Ondanks alle dappere retoriek van de
Britse regering, nu weer aangevuld met het kak-gemonkel van de inhumane schoft Boris
Johnson, stapelt ook deze regering de ene op de andere blunder….
Johnson die eerder het Coronavirus bagatelliseerde is intussen op de
harde manier bij de les getrokken en heeft besmet en al in het
ziekenhuis gelegen (belachelijk overigens de enorme aandacht die andere
landen als Nederland, Duitsland en België aan de
ziekte van Johnson en daarna aan zijn beter zijn hebben besteed, als
was hij een held en kampioen Coronabestrijder die was ‘gesneefd in de
strijd……’)
Boris Johnson en zijn Tory Party zijn verantwoordelijk voor het totaal onverantwoord uitkleden van de NHS (National Health Service), een organisatie die het grootste deel van de ziekenhuizen in GB bevolkt en bestuurt.
Als in Nederland is er in Groot-Brittannië (GB) een tekort aan
beschermende kleding enz. voor verplegend personeel, idem als hier is
er daarbovenop een tekort aan testen zodat besmet verplegend
personeel met gemak (zwakke en oude) mensen met het virus kunnen aansteken…… (vergeet niet dat je het virus al overdraaagt voordat de eerste verschijnselen daarvan zich openbaren….) Voorts zijn door de grote tekorten aan beschermende kleding enz., plus het niet testen van dit personeel, in GB intussen al meer dan 100 werknemers van ziekenhuizen en verpleegtehuizen overleden…….
Ontluisterend te lezen dat de Britse
regering zelfs niet reageert als firma’s beschermende kleding voor
verplegend personeel aanbieden…..
Verder probeert de Britse regering het
aantal Coronabesmettingen en -doden naar beneden bij te stellen en
heeft zelfs geprobeerd om verplegend personeel de mond te snoeren
over die besmettingen en doden…… Terwijl media als de zogenaamde onafhankelijke BBC
het aantal doden en besmettingen zoveel mogelijk uit het nieuws
probeerden en proberen te houden (hetzelfde gebeurt hier overigens
ook)
Het volgende artikel werd op TheCanary gepubliceerd en werd geschreven door Ed Sykes, waarin volkomen terecht veel kritiek op de regering Johnson, die niet alleen veel te laat heeft gereageerd op de Coronacrisis, maar die zoals gezegd samen met zijn partij verantwoordelijk is voor het uitkleden van de NHS, van wie hij het personeel nog bedankte voor het redden van zijn leven…… Terecht stelt men dat wanneer Jeremy Corbyn zo had gefaald dit waarschijnlijk al tot zijn opstappen had geleid, waar de media en ‘opiniemakers’ en politicologen geen kritiek op Johnson velen en daarvoor bijvoorbeeld Corbyn hebben aangevallen….. (tssssss….)
Beetje rommelig artikel, maar verder prima:
MP makes shocking PPE revelation that the
government won’t want you to hear
Ed
Sykes 21st April 2020
On 21 April, Labour MP
Bill Esterson made a shocking revelation about personal protective
equipment (PPE).
And it seems to represent one more brick in the wall of evidence
showing government incompetence and inaction amid the coronavirus
(Covid-19) pandemic.
PPE
scandal
Esterson tweeted:
Bill Esterson
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@Bill_Esterson
One of my constituents offered to make 10 million masks on 27 March and has never had a reply. I wrote to the government and also have not had a reply. This is putting lives at risk. It is shambolic. It needs to be fixed.
The NHS has been
struggling so far with a lack
of PPE. And despite grave
warnings about the danger to staff from such a shortage,
government action has been slow. Numerous UK manufacturers, for
example, have reportedly
faced the same situation as Esterson’s constituent, with the
government failing to respond to PPE offers. Many, meanwhile, have
reacted to this reality by sending
PPE to other countries in Europe instead.
The government is also
facing scrutiny over a recent PPE order from Turkey. Because there
are allegations that it only placed the order after saying the PPE
was already on its way (and it has still not
arrived).
On 21 April, the
Trades Union Congress (TUC) called
for an independent public inquiry into the “grotesque” shortage
of PPE by the end of the year. This comes as at
least 100 workers in the health service have died after
contracting coronavirus.
Well said @FrancesOGrady #PPE https://twitter.com/FrancesOGrady/status/1252538368568803328 …
Frances O’Grady
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@FrancesOGrady
Testing
too…
The same situation was
apparently true with testing too. Because experts who offered
help to the government on this front also waited weeks
for a response. And testing rates are still shockingly low.
The government has promised
100,000 tests a day by the end of April, but there were only around
20,000 done between 19 April and 20 April, although capacity is
greater.
Downing
Street sources tell the Telegraph that Matt Hancock’s promise of
100,000 coronavirus tests a day was “irrational” and “arbitrary” and
will “come back to bite him.”
In other news, here’s Johnson this time last month.
Meanwhile,
the quality of the tests that have existed has come into question:
Exclusive: Govt knew 1 in 4 #C19 test kits potentially faulty. One leading epidemiologist described it is a “catastrophe”. It means those given a virus-free status in error since testing first began two months ago would not have known they were infected https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exclusive-nhs-using-flawed-covid-19-test-missing-25-of-positives/ …
Exclusive: NHS using ‘flawed’ COVID-19 test – missing 25% of positives
At
least 17,337
people have died so far in the UK during the coronavirus outbreak.
And with the government reporting “hospital-only figures”, the
real number of fatalities is likely to be much higher – especially
as a result of care
home deaths.
Richard Burgon MP
✔
@RichardBurgon
France includes Coronavirus deaths in care homes in its daily figures. The UK doesn’t.
We need to start doing this ASAP.
We have to know what’s going on in care homes if we are to do all we can to help save lives.
Government
trying to control the narrative
Amid these government
failings, health workers are reportedly having to resist
attempted censorship:
We won’t be silenced.
NHS staff told not to tweet about ‘political issues like lack of PPE’ https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nhs-staff-told-not-tweet-21892573?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar …
NHS staff told not to tweet about ‘political issues like lack of PPE’
There is also ongoing
work on allegations,
which the Department of Health and Social Care is
vigorously
denying,
of ‘fake NHS staff accounts’ putting out pro-government
propaganda.
Keep.
Holding. Them. To. Account.
Some experts have
called
the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic a “national
scandal”. But the scandal hasn’t just been in recent weeks. It’s
been years in the making. Because Boris Johnson’s party
has decimated
the NHS in the last decade via its ideological
austerity policies. And in doing so, it has left the service
struggling
to cope with this pandemic:
Read this investigation and understand that Boris Johnson didn’t ‘take one for the team’. He took a gun and played Russian roulette with his own life and the lives of many thousands of others. He had a choice – they didn’t
1) UK governments had known for nearly two decades that pandemic was the No 1 threat facing the country. But Tory austerity policies progressively undercut the resources needed to cope
7) Suppliers who could have made up the shortfall of protective gear were mostly in China. By the time the UK approached them they were already struggling to deal with China’s urgent need for more PPE. Offers from UK firms to supply PPE were ignored by the government till April 1
8) A Health Department insider: ‘A pandemic was always at the top of our national risk register – always – but when it came we just slowly watched. We could have been Germany but instead we were doomed by our incompetence, our hubris and our austerity’
Channel 4 News
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@Channel4News
The former Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Sir David King, argues that austerity and Number 10’s communications policies have hindered the UK’s reaction to the pandemic.
Voor de video bij dit Twitterbericht zie het origineel (op de ‘pagina’ even naar boven scrollen)
Much
of Britain’s corporate media, meanwhile, has put out pro-government
propaganda,
criticising people who dare to call out the government’s
incompetent response. Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, for
example, faced much hostility
for holding
Johnson’s team to
account in real time. He was right to do so. But as some have
pointed out, the decks have long been stacked
in favour of the Tories and against progressives:
Michael Chessum
✔
@michael_chessum
The Sunday Times report ought to be the end of Johnson, but it won’t be. Windrush, Grenfell, Cambridge Analytica, the failure of post-crash austerity – all should have locked the Tories out of power.
Media bias, FPTP and imperial nostagia make Britain very, very hard to change.
Reverend&TheMakers
✔
@Reverend_Makers
Anybody who thinks this country isn’t some sort of weird dictatorship needs to ask themselves this question. Without prejudice
If Corbyn has missed 5 Cobra meetings that had resulted in lots of deaths. What would the reaction be on the BBC and in the papers ?
Today, it’s perhaps
more important than ever to hold the government to account. Because
its response has been appalling. And we need to demand better. Lives
depend on it.
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News / YouTube
– BBC News
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Zie ook:
‘Job Cohen (PvdA) prijst Rutte en zijn aanpak van de Coronacrisis…….. Een goed beleid? Lees dit!‘ (met links in dat bericht die meer over de situatie in Nederland gaan)
‘Coronavirus: Democratische Partij omarmt oorlogsmisdadiger George W. Bush‘
‘Bill Gates, CDC, WHO en de farmaceuten anticipeerden op de Coronacrisis in november 2019…..‘
‘China heeft een vaccin tegen het Coronavirus ontwikkeld en is bezig met de eerste testen op mensen‘
‘Beademing werkt averechts op het Coronavirus‘
‘China heeft een vaccin tegen het Coronavirus ontwikkeld en is bezig met de eerste testen op mensen‘
‘Coronavirus patiënten hebben zuurstof nodig i.p.v. beademing‘
‘Rutte 3 wil ongrondwettelijke noodmaatregelen legitimeren met spoedwet‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht naar meer zaken over aantasting van burgerrechten ‘in de strijd tegen het Coronavirus’)
‘NS zet meer intercity´s in als actie tegen het Coronavirus….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘
‘Donald Trump, de slimste man van de VS, wat zeg ik van de wereld (humor)‘
‘The Liar Tweets Tonight! (Vote Him Away!)‘ (humor)
‘Wouter Kolk van AH Delhaize houdt personeel ‘nauwlettend in de gaten…’‘
‘EU ‘vraagt burgers mee te denken’ over oplossingen aangaande Coronacrisis‘
‘Coronavirus blunders: Nederland heeft bewust 600.000 ‘niet werkende’ mondkapjes aangeschaft‘
‘Farmaceuten misbruiken het Coronavirus om de winsten nog verder op te jagen‘
‘Coronavirus: Rutte’s beleid krijgt steun van 8 op de 10 Nederlanders……‘(en zie de links in dat bericht voor meer en oudere artikelen over het Coronavirus)
30 years ago today in Venezuela: the mass rebellion against neoliberalism known as the Caracazo, which ended in the massacre of 300 to 3,000, most dumped in mass graves. Today, neoliberals claim the mantle of human rights as they try to do the same. Never forget! 
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