Could UK have been better prepared for Covid-19?

[singhbj singh]

https://asiasamachar.com/2020/04/08/could-uk-have-been-better-prepared-for-covid-19/

[dallysingh101]

What the hell is up with the lack of testing! That could've changed things big time. Right now we've just had nearly a thousand deaths in one day, which, given the size of the country, is eyebrow raising. 

[Ranjeet01]

Every country could have done more to prepare.

I was watching GMTV today and Dr Hillary Jones mentioned that it was thought because SARS and MERS were not as widespread and fewer deaths, the UK authorities thought this would be the same.

There was definitely complacency there. 

The country has never been through something like this before so would not have a clue how to handle this.

But it also poses other consequences. 

There are people like journalists like Peter Hitchens who think we are over exaggerating the impact of Covid-19 and the taking of drastic measures like lockdown could cause more deaths because the economy would crash.

 

[dallysingh101]

22 minutes ago, Ranjeet01 said:

There are people like journalists like Peter Hitchens who think we are over exaggerating the impact of Covid-19 and the taking of drastic measures like lockdown could cause more deaths because the economy would crash.

He seems a bit mental to me. He has the complete opposite of chardhi kala. He just seems to be totally devastated that the british empire (and the supremacist attitudes it was built on) are no longer around like they were in the 'good old days'.

He can't seem to imagine any positive future. This western economy model was destined to fail pretty soon anyway, regardless of coronavirus. It's just becoming completely dependent on the arab economy and rich James Bond type oligarch 'villins' from abroad cleaning up money here.  It needs a shake up! 

What shocks me here though, is how 'third world' type nations rapidly produced testing kits, and blighty has been bumbling about incompetently in this respect. You got brains from all over the globe here. How the hell did that happen???