Five Weeks Of Lies

[teacake44]

For five weeks now Matt Hancock has insisted that there wasn't a shortage of PPE, nearly every hospital and care home in the country was saying there was, he also insisted that it was a logistical problem only, and that was with 20 thousand army personal drivers ready to deliver. When the army joined us, we were told, this is what the army are brilliant at ( logistics ) ?

Today he says he wished he had a magic wand to produce PPE. When will Mr Hancock face up to the fact that the UK was oh so slow off the starting block, and the cost of that, was peoples lives, especially NHS lives. When will he start telling the truth, ( never).

They've also been telling us that we don't need to wear a face mask,(now their thinking about it), but waiting for the science to tell them. Common sense tells me that face masks can help stop the spread of the virus, if they didn't, then the rest of the world wouldn't be wearing them, or nurses wearing them in hospital or care homes, ( when they can get them) We all know about the top of the range mask that they need to wear in ITC, but the rest of the nurses are wearing bog standard face masks.

There are now UK manufactures pulling out all the stops to produce PPE, they say they have be ignored by Matt Hancock for weeks now, even after making it known to him that they could make what was required. How many more lives need to be lost before they supply the nation with face masks like every other country is doing.

I've changed my mind about Mr Hancock,( give someone a chance to get sorted,) he's had five weeks, and all we've had is five weeks of lies. Whatever advice he or the government give out, I for one will take with a pinch of salt, and do my own thing.

[Peter Pedant]

// Watched the Movie "Contagion"//

is this the one where a bug is up against three Hollywood A listers and gives up of course

[naomi24]

'Five weeks of lies' he says - and how many more weeks of this inane prattle? If anything sends people packing from here it'll be this constant touting of misery.

[Theland]

Just for you :-

Happy days are here again, wear your smile with pride,
Chuckle and laugh and go into convulsions,
Let misery have nowhere left to hide,
Lest arouse the Answerbank revulsions.

[naomi24]

Give it up, Theland. Keats you ain't.

[CrapAtCryptics]

its an evolving situation so we cant hold ministers to specific dates, claims as they dont have a crystal ball on the way the situation develops.

[sevenOP]

Plausible deniability ?

[iluvmargie]

teacake is definitely a gloom and doom merchant, as I have opined before, BUT I don't like Matt Hancock and don't think he's up to the job, so I agree with him here (for a change).

[10ClarionSt]

Not just five weeks of lies - five weeks of boredom. Just how the media can keep banging on about CV-19 is beyond me. The British Braocasting Coronavirus Corporation and others only talk about PPE, testing kits and testing. There's nothing else to report.
This is Dr. Jeckyl, News at Ten, Clarion St, Ancoats.
Over to you.

[sevenOP]

Full-spectrum dominance 10Clarion ?

[iluvmargie]

Agree 10C.

[ToraToraTora]

once again can you list some of these "lies" with evidence.

[youngmafbog]

Since when has it been the Governments responsibility to buy PPE for the NHS and care homes.

Surely the responsibility lies with PHE (An expensive quango that needs to go) and the NHS Management (Who all need sacking and starting again).

As for care homes last time I looked they were a private enterprise with very expensive fees. Why should the Government be buying them anything?

And lastly it is not across the board (I have a daughter who is a hospital doctor so I do get some info). It is certain trusts that have failed miserably and are expecting Government to bail them out and anyway masks are not needed by everyone in the NHS.

Yes hindsight is a wonderful thing, it should be used to clear out the NHS and make it wonderful again because at the moment it is not.

[ToraToraTora]

TC asks the same question every other day. Just trying to make political capital. I have yet to see any evidence of an actual lie.

[sevenOP]

"Surely the responsibility lies with PHE "

So you can break up a publicly accountable body ( ~sub-contracting) and you have disappeared all responsibility ?

[theshedman]

I agree with much of what youngmafbog says in last post. Matt Hancock is the health minister but there are many other people out there whose job it is to purchase the stuff the NHS and care providers need it is what they are employed to do. Also there was an interview on one of the news programs a couple of days ago and all the reporter did was go on to this particular care home manager about shortages of PPE even though she kept telling him that they themselves didn't have any shortages at all. Though she did say that other care homes may have them but not them. He still kept on about the same thing even after she told him a number of times that it did not apply to them.

[fiction-factory]

I don't usually agree with youngmafbog on things but I have said the same thing about ppe procurement. The issue has been puzzling me. Maybe Hancock was too eager to impress by taking it on himself, or maybe he knew the NHS procurement people weren't up to it but he could have said 'here's a few extra billion, you sort it and let us know if you want help

[sevenOP]

And the buck was passed, eh shedman ?

[Zacs-Master]

The shortage of PPE is worldwide.

[ToraToraTora]

quite ZM but in the eyes of some on here it's the Tory's fault!

[fiction-factory]

Hopefully Teacake can clarify what the lies have been. Maybe Hancock has tried to convey an optimistic tone and not been open enough about the challenges (he's said there are challenges but maybe he should have lowered expectations and said something like "we have 97% of the PPE will need and will get to 100% overall, but will struggle to have enough spare to ensure we have 100% in the right place at exactly the right time." Maybe there should have been a published metric each day saying X% of hospitals have all the PPE they will need for the next Y days". At the moment we only hear about the places with a shortage not the ones with more than enough.