Well at the risk of being political, I feel that the governments of the UK and US in particular have seriously mismanaged and underestimated Covid-19.
I don't need to justify this statement, just look at the numbers.
I watch daily as the numbers head north and the politicians and scientific advisors present targets missed and detail increasingly intellectually sophisticated arguments for either doing nothing or not following WHO guidance. Mental masturbation at its finest. And of course we in the UK know so much better than everyone else.
Either the UK scientific advisors are being constrained by the politicians or they are incompetent. They do not seem to have read the Ladybird book of Epidemiology.
Sure I am something of an armchair expert - retired for 9 years now - but I have done my best by lobbying politcians and the press about the number of people entering the UK before and since lockdown without any testing or quarantine. The numbers are staggeringly large. 18.1 million people entered the UK between January 2020 and lockdown. Of these 273 were isolated. During lockdown 95,000 entered the UK with no testing or isolation
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ew-uk-lockdown-nearly-5000-may-have-infected/. Please note the Daily Telegraph is a right wing paper! 1800 private plane flights also landed in the UK during lockdown
https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/19/1800-private-planes-have-landed-uk-since-lockdown-began-12726886/. And yet in my little Devon town businesses are closed and people have lost their livelihoods. It is beyond belief. Our government of charlatans and chancers are an utter disgrace. Boris Johnson (a 3rd rate Winston Churchill tribute act) is almost invisible - and he was before he was ill with the virus. The ministers are disingenuous and devious. An example is Michael Gove - as one commentator put it - a man so duplicitous he could not be trusted not to stab himself in the back! Boris Johnson was skewered by Keir Starmer (Labour Opposition Leader) last week and misled parliament (that's as close to lying as it gets in the UK) about care home guidance. We have honoured the wartime generation by killing them off in droves in care homes including the splendid Chelsea Pensioners (10 dead and counting). Lord Sugar is full of optimism bias and something else! Doing your best is what Cub Scouts do. What happens if your best is not good enough?
I am seriously worried about my children and grandchildren and I'll do what I can to help them.
At least I can now take my bike out for a ride.
Btw the grandkids just love Popeye even in black and white!
Take care out there my Norton friends.
Andy