Unforced errors resulting in UK covid catastrophe
Could 16, 2021 by ferniglab
My present listing of main unforced errors by the Johnson authorities which have led to the covid catastrophe that’s now 15 months outdated and reveals little signal of letting up.
1. No enforced quarantine for worldwide travellers, beginning in March 2020.
2. Permitting each Liverpool away and residential matches in March.
3. Permitting Dido Harding to go forward with Cheltenham races.
4. Locking down too late in March 2020 and no management over interactional journey throughout 1st lockdown.
5. Not implementing a full masks coverage by March 2020, when aerosols have been recognized to be predominant rout of transmission.
6. No measures at transport hubs equivalent to airports, railway stations, main bus terminals, e.g., thermal imaging cameras: not good, however will cease symptomatic travellers.
7. Failing to beef up NHS testing and as a substitute spaffing money on non-public sector testing.
8. After 1st lockdown, persevering with to permit worldwide journey, reasonably than focussing on supressing virus: Scotland was 2 weeks, England ~1 months away in July 2020.
9. Late lockdown in November 2020.
10. Early launch of lockdown in December = early Christmas for virus.
11. Continued absence of correct border controls for travellers and one month late in placing India on purple listing.
12. Reversal of faculty masks coverage, regardless of deep understanding of aerosol transmission, and no implementation of guidelines on air change figuring out variety of individuals in a room.
