All back to plan A

Yesterday, the Government tried to explain it's policy on forcing people returning from anywhere in Spain to isolate for 14 days, explaining it was because it was likely there was a second wave of COVID was starting.

COVID knows no borders, there will be a second wave everywhere, exept in the US where it will merge with the still building first wave, but, you know., pandemics and the way they spread is known.

No incoming passengers were tested or forced to isolate for the four months of the first wave in the UK. People arrived from mainland China, Italy and Spain and were waived through.

Its like there was no plan.

Because there was no plan.

Pointing fingers at a country that has a few spikes in cases, where those spikes are lower than spikes seen here in England, because it is an English outbreak, the Virus is all but under control in Wales, Scotland and on Ireland.

For the several weeks since the lockdown was first eased, the Government as encouraged the public to get out and do stuff: go to the beach, go to the country, go on holiday. At no point was it mentioned that travelling abroad was a risk and that restrictions could be brought in.

Suddenly.

Now the line is that all foreign travel is risky. I mean, this is right, but it was not being said last week. Or the week before then.

It is like they are making shit up.

And then when people do return, they fill out a piece of paper, and nothing happens. There is no track and trace in place, unless you download the working one from the German Government.

We ate out for the first time since March today. We ate at a cafe in Dover, sat outside on the street where we thought it would be OK to remove our masks. It might be some time before we do that again.

But people were not warned that there is a pandemic on and there is still a risk, a high risk.

Grant Shapps, the Transport Minister, went on holiday with his family on Friday to Spain. He is returning early so he can go into isolation.

It is like we have Crusty the Clown in charge. We do, just not funny. His actions have ensured that at least 40,000 extra people died this year; 20,000 from the delay in lockdown in March and the 20,000 in care homes who were exposed to the virus because of the Government policy of emptying wards in preparation for the first wave.

On average, each one of those would have lived ten more years. 40,000 people, 400,000 years of life snatched away because Johnson ignored SAGE and gambled. He bet on red, but the table came up deathly black.

But he won't admit that, though he has promised an inquiry. Like the inquiry into Islamophobia on the Conservative Party that was promised. Even when an inquiry has sat and reach conclusions, Johnson sits on the reports.

So, yes, great a report. Whoopee-fucking-doo.

Plan A being, "blame Europe".