COVID Was....

[securespark]

...the wrong crisis for this Prime Minister's skillset.

Boris Johnson had ‘wrong skill set’ to lead during Covid, top aide tells inquiry

Lee Cain says team were ‘exhausted’ by prime minister dallying and changing his mind

www.theguardian.com

 

[Roy Bloom]

...the wrong crisis for this Prime Minister's skillset.

Boris Johnson had ‘wrong skill set’ to lead during Covid, top aide tells inquiry

Lee Cain says team were ‘exhausted’ by prime minister dallying and changing his mind

www.theguardian.com

Telling lies is considered a skillset?

I wonder how long he'll last in his new job, considering he's been sacked for lying about three times now.

 

[fillyboy]

Did they mention the fastest vaccine rollout in Europe?

UK vaccination hits 20 million mark in Europe's fastest jab rollout

More than 20 million people across the United Kingdom have now received their first COVID-19 vaccine shot, data showed on Sunday as the country made more progress with Europe's fastest vaccination programme.

www.france24.com

 

[gant]

Like this from Cummings.

You called cabinet ministers “useless ****pigs”, “morons” and “****s”. Were these views shared by others?

Cummings says his appalling language was his own. But those judgments were widespread, he says.

Q: Did you express your views too trenchantly?

Cummings says, if anything, he understated the problem

 

[ericmark]

Hind sight is easy, but it was not so much what decision Johnson made, but the lack of leadership by example. You can't tell the countries people to do one thing, then do some thing completely different ones self. Or allow other members of parliament to flaunt the regulations they had set.

He lacked the ability to lead, full stop.

 

[motorbiking]

Given nobody knew what to do at the start and that we mostly did similar things to other countries. The Covid leadership was really a group think. In the end two strategies worked. Vaccinating everyone and getting back to normal as quickly as possible. We should have closed our borders earlier and the Chinese should have told the world they had problem sooner. That was a bigger issue than a government who were inexperienced with managing a global pandemic.

 

[Brigadier]

Given nobody knew what to do at the start

The problem was that UK Gov had no plan for something that was an inevitability, let alone foreseeable.

Forgetting Spanish Flu, SARS, and MERS for a moment.......did no-one even see Contagion, and think "What would WE do, if such a thing happens?" ?

 

[fillyboy]

"What would WE do, if such a thing happens?" ?

I'd have a glass of wine and a slice of birthday cake.

 

[Brigadier]

and the Chinese should have told the world they had problem sooner.

This is about the UK Gov response; what China did or did not do is outside of scope.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Did they mention the fastest vaccine rollout in Europe?

UK vaccination hits 20 million mark in Europe's fastest jab rollout

More than 20 million people across the United Kingdom have now received their first COVID-19 vaccine shot, data showed on Sunday as the country made more progress with Europe's fastest vaccination programme.

www.france24.com

Not been many (any) good supportive comments of him by those that were there supporting him.

Sounds like a poor PM, but I think most people know (knew) that.

Obviously some like to hear him.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Given that there were few dissenting voices and the opposing party agreed with pretty much every decision, it's likely that we'd have had the same outcome if any of the current squad of the political set were in charge.

I don't recall hearing Starmer questioning many or even any of the decisions made, in fact they mostly complained that they wanted more of everything the government did, including the pointless and damaging lockdowns.

The fact is that the country is very much poorer and health worse as a result, and this situation may not even be recoverable.

 

[denso13]

Partygate was a scandal that should never have happened. There was a lot of learning as things progressed but not following lockdown rules was a complete failure of leadership.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Given that there were few dissenting voices and the opposing party agreed with pretty much every decision, it's likely that we'd have had the same outcome if any of the current squad of the political set were in charge.

I don't recall hearing Starmer questioning many or even any of the decisions made, in fact they mostly complained that they wanted more of everything the government did, including the pointless and damaging lockdowns.

The fact is that the country is very much poorer and health worse as a result, and this situation may not even be recoverable.

Yep, Labour were the issue.

Of all the actions taken at the time, limiting contact to people (by lockdown) may have prevented the pandemic being even worse than it was.

Expensive, yes. Could have been handled better with a plan, yes. Responsibility for the plan, not Labour. Tory government has to accept that responsibility.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

There hasn't been any objective analysis of the lives saved and lost as a result of the lockdowns, and such a thing probably wouldn't be possible while those that made the decisions at that time remain in positions of power. Even beyond this, government of any colour probably doesn't want to reveal any truth that may make the gullible public become cynical about the motives of government.

Labour pretty much cheered on all the government's decisions, in fact they just wanted more and more disruption right the way through, which they were constantly demanding.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of the decisions, the outcome would not have been very different if Labour had been in power.

Lockdown parties were ridiculous but it's unlikely they'll have any major lasting consequences, certainly nothing like the damaging lockdowns did anyway. Perhaps one effect may be that people are less willing to do as they're told next time around, perhaps this could be a good thing, if the public have finally woken up and demand respect from their leaders and will be less willing to accept authority and dodgy science.

 

[transam]

Seems like buffoon Johnson was completely out of his depth in this covid caper

Never had the skill set ??

No surprise really