Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
My glass needs topping up a lot after the latest farcical testing count!

OK if you don't want to compare UK testing to other countries which were better prepared and funded and that had clear leadership through the early stages of the pandemic and a political culture to match. But the government is failing even by its own measures despite fiddling its figures to make them look better than they are.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...0-daily-target

The next thing (after changing tests done to 'capacity' and then including retests and tests in the post) will be that the 100,000 target was just for one day at the end of April 2020. And whoopie, they 'achieved' that (even though they didn't)! Glass half full?
The testing figures for this week will tell the story. If they are below the 100,000 target for today and tomorrow, I daresay the excuse will be that figures always drop on weekends and today is a bank holiday, but I see no reason why there shouldn't be 100,000 tests announced from Wednesday to next Saturday. If that doesn't happen, then someone like me who was prepared to give the Government the benefit of the doubt about how they reached Matt Hancock's target will have been proved wrong - it would have been party politics pure and simple which was the motive behind the figures announced on 1 and 2 May.