Despite the fact that we have the biggest death count in Europe and second largest in the world, it’s currently believed that plans are in place to start lifting it following Boris’ big speech on Sunday night.
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Whilst a lot of newspapers and therefore people think that we’re absolutely killing it here and doing a great job of smashing the pandemic, the truth is that it’s been a completely despicable and useless response and that we probably shouldn’t be even thinking about lifting the lockdown at the moment. This thread on Twitter is currently going viral for explaining the situation better than I ever could.
Take a look and open your eyes:
hospitals which only had gear for respiratory health and didn’t realise COVID-19 affects other parts of the body like renal system so the new hospitals couldn’t be used; they are letting people back to work on the basis of negative test results even though the tests have a 30%
— Crystal moth (@Prolapsarian) May 7, 2020
which routinely underreport by 50-100%.) They keep going on about “keeping the R below 1” even though the R needs to fall significantly below 1 for sickness and death rate to decline any time soon, or it will carry on with hundreds and hundreds of deaths a day. There is zero
— Crystal moth (@Prolapsarian) May 7, 2020
Most lax lockdown (and no shutdown of all non-essential businesses) everyone is behaving like we have the most hardcore lockdown, nobody understands why there are so many deaths, and lots of people think the government is doing an amazing job, or that positive thinking and blitz
— Crystal moth (@Prolapsarian) May 7, 2020
spreading and how. It is absolutely insane. I tried to describe this, and remain in total disbelief of how awful it is.
— Crystal moth (@Prolapsarian) May 7, 2020
Wow this blew up. To add, as a minimum the UK must follow WHO advice on treating COVID. That means “test, trace, and isolate” at speed and not the “test, track and trace” the government has proposed; and follow WHO’s 6 recommendations on lifting lockdowns, not the government’s 5. pic.twitter.com/yl8ZWcTElt
— Crystal moth (@Prolapsarian) May 7, 2020
I mean I don’t think anything that Crystal Moth there says can be proved wrong. People can argue with it and say that things could have been much worse or whatever, but that doesn’t really mean anything. The fact is the response has been the worst in Europe and writing it all down like that makes everything seem even more moronic than it already is.
I would end this by saying please sort it out, but I can’t see there being any improvements any time soon. At least we might be getting out of lockdown soon though hey – sure that’s going to end well.
For more of the same, here’s how the media in other countries are reporting our response to Coronavirus. It’s terrible.
