Friday 1 May 2020

Don't panic, Johnson is back in charge

Yesterday, the PM took the daily news conference, in which he laid his plan for plans of a road map out of lockdown.

There would be an announcement "next week".

Any way out of lockdown should be part of a larger plan, and the way out, the checks balances and testing requirements would already be known. Or would in any other country.

Not here. It's all in Jonson's head, or has yet to be dreamed up.

Next Friday is a Bank Holiday, and it is my expectation that there will be some lifting before then to allow more movement.

Now, in my job I work on documented evidence, and I have yet to see any such evidence being collected let alone it actually existing, for how the virus is spreading through the population.

The Health Minister promised that by today 100,000 tests would be carried out. It looked that this would not be met, but then it appears the Conservative Party has been mailing members telling them they could apply for a test in the post, and this would count. E mails started to be sent yesterday. The 100,000 should not be for just one day, or manipulated in such a way to skew figures, but this is what happens when liars and cheats are elected. We should not be surprised.

As it stands, less that 5% of the population have been infected, and if herd immunity is the target, then that total needs to be over 60%, which would have the same mortality rate as now, so, 12 x 47,000 is a lot of dead people; husbands, wives, sisters, brothers, sons daughters. This was likely to be the plan all along, from Cummings and his Nudge team.

Johnson dedicated most of his conference in thanks the now 100 year old Captain tom who raised tens of millions on a sponsored walk round his car home garden. I also raise my hat to him, of course, but no amount of charity money can replace the time wasted by the Government through February and into march when a lockdown then could have saved so many lives. Germany doesn't believe in charity, apparently, thinking that paying enougn in taxes should fund things like health and social care, and they're not wrong.

The Health Secretary praised also the Daily Mail, who chartered a plane from China full of PPE. This was a newspaper, of sorts, doing the Health Secretary's job for him. It might have been a stunt, but did deliver kit, more than Hancock did in the past three months. But it is unpatriotic to ask questions of our red, white and blue Government, where positive news and spin should cover up fifty thousand deaths and complete failure in planning for this pandemic.

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