This awful government haven’t learned a single lesson during this pandemic.
We still aren’t mass testing NHS workers and we still aren’t mass testing care workers.
Hundreds of beautiful souls have already been lost, caring for us. 1/9
Whitty admitted they haven’t got a control of the virus. Until we have a vaccine, if ever, we can only rely on a successful testing and tracing system.
Instead, we have proven failures such as Serco, Deloitte, and Baroness Dido Harding, coasting you an arm and a leg. 2/9
Without mass testing, and the capacity to process mass testing, we will not get a grip of Covid-19.
Look at Germany. You can get a quick test while you wait for a train. Hancock can’t even organise routine testing for frontline healthcare workers. 3/9
They produce an app for a phone, yet another Tory pockets your money, and the app doesn’t work on phones of a particular age.
These phones, such as the iPhone 5, are most used by people who can’t afford a newer phone, or get a free phone on a contract. 4/9
This app is like a politician. What good is this, or any app, if it doesn’t work for everyone?
We have to do more. We have to be better.
We registered a greater number of Covid deaths yesterday than we did on the day we locked down in March. 5/9
The World Health Organisation, and leading academics, said from day one, “test test test”.
The countries that followed this advice have succeeded where we have so tragically failed.
We stopped community testing, and Boris Johnson went on holiday. 6/9
I’m afraid the supposed British stiff upper-lip isn’t worth a jot when your lips are blue.
You cannot fight a virus with patriotism. No amount of flag waving will control Covid-19.
We have to get out of this mentality, because it’s the mentality of herd immunity. 7/9
The government have no excuses whatsoever. We have been living with this virus for months now, at an immeasurable cost to human life, & yes, our economy.
The Tories have smashed through the £2 TRILLION national debt barrier.
How much of this is ending up in Tory pockets? 8/9
The testing system needs public ownership. This is Serco test & trace, not NHS test & trace.
They are failing, while taking in hundreds of millions of your cash.
We can handle the virus through mass testing.
Get on with it @BorisJohnson
End 9/9 @LBC
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