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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
You see the letter in The Lancet from scientists and health experts calling the governments early lifting of restrictions dangerous and unethical with the potential to create a generation afflicted with chronic health problems and disabilities? Still what do they know
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Er...vaccinations..
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Originally Posted by Mr K
Scientists can only advise, unfortunately its been politicians making the decisions. Not to prepare for a predicted pandemic, not to invest in PPE, not to invest in the NHS, ignore their own advice and get covid themselves and expect everyone to follow the rules that they don't. Scientists aren't to blame for the UK having the highest death toll in Europe.
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If you think it would have been better under Labour, you are in cloud cuckoo land.
The predicted pandemic was forecast in the middle of a period of austerity, when making provision for something that might just happen in the future would not have been a priority; failure to invest in PPE was down to NHS procurement, which the government took over when it bècame clear what a pig's ear they had made of it; there was no failure to invest in the NHS (Labour is on record as stating that the amount of extra money put in by the coalition government was 'reckless' in a period of recession); and the scientists themselves were in a muddle about what to do in those early days, even suggesting that allowing the virus to pass through the healthy population was the way forward. Yes, herd immunity!
As for the highest death toll in Europe, I see that other European countries are fast catching up, even though they don't record COVID deaths as thoroughly as we do.
When the final review is concluded, some of you critics will be taken aback when you see that many of your criticisms come to nought.
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Originally Posted by jfman
And the AstraZeneca ones they might well have not bothered.
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Link? No, of course not.
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
You see the letter in The Lancet from scientists and health experts calling the governments early lifting of restrictions dangerous and unethical with the potential to create a generation afflicted with chronic health problems and disabilities? Still what do they know
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Not much more than we do, it seems. They all contradict each other.
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Originally Posted by spiderplant
Did you see the behaviour in the pubs last night? I predict Covid's coming home.
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Unless they were all double vaccinated, of course.