Indeed Johnson has helped spread the variants home and abroad , world wide by a lack of action, with many countries barring Brits.
.Allan Sharpe
Updated 3rd February
Coronavirus , the story and why Boris Johnson is to blame.
by Allan Sharpe former BBCTV Current Affairs Producer / Director and Former Govt law enforcement officer.
This time last year an epidemic started in Wuhan China. Other respiratory infections had mainly remained in SE Asia hitherto. But Coronavirus transmitted from animals to humans was to become a Global pandemic through air travel, because it was airborne and easily transmitted. There was no cure.
In Britain the Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons a pack of lies. This is of utmost importance because it paints a picture, sets the tone for recklessness and negligence as well as deception by this Tory Government . Because it was a public statement to MPs and to Parliament by the man in authority.
23rdJanuary “ Coronavirus is of low risk to the UK, which is well prepared and well equipped, world leaders in testing.”
All 4 points were to be proved false. Indeed Hancock made this statement knowing that the stockpile of PPE protection for doctors and nurses had not been updated. He knew there was no testing system, he knew UK was not well prepared, he knew there was no vaccine no cure. He knew that the island of Britain was still open for business, airports and ports. It was to become Plague Island.
Back on the 14th September 2017 The Tory Cabinet had been warned of a flu like pandemic in a Civil Emergencies report. It stated 50% of population would be infected, high level of absence from work, 20,000 to 750,000 fatalities.
July 2019 one of Johnson’s first acts as new PM was to abolish the Threats, Hazards, Resilience and Contingency Committee
MPs such as Michael Gove and Matt Hancock were part of the pandemic team.
The Government also knew that after 10 years of Tory Austerity 200,000 nurses had left the profession and 70,000 doctors. Hospitals and wards had been closed, There were less beds and less in ICU. After the 2016 referendum thousands of EU health care workers had left Britain with Brexit looming. Nurses had no pay rise for 10 years.
Against this backdrop of guilty knowledge, recklessness and negligence, the Coronavirus came to Britain through air travel. BUT, the airports remained open and the ports. Johnson said UK was a hub, indeed it was for coronavirus.
In January/ February the PM avoided 8 conference calls with the EU, refused help and supplies of PPE and ventilators from EU. Ignores the advice from WHO of “test test test”. Other countries, like S Korea and Germany are testing infected people and isolating them from the remaining healthy population.
March 2nd was the first Cobra Meeting Johnson attended, He had hitherto been on holiday in the Carribean. This was the 6th Cobra meeting, so he had missed the first 5. By now 36 Brits were dead in England. Mainly tourists coming home. The government flew back other holiday makers from cruises and resorts and quarantined them in hotels. Still the ports and airports remained open with no testing facilities. The Government was considering herd immunity requiring 40million to contract the disease. By now up to 20% of infected patients world wide are dying. Herd immunity is discounted instantly by countries like New Zealand. The death rate annually for flu is 0.01%. The wearing of Masks is being made mandatory by many countries following WHO advice. Not in Britain.
Liverpool played Athetico Madrid and although the Madrid football supporters were banned by their government from watching football matches in Spain, thousands flew into Liverpool to watch the game. Cheltenham horse racing lasted a week with No 10 saying Coronavirus was of no risk to crowds.
March 12 World Health Organisation set up by the United Nations, stated they were deeply concerned some governments were not treating Coronavirus seriously. 8 days later March 20 Britain goes into lockdown. Europe is already in lockdown. By April Johnson said he was ill himself as the death totals mounted to 980 a day. Johnson’s admission to hospital for a couple of days of tests diverts the media attention and headlines. The doctor and nurses treating the Prime Minister were all foreign, Italian, Portugese and New Zealander.
The first doctors and nurses die treating patients, even bus drivers taking people to work. Many of them immigrants dying in Britain trying to save British lives. Although Britain is soon to be in lockdown, people will be allowed to exercise and there are many other exemptions and anomalies. Police chiefs will say the rules or laws are mainly unenforceable .
March 12 also saw the start of emptying hospital beds as demand exceeded supply. The elderly were moved out to care homes, untested, and consequently the virus was spread amongst the most vulnerable, Some care homes lost a third of their residents.
Nightingale Hospitals were hastily erected , but nurses could not be in 2 places at once, so although headline grabbing, they were a waste of more money.
Johnson now began the privatisation of Public Health England, awarding untendered NHS contracts to private companies set up or managed by his friends. Friends who had no experience like Baroness Dido Hardin who was CEO at Talk Talk when customers personal details were hacked. Other lucrative contracts went to companies for Test and Trace, as well as PPE. £bns on secret deals. Test n Trace was mainly run at national call centres manned by school leavers on minimum wage who worked from a script, and were otherwise untrained. There were now winners and losers in Coronavirus and opportunities for the unscrupulous to make profit from death, misery and suffering.
The Government had tried to juggle several balls at once , the economy, wealth v health and education, one by one the balls came crashing down.
Although people got government help for being put out of work and businesses closed down, 3million got nothing as they did n” of his handling of the Coronavirus Crisis, A crisis where he has ignored requests to meet the bereaved or hold mourning. Instead he wanted applause on the doorstep for him and the NHS.
By now the death toll was nearing 75,000 even after the Government lopped 5,000 off the figures, by cooking the books. Office of National Statistics put the figures much higher.
Boris Johnson always wanted to be a world leader. For much of the year he was European Leader until Italy overtook him, but Johnson again took the lead in incompetence costing lives, as the death toll accelerated. Recently his daily death toll was 2nd highest in the world where many of his rivals have far bigger populations. The record daily high stands at 1820, 20th January. Some days at the end of January one person was dying every minute of the day. 8,000 deaths a week, where Japan had 5,000 deaths in one year. Nigeria also, the 26th largest economy in the world also did better than Britain the 5th largest economy in the world. 1,600 deaths in one year. Boris Britain reached the 100,000 death land mark 26th January. Johnson said he was truly sorry, it was an Oscar nominee speech, more worthy of a wooden spoon.
More had died in the 2nd wave than the 1st. No lessons had been learned. The airports remained open, under supposedly strict measures at border control where pictures showed incoming flights and no social distancing in packed passport halls.
Boris again took to social media on the 2nd February when the WW2 former spitfire pilot and NHS fund raiser died of covid aged 100. Sir Captain Thomas Moore was a hero, Johnson in comparison was a dunce. Tribute's poured in to the inspirational Captain, and Captain Chaos gave his own tribute. But on the other 108,000 plus he had never made a mention. They were just statistics to the Government, but real mums and dads, grandparents to others. Also the death toll now included much younger people.
It is sad that Johnson was elected a year ago, It is sad that Britain cannot emulate a country like Germany, that has a bigger population and a far lower death toll. It is sad that Johnson has to act like the schoolboy again when vaccine approval is rushed through and claim the success, when he had nothing to do with it’s creation. It is sad, that the overgrown school boy has to dress up as a doctor or a lab technician for his photo opportunities and try to convince everybody he is in charge of the situation and is at the helm. It is sad that the schoolboy never learnt from lessons of the last 12 months. Lessons that would have saved so many lives.
There now is a cure after the hastily accepted vaccines made in Belgium created by a Turkish husband and wife in Germany and financed in America. There is one created in Oxford and financed in Sweden. Captain Chaos is quick to roll out the vaccine but apart from just 1% (including his father) the millions he triumphantly boasts are only receiving one jab, and they need 2 in a 3 week period according to manufacturer's specifications. Some scientists state that failure to adhere to manufacturer's instructions could cause more variants and mutations that could become virulent against the vaccine. The vaccine works by building up anti bodies in the immune system. But travellers, holiday makers had already caused mutations as different virus forms in different countries became mixed .
Coronavirus Covid 19 is on circa 120,000 death certificates in Britain this year according to ONS. Many, if not most, have died needlessly because of Government incompetence, recklessness, and negligence. The Head of that Government and policy making is unfortunately Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. He will blame everybody but him. He will blame the public for not following rules, which may have been made deliberately slack, and certainly not as stringent as in other countries.
These facts show that there is one person primarily to blame and that is him. Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.
Johnson says he has followed the science. On 13 occasions he waited and waited then did too little too late. That is why Boris Land is Plague Island.
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