Governments daily press conference

Stopped watching them. For what you get out of it you can pick the points up on the News or Newsnight.
Played Leonard Cohen Greatest Hits while it was on. Much happier.
 
I thought Hancock's presentation the other day was reasonably honest. Some of the officials are truly dreadful. But it isn't the easiest thing to stand in front of a camera and answer a barrage of questions.

The odd thing is I think people would have been sympathetic to the failures in a testing system designed to work with a flu epidemic and run by a plodding bureaucracy. If only they'd admitted the bleeding obvious. As for PPE etc. someone needs to admit to the strategic disaster of outsourcing manufacture of critical equipment to other countries. Stands to reason that in a pandemic those other countries will look after their own first. A country like the UK should have the capacity to manufacture critical equipment, even if they leave it dormant and ramp up as required.

Lots of problems, but so far not as bad as many other countries. Time will tell.
 
I thought Hancock's presentation the other day was reasonably honest. Some of the officials are truly dreadful. But it isn't the easiest thing to stand in front of a camera and answer a barrage of questions.

The odd thing is I think people would have been sympathetic to the failures in a testing system designed to work with a flu epidemic and run by a plodding bureaucracy. If only they'd admitted the bleeding obvious. As for PPE etc. someone needs to admit to the strategic disaster of outsourcing manufacture of critical equipment to other countries. Stands to reason that in a pandemic those other countries will look after their own first. A country like the UK should have the capacity to manufacture critical equipment, even if they leave it dormant and ramp up as required.

Lots of problems, but so far not as bad as many other countries. Time will tell.
br14 some good points there, but we are as bad or worse than a lot of countries if you just look at the numbers mate.

In another 10 days if this thing escalates at the same pace for the UK we will have 40,000 dead.

It does look like both Spain and Italy are showing some signs of coming to the top of the curve with Spain looking the better of those 2. If we are lucky we will spike at the same point, relatively.

Lets all hope, it's all we can do. Oh and stay home, obviously.
 
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