So while our media hail Boris Johnson as a national hero for recovering from Coronavirus, perhaps they should do their job and consider this: 980 announced dead today, 1,000+ when non-hospital deaths are included. This has happened because negligent government strategy.
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Today the UK had the highest one day total of #COVIDー19 deaths anywhere, on any day, except for the US. 9,000+ are now dead in the UK.
What are the news headlines? ‘Deadliest day for Britain’? ‘A thousand dead’? Or, ‘Why has this happened?’.
No. It’s: ‘Boris Johnson is doing short walks’.
What on earth is wrong with British journalism? It’s pitiful. Embarrassing.
No. It’s: ‘Boris Johnson is doing short walks’.
What on earth is wrong with British journalism? It’s pitiful. Embarrassing.
No difficult questions are ever asked at the daily government press conferences by them.
We need real journalism more than ever right now to ask some of the important questions on Coronavirus that should be asked and asked again, until proper answers are given by the government.
We need real journalism more than ever right now to ask some of the important questions on Coronavirus that should be asked and asked again, until proper answers are given by the government.
Why was the NHS woefully underfunded?
Why was the 2016 pandemic exercise findings showing the NHS as totally unprepared, buried and not released by the Tory government?
Why was the 2016 pandemic exercise findings showing the NHS as totally unprepared, buried and not released by the Tory government?
Why did we lockdown three weeks after others, after first following a disastrous ‘herd immunity’ policy of mitigation, not suppression?
Why were mass gatherings such as the Cheltenham race festival - from which today’s dead are timed from - permitted to go ahead? Why did the UK stay completely open for business until March 23rd...7 weeks after the first case of Coronavirus was confirmed in the UK?
Why did we fail - and still fail - to close the borders or do any screening at airports and ferry ports?
Why did we wait seven weeks to buy ventilators?
Why did we refuse the EU ventilator purchase scheme?
Why did we refuse the EU ventilator purchase scheme?
Why did we fail to do any test and trace, the primary pandemic defence as per the WHO and shown to be successful in South Korea?
Why have we failed to get enough PPE for the NHS and the social care sector?
Why haven’t we copied the successful mass treatment programme in Germany - issued at mild symptoms stage?
Why have so many in government failed to maintain the social distancing and fallen victim to the virus themselves - and why is Matt Hancock still arranging meetings with 10-20 people in them ignoring social distancing measures, as revealed by NHS whistleblowers today?
Why has the Home Office announced during the pandemic that migrant workers saving lives and risk dying in the NHS will not be given a UK visa with the new Brexit immigration policy next year?
Why is the UK and US heading towards the worst per capita death rate of any developed country in the world? Who is responsible?
If you think these are for a later day, they are not. The answers are what makes us where we are today, and where we’ll be tomorrow and the days and weeks ahead. It’s just that the questions aren’t being seriously asked by our media.
We have an obsequious media offering very little scrutiny of our government’s appalling mishandling of the Coronavirus crisis and instead they focus on Boris Johnson becoming a ‘national hero’ because he got better. There’s 9000 people who didn’t.
