More tiers

There are no words to describe how much I hate the Prime Minister right now. I mean really, really had the bastard.

For the whole of 2020, he has acted too late, in far as COVID has concerned, and as a result something like 50,000 have died.

A new strain of COOVID was identified in Kent, in September, and yet yesterday is when he acted on it.

Over an over again, when he has acted, it is always on the promise things will get better. They rarely do.

Only over the summer, when the virus sunk back all over Europe did it get better, not because of what Johnson did, but despite.

And instead of using that time to ramp up track and trace, he spaffed billions up the wall on a system that has failed month after month after month.

The new test they have is accurate 50% of the time. Which is useless for track and trace purposes. The only way track and trace is manageable, is to get infections down to levels when mitigation actions are reasonable in scale. Instead, loosening of restrictions happened at speed when there clearly little evidence to support it, and when the Government's own KPIs would have stopped loosening, the KPI was dropped. Traffic lights, number or people tested, and so on, all ditched in order to release restrictions.

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Seeing the Government act late at every twist and turn to the point there is only one option, to lockdown, is shameful. And is manslaughter on a grand scale, if the number or people who are no longer with us as a result of this latest delay.

At the beginning of this month, I blogged about an American ER doctor who reported that one of his patients had attended a Thanksgiving dinner on November 24th with 21 others. The next day one tested positive, and by the start of the month, all were in hospital. Anyone who did not think the same when we would do the same at Christmas was fooling themselves, including the King of Fools himself, Mr Johnson.

And then to announce that the new tier 4 would come in on Sunday morning meant trains out of London last night were rammed, passengers unable to social distance, taking the new strain to Deby and Leeds. Instead, the new tier should have been imposed at the time of the announcement, but people took the opportunity to be carriers and went to spread it to their friends and family.

Johnson knew of how bad things were at the start of the week, that the new strain is more infectious, and more infectious in children, and yet the Education Secretary threatened a Labour controlled council on Tuesday with legal action if they did not reopen on Wednesday.

Parliament rose on Thursday, meaning it is now impossible for it to scrutinise the new tier legislation, which is what Johnson promised they would do if that came to pass. Almost like Johnson was avoiding scrutiny. And now JRM has stopped remote work in the Commons, it means that any ratification of a possible Brexit deal would be impossible now London is in tier 4.