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Firstly, there's no "German tracing system". Every local council runs its own tracing. There's the app, which... cost more than NHS's, works the same and has no check-in. Or there's DEMIS, the database, which is better than Excel but took *5 years* to build (and still isn't done) https://twitter.com/kateahr/status/1315252045838942208
Secondly, it's not for "Track and Trace", it's for "Test and Trace". A chunk of that £12 billion will have been spent building the testing system and running tests. The gov dashboard reports 25 million processed tests - if they cost just £100 each, that's already £2.5 billion
Thirdly, why do only pubs get £100k? They're only a part of the hospitality industry. Include restaurants, cafés and takeaways, and that takes you up to £12 billion already. Hotels and other leisure stuff would be billions more https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/numberofrestaurantstakeawayscafesbarsandpubsintheuk
Fourthly, uh... Dido Harding doesn't actually have the money. It went to NHS Test & Trace and has already been spent (a lot of it on tests). I mean, I guess you could cut £12 bn out of the NHS budget and give it to pubs, councils and Germany, but it wouldn't be popular
Anyway, apart from that, 10/10 viral tweet
