Trump during his press conference on Tuesday took apart Boris’ initial “take it on the chin” and ride it through “herd immunity” plan which as we all know badly backfired.
The next day not one major news programme on the BBC, Sky or ITV showed this. We have a #BrokenMedia
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NHS underfunding left us badly prepared: Deborah Birx “We’re worried about groups all around the globe, they have 8000 ventilators in the UK. If you translate that to the US that would be equivalent to us having 40000 ventilators. We have 5 times that”
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A reminder of that “herd immunity” plan that Boris. This is Irish TV news actually analysing what it would mean. The TV news media in the UK blindly accepted it as “science”. Although they u-turned, the weeks that this plan was operational cost lives.
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https://twitter.com/ukdemockery/status/1245432584508768259?s=21 https://twitter.com/ukdemockery/status/1245432584508768259

Trump is not alone, the international reaction to Boris Johnson's approach to dealing with #COVID2019uk has been pretty scathing..
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