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Fredxx wrote:
On 13/02/2021 12:58, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Fredxx wrote:
The issue is why you would think "BoJo and pals are perfectly capable of
bringing this country to its knees without help from the EU",

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

They were hardly too late or too little with vaccines.

So they actually got one thing right. Good to see you being so defensive.

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

Yes, they seem less affected 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.

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.

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

It was the total lack of taking heed of their experts in the late
autumn/winter that is the most damning.

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