Test, Track and Trace?
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It was BBC and general media influence that pushed the government to spend spend spend on testing. They were all baying for blood because we weren't testing enough, hoping and praying testing targets wouldn't be met so that could write up stories about how crap the government are. I have absolutely no reason to be defending the gov on anything whatsoever but you can't have it both ways.
Tracing people who have caught Covid-19 is useful to see how many people will die 3 weeks later. Although that's probably not worth tens of Billions. The bit we seemnto have dropped the ball on is making sure people who have Covid-19 do isolate. Countries that seem to have done better often ensure people are still paid whilst isolating.
Also, we left it too late to do track and trace to allow us to try to eradicate Covid-19 as some other island nations have managed to do.
Also, we left it too late to do track and trace to allow us to try to eradicate Covid-19 as some other island nations have managed to do.
That I can agree with, we could have done things better at the beginning of this - we are though doing very much better than most nations now. In part T&T was delayed by the UK trying to design its own system from scratch, rather than risk using a less secure ready rolled system.
We already had track and trace teams in place when Covid-19 first got here, but they were regional teams rather than the centralised track and trace monstrosity. They're the ones that track other diseases of concern when you have local e-coli or measles outbreaks.
We chose to entirely ignore and cut them out of the process until late last year.
More of your little minds conspiracy theories. You are the one who needs to wake up to the truth..
Now put on 'IGNORE' You have the honour of being the only one on ignore.
Though it probably would not have been able to cope, with such an extensive outbreak as this..
They'd have needed support and to scale up but we chose to ditch that existing framework and local knowledge for centralised control. National outbreaks are just a large number of local ones.
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Boy, that is some poor logic.
So if I say you need to lose weight you go and chop your legs off its my fault for telling you to do that?
Yep, uk.gov went into headless chicken mode for a while.
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WTF R U ON.Your use of the word "" healthy"" is out of context, confusing and wrong.
Who?
Not sure what point you are trying to make there?
What he's saying is that the 'usual suspects' who were bitching last year because we had no effective track and trace system in place are the same people who are now bitching that we're spending too much on it.
I think you know this though don't you.
The track and trace element has certainly been a failure, but I don't think it ever had a chance of really working. Dozens of building contractors I know said they won't answer the phone if they don't recognise the number and even if they were contacted there is no way they would isolate. The fact is we are a Nation of individuals who make our own minds up about things. We won't be told what to do when it comes to our liberty. But the vast majority if the money (an unbelievable amount?) has been spent on testing, which is what everybody wanted until they realised how much it was costing.
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