Former government adviser Prof Neil Ferguson was giving evidence to a committee of MPs.
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The number of coronavirus deaths in the UK would have been halved if lockdown had been introduced a week earlier, a former government adviser has said.
Prof Neil Ferguson, whose advice was crucial to the decision to go into lockdown, said the outbreak had been doubling in size every three or four days before measures had been taken.
Conservatism in action. How many Americans has Trump killed ? Shit leaders = shit outcomes
Thank you for your one dimensional thinking.
Did you know, the lockdown means some 13,000 people will die from cancer because screening was stopped to free up the NHS. Did you know from history that deaths outweighed the recession etc.. when GDP reduced by 4% due to the effect on health from poverty. The reduction in GDP from the lockdown is nearly triple that.
So in the UK we have stupid bakes claiming Boris killed thousands whilst long-term, double or triple that are going to die.
So Boris is "innocent" of helping to defund the NHS, police and other services in the name of ideological "austerity" over the last decade? He's "innocent" of scrapping the UK's pandemic response team 6 months before the pandemic hit? So Boris fought against "austerity" programs that created the poverty that contributed to these excess deaths?
Exclusive: Former government chief scientific adviser says getting the needed resources was impossible
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Did Boris kill thousands? Probably not, but successive Conservative governments bear a heavy responsibility for the situation we find ourselves in today, ultimately the buck has to stop somewhere.
The NHS, railway, police etc.. are not under funded. I only know because I know people who work in those places. Billions are wasted.
Here's one. On a Sunday, each division on the rail has a machine that lifts the track to the correct place and rejiggles the ballast. Because of the unions, the workers on that machine earn more per hour. It only works a Sunday. So the guys book themselves down to that machine on the other six days, the wage fraud on the rail is rife. Tools go missing, electricians book materials on the rails account but collect it from the suppliers to do cash jobs. There's more.
The NHS, medical equipment is stolen by staff and sold which means operations get cancelled. I've forgot the statistic where NHS staff have bed sheets at home with NHS stamped on them. Staff can't change a light bulb, a firm comes out and charges £250 a time. They can't move furniture or computers, dedicated people are brought in. Theres a load of other stuff where money is defrauded out. They even made 3 staff redundant at my local hospital and employed someone on more money combined to log the stats!!!
The police, some 80% to 90% is spent on wages and pensions. Cops are retired off on nice fat pensions at 55. Any yearly increase disappears to pay pensions.
