Behind the Curve - Lagging.

Today’s lockdown comes after weeks of  inactivity in February when the World Health Organisation warned us about what was coming down the track. During that month the government should have been stocking up on Personal Protection Equipment for the medics, testing kits, respirators and ventilators etc. The Prime Minister and his administration are responsible for grave, costly errors, most especially the epic manufacturing failures in diagnostic testing, the decision to test too few people, the delay in expanding testing to GPs and hospitals and problems in the supply chain. These mistakes have left us blind and badly behind the curve, and, for a few crucial weeks, they created a false sense of security….the coronavirus silently spread for several weeks, without us being aware of it and while we were doing nothing to stop it. Containment and mitigation efforts could have significantly slowed its spread at an early, critical point, but we frittered away that opportunity.
 The New York Times has produced these brilliant graphics of how the whole thing spread around the world whilst WHO were saying, “test, test, test” and Boris looked away. They should never be forgiven. 

They should have left him stuck on that wire.