[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I think it's easy to forget the suddenness with which this has all exploded. Nobody was contemplating a situation like we have now 2 or 3 weeks ago. Only 2 months ago the Chinese were assuring us that the virus couldn't be transmitted from person to person. It's a completely new phenomenon which is not well understood and the science behind it is changing all the time. I think the very least we owe any government trying to respond to this is to cut them a bit of slack because there is no precedent for this and there is no 'right' course of action. I'm already dreading all the smug commentators who use the power of hindsight in a few months time to cast blame on various figures and tell the tale of where it all went wrong. Imo we should all just be grateful that we don't have to carry the burden of decision making over the lives of millions of people.

No ...no slack! There is a right course of action! Every country has contingency plans for pandemics.
Again our band of bozos plough ahead stubbornly going against every expert and health advisory body in the world. Boris has and will have more blood on his hands for his inaction.
No commentators are smug... what a blasé term. He has to be held accountable, the sycophantic poor boris was just doing his best is pathetic and wrong.
He was trying to sacrifice the vulnerable against all advice that this would be tantamount to a massacre. .end of story.