This week we have 20,000 Coronavirus deaths.
Our government is disorganised and in disarray. Look at Germany, it actually has more confirmed Coronavirus cases than us, but a little over a quarter of the deaths! Why?
Germany has an experienced leader, with a background in science. We have a very inexperienced leader who quotes Latin!
The Germans have focussed on testing to deal with the pandemic, the British government has made repeated promises on increased testing but failed miserably. 100,000 a day were promised but only 37,000 delivered. Testing centres are closed or inaccessible. Without testing, resources cannot be targeted where they are most needed, the government can not control the pandemic!
Disastrously we have a leader so out of his depth, that he ignored his own government guidelines and caught the disease! A leader who advocates lockdown and social distancing, yet went off to his second home every weekend. A leader who missed FIVE emergency COBRA meetings during the greatest health crisis to hit this country in a hundred years!
No wonder there are shortages of personal protection equipment and well over a 100 NHS staff have died, no wonder there is confusion and mixed messages. Opportunities missed or rejected. No one willing or able to cut through red tape.
Elderly patients, some suffering from the virus, were pushed out of hospitals because of an expected upsurge in Coronavirus cases. Sent to care homes, they spread the infection, causing an estimated 20,000 more deaths. (Now comprising a third of all virus deaths!)
Our bungling inexperienced government must step aside for a National Government of experienced politicians from across parties, to stop these dysfunctional messes.
Ten of thousands have died unnecessarily. We cannot afford any more calamitous mistakes!
Pete Milory
