You are correct and it makes me furious - the UK had the chance to get ahead of the game, but the authorities somehow missed the juggernaut coming down the highway at full tilt, with lights flashing and horn blaring!
They failed - they did not want to disrupt the economy by curtailing travel, because they did not see that a stitch in time saves nine million!
I pasted here a copy of the email I sent to my MP the other day - I had emailed her several times a couple of weeks ago urging strict travel restrictions, but to no avail.
This is what I sent her yesterday:
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The real scandal (and I mean the real scandal) is that borders were not closed and travel severely restricted weeks ago!
The whole of Europe has let its citizens down in that regard.
It was frankly obscene that we were still allowing people to travel to Italy for skiing holidays after the outbreak became apparent there.
There would have been an economic hit from cancelling people's holidays, but it would have been nothing like the scale which we are facing now.
I can never forgive the government for this - the warning signs were there - we could not have kept it out completely, but our chances of containing it like South Korea would have been much, much stronger if we had closed borders at an early point.
It was a dereliction of duty by the Government - utterly wrong to stick by the globalist mantra in the face of a novel virus pandemic - people will die because such action was not taken as I and many others wanted at an early enough stage and the ensuing economic meltdown might have been averted.
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Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum