How this idiot has managed to keep his job is beyond me.
Did you see him grinning like a Cheshire Cat on GMB this morning. What a Pratt!
50k+ dead and counting you absolute imbecile.
I fully agree with what you say on Hancock, and the death statistics are horrid.
Watched this the other day:
Weird presentation style aside, it's interesting how much ethnicity plays a role. But, you also have to look at the age groups, too. The vast majority of people who have died are 75+. Then again, it digs down into the deaths of people with underlying conditions.
It's horrid. It doesn't mean that we should accept it. It doesn't mean we shouldn't question or criticise the government. And of course it doesn't mean that we should say 'well these people would have died anyway'.
There just has to be some perspective on the figures.
It's mental to think that we've had the most deaths in Europe, though I'm pretty sure there has been no hospital in the UK coming close to having to have people lying (dying) on the floor - like we saw in Italy and Spain in March.
The death rate is still staying low compared to the cases, which will of course rise as more tests are done. There's also the positive that it seems most people catching this now seem to be in the younger groups and, generally as a rule of thumb, are much less likely to end up hospitalised due to this.
I have a mate who is convinced that the UK are alone in being utterly useless against this thing. Using an example yesterday of a festival in Taiwan taking place over the weekend and saying we could have this is the government had locked down a week earlier etc.
It's daft. Every country in Europe is in some form of lockdown at the moment. The entire European model was to go with a 'flu pandemic model'. Part of that is apparently down to the proximty/size of countries in Europe, and even countries which dealt with it well initially, like Germany, have seen a massive rise in cases. Basically, the entirety of Europe is pinned into a corner (partly because of government decisions).
It's all crap. Everywhere is crap. You can't compare New Zealand and Australia because they're vast nations (Australia is literally its own continent) with much smaller populations. They also followed a completely different model (the SARS model) - their location allowed them to do this.
Apologies for the long post, I just needed to express my thoughts and your post clicked something. I fully agree that Hancock and the rest of this government need to be outed and more for what's happened. But relatively speaking, the entirety of Europe is in the same boat.
