We know the Conservative UK Government played with our lives for ideological ‘pro-business’ reasons, delayed the lock-down and forgot to order ventilators. Now coronavirus deaths in England are spiraling out of control but the BBC in England is going to help them hide from public anger by just not mentioning them:
The UK’s 563 deaths are not presented here, so as to conceal the awful truth of what the Tories have done to England and, especially to London. A decade of under-funding, privatisation and meddling, followed by the failure to lockdown early enough or to order enough equipment and English deaths are on a curve like that of Spain.
16 new deaths in Scotland and 29 in Wales means 518 just today in England. That’s more than 3 times the toll per head of population but no media references to it.
But in Scotland, ignoring the above and the obvious conclusion that NHS Scotland is saving more lives:
On a day when even the BMA praises the Scottish Government, look at the image BBC Scotland chose and contrast it with the BBC in England failing to mention the deaths or to, heaven forbid, show a picture of the PM.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Big big mistakes made by the UK government, they acted far too slowly, they knew in January what the impact could be but did not act, they tried to same the economy first ! .
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It would be nice if they even tried to save anything right now instead of hiding and lying and leaving folk utterly bereft!
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Who would be to blame for them (deaths)?
Buzzfeed reports that the “herd immunity” strategy responsible for inaction, delays and late provision of kit may not have been abandoned.
“BuzzFeed News has spoken to health experts in the UK and across Europe to find out why. The answer, they said, stemmed from Britain’s controversial initial strategy of mitigation of the virus (rather than suppression), rendering testing a secondary concern — an approach which has also contributed to a lack of preparedness and the capacity to carry out tests at scale.
The UK’s mitigation approach was devised by England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty, and chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance. According to a person who has spoken to Whitty and Vallance, they took the view that the UK should not attempt to suppress the outbreak entirely, but rather prioritise protecting the elderly and vulnerable and ensuring the NHS did not become overwhelmed, while allowing the rest of population to build up “herd immunity”.
This strategy meant that widespread testing of every coronavirus case was not a priority for the UK, the person said, since the government’s scientists were assuming that between 60% and 80% of the population would become infected.
Accordingly, no preparations were made to increase manufacturing or imports of testing kits, nor to expand the UK’s laboratory capacity. Imports of testing kits are now extremely difficult as other nations seek more than ever to keep them for their own use.
On Tuesday, the Times reported that a global shortage of key chemicals used for testing meant that some NHS hospitals were having to “home brew” their own. Speaking at the government’s daily press conference later that day, cabinet office minister Michael Gove confirmed that the supply of chemicals was an issue.
The government has publicly insisted that herd immunity is not the UK’s policy. But the person familiar with Whitty and Vallance’s thinking said they believed it privately remains a long-term objective.
They said they thought the government would continue to prioritise increasing intensive care unit capacity to prevent the NHS from becoming overwhelmed, rather than widespread testing of the population, because they had accepted that a large percentage of the country will become infected in the next 12 to 18 months, before a vaccine is found.”
Here is expert opinion, albeit from an economist, on the benefits of testing.
https://paulromer.net/covid-sim-part1/
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Michael Gove lied about the chemicals needed as the industry has now said they have enough and were never asked to increase production…Tells you all you need to know.
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It seem so, that Gove was lying, apparently there are plenty of reagents to be bought, and the industry hasn’t been contacted by uk gov, according to Peston yesterday:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Peston/status/1245046542974750720
(I posted this link in the previous article)
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Gove also lied about the nos of ventilators he said to SKy there were 12k and then a few moments later told BBC there were just 8k.
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Unfortunately Gove lying is not news.
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I agree with the above suspicions, that the Westminster Government is still holding to the plan of “herd immunity “.
I believe there are chemical shortages, for antibody test kits. It is this type of kit they are holding out for. As Gove said, to get people tested who have had the virus, then then those people can return to work.
Yip, they haven’t yet dropped the “herd immunity” plan.
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I and friends being oap’s have been expecting this, it’s the cull of the ill and elderly.
It will be stopped when the number of dead is achieved.
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