Defined by
incompetence
The unforgivable
inability to anticipate and act dogs the government of Boris Johnson that its
rank incompetence cannot fail to show itself. In the handling of the
Coronavirus pandemic there is one statistic that cannot be ignored, the fact
that the UK, despite its success in the rollout of the vaccine still remains
ahead of all European countries in the death toll, mostly acquired into early
this year. Then fifth behind the United States, Brazil, India, and Mexico in
that order. [WorldMeters:
Coronavirus]
In my view, someone
needs to be held responsible and accountable for that failure, the successful
vaccination campaign cannot subsume the critical analysis of what went wrong
and for some justice regarding the unfortunate martyrdom of the innocent, especially
frontline workers, an independent inquiry with far-reaching scope to
interrogate, indict, and publish cannot begin soon enough.
We could have avoided
it
Having set out a
roadmap for the unlocking of the England and broadly the UK, with an end date
of the June the 21st to all restrictions, Boris Johnson appeared to inform
us that the Indian variant of the Coronavirus might stymie those plans. We hope it is just a scare, but they have form.
That situation was
completely avoidable, it was obvious that in places where leadership was
populist and caught napping variants would emerge, yet, our borders were left
porous for people bearing the virus to arrive with minimal checks and so introduce
community spreading that would definitely begin to alarm any public health official.
[BBC News: Covid: Indian
variant could disrupt 21 June easing, PM says]
It was a gamble, not
a plan
As I have said
before, the successful vaccination campaign was a gamble that paid off, for we
were the first to grant emergency usage of a CoVID-19 vaccine and administer it
to the broader public, and against manufacturer notice extended the timeframe
between vaccine doses to capture a broader cohort of those taking the first dose.
If this vaccination programme had not been under the management of the NHS, it
would have gone the way of the exorbitant and corrupt PPE procurement scheme
and the ineffective but outrageously costly testing, tracking, and tracing
programme.
The gamble paid off,
but the incompetence of the government cannot seem to find total concealment
behind that success for the failure to act promptly, check border entry,
institute stringent protocols against variants long before they became of
concern, makes it the third time of lethargy and inertia that is about to put the UK nations at risk of another avoidable Coronavirus wave. The utter carelessness
of which has been unbelievably rewarded at the polls.
Green list to nowhere
Then when you look at
the 12 Green List countries, never has a confidence trick been performed so
brilliantly on the public as this group of shysters have thus attempted. New
Zealand, Australia, and Singapore are not receiving visitors from the UK, Portugal,
Israel and Gibraltar have local restrictions as to who can visit from abroad, The Faroe Islands you can visit, but no airline comforts like food and beverages,
the in-flight magazine, then blankets and pillows must be removed from the
flights. [Faroe
Islands] [BBC News: Green
list countries: New rules for England revealed]
The vaccinated or
recovered can visit Iceland, and at least if, from a high-risk country, you can have
a hotel quarantine at no extra charge. [Iceland]
Brunei; how to get there or Falkland
Islands; maybe idyllic, then South
Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are apparently remote and literally
inhospitable in the South Atlantic, also in that region, a volcanic outpost
that spots the place of exile and the death of Napoleon Bonaparte is St Helena, Tristan de
Cunha, and Ascension Island, places that might well be exotic but you probably
cannot reach without traversing one of the amber or red list countries, or get
to directly at great cost. Gosh! We really have been taken for fools.