@Lamont D I started to get very concerned about coronavirus in early January. On the local news were some Chinese people from a local Christian Church who had just returned to UK after the Christmas holidays. They were upset as folk were crossing the road to avoid them and felt they posed no threat to anyone. Then the comment came that they were advising their elderly and vulnerable not to come to church.... From then on I read everything I could find about what was happening in China and by mid January said we should lock down now and quarantine anyone coming into the country. Most folk I expressed this to said it would damage the economy too much. Now we can see what happens when money comes first.
I still feel the shock inside when I remember how was told I 'need do nothing, no need to self isolate' as I hadn't been to any of the Covid hotspots. Of course I did self isolate, even living in separate rooms from my hubby, I would have been extremely irresponsible if I hadn't.
I think this government's record to this has been unbelievably blase, I too believed we should have been in a lockdown in January, wearing masks as the local Chinese and east Asian were doing. In some respects the farce that the majority of decisions were far too late.
I could go on but because the way the country is run, that it was almost typical that the party in power, Tories, Labour, Lib dems would have struggled to get through this without making mistakes. Except that they wouldn't have made the city of London an exception to the rule. Privilege still rules, and I fear that because of this, that as usual the working and middle classes will be paying for this for years to come, regardless of who is in power.
The whole thing was ten years in the making, austerity and cuts to public services left this country open to shortages, PPE, ventilators, nurses, doctors and everything needed to cope with this sort of pandemic. We were at optimum capacity in the last five years. We have built nightingale hospitals, but we haven't the trained staff for them. The number of vacancies is somewhere in the region of thirty thousands.
It is a good job that we haven't had a bad snowfall yet in most parts of the country!
I say this, because this is how we are prepared for any emergency, it is typically talked about how we struggle to prevent the country from stopping by road, rail, airports, were some weather conditions disrupt the whole country.
There are so many examples of this, and I think we are immune to it in so many ways.
It is only when tragedy strikes that anything is talked about but they are still so reluctant to do very little about it!
The cladding on high rise buildings for example.
Do hope you have a decent Christmas and treat yourself, be kind to yourself and stay safe. I have a feeling that our tier two areas, like ours will be in total lockdown after boxing day and if that happens I fear the football will be affected again!
