How difficult is it to get people tested? I understand it will be expensive and the tests have to be done somewhere but at the moment nobody knows if they have a cold, the flu or this bloody virus. Human nature will tell people it is one of the less serious and the pressure to earn a living means they will not isolate but carry on as normal. This will of course infect others and so on and so forth.
Anyone who has had a real bad dose of the flu knows you feel like you are dying at it's peak. So you feel like this now, what do you do? Nobody really knows, now people are being told don't even ring 111. It feels like the band playing on as the Titanic sank.
As I type I am listening to a Professor John Ashton speak on GMTV and he is aghast at how the government has and is dealing with this and called Boris a coward setting the two medical experts up as the fall guys. He said we lost six weeks due to inaction at the start and I agree there. More robust action should have been taken, especially with all these people coming back from infected areas, especially Italy.
I think all mass gatherings now have to be banned, better late than never. People should be told not to go out unless essential, as to go to work and buy food. People that can work at home should do so. Pubs and clubs, theatres, cinemas, restaurants SHOULD be closed but probably won't be. On the subject of food big stores should drop this minimum delivery order, which recently went up to having to spend £40 as opposed to £25. This means more people would use it.
We seem to have a head in the sand ostrich approach at the moment and it isn't good enough.
