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Originally Posted by Damien
I think they've done well in some aspects as the disaster took hold but those missing months will be the focus of that investigation when things settle down. It appears the Government did little until Italy raised alarm bells. The article is especially damning of Johnson's many absences from meetings where this was discussed as well.
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I mean, it wasn't actually classed as a pandemic until march 11th, two weeks before the UK went into lockdown. At that point, china was reporting a pause in infections, and Italy had 10000 cases. I think those 2 weeks where we appeared to not do much (who know what was going on behind the scenes) will be at question. Also I suspect as this country is mainly focused on the financial sector and relies on importing manufactured goods, those products became increasingly difficult to acquire as each country either went into lockdown or used up all their own manufacturing lines to produce equipment for themselves.