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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
The fact remains that the likes of Prof Whittey, by his own admission, were advising the government against an early lockdown. The government accepted that advice - why would they not?
Unless you let the virus run free in the population, we will continue to get second, third, fourth (etc) waves. It will carry on like that until it is done with us.
There is surely enough evidence of this in other parts of the world, and most recently in Spain. Admittedly, the virus would have been slowed down quicker had there been an earlier lockdown in the UK, but that would simply have left more people to be infected at a later date.
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Yeah, if it worked! Boris fell for the civil service hype. They cannot keep to deadlines or what is expected of them for the life of them! I'm glad to see that a purge is on the cards.
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Any further lockdown should be targeted and focussed on 'at risk' groups. A total lockdown is taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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Hopefully, this will apply only to mainland Spain. It would be foolish to include the Canaries if their infection rates were acceptable.
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That statement is not based in reality, only in your rabid fealty to BJ/DC, and your apparent belief they can do know wrong.
He has form in promising things that have no basis in reality - remember the
Social Care promise, in his first public speech after winning the Tory Leadership/becoming PM?
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Boris Johnson promised to fix the social care crisis ‘once and for all’ as he stood on the steps of Downing Street yesterday.
In his first speech as Prime Minister, Mr Johnson vowed to protect elderly people from the ‘fear’ of having to sell their homes to pay sky-high care bills.
He claimed he had a clear plan of action to give every older person the ‘dignity and security they deserve’.
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Then in January this year, this happened
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Boris Johnson has admitted he does not have a worked-up plan to end the social care crisis and that a solution could be five years away.
In a BBC interview, the prime minister backtracked on his pre-election claim to have a ready-to-go rescue package – instead, saying he would be “bringing forward a proposal” later this year.
Asked for a date for action to finally be taken to improve social care, Mr Johnson said: “We will certainly do it in this parliament” – prompting the interviewer to point out: “That’s five years away"
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BJ asked the EU for a three-month delay to Brexit, having previously said he would rather be "dead in a ditch".