Does this government see something positive in us having Covid in the country?

MaizieD

I have read a lot of Oborne's articles, but this said more.
I was particularly struck by Oborne saying that he has spoken to senior tories who deny that Johnson is telling lies. Chilling echoes of the GOP and Trump...

It's a fascinating item, but, sadly, the people who really ought to be viewing it are those who are the least likely.

On a different tack (but related to the statement I've just made) here's a an article about 'The lies we tell ourselves' that's worth a read:

www.linkedin.com/pulse/lies-we-tell-ourselves-james-patrick/?published=t

Excellent article.

I believe NHS England instructions were for trusts to discharge medically fit patients to care homes as soon as it was clinically safe to do so, back in March 2020. I’m not sure how that came to mean COVID positive patients, or who would have decided they were ‘clinically safe’
So no, I don’t think any of the dubious decisions were with the deliberate aim of killing off the elderly.

I was in the NHS then, and known COVID positive patients weren’t discharged to care homes, certainly where I worked, but patients were discharged who were found to be COVID positive after their discharge, because there weren’t the testing facilities available for them to be tested before they left hospital. NHS staff would not deliberately endanger people by discharging to a care home in a known to be unsafe fashion, even if it was a government instruction.

Growstuff Thanks for the link. Like many others I was aware of the told by Johnson but to hear of the link to journalists and the lies was truly shocking. A very good discussion.