The winning message

I can remember ten months ago, writing about what I saw the biggest issue for the UK dealing with COVID, and that capacity in ICUs depending on infection rates and the mrtality rate that was seen in Italy.

The Government saw that too.

And so, everything they did, right or wrong, was to avoid the accusation that the NHS and ICUs were overrun. Even if that meant moving people out of hospitals to care homes without giving them a COVID test or in many cases without medical records.

That cost 20,000 people their lives.

But the Government was able to say ICUs were never over capacity.

They also created "Nightingale" hospitals to cater for excess demand. Even if there was no extra staff to man those, doctors, nurses and other staff. No extra equipment either, any patient that was moved there had to come with staff and equipment, which is why some of these hospitals only ever had a few patients, or in some cases, no patients at all.

But it looked good.

Delays in lockdown that actually threatened ICU capacity csted another 20,000 lives?

Not to worry as long as Matt Hancock and Johnson can stand up and say the NHS wasn't overrun.

Same with Brexit: The Government's reasonable worse case scenrio predicted 7,000 trucks waiting on the M20. Instead, KAPs were created to move the queues out of Kent, or make trade so minimal there is no chance of queues.

Trade has been decimated, but Mchael Gove can say to journalists that the predicted lines of trucks in Kent did not happen, Brexit wasn't as bad as remoaners said it wuld.

Maybe they believe this bullshit themselves.

Doesn't really matter as the one papers of records just repeat it without question. Global Britain.

So there we go.

And as we enter February, the trade organisation for manufacturing says that warhouses are still 85% full, so demand for trade isn't going to be heavy this month either. But that doesn't mean there are issues, that some SMEs are just giving up. But the time Ministers and we notice, it'll be too late.