Is the government in charge or not?  If this is so obviously an issue then Hancock should have put together a high level team and told to sort out the procurement side.

Frsnkly, I'm amazed that you're still beating your favourite drum when you should be chastising the government for not sorting it out.

So why hasn't the virus hit Asia and the Middle East especially hard then? Rather it's hit the western nations hardest.

I don't know if there have been any tests done with good quality air purifiers which take 99.95% of pollutents, particules, pollens etc and replace with clean filtered air. If by washing your hands goes someway in stopping spreading the disease, if these purifiers can at least take some of the virus away can only be a good thing rather than ward staff getting multiple hits and increasing their risk.

There is no doubt at all that once this crisis is finally over, many lessons are going to have to be learned to make sure something like this never takes place again. In my view, learning the lessons of this will require many difficult and searching questions to be asked about what preparations were made for the arrival of the virus in the UK.

One thing is for sure: Governments around the world must do all they can in the future to make sure, as much as is humanly possible, that a deadly worldwide pandemic like this can never happen again.

I expect many of us are more aware and engaged in politics and Parliament than we ever have been in the last few years. What has become apparent is that to be a politician you have to be a different beast, but not necessarily the smartest. The wages testify this where an MP can usually earn anything from £70k to £100k, with the most senior on a bit more.

The people running actual businesses, on say at least £500k+ are the ones who are more capable of better decision making for the country. Who in their right mind would want to do an MPs job with the responsibility for their pay. They should get paid more than a weeks wages of a footballer.

While there are a number on here who have never got over Brexit and never will, given a choice I am still so pleased it wasn't Labour who got in.

What I see on a day to day basis now in the updates are people trying to defend themselves which by its own action seems on occasions like a party political broadcast. Sometimes they have not made the right decisions, but in these very difficult circumstances I mostly mostly see people who genuinely are trying to do the best they can. Often there are events outside of their control, but rather than blame shitty testing equipment that does not work or difficult Turks, they perhaps wrongly should be more upfront about these.

But when is all said and done, I trust I hope that despite a few short comings our people have tried to do their best.

While there is a blame game from a number on here, I just hope they remember who caused this nightmare in the first place, who is responsible for this mess but has not shown any remorse just aggression from anyone who challenges or threatens them financially, that's all they care about.

Completely true but there won't be any sort of enquiry. You're going back to the days of integrity, honesty and democracy. It ain't gonna happen and the plebs couldn't care less about the truth anyway.

Good luck with that !

The MP for Rochdale, Tony Lloyd, has left intensive care after being in it for over two weeks with covid 19

It probably has, but being covered up and lack of testing so we don't know

Trump said today that Pakistan have begged him for Ventilators and he is sending them 

The UK Gov is allowing unlimited commercial flights from Pakistan with no checks at the airport