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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'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
First: how the government deliberately stood down the system. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/19/uk-government-pandemic
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
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
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
This isn't your common or garden incompetence. It's the shock doctrine, as explained by @NaomiAKlein. Or, to put it another way, it's the playing out of Steve Bannon's script: using a crisis to "deconstruct the administrative state".
And now we're all suffering the consequences.
And now we're all suffering the consequences.
I wonder whether there's anyone at @BBCNews asking themselves "why aren't we covering these stories?".
After all, they're only the biggest scandal in England at the moment.
After all, they're only the biggest scandal in England at the moment.
