Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
Your second paragraph is so right. I've only tended to watch the bit where one of the scientists goes through the various slides in recent daily briefings, but I did catch one of them (Newton?) trying to explain why it was right not to have the sort of testing levels seen in the last few days back in March, but right to have them now yesterday. Now, it's entirely possible that the point he was trying to explain just went completely over my head and I missed it, but it sounded complete gobbledegook to me. Similarly, I note that, whereas a month ago, the slide showing deaths in various countries would talk of how we were "shadowing" Spain and/or Italy and were below others, now that it's showing us as second to America, we hear talk about how difficult it is to compare one country with another.
On the day you posted that link to the very good Guardian article, I also watched that night's very grim Newsnight and felt an increased sense of sympathy towards the Government because I do believe that they are sometimes in a position where the choice they are faced with is not right or wrong, but wrong or slightly less wrong. However, I also saw something online where foreign media and medical professionals were asked what they thought of how the UK was dealing with COVID19 - they were far from complimentary and the term "an example in how not to respond" was heard more than once.
That's the thing, while conceding that they are in a very tough situation in which they have had some things happen which can be rated as pluses, I fail to see how anyone can make a case for saying the UK Government has handled COVID19 well up to now.
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