Lessons Will Be Learned...20,000 Of Them?

[sp1814]

During the initial phase of the pandemic the government were dealing with rapidly changing circumstances - but the "protective ring" the government put around care homes was clearly a lie.

So what should happen now that Government's policies have been ruled as unlawful?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-61227709

[Ellipsis]

The families should get an apology. Somebody should accept responsibility and resign. And lessons should be learned.

All of that should happen, but none of that will happen.

[lankeela]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing - unless its the leader of the opposition!

[sp1814]

lankeela

I remember at the time reading reports arguing against returning asymptomatic patients back to care homes - not really hindsight back then.

Then it was...'sight sight'.

[Ellipsis]

Hindsight? On 13 March 2020 Patrick Vallance said there was a chance of asymptomatic transmission. But the government acted afterwards as if there was no such chance, moving people from hospitals into care homes despite claiming they had placed a protective ring around them.

[Peter Pedant]

// On 13 March 2020 Patrick Vallance said there was a chance of asymptomatic transmission.//

it wasnt clear - that is you could be contagious about 48 h before you got it - so clearly YOUR infection wasnt asymptomatic

also they were talking about carriers

also the incredz incompetent Paul Cosford was being incompetent as ever ( but not showing it yet - sortta asymptomatic incompetence) head of the PHE so bad it is now disbanded. Cosford died

[Peter Pedant]

Paul Cosford bless
with ebola
referred the doctor and nurse to the GMC for spreading it when.....
he knew they hadnt done it, his own staff were to blame.

that was the kind of guy he was

[youngmafbog]

The Governments policies were driven by information from others; there is no way the hapless Hancock had the brain power to work it out.

They should be rooted out and sacked and, if any investigation shows criminal acts prosecuted.

[davebro]

The Nightingale set-ups could have been used as staging posts for discharging patients from hospitals. As it was they were a pointless exercise.
No doubt copious claims for compensation are in the pipeline.

[ToraToraTora]

"but the "protective ring" the government put around care homes was clearly a lie. " = how can a protective ring be a lie?

[Canary42]

If Britain's insipid political class and corporate media lackeys had anything about them at all, the pressure on Johnson to resign would be deafening, but the story is barely registering, and it'll no doubt be quietly shoved down the collective memory hole like all of the other covid-related Tory scandals and their £billions in corrupt crony contracts.

It's now beyond question that Boris Johnson's government unlawfully sentenced huge numbers of vulnerable elderly people to death by deliberately infecting their care homes, while his ministers lied through their teeth that they were busy protecting them.

And they look set to completely get away with it.

In virtually any other country Johnson's position would be completely untenable, but in Britain our elitist Tory lords and masters operate in such an environment of complete and total impunity that they won't even be questioned about it, let alone forced out of office, or jailed, like they deserve to be.

[THECORBYLOON]

"how can a protective ring be a lie?"

If the, "protective ring" had existed in practice and produced the intended outcomes, why is the guidance described in the judgement as being "irrational"?