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Originally Posted by Maggy
I am not taking part in any silences or clapping. I'm not patting this government on it's back particularly for the shabby way they are treating the nurses when if they had locked down at least a month earlier more lives might have been saved. Closing the borders was the FIRST thing they should have done.The only thing they got right was supporting finding a vaccine which was the very least thing they have done. The ONLY people who deserve any accolades are the key workers which is better dealt with by paying them a decent wage and hopefully a bonus.
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Didn't Whitty advise AGAINST an early lockdown?
If that was the scientific advice, then you cannot correctly blame the government for getting it wrong. Whitty said:
"...if we go too early, people will understandably get fatigued and it will be difficult to sustain this over time".
Wasn't it the World Health Organisation that was advising against closing the borders because "evidence shows that restricting the movement of people and goods during public health emergencies is ineffective in most situations and may divert resources from other interventions"?
The government had a lot to weigh up in those early days and was receiving conflicting advice due to the many unknowns, not to mention fears for the economy. Blaming the government for anything that went wrong is a cheap shot.