Here’s why the UK is so reckless in managing the Coronavirus

The UK is deliberately defying the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recommended behaviour to stem the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. To an outsider it beggars belief that a government would do so little to protect its people – except to tell the over 70s to avoid cruises and to tell everyone to wash their hands.

In the last few days, coronavirus testing has been cut back so severely that even our front-line NHS staff aren’t being tested.  When they show symptoms they’re told to self-isolate for 7 days. These front-line staff don’t even have all the protective equipment they need; masks, visors, googles, disposable gloves or gowns and they’re scared.  They are brave souls who we rely on to help treat those affected and are having their lives put a risk by a government who would rather we die than have them spend money on the NHS.

Even today, the government has only gone so far as to tell people to stop going to restaurants and bars and to avoid events over 50 people, yet schools are still open and teachers are expected to turn up. The closest thing to pro-active management of this is the Health Secretary putting out a request on Twitter for any business that makes respirators to contact him.

Madness, isn’t it?

But if you take away any consideration for the people who inhabit this small island run by sociopaths, it makes a lot of sense. The NHS was on its knees well before this and there’s just not the staff or the facilities to deal with it, spending money on test kits and the like is money they can’t spend on things like compensating private hospitals for the use of their facilities at £2.4 million per day.  Spain on the other hand, told its private health providers to give it a list of what each organisation could do to help, that they wouldn’t be paid for it and if they didn’t provide a list or help they’d be fined.

If you look at it from a political perspective:

• Most senior members of the Conservative party have private health insurance and send their kids to private schools. They’re shielded from risks the rest of us run.
• If there’s very few identified coronavirus cases then it will look like this do-nothing policy worked.
• If the deaths aren’t investigated then they could have died from anything, so it looks like the policy worked.
• It will appeal to the ‘blitz spirit’ of those plucky little Englanders who still believe in English exceptionalism. Nothing like standing up to those big bullies at the WHO and in the snowflakes in the EU that have locked down their people. The political capital is great.
• A lock down will also mean the government will have to compensate some private sector organisations they have contracts with and will have to deal with the fallout from a casualised labour force who have no sick pay and have bills to pay.
• The Prime Minister hides from national emergencies and is consistently reluctant to take any responsibility for anything.
• They’ve got a whole lot of body bags left over from the Brexit stockpiling that they can get rid of.

If you look at it from a business perspective. If a lock down is ordered the insurance companies take the hit from businesses claiming on their insurance.  I’m sure if you look hard enough these same insurers are either large donors to the Conservative party or MPs and other senior Tory members have shares or employment with them.

It also supposedly protects the stock market from the jitters.  Except it doesn’t.  The US government pumped $1.5 trillion into the markets last week to stop Dow plunging.  That propped up the market for 2 hrs before those gains were wiped and apparently the share market has now dropped to 2017 levels.  So that money was effectively free money for speculators.  That amount of money was more than it would’ve cost to wipe all student debt in the US, which would’ve been a much more economically sensible thing to do.

By telling people that it’s up to them if they self isolate it means its not their fault if a business fails due to lack of custom.  It’s not their fault that businesses don’t pay sick leave and it’s not their fault for anything else that might occur. It also means that the NHS gets swamped for the next 18 months and when it’s finally over it will be in such a poor condition that it will be easy picking for outsourcing and private coverage.

If we’re still being told nothing more than to self isolate and wash our hands once Europe comes out of its self imposed quarantine, I can guarantee there’ll be a travel ban on us, since we’ll be a walking Covid-19 contagion and there have been instances of re-reinfection. Then of course we’ll get the little Englanders once more bleating about how Johnny Foreigner is trampling on their rights to go where they please.  It’s pathetic.

Don’t believe me?  This is from Russia Today.  As you can see, some Brits currently on holiday in Europe are behaving like self entitled twats.

So unless you absolutely know the ages and underlying health condition of everyone (including yourself) that you’re likely to be in contact with; in the bus, at the shops, in the pub, I’d suggest you follow the guidelines and hope you don’t spread it to your neighbours, elderly relatives, friends with sick children and the like.

And don’t forget to wash your hands!  20 seconds of decent scrubbing whilst singing the Bee Gees Stayin’ Alive chorus a couple of times should do it. For at the moment, staying alive is an act of defiance against a government that doesn’t have your best interests at heart.