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Originally Posted by downquark1

The scandal seems to be they infected care homes and the staff didn't have the training or resources to cope. But then I would say is you shouldn't have been returning people to healthy carehomes, they should have been completely isolated.

I don't think you can compare carehome death stats to hospital stats as they are not logically equivalent samples. A care home has a high population of old people with nothing special about them. A hospital has a high population of people who are struggling badly with CoVid and need care.

Well, I did ask at the outset of this sub-discussion whether or not I had misunderstood something! Basically the scandal is that there should have been any significant CV deaths at all in care homes.

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Originally Posted by ianch99

You use the term "sensationalising" unwisely. I understand your reluctance to criticise a Conservative Government but we are in a time where we need to trust that the Government is making the correct decisions and when they do not, and moreover are seen to be not, they are able to admit it, discuss the failings and quickly address the shortcomings.

The biggest issue we face is that this administration's policy team has its origins in the Vote Leave campaign where the concept of truth was wholly optional and misinformation & misdirection were deliberate strategy decisions.

Now is not the time to deceive the country. We need clear and honest communication from our Government.

You are wrong to bring politics into this - at least as far as I'm concerned. My assessment of sensationalism is the Torygraph's report on the matter. The article (behind paywall) does not go into the same rationale as Downquark, leaving it to the readers' imaginations.

Also you characterisation of this administration is true of any British government. They're all lying spinmasters.

The GE decided which bunch of spinmasters should govern us.

Right - that's straight now.