You don't know that. There may well be a vaccine in a year's time. Also it is most likely that it isn't here to stay and will go away. Most of the others have, at least in the sense of being a major problem. Exactly when that will be is another matter.

Me too. Good response in our street.

"The study - conducted in laboratory conditions - found that coughs can project liquid up to 6m away and that sneezes, which involve much higher speeds, can reach up to 8m away."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52126735

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/03/30/coronavirus-social-distancing-mit-researcher-lydia-bourouiba-27-feet/5091526002/

Oh dear....

Yes. I guess because we are usually too embarrassed to show our feelings. This clapping thing comes hard to us shy, sceptical Brits!

The problem with that approach is that those responsible for...

A criminal lack of PPE for those treating the seriously I'll.

Failure to test all NHS staff

Not bothering to massively increase testing resources when it was clear CV19 was heading this way

Refusing calls to implement social distancing/lockdown measures 

Allowing certain mass events to go ahead despite seeing how Italy was in deadly meltdown 

And many more errors

...are allowed to continue their calamitous performance whilst thousands die.

I don't know your political allegiance, but I'm struck how many Tory-leaning posters are sticking their heads up their arses and refusing to hold this cretinous government to account, whilst blesting about it not being the right time to play a blame game.

Remarkable partisanship on display. 

Can times that by at least 50, probably well over 100

Watching Question Time. Hancock still enthusiastically optimistic, even a bit smug at times. But I admire his tenacity and the fact that being defeatist or glum isn't going to help. However the CEO of the Royal College of Nursing said all her feedback is it just isn't happening on the front line and the broken promises are causing mistrust. I can see both sides to an extent. Hancock said there is no problem with he amount of gear stored in the Warehouse in the NW. There is plenty of it. It's just the logistics of getting it to the hospitals. Amazon? Army Lorries? Second couriers? Is that part really that difficult? Perhaps it is, I don't know.

The Archbishop of York rather succinctly said that it might be more useful to promise less and deliver more.

That's an outright lie. I'm not going into detail, but my missus works for the NHS in procurement and they simply cannot get hold of some even basic supplies (not even talking PPE here, though that is of course impossible to get hold of) from any external supplier - let alone these mythical (imaginary?) warehouses.

Hancock's chief ability is to lie and lie and lie, whilst wearing a puerile happy face.

If opposition politicians had been clamouring for tests, lockdown measures and so on during the build up to this situation I could see some reason for this bile, but all I can see from the hate being directed at the government at he moment is the fairly predictable political opportunism aided by the free gift of hindsight.

Exactly.  I suppose it's difficult to keep the politics out but it does come across as people with an agenda or an unwillingness to accept the dilemmas faced by our decision makers.  Sure, some decisions could have been better but isn't that always the case in challenging times? 

But this means that nobody can solve the problem.  If the supply chain is struggling then it looks a bit like the effect of panic buying on the supermarkets.

What we're left with is the argument that the government should have geared up sooner but that doesn't remove the possibility that the supply chain would still have struggled.

I'm sorry but that is simply not true. I'm finding most people tempering their criticisms but maintaining the right for exposing shortcomings as they occur. Otherwise they will be swept under the carpet and there will be future bafflement along your lines of "if only we had hindsight.

I find this we should hush everything up because it's political opportunism extremely cheap and undemocratic.

Have to admit that I have never been one for self congratulation.

The Times has asked readers to upload pictures and text for "How we spend our leisure time during the lockdown. Share a picture of your proudest achievement with us using the form below".

I uploaded a picture of three empty wine bottles, with the caption: "Drinking three bottles of wine in one night".

Hick!

Explains a lot

If that is the case and it’s a big ‘of’ why don’t they just say that.

All I have heard this week is they have x number of million items - yet it doesn’t seem to be getting to where it’s needed

I know there are no easy answers, but sometimes the government need to be upfront and honest - frank even. We are less than four months into a 5 year election cycle. Sometimes I think the tories are almost acting like they are campaigning in an election - except this is a national emergency.

My biggest concern with all of this is the lack of human compassion being over ridden by rules and lack of common sense. This has just been raised by several people on Question Time. We do not want to create a monster out of this that has a worse effect on humanity than the problem itself. The issue is people, and especially children being left to die alone, frightened. To me that is a zero option in a civilised society. There are ways round it. Simple ways. If it were my daughters I would smash the door down to see them rather than them die frightened and alone and every parent should do the same. It would have been perfectly possible to clear the room and allow the parent to enter in full PPE. Then to leave and re-isolate themselves. The risk could be made minimal. And if you told me my personal risk was increased if i were working there I would say I don't care, go ahead. In fact this should have been foreseen and a procedure put in place. 

Yes and he was still optimistic with his deliveries . If that answers the question.

And to be fair, Saint (as well as most others on here) was hardly shouting from the rooftops about the risks back in January / early February. 

They won't use it of course, they are looking for heart warming stories of knitting face masks, making fairy cakes and turning old newspapers into bog roll.

To be honest Rob that’s a good point I was in a queue outside a supermarket and several metres away some bloke was using a vapour it seemed to travel many metres in the wind it did make me realise to stay as far away as possible.

Criticism should be relative though. Relative to issues seen elsewhere. By all means Criticise the failings that the government can reasonably control as well as the bullshitting, but some of the other stuff like PPE and other supplies just simply isn’t under their full control.

Well said.  The government have been shambolic,  

Truly pitiful.