On Wednesday, @DominicRaab and @MattHancock, from the despatch box, claimed the reason testing was below half capacity was the "need to build up demand".
Today, the portal for essential workers to register for a test, was overwhelmed in one hour. So demand IS and WAS there.
Today, the portal for essential workers to register for a test, was overwhelmed in one hour. So demand IS and WAS there.
Let me tell you how this is going to play out, because I'm really bored of waiting:
The gov't will store up demand AND either delay or hurry the inputting of tests into the system, creating an artificial bottleneck, so that for ONE DAY ONLY (probably 29/4) they reach 100k. 2/4
The gov't will store up demand AND either delay or hurry the inputting of tests into the system, creating an artificial bottleneck, so that for ONE DAY ONLY (probably 29/4) they reach 100k. 2/4
On the briefing of 30/4 a minister - Hancock, if he's survived being dressed as My Little Pony and bukkaked daily at cabinet meetings - will say "SEE? YOU DOUBTING SOCIALIST THOMASES, WE GOT IT DONE!"
This will have nothing to do with our testing RATE, but nobody will care. 3/4
This will have nothing to do with our testing RATE, but nobody will care. 3/4
The next day, the Boris Press (you know who you are) will let it be known they've heard from a mysterious insider, whose name is definitely not Dominic, it was Johnson's crucial last-minute intervention that made it all happen.
UK testing RATE will drop back to c30k a day. 4/4
UK testing RATE will drop back to c30k a day. 4/4
How do I know this? Because it is precisely what I would do, if I were a beanie-wearing sociopath, whose soul had been sucked by a Dementor.
