The new Eden

I have in my hand a piece of paper, and on that piece of paper is written the science.

There will be a cure in our time.

Or something like it.

There are strong calls from Tory "grandees" (paymasters) pressing for a loosening of the restrictions to boost (their) businesses.

The UK is in denial about how badly COVID-19 has been handled here. It doesn't help when the PM, the liar in chief, calls it a success. 45,000 people have died, over 100 of them doctors, nurses, care home staff. There hasn't been enough PPE for them all, or in the right place, nor has there been sufficient testing where the tests were needed by the staff.

The lockdown, when it came, was a result of things like the Premier League postponing fixtures and many sportspoeple announcing they had tested positive on March 12th. Schools remained open for another week.

Pandemic planning and rates of infections and spread are clearly modeled. I saw one report over the weekend that said if the US had locked down two weeks earlier, then 90% of those who did die, would have lived. I am pretty sure the same can be said for the UK.

The UK is not testing enough, and has only just thought about testing and tracking. Only today will people arriving at our borders be tested and traced. This was stopped in the middle of March when the containment phase ended. Think about the fact that whilst we, the people, lived in fear of leaving our house lest we catch the virus of be arrested, people were still able to fly into the country from the US, China, italy, walk through immigration and get onto a train or the tube, no questions asked.

And this is a success?

Johnson wants to be remembered as a Churchill figure. Instead he is a Eden, and a tinpot one at that.