>> Possibly the issue is more related to:
>>
>> - effective contingency planning - poor in UK, no stocks of PPE, no plan for
>> care homes etc
>> - acting quickly - UK poor in March and truly dilatory now (no excuses!)
>>
I find myself in violent agreement there. The lack of PPE was appalling, as I think was the response (awarding contracts to hastily set up companies set up by chancers and ticking the 'done' box).
This second time around, they were advised in September to have a circuit breaker before now. It's as if their intuition trumps the simple maths of how the numbers are growing and what is already in the pipeline - even from Thursday, hospitalisations will presumably rise for at least 2 weeks and deaths for some time after that.
We have just arranged to see the grandchildren on Wednesday as it will be the last chance for a month. The nonsense of this does not escape me. If it's advisable not to see them on Thursday, then the same must apply to Wednesday. I justify it to myself on the basis that the calculations allow for us to meet up until Wednesday, which is nonsense because the advice was to do this weeks ago.
Actually I'm not too worried. Both we and they have been more or less bottled up and only meeting a very small circle who do similarly.
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