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The UK has over 16.5k deaths and counting at the moment from C-19 (a figure which doesn& #39;t even include deaths in the community and in nursing homes) whereas Greece has only 116 deaths. Not 1116 deaths, 116 deaths. https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1248658937903230977">https://twitter.com/bopinion/...
This graph is ten days old now but not much has changed since then in truth. The UK figure at the moment is 241.54 deaths per million. The Greek figure, on the other hand, is 10.53 deaths per million.
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It took the Greeks four days to initiate a full-scale lockdown after their first C-19 related death. It took us 18 days.
It took the French even longer than us to lockdown after their first death - 31 days to our 18.
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The irony of the bungling British response to C-19 is not that they didn& #39;t listen to the experts but that they did https://twitter.com/Saffiya_Khan1/status/1252301244154220545?s=20">https://twitter.com/Saffiya_K...
For all of you who dismissed that ST article out of hand bc it doesn& #39;t suit your partisan biases, the clip above does indeed seem to confirm the general thrust of that article i.e we lost valuable time in Feb bc we treated this as a pandemic flu rather than a SARS-type outbreak
Greece shut down after 4 days and have 116 deaths. We shut down after 18 days and have 16,509 deaths. France shut down after 31 days and have 20,265 deaths. Clearly the advise that the Government was given was catastrophically wrong and ppl have paid for it with their lives.
We can be angry with 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ¨đł" title="Flag of China" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of China"> about this whole situ but ultimately diff governments have handled this crisis differently & come out with wildly different results. Blaming https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ¨đł" title="Flag of China" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of China"> only takes you so far. Those governments who have handled this crisis poorly have to take responsibility too.
Thats how I feel about this and I have absolutely zero time for anyone whose main priority is looking to make excuses for how badly the response to this crisis has been bungled and seek to shield our Gov from any criticism whatsoever. Your priorities are completely wrong.
Blond is right & he was right about this very early on when many others werent. The question he poses in this tweet is the correct one. Clearly the answer is: both. The advise was wrong but that doesnt obviate the politicians involved from responsibility https://twitter.com/Phillip_Blond/status/1252343244593041408?s=20">https://twitter.com/Phillip_B...
And I find it strange to see so many Leavers jump on this with glee i.e âthe gov got it wrong purely & simply bc it followed expert advise therefore they cannot be faulted.â Leavers have spent 4yrs critiquing technocratic forms of politics only now to suddenly hide behind it.
Dishonest and disingenuous to do so. The so-called âexpertsâ got it wrong but the politicians got it wrong too. If you think otherwise then you don& #39;t really understand what politics is and what it is about.
