On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 06:05:30 +1100, "Rod Speed"
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"Pomegranate *******" wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 15:56:33 +0100, Algernon Goss-Custard
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Pomegranate ******* posted

Are you nuts? More responsive to a crisis?

At every turn this inept government was well behind the curve.

Every government in Europe has failed to contain the crisis. All have
probably made serious mistakes.

Late to
lock down, late to procure PPE, late to implement a working test and
trace system (remember the "world beating app last May?)

Would things have turned out any better if they had managed to do these
things any earlier? We would still have had the second wave of
infections in October 2020, which may well have wiped out most of the
sitting ducks that the spring 2020 outbreak didn't kill off.

No-one-knows. Not you, not me. When a proper inquiry is concluded we may
know more. It will certainly be found that the government made mistakes,
some of them knowable only in hindsight, some of them perhaps reasonably
foreseeable at the time. But as yet we don't know.

and then
throw £37,000,000,000 at an utterly useless system.

To add insult to injury they're going to give NHS workers a 1% pay
increase when they were promised 2%..


One minute you're complaining that too much money was spent, the next
that it's not enough. Which is it?

The point is that if they can squander 37,000,000,000
on a test and trace system that doesn't work

The test part works well and is the bulk of that cost.

how can they justify their meanness to NHS workers.

It isnt meanness, it's a sensible approach
given that the virus is so expensive.

I woudn't be at all surprised if they strike,

I wouldn't either given that they are such money grabbing arseholes.

Lucky for you (or maybe not) that you live in Australia. If you had
the balls to say that outside a hospital you'd last about 2 minutes.


especially when in Scotland they've
been given 4% backdated to Christmas.

That bull**** and Scotland didn't have to spend
anything like as much combating the virus.

Utter ********.


A bit more dosh would be more
welcome than patronising them with the clap every week.

I'm sure it would, but there are hundreds of thousands of private sector
workers who have *lost* a great deal of their incomes, and in many cases
their jobs. And there are more of them to come.

Not in the NHS, though, or in the public sector generally. You've all
been on full pay with rock-solid job security, some of you without
having to do a hand's turn of work. And you're still whining for more.

It;s sad that private sector workers have suffered so badly but
you can't justify meanness to the public sector in those terms.

There is no meanness, just sensible spending.

Of course it's meanness. Especially now we're getting an extra
£350,000 a week for the NHS by being out of the EU.

Sensible spending? What does this inept lot know about that? Remember
all the PPE and ventilators bought from China that had to be binned?


It's like saying "They;ve had a kick in the ******** so
it's only fair that you also get a kick in the ********.

Even sillier than you usually manage and that's saying something.

Why are you trolling here anyway? You've been told to **** off.


Public sector pay is generally lower than private sector.

Bull**** with the NHS.

It's the price of enhanced job security.

By the way I have have no connection with the NHS so
please don't use the word "you" and "you're". You don't
have to be a public sector worker to support them.

The problem is that this government is jam packed with inexperienced
one-trick-pony Brexireers. Johnson chucked out any opponents of the
beloved Brexit doctrine,and although still Tories by nature they would
probably have made a better fist of tackling Covid than this useless
lot.

Just look at the results
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers...orer?zoomToSel
ection=true&time=40..431&pickerSort=asc&picker Metric=location&Metric=Con
firmed+deaths&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+ Population=true&Align+outb
reaks=false&country=GBR~USA~SWE~FIN~JPN~BEL~CH E~IRL~ZAF

Nearly 130,000 deaths. That says it all.

No, there's a lot more to it than just one number.