Leading the world

In figures announced this morning, the UK is now only second behind the US in the number of excess deaths in the world. Over 60,000 in a report released by the FT, which has been doing this for some weeks now.

The UK has done considerably worse than Sweden, that did nothing and left all shops, bars, restaurants open. The UK did worse. A lot worse.

And figures also show that the later a country left the lockdown the worse the death rate was. The UK was the last in Europe, except Sweden, and is far ahead of Spain and Italy, who had the disease first and had less warning.

The decision when to lockdown the UK was purely a political one. And there is one person in charge of politic decisions, Coco the Clown. I mean Boris Johnson.

The UK is leading even the US in excess death rate per million.

Yay us.

And today, the Government is rolling out it test, track and quarantine plan. Evidence from those who have been eployed to trace says they have received no training, the software does not work. And this should have been in place when restrictions were loosened two weeks ago, and schools are due to return next week so local hotspots of the virus can be identified and locked down.

Without that we are playing Russian roulette.

We will know soon enough if there is a second wave of infections, but with the Government "forgetting" to publish numbers of people tested this week until it was pointed out, we will not really know how well or how poorly the new testing and trace process is working.

Johnson, as we have seen this week, is totally unsuitable to be PM, made or failed to make decisions in a timely manner, and is the person who has already decided what will happen in the next stage, even though he got it so wrong last time. Maybe he doesn't know or care what happens to tens of thousands of people? Listening to him waffling last night on the kind of detail a Prime Minister should know, and his admittance he doesn't read scientific briefings, did know about loopholes in the Governments financial support schemes, and the difficulties self-employed, those on zero hours contracts, or EU citizens who are now sleeping on the streets.

He didn't know. Or didn't care.

And still thinks we should all move on from Cummingsgate and do our duty to isolate if told to. But in exceptional circumstances don't. Or something.