[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by jet

This isn't just for you Mock...but for those who think the same as you. Your post just prompted me to respond....

In a completely devastating situation like an unprecedented killer virus - what would you have done?

It is the beginning of the pandemic and testing equipment is still not readily available, (as is the case in many countries), crucially, you are not told early enough that hospitalised but asymptomatic people can actually have the virus. (The high court has confirmed this).

You are pressured to free up chock full hospital beds for critically ill patients immediately.

Do you keep the elderly (and don’t forget, other patients too) with no virus symptoms in those beds and let already critically ill patients die?

Do you recommend that those elderly with symptoms who are released into care homes should be kept in isolation (this was the guidance given).

That is the dilemma you face - what would you do?

(This is my understanding of what happened from what I have read in articles like the British Medical Journal (not tabloid hysteria).
(Many countries in the world had exactly the same care home/critically ill patient problem in those early pandemic days, with similar results as the UK).

I think the majority of people realise the Matt Hancock wasn't personally reaponsible for the virus (neither was he personally responsible for securing vaccines which incidently when Boris was in the news lately everyone said was his triumph, now its apparently Matts). What people I have spoken to are, quite rightly in my opinion, pissed off about, is that one of the main players in a health catastrophy is now on a reality TV programme makong masses of cash of being tje Health Sec during Covid. Before Covid, I knew nothing of Matt Hancock and unless you had a real interest in Politics he wasn't a big hitter. It's so soon after the pandemic that people are still grieving over loved ones, some who died as a direct consequence to his decisions. My mums been dead for 8 years but I am still angry at the doctor's who missed her cancer before it was diagnosed and she had no chance of treatment, I know it was the cancer that killed her but I blame them anyway, its a human reaction to look for blame. Same with a lot of people with the Gov and Covid.

Its nothing to do with being a Tory, its nothing to do with media bias, its about people grieving and one of the main players making a lot of money off the back of it.

In general Matt seems like a nice guy but people are allowed to dislike him if they want. I don't think they are bullying him, maybe two faced but not bullying. He seems to be enjoying his experience and when its over he doesn't have to associate with anyone of them again