Note to Justin and Xioni - let's try to keep the party politics out of this thread.
Hancock is not a perfect person, but then who is? - but he is doing his damndest in impossible circumstances.
There are grounds to criticise the government, but the chief ones are that they did not take the situation in the country which caused all this, China, seriously enough in January. If they had appreciated what was likely to unfold, they would have ordered additional PPE then and started the process of getting ventilator supply in the UK ramped up in advance. Their other signal failure was to leave borders open, instead of taking measures to control and quarantine people from an early date!
Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum