Fredxx wrote
Dave Plowman (News) wrote
Fredxx wrote

The issue is why you would think "BoJo and pals are perfectly capable of
bringing this country its knees without help from the EU",

Very simple. By the way they've handled this pandemic. Constantly too
little too late.

Hardly bringing country to its knees.

They were hardly too late or too little with vaccines.

But were with infected coming into the
country and there were other terminal
stupiditys like eat out to help out.

Since you've already mentioned NZ, another island state, look at how
they've handled it.

Yes, they seem less affected

Vastly less affected with deaths per million
due to the virus. Taiwan in spades.

and their first lockdown was March 2020.

They effectively contained the virus but there were lots of noises about
hardship and the hit on the economy.

But the reality is that the economy was in fact
affected less than the UK was. Same with Sweden,
their immense death rate still saw the just as badly
affected as the UK or USA, so they got all those corpses
for nothing except more room in nursing homes.

One reason cited for the late initial lockdown in the UK was that lockdown
would be observed for a finite time, and after people would ignore
instructions.

That isnt in fact what happened in
NZ or Taiwan or Korea or China.

So it was always bull**** with lots more
corpses than there needed to be.

The other mega****up was shipping infected
people from hospitals to care homes without
even bothering to test if they were infected.

I would have preferred greater enforcement where travel has to be
sanctioned in advance

It would have been much better to stop it completely
or force all those travelling to quarantine after arriving.
Thats what NZ did and it worked very well indeed.

and to be the exception rather than the rule but there seems little
appetite for such, as indeed demonstrated in these groups.

Facemasks also aren't enforced where some trivial excuse like having
mental illness or asthma is all that is needed to avoid wearing them.

Yes, that was stupid given how easy it is
to claim that if you dont want to wear one.