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.

[Deskdiary]

If ZM is likely to lose his job, then clearly he’s not worth much as an employee. Shocking that.

Still, on the bright side, he’ll have more time to concentrate on being a keyboard warrior.

Good for him.

[royfromaus]

Does that go for everyone, deskdiary?

And the same for people losing their businesses?

[Mamyalynne]

That's a very unpleasant statement DD.

[Mozz71]

//MAGA. That is all//

Make America Grieve Again?

[Mozz71]

You really are a nasty piece of work sometimes DD.

[royfromaus]

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-400000-surgical-gowns-arriving-from-turkey-as-uk-hires-new-ppe-tsar-11975325

[Deskdiary]

Mozz - It is probably uncalled for, I accept that, but ZM does labour under the unfounded illusion that he is the oracle, and as he's a keyboard hardman, I think it's fair to call him out.

If he loses his job....meh.

[gness]

If he loses his job......meh.

You really are a nasty person..

[Mamyalynne]

Call someone out if you must but not in that snide side swiping and frankly cowardly way.

[Deskdiary]

"Deskdiary and teacake arguing has to be an all time AB low. It’s like watching two people arguing who has the best dog."

Zacs at 10.12pm.

If Zacs is happy to post the above, then I'm more than happy to state that if he's about to lose his job...good.

I'm still in full time employment and looking after 70odd people, all of whom have financial obligations, and none of whom I've had to furlough.

ZM can snipe from the sides like the pathetic keyboard hardman that he revels in, but me and mine will get through this.

[gness]

I find it hard to believe you are looking after 70 people. It just doesn’t seem to be in your nature.

[jim360]

N dishes it out but can't take it, it seems.

And DD, that's uncalled-for. No matter what you think of someone celebrating their loss of their job says a great deal about you, and very little about the other person.

[Deskdiary]

Shocking as that may be - it's true (my wife is often astonished!).

Should ZM be unfortunate enough to lose his job - Sainsbury's always needs trolleys collected.

[royfromaus]

You're in charge of 70 odd shopping trolley collectors, Deskdiary?

[Spicerack]

Zacs Master‘ Oh right, zacs.’
//Oh right indeed. It’s your beloved Trump’s handling of the situation which has led to this. Have you looked at the stats for the US today? Do you know that, in spite of the stats, Florida has today reopened the beaches?//

Wrong..........again.

[jim360]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/floridians-return-beaches-state-begins-loosen-coronavirus-restrictions-n1186771

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/18/florida-beaches-hundreds-coronavirus

I mean... I could go on. The beaches in Florida have been re-opened. Maybe the Governor was hoping that people wouldn't abuse that but, if so, it was a forlorn hope and, more importantly, a naive one.

[jim360]

I suppose it's a mistake to link Trump directly to this, it was Governor DeSantis who will have allowed this. But Trump can hardly escape indirect credit. His rather disturbing calls to "liberate" states under lockdowns consistent with his own administration's guidance, for example, will certainly have been in De Santis's mind.

[Spicerack]

Just about every country in Europe has x2, x3, x4 the death rate in the US.
And they could hardly have a more liberal definition of Covid death than the US has.

[Spicerack]

Dummies keep turning up here saying Trump should have shut it down earlier.
Complete ignoramuses.

[Zacs-Master]

Oh dear, it got a little heated on here didn’t it. Thank you to everyone calling out Deskdiary but Please don’t worry about anything they say, it’s water off a duck’s back.

Same for Spicey too. And the beaches have re-opened.