Even though the scientific advice being given to other governments, that appeared to manage the pandemic much better than the UK, was apparently sounder Therese Coffey says it is not the government’s fault but the science.
Speaking on the corporate media earlier today she stated that “If the science was wrong, the advice at the time was wrong, I’m not surprised if people then think we made a wrong decision.”
This is staggering. It is impossible for the science to be wrong. It is the interpretation of science that is ‘wrong’. To say otherwise is intellectually bankrupt.
With mountains of evidence now available that the government and the prime minister ignored scientific advice with the below being amongst the most flagrant
we now have an appeal to the the most intellectually lethargic to enable their popularity to not sink any lower.
Ms Coffey’s comments come after a cross-party group of MPs warned the UK has 10 key lessons to learn from its handling of the pandemic so far.
They said testing capacity has been “inadequate” throughout the pandemic, while the decision to stop community testing early in the outbreak was “one of the most consequential made”.
Responding to the report, a Downing Street spokesman said: “This is an unprecedented global pandemic and we have taken the right steps at the right time to combat it, guided at all times by the best scientific advice.”
When it comes to care homes, opponents and some voices in the sector have accused the government of being too slow to react to what was happening.
Official guidance, which was in place until 12 March, said it was “very unlikely” that those receiving care in a care home or the community would become infected with the virus.
On 15 April, more than three weeks after the UK was put in lockdown to try to control the spread of COVID-19, testing was expanded to include care home staff, residents with symptoms and those being discharged from hospital back into care homes.
But Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that guidance was first released on 25 February when there was “no transmission of COVID-19 in the community” and that “we brought the lockdown in care homes ahead of the general lockdown”.
This is of course absolute rubbish as has now been shown up.
Covid-19: The care homes scandal that will haunt the UK for generations
It is up to us the public to ind out what the government will not. However, there appears to be not enough hours in a day to find the tip let alone the rest of the mass.
Douglas James
