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How do you think Boris has handled it so far ? July edition

How do you think Boris has handled it so far ?


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WATFORD zero

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NSC Patreon
Jul 10, 2003
25,663
It's that time of the month again and as before, I'm making the assumption that we are talking Government rather than Boris Johnson personally.

So new Poll, same options.

April Poll

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May Poll

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June Poll

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Poojah

Well-known member
Nov 19, 2010
1,881
Leeds
It's that time of the month again and as before, I'm making the assumption that we are talking Government rather than Boris Johnson personally.

So new Poll, same options.

April Poll

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May Poll

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June Poll

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That’s a really interesting visualisation of the shift in public opinion. Back in April, most were positive. Come June, it’s overwhelmingly [very] negative.

There’s probably some benefit of hindsight at play here, but I do distinctly remember feeling back in March that we should having been locking down a week or two earlier than we did. I’m an absolute layman when it comes to epidemiology, a new word in my lexicon for 2020, but there’s certainly an argument that Italy could have served as hindsight in real time.

Was it bad scientific advice, or just bad leadership? I think it will all come out in the wash when this is over, but I don’t see the government looking good.
 






pb21

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Apr 23, 2010
6,256
I am tending to try an avoid criticism (benefit of hindsight etc.) but this contact tracing thing seems to be a complete balls up so far, not really much of an excuse for why this isn't working as well as it should IMO.
 


darkwolf666

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Nov 8, 2015
7,575
Sittingbourne, Kent
I am tending to try an avoid criticism (benefit of hindsight etc.) but this contact tracing thing seems to be a complete balls up so far, not really much of an excuse for why this isn't working as well as it should IMO.

Agree on the tracing - the app was all important and was going to be, like everything else “world beating”, then it was just the cherry on the cake, now it appears just an inconvenience.

We now have a tracing system that can only get hold of just over 70% of people who test positive, then can only contact around a similar percentage of their named close contacts, it really is quite shit, isn’t it...
 




Gwylan

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Jul 5, 2003
31,323
Uffern
That’s a really interesting visualisation of the shift in public opinion. Back in April, most were positive. Come June, it’s overwhelmingly [very] negative.

There’s probably some benefit of hindsight at play here,

I don't think there's much hindsight. I've just looked back at my rugby and cricket emails and three weeks before the lockdown we were expressing surprise that we were continuing to play. And at the end of February, we were talking about the cricket season not started. To put it into context, Italy was locked down by 23 Feb and the first COBRA meeting was held, I believe, on Valentine's Day (or close to it), So the delay until the end of March was inexcusable.
 


Gwylan

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Jul 5, 2003
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Machiavelli

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Oct 11, 2013
16,546
Fiveways
Maybe we should be like the French. The PM and two health ministers are under investigation for their slow and inadequate response to the virus. Possible charges could include manslaughter. The French, remember, locked down much earlier than us and much rigorously. God knows what they'd do if they had someone like Johnson in charge.

You have to hand it to the French, they don't mess around

Unlike the French, this lot want to do everything they can to circumvent the law. I'm just waiting for the obfuscation, dither and delay to avoid, minimise, and/or diminish the scope of the public inquiry, which is about the best our 'constitution' allows us.
 


pearl

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May 3, 2016
12,714
Behind My Eyes
Maybe we should be like the French. The PM and two health ministers are under investigation for their slow and inadequate response to the virus. Possible charges could include manslaughter. The French, remember, locked down much earlier than us and much rigorously. God knows what they'd do if they had someone like Johnson in charge.

You have to hand it to the French, they don't mess around

Portugal acted swiftly when they saw what was happening in Spain, but they aren't on BJ's list of ok countries
 












nicko31

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Jan 7, 2010
17,522
Gods country fortnightly
A public poll this time, even the deniers seem to have gone to ground
 









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