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If you can bear it, please read these four articles, published across 5 months, in sequence. They show how and why the total fiasco of the government& #39;s Covid-19 response unfolded.
First: how the government deliberately stood down the system. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/19/uk-government-pandemic">https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
First: how the government deliberately stood down the system. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/19/uk-government-pandemic">https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
Second: how the government bypassed not only the NHS, but all reasonable standards of accountability and transparency in awarding contracts to bizarre corporations: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/15/coronavirus-contracts-government-transparency-pandemic">https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
Third: how it completely trashed the test and trace system by replacing professional civil servants with an incompetent chumocracy: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/21/government-covid-contracts-britain-nhs-corporate-executives-test-and-trace">https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
Fourth: how it finished the job by replacing experienced NHS clinicians with unqualified 18-year-olds working for Serco: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/28/england-coronavirus-covid-test-and-trace-teenagers">https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
This isn& #39;t your common or garden incompetence. It& #39;s the shock doctrine, as explained by @NaomiAKlein. Or, to put it another way, it& #39;s the playing out of Steve Bannon& #39;s script: using a crisis to "deconstruct the administrative state".
And now we& #39;re all suffering the consequences.
And now we& #39;re all suffering the consequences.
