FAQ.md

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions

What did Boris do wrong?

Boris's Government didn't

• Do anything for 5 weeks while the WHO (and others), warned urgent action was required

• Provide front-line staff with sufficient PPE (it still hasn't)

• Co-ordination companies that are offering to provide PPE

• Join the EU ventilator program

• Joining Europe wide calls about the progress of the virus (that non-EU member where on)

• Send Boris to COBRA calls about COVID (Boris went on Holiday instead)

• Do anything about the NHS's under-funding, despite being the party that's been in power for a decade

Boris's Government did

• Delay ordering a shutdown and leaving small venues with a dilemma of going broke or staying open

• Set up fake NHS staff on twitter to support the government

Boris's Government still hasn't

• Implemented screening at points of entry

• Provided front-line staff with sufficient PPE

• Got a plan for ending the lock-down

Aren't Other Conservatives also to blame?

Yes, many other Conservatives, including Jeremy Hunt & Priti Patel, are also to blame.

Isn't it easy to criticise in hindsight?

Other world leaders didn't need hindsight to do a better job than Boris.

The world has known a pandemic is coming, experts have been warning for years,

this is why the US had a pandemic response team setup.

Didn't China/WHO/etc lie?

The entire world had access to the same information coming out of China

(delayed or otherwise), so that information clearly isn't the determining

factor in why the UK has tens of thousands more avoidable deaths.

How can I suggest changes to this site?

Either submit a pull request here or contact me here

Not Questions

You shouldn't politicise the pandemic

The handling of the pandemic is inherently political

• Under-funding the NHS for a decade, is political

• Blocked requests for PPE, is political

• Doing noting while for weeks while the WHO (and others), advised shutdown, is political

• Ignoring calls from call businesses to order a shutdown and leaving them with the dilemma of going broke or staying open ,is political

• Ignoring Europe's ventilator program, is political

• Not joining Europe wide calls about the progress of the virus, is political

• Skipping COBRA meetings to Go on Holiday, is political

• Failing to co-ordination companies that are offering to help is incompetence (ignoring it is political)

• Failing to provide staff with sufficient PPE is incompetence, ignoring it is political and blaming NHS staff, is VERY political

• Not having a proper screening program at airports during the lock-down, is political

• Setting up fake NHS staff on twitter to support your policies, is VERY political

• Not having a plan to end the lock-down, is either incompetence or playing political games (possible both)

• Pursuing a Brexit strategy that has contributed to a significant shortfall in NHS staffing, is political

I think you'll find what you mean to say is that you don't like the person you voted for being criticised, well tough luck.

Poor Boris is doing the best he can

If this is the best he can do, maybe it's time he quit and applied for universal credit.

Nobody else could get away with being so bad at their job, they can keep it after negligence results in tens of thousands of avoidable deaths, so it's about time he's held accountable for his actions (or the lack of them).