The population hasn't taken care of itself, pure and simple.

People need haircuts so they can look half decent :nono::fist:

Nobody could have done better than King Boris :clap1:

:umm2::facepalm:

Oh right. So it’s only the people who disagree with you that must be biased. Interesting how that worked out.

Forgot what a mass-baiter you were haha.

Not really given that they were originally content to sacrifice the old and vulnerable in hopes of herd immunity winning out to begin with. While they walked it back and offered a fairly good payment package for workers, it's difficult to forget that this Tory government seemed all too willing to let people die rather than do what needed to be done.

Also, every major country's leadership was made aware of the danger back in January, the fact that nothing more was done to prevent a pandemic back then is repugnant. Rishi Sunak is the Tories' MVP for this crisis.

The WHO actually informed them in December of what could happen

This was on Jan 14th

none of this can really be judged until a year or more down the line. All we can do for now realistically is keep the government on it's toes with regard to current processes. It's not perfect just now for sure, but if people think the 10k death figure is bad, it would have been an awful lot worse without a lock down.

In the same way that New York does not reflect the rest of the USA, the same is true of London, which is driving the figures much higher

Please stop spreading misinformation!!

Josy warned other members about this you must have missed the memo. Here is a WHO timeline, educate yourself.



Pneumonia of unknown cause reported to WHO China Office

31 December 2019

'At the close of 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of a pneumonia of unknown cause, detected in the city of Wuhan in Hubei province, China. According to the authorities, some patients were operating dealers or vendors in the Huanan Seafood market.*

Staying in close contact with national authorities, WHO began monitoring the situation and requested further information on the laboratory tests performed and the different diagnoses considered.'

https://www.who.int/emergencies/dise...as-they-happen

What on earth are you rambling on about, I posted a tweet from the official WHO account to show how little they knew about the virus back then thanks to disinformation from China. This has been very well reported such as here:

Please withdraw your bizarre allegation

Hardly misinformation.
It is part of the same timeline you are taking your info from Kizzy.

and this is why the world is perfectly entitled to be pissed off at china and the WHO. I've said it a few times now, but China have been habitual liars for generations, why would anyone take their word for it at that point ... it's such a blatant issue

I’m not going to consider factors and decisions made by our government before the virus, because if we did then the answer is a clear cut no.

Even so, That week or so before the official lockdown was an absolute disaster and even after the lockdown the conditions were so poorly explained, and then it required them several days to come up with new financial packages for different groups of people to calm the panic.

It’s all really inexcusable when you consider the head start we had to plan over most nations. Only reason it hasn’t been all bad though is that they have done well on the most park with the financial policies and Sunak has made himself look like a possible future leader.

No....


First case of novel coronavirus outside of China confirmed

13 January 2020

Officials confirmed a case of the novel coronavirus in Thailand. It was not unexpected that cases of the novel coronavirus would emerge outside of China and reinforces why WHO calls for active monitoring and preparedness in other countries.


From the official WHO website. You apologise for the American propaganda you're posting!

Nope, it isn't

Do you understand that what I posted is a tweet from the official WHO account? The suggestion I'm posting disinformation about the WHO by quoting the WHO is baffling even for you

The point I was making was specifically about human to human transmission which nothing that you have posted has addressed I'm afraid

Further evidence of the problem: https://www.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-...cd-df28cc3c6a6

The WHO response in January/February absolutely reeked of CCP propaganda to be quite honest, the language being used wasn't even thinly veiled. We had WHO officials dribbling about how well China was handling it and how great the Chinese government is, and one saying "if he gets Covid he hopes its in China" because of how great the treatment measures were.

Just ****ing odd to be including things like that in press releases if you don't have a Chinese government official in your ear, in my opinion.

They've done an ok job, after the absolute disaster at the start with their herd immunity bull**** (Fire Dominic Cummings, seriously)

Indeed, Boris' ramblings early on were him being a Cummings mouthpiece more than anything else. He said something like, "one idea is that we could...". He might as well have said "My buddy Dom says..."

Yep, if they'd taken swifter more decisive action, a lot of lives could have been saved

I mean 10,000 people have died how can that be seen as doing a good job

That remains to be seen, to be honest. If it can be successfully suppressed by early lockdown then yes, if full community transmission is inevitable then all that really makes a difference is lockdown being initiated quickly enough to stop healthcare services being overwhelmed then thus far they haven't been so it makes no long-term difference.

I understand you are being rude because I have challenged you on this. Can you provide the WHO link to this tweet? That link to the article you're touting as further evidence in this post does not work.

No he is not elected

Johnson PM likes him.

To be fair Kizzy you've been being a bit rude here by insisting that someone else has it wrong when you've misunderstood what was being pointed out in the first place. The original post was pointing out that the WHO was still unclear on whether or not person to person transmission was happening in mid January. You countered it by saying that they knew the virus EXISTED in late December (which is not the same thing). There would be no need to take quarantine measures if human to human transmission wasn't possible and thus governments can't be expected to have taken that action before that point.

Its Over 11,329 today
Scott.

The Care Home UK deaths of Covid
are not included

Get Up to date on Shaun's thread

I'm rude for having an opinion on counter information... how about you attempt to see some logic in my post before accusing me of misunderstanding? There was already admissions and cases of person to person transmission prior to that tweet I countered with that too.

While the cause of the pneumonia seems to be a novel coronavirus, transmission potential and modes of transmission remain unclear. Therefore, it would be prudent to reduce the general risk of acute respiratory infections while travelling in or from affected areas (currently Wuhan City) by:

avoiding close contact with people suffering from acute respiratory infections;frequent hand-washing, especially after direct contact with ill people or their environment;avoiding close contact with live or dead farm or wild animals;travellers with symptoms of acute respiratory infection should practice cough etiquette (maintain distance, cover coughs and sneezes with disposable tissues or clothing, and wash hands).


https://www.who.int/news-room/articl...irus-in-china/

Your coming across as your opinion or no opinion and have been very rude

The rudeness started with your post accusing me of 'spreading misinformation' and telling me to educate myself, that's not the way to start a civil conversation

I've already posted the Tweet from the official WHO account, feel free to click it. See if this link to the FT article works: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft....d-df28cc3c6a68

Your own link says 'preliminary investigation suggests that there is no significant human-to-human transmission, and no infections among health care workers have occurred'

This is the point I was making - the WHO were way off the mark in believing that this was true in mid January

You are spreading misinformation as the information I posted shows, imo you do need to educate yourself on this it's not rude to suggest that.

Your comment towards me was quite personally offensive.

No it doesn't.

Thank you to fellow posters for reassuring me I'm not going mad after all

Thanking people for baiting now? How novel.

Nobody baited anyone here Kizzy lol

Let’s generalise an entire population of people as inherit liars and act like it’s an okay thing to say

The link shows that was the initial information they recieved from China. It was not the result of their findings or their advice to other nations on the spread of the virus. Neither did it usurp all the recommendations and findings prior to that date.

If you read the link you will see they did not 'believe' that which is why their recommendations were almost identical then as they are now.

'While the cause of the pneumonia seems to be a novel coronavirus, transmission potential and modes of transmission remain unclear. Therefore, it would be prudent to reduce the general risk of acute respiratory infections while travelling in or from affected areas (currently Wuhan City) by:

avoiding close contact with people suffering from acute respiratory infections;frequent hand-washing, especially after direct contact with ill people or their environment;avoiding close contact with live or dead farm or wild animals;travellers with symptoms of acute respiratory infection should practice cough etiquette (maintain distance, cover coughs and sneezes with disposable tissues or clothing, and wash hands).

Health practitioners and public health authorities should provide to travellers information to reduce the general risk of acute respiratory infections, via travel health clinics, travel agencies, conveyance operators and at points of entry.

If a traveller on board of an aircraft/a ship has signs and symptoms indicative of acute respiratory infections, the model of Maritime declaration of health (Annex 8 of IHR) or the health part of the aircraft general declaration (Annex 9 of IHR) can be used to register the health information onboard and submit to POE health authorities when required by a State Party.'

WHO advice from 10 Jan 2020

i'm talking about the Chinese administration, as everyone well knows. Go try insult someone else