| Comment | One thing we really need is for our government to stop treating CV19 as a political issue and follow the lead of Germany etc in just being boring, bureaucratic and factual.
We know testing equipment is hard to get hold of, we know supply chains are difficult, just tell us how you're getting on and when we might expect things to be in place.
Instead, we still have a government that is obsessed with spinning everything and going on about 'ramping up' testing without actually giving out numbers or managing expectations.
Or like the issue around reporting deaths from care homes. Just say, "it's hard to get good data from care homes because we don't have the capacity to test yet, and it's difficult to establish a cause of death." We understand. Instead, it's being spun and palmed off as not an issue.
We know getting PPE is a problem. Obviously it's a problem. We accept it's a problem, just tell us what the plan is and how long it's likely to take to get PPE to hospitals.
I hope to God the fact that the interminable Labour leadership election is now over and we have a boring bureaucrat in place as the Leader of the Opposition some of this stuff might start to happen. Just say what's happening. |
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