Quote Originally Posted by goats View Post
I don’t know why anyone bothers knocking the government, and I agree they have been shocking most of the time, even the eat out to help out probably started the second wave ffs....but this is Britain, whoever would have been in control would have no doubt faced the same issues as we’ve run the NHS down over the last 15 years....so many things done wrong like mentioned above, not least care homes and not closing borders last March.
I think in respect of closing the borders the government were on a sticky wicket. close the borders and end up with none or significantly fewer cases and the public will complain of overkill. Keep the borders open and see what happens has allowed the virus to spread.

I read an article yesterday where a professor at some London Hospital had suggested that the NHS had been underfunded since the mid 70s, so this issue transcends the political spectrum

We'll have a public enquiry post pandemic, lessons will be learned, and one of them hopefully is we need to be a little but more appreciative of both public and private healthcare provision here in the UK. Its amongst the best in the world. Another lesson learned would be to delegate immediate executive authority to the chief medical officer so decisions are based solely on science and not political expediency.