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Hope he, and anyone else in this position, returns to full health soon. I never got the chance to vote Anne out so need Boris back to full health for that.
All the best to Boris and everyone else currently fighting it.
Boris Johnson and his cronies are a big part of why the situation is so bad, they had every opportunity to get on top of it early but they didn't take it.
He is no more important that the other near 5,000 people who have so far died. But saying that if he dies then it might actually galvanise people and get it through their thick heads that we need to stay in as much as possible and not socialise.
I've no time for Johnson, but I recognise the symbolism behind any Prime Minister at times like this and so, although I can see the point of those saying he is just the same as Anne of Ponty etc, the truth is that he, or more particularly his job, isn't. Anyway, I wish anyone suffering from the virus a complete recovery and that extends to someone like Boris Johnson who I feel is lacking in so many ways as a Prime Minister.
Unfortunately in this instance yes, I do consider them his cronies. The plan they formulated was a very high risk one that nowhere else in the world was trying and most people working in public health and epidemiology were aghast at. The government had plenty of time to get ahead of the curve but they didn't, they should have been proactive and not reactive, the way they have dealt with this pandemic has been appalling. I truly hope there is a fully independent public enquiry into their handling of the situation.
For full clarity though, I don't have access to the data that his advisors have, and I haven't seen the Imperial model that they have been using. I am an epidemiologist, I have worked in public health and academia including Public Health Wales, Cardiff University, and Swansea University since 1999.
Sweden? Netherlands?
I fully respect your knowledge in the subject.
But if most people in public health and epidemiology were aghast why wasn't there a massive outcry at the start? Yes of course people like John Ashton spoke out fairly early on (seems to have gone quiet recently) but it seemed to me that there were experts on both sides of the arguement in pretty equal numbers.
And what about Public Health England and Wales (and their Scottish equivalent). I presume they would have had an input? Wouldn't they also bear at least some of the responsibility for the problems with testing, PPE and ventilators?
By calling them his cronies aren't you questioning the integrity of people like Chris Witty, Patrick Vallance and Neil Ferguson?
Ok cronies might be going a bit far, but there appears to be a lot of politics in the direction that the response took, rather than the science, and that does include Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance.
I know plenty of people within PHE and PHW I don’t think they’re particularly happy with the government’s actions.
PPE and vents are down to the government/NHS not PHE or PHW so they shouldn’t take the blame there. Testing is slightly different, but the problems are still laid at the government’s door, again a lot of this seems political rather than what’s necessary.
Good to see the Prime Minister is seemingly not in as bad a shape as reported in some places - I do think the spokesman's comment about him still receiving a box is a tad unfortunate though on a couple of fronts;-
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...pital-11969302
I must admit I am struggling a bit with the narrative around the Johnson illness. Concurrently we are being told that his symptoms are sufficient to require a stay in an NHS hospital in London whilst being so mild that he can work from his bed on papers and still manage the levers of government.
Understand the Keep Calm and Carry On aims but either he is sufficiently ill to take up a bed then he deserves it given his status and condition or it is precautionary such that he, probably alone of those people admitted to hospital with the virus can somehow carry on working from bed.
If it is the latter then him occupying a bed in the week that NHS Nightingale was launched as an emergency centre looks a bit askew.
Johnson moved to intensive care as his condition has worsened.
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