Essentially well it boils down to an old analogy now deployed in defense of Government
It's the wrong leaves on the track
The government prepared for the wrong pandemic
I have several issues with that
So many took up that line - well when it wasn't being described as a hoax or a something being politically exploited by their opponents
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See here
arstechnica.com/science/2020/0…
First of all you can go back to Exercise Winter Willow carried out in 2008
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webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130123192413…
"We have also taken steps to protect healthcare workers from infection. There are stockpiles of facemasks and respirators available to protect healthcare workers who
come in close contact with infectious patients. "
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Panorama reported that Nervtag said gowns, one of the items in shortest supply in the UK, should be purchased last June."
theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
I have picked a few quotes from it which I will expand upon
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"recommendations about the stockpile by NERVTAG had been subjected to an ‘economic assessment’ and decisions reversed on, for example, eye protection."
Nervtag made a recommendation based on the science
Politicians rejected it based on cost-benefit analysis
And asked Nervtag to review their scientific recommendation taking into account cost "recommendations"
One single sentence the key quote in this article
theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
Why?
Why interfere with the recommendation of Nervtag?
By all means as a government make a choice whether you do or do not follow it
But stand by your decision
Why refuse to answer questions about the volume of the stockpile in 2019 compared with 2011?
Yes I am looking at you Michael Gove, Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid, Matt Hancock and others
"The situation, once the pandemic strikes, will of course be on a far bigger scale. However, all the evidence is that the NHS is ready to step up to the mark in these situations."
buzzfeed.com/laurasilver/a-…
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics…
there's so much to try and keep track of
at times you feel overwhelmed with the flood (to borrow a phrase from 2010-2020 racist xenophobes) at the torrent of news
I want to know what Matt Hancock feels a representative survey would be
After all there have been numerous exercises since then
Oh no hang on - the government are suppressing that
Again - a why?
Why supppress it?
That the government ramp up their mechanisms for dealing with pandemic stocks
Perhaps join those EU schemes around PPE and ventilators
They peddled a lazy susan spinning wheel of lies, deflection, diversion and garbage as they didn't be honest as to the crisis
Imagine parroting such an unsubstantiated rumour
The party of Thatcher lazily denigrating the judiciary
Imagine sinking to such a nadir
The government was alleged to be stock piling body bags in preparation for the consequences of a no deal brexit
"Mr Hammond wrote precautionary efforts are being made to ensure medical supplies are not affected when the UK is due to leave the European Union on March 29."
"The NHS is preparing for 'all exit scenarios', which includes stockpiling body bags,"
they had to increase disaster supplies for the NHS
why could they not do the same in terms of the general pandemic disaster stockpile provision?
I so miss the days of a hollow con of cheats, liars, frauds, fools, fantasists, nativists and racists
14th June 2016 Daily Telegraph
"To that end, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, the two leading figures in the Leave campaign, have drawn up a blueprint for implementing a Brexit. Sensibly, it calls for flexibility and a period of reflection."
They need us more than we need them
We hold all the cards
A brexit dividend
The sunlit uplands
The EU will collapse soon
Our liabilities bill will buy us a deal (whilst we also have zero liabilities)
“Of course EU countries will continue trading with us on a tariff free basis - they would be damaging their own commercial interests if they didn’t. That’s why EU politicians would be banging down the door for a trade deal on Friday 24/6/16”
"Creating an exit plan that makes sense and which all reasonable people could unite around seems an almost insuperable task. Eurosceptic groups have been divided for years about many of the basic policy and political questions"
I wrote a thread yesterday on a litany of tropes being pushed by right wing apologists who are desperate to further I don't know - "the cause"
They are employing any and all tactics to deflect and shut down critique of Her Majesty's Government
They affirm it with every breath
To questions being put aggressively
To stop being negative
To stop being unpatriotic
To stop politicising a crisis
To oh look at China