GOVERNMENT COVID FAILURES
Johnson has insisted his government “truly did everything we could” to limit coronavirus deaths.
NO YOU DIDN’T
You didn’t:
- Lockdown soon enough
- Lockdown 2 soon enough
- Lockdown 3 soon enough
- Provide frontline staff with adequate PPE
- Cancel Christmas
- Close borders
- Cancel all foreign travel
- Make testing easily available early enough
- Put a viable track and trace system in place
- Close schools soon enough
- Have a “firebreak” half term lockdown in October
- Sort out exams, last year or this year
- Make wearing face masks compulsory early enough
- Keep people WFH where they could
- Provide IT support/equipment to kids for home schooling
- Feed kids
- Support self employed
- Punish people breaking rules (you know who)
- Issue clear rules and guidance
- Have a plan
- Follow the science
You did however:
- Provide numerous contracts worth millions to Tory donors
- Encourage the celebration of VE Day
- Encourage the spread of the virus through Eat Out to Help Out
- “Save Christmas” in the face of expert advice to the contrary – until only a week beforehand, when everyone’s Christmas arrangements were finalised
- Threaten schools in parts of London with legal action if they didn’t stay open
- Forced schools to go back for one day – one day – at the beginning of January
Apart from that, you truly did do everything possible.