johnson said he wanted to "let it [the virus] rip" and that those who would die had "had a good innings".

In his entry, he added that Mr Cummings alleged "Rishi thinks just let people die and that's OK".

The then government adviser said both comments pointed to a "complete lack of leadership".

news.sky.com

What we learned from this week's COVID inquiry

Sir Patrick Vallance, Professor Sir Chris Whitty and Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam were asked about their time advising the government on the virus as part of the 'UK decision-making and political governance' module.
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JIMNNINA said:
What is the point of COBRA if the leader of the country doesn't show any interest?
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What’s the point in having UK political system if you expect a PM to act like a president?

January to February when it was difficult to comprehend what was about to hit us, seems fair for Hancock to chair. It was early days with little to no information.

I am surprised he wasn’t briefed a little earlier though. The lightbulb moment for him seems to have been the same as it was for many of us, watching the news on Italy and all of a sudden the reality of the situation dawning on us.

You’d imagine one of those later cobras in February 2020 would have seen things a week or so earlier.
 
DJ said:
What’s the point in having UK political system if you expect a PM to act like a president?

January to February when it was difficult to comprehend what was about to hit us, seems fair for Hancock to chair. It was early days with little to no information.

I am surprised he wasn’t briefed a little earlier though. The lightbulb moment for him seems to have been the same as it was for many of us, watching the news on Italy and all of a sudden the reality of the situation dawning on us.

You’d imagine one of those later cobras in February 2020 would have seen things a week or so earlier.
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My work tested work from home the first week in February 2020. Two days we worked from home to test the system. This would have likely been driven by working with the CDC and maybe local health departments. I think governments knew quite a bit before Feb time, maybe not a full understanding, but wheels were in motion behind the scenes in the US at least
 
The WHO didn’t get it right in the early stages, two different articles below.


The panel argued that the WHO's Emergency Committee should have declared the outbreak in China an international emergency a week earlier than it did.

It should have done so at its first meeting on 22 January last year, the report said, instead of waiting until 30 January.

The month following the WHO's declaration was "lost" as countries failed to take appropriate measures to halt the spread of the virus.

The WHO was then hindered by its own regulations that travel restrictions should be a last resort, the panel said, adding that Europe and the US wasted the entire month of February and acted only when their hospitals began to fill up.

When countries should have been preparing their healthcare systems for an influx of Covid patients, much of the world descended into a "winner takes all" scramble for protective equipment and medicines, the report said.

www.bbc.co.uk

Covid: Serious failures in WHO and global response, report finds

An independent review calls the international response to the pandemic a "toxic cocktail".
www.bbc.co.uk

Then there is WHO advice re face masks.

CNN —
World Health Organization officials Monday said they still recommend people not wear face masks unless they are sick with Covid-19 or caring for someone who is sick.

“There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there’s some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly,” Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies program, said at a media briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday.

 
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