Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
yep, £600 for every man woman and child and it has achieved nothing.

a lot more if you only consider people who are working age only.

questions need to be asked on how it became so expensive - where has the money gone?
other countries have implemented solutions that work for a fraction of the cost.
The testing side of things seems to have worked reasonably well; although it didn't really stand up well enough in worst of second wave over winter (how much of this could be expected and accepted due to surge in cases? And how much of that was caused by UK government's wider strategy rather than issues with testing system?), there has been error in how UK government has pushed itself into devolved nations without communication and such high costs probably not needed without ten years of what is actually cuts to health service budget.

The tracing side of things, well, local testing seems to have been at least 10x as effective.

Circa 85% of what has been spent is on the testing part of test and trace. The bit we're presumably happier with.