I know I’ll get called a Tory for saying this (standard !) but some of the nonsense on here is getting crazy. Yes, we possibly should’ve stopped flights earlier in the outbreak (although the scientific advisors said their was no point) and people, not unreasonably, complained at the time. We temporarily stop the Spain air bridge and ask people to quarantine when they return and the same people still complain ?!
The same people who are worried about going back to the office because of the risk appear to be arguing against something to try to minimise the spread/risk ?!
Loads of conspiracy theories that don’t make any sense (if we wanted people to holiday here surely we wouldn’t have agreed the air bridges to start with ?!)
There’s been fuck ups by the government but why pick at every single decision being made, especially when they contradict other issues you might have ?!
Just try to keep some perspective in this shitstorm. Some decisions will be right, some wrong. We’re all in the same boat (apart from Trump who’s on another planet)
Ps I think Spain had 2.6k confirmed cases on Thursday and 2.2k Friday. We’re around 700-800 and we appear to doing more/targeted testing. Several EU countries are also considering closing their borders to Spain.
People are worried because we should have had travel restrictions in place since March. Until June people were free to wander into the UK, unchecked and untested. There’s no ‘possibly should have done something sooner’ - it should have happened from Day 1 - any fool could have told you that. Putting in quarantine now for Spain is probably right if they feel there is a risk of it causing a rise in infections, but people will naturally see the lack of any strategy from the government up to now and ask questions.
People are worried as there is a clear higher risk in being in an enclosed space for any length of time. If there is the capacity to continue to work from home why even chance it? There is simply no sense to it at all. The economic argument is flawed, but still rolled out time and again.
You very much seem to play down the incompetence of a government that have allowed tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths due to their shambolic handling. In any normal functioning country that should be enough to bring down a PM, even a government; all that will happen here is that his cheerleaders will champion a great success, parroted by the media, and the opposition will do nothing.
We’re not in the same boat as other countries, scores of them have handled this pandemic with decisive decision making and decisive leadership.
This is how well we have done...
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