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Author	Wyrmalla
Comment	Had the Government and public had their act together Months ago this would have been less of an issue. Pussy footing around dealing with the virus is what's led the UK being in the state it is. Rather than accepting short term hardship the Governments here decided to stick normality on life support. Claiming that it was all for the good of the economy. Had stricter measures been enforced things may have been a hold of earlier. Shortening the worst of the effects and allowing the economy to get back on track sooner. Meaning that it would be in a less poor state to recover from when it did restart. Instead things are drawn out longer, draining the economy (and people) continuously. Regardless of people's personal opinions, how awful Britain as a whole has handled things is clear through the number of deaths per capita. And I don't ignore the Scottish Government's complicity in that. Looking at the Government's website maybe a week ago showed that kids were driving the spread through the percentages of cases being recorded among them. Something like 13% of children in Scotland were off school - with 2% confirmed as Covid. Knowing how many families are treating Covid its something which is likely higher. England is doing terrible. Though just because Scotland's better by comparison doesn't mean that the Government's handling of things here isn't terrible. We're shackled by having an open border to the South - so stopping the flow of cases from there's impossible, as does being in the Union prevent taking extreme measures without the electorate comparing us to what England's doing. Being pulled down by England's mistake doesn't make our Government less complicit in this stupidity. Not sharing the facts for the sake of causing fear - and instead leading to the problems we're having right now - doesn't help the situation. People should have a respect for the situation they're in rather than ignorant. And if the poor handling of it by the Government and individuals effects them then they should be angry. But I suppose having a whole population seething at their Government's mishandling of a situation isn't something those in power want. Better to keep people thinking everything's fine and blaming the bad things that they do see on some disconnected issue they've no control over.
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Created	Fri 11th Sep 2020 1:24am
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Had the Government and public had their act together Months ago this would have been less of an issue.

Pussy footing around dealing with the virus is what's led the UK being in the state it is. Rather than accepting short term hardship the Governments here decided to stick normality on life support. Claiming that it was all for the good of the economy.

Had stricter measures been enforced things may have been a hold of earlier. Shortening the worst of the effects and allowing the economy to get back on track sooner. Meaning that it would be in a less poor state to recover from when it did restart. Instead things are drawn out longer, draining the economy (and people) continuously.

Regardless of people's personal opinions, how awful Britain as a whole has handled things is clear through the number of deaths per capita. And I don't ignore the Scottish Government's complicity in that. Looking at the Government's website maybe a week ago showed that kids were driving the spread through the percentages of cases being recorded among them. Something like 13% of children in Scotland were off school - with 2% confirmed as Covid. Knowing how many families are treating Covid its something which is likely higher.

England is doing terrible. Though just because Scotland's better by comparison doesn't mean that the Government's handling of things here isn't terrible. We're shackled by having an open border to the South - so stopping the flow of cases from there's impossible, as does being in the Union prevent taking extreme measures without the electorate comparing us to what England's doing. Being pulled down by England's mistake doesn't make our Government less complicit in this stupidity.

Not sharing the facts for the sake of causing fear - and instead leading to the problems we're having right now - doesn't help the situation. People should have a respect for the situation they're in rather than ignorant. And if the poor handling of it by the Government and individuals effects them then they should be angry. But I suppose having a whole population seething at their Government's mishandling of a situation isn't something those in power want. Better to keep people thinking everything's fine and blaming the bad things that they do see on some disconnected issue they've no control over.