Reply to: Boris Lies

[SueEllen]

How is it possible for this government to be so incompetent? Everyone has known this was coming since before Christmas. How many kids went to school yesterday for one day? A million-person super-spreading event? How much more organised could schools and parents be today if they had been given three weeks notice? The lack of leadership is jaw dropping. He couldn't even stop himself from lying last night, about an impossible (for this government) vaccine roll-out timetable, and the timing of the end of restrictions. Are there any adults in the room?

Ask Boris Johnson's ex-wives, former mistresses and children.

On a side note talking about former blond males -I discovered that no-one knows how many children Julian Assange has and he now has gone mad...

[d000hg]

I first remember seeing this excuse several months ago. Surely they could have done something about it by now? There does seem a general lack of urgency around all of this. Identify the bottleneck, fix it, move on to the next one. Vaccine roll-out should be 24/7 by now. If someone told me I had an appointment at 3.00am, 100 miles away, I'd be there - with the whole family if necessary. The sooner this is done, the sooner we are out of this mess. It seems to me that almost any financial cost that went towards speeding up the vaccine roll-out would pay for itself many times over in the long run.

I think many countries have been. The UK has already ramped up domestic production for instance. Rich countries tend to buy up the entire production though - the US was acting to try and stop their companies exporting for instance.

[Hobosapien]

It's not an excuse, it is a well-known worldwide bottleneck.

When they fail to reach their target come March they will be using excuses like the one I pointed out.

[mattster]

It's not an excuse, it is a well-known worldwide bottleneck.

I first remember seeing this excuse several months ago. Surely they could have done something about it by now? There does seem a general lack of urgency around all of this. Identify the bottleneck, fix it, move on to the next one. Vaccine roll-out should be 24/7 by now. If someone told me I had an appointment at 3.00am, 100 miles away, I'd be there - with the whole family if necessary. The sooner this is done, the sooner we are out of this mess. It seems to me that almost any financial cost that went towards speeding up the vaccine roll-out would pay for itself many times over in the long run.

[d000hg]

Providing they get the vaccine deployed at a good enough rate. Current excuse is not enough glass viles to ship it.

It's not an excuse, it is a well-known worldwide bottleneck.

And they're called vials. Though it's an apt mistake given the person making it.

[mattster]

How is it possible for this government to be so incompetent? Everyone has known this was coming since before Christmas. How many kids went to school yesterday for one day? A million-person super-spreading event? How much more organised could schools and parents be today if they had been given three weeks notice? The lack of leadership is jaw dropping. He couldn't even stop himself from lying last night, about an impossible (for this government) vaccine roll-out timetable, and the timing of the end of restrictions. Are there any adults in the room?

[Hobosapien]

Lockdown to end in March.

Michael Gove suggests third coronavirus lockdown might not end until March | Evening Standard

Providing they get the vaccine deployed at a good enough rate. Current excuse is not enough glass viles to ship it.

Providing the vaccine kaboshes the new variant strains and doesn't need constant re-tweaking and then the issue of if ok to give the same person multiple slightly different vaccines within a short timeframe if they need to revacinate all the vulnerable for each major variant.

In other words, it's just the start and they haven't a clue how it will pan out.

Peston was getting quite animated (shouting in the studio, which I thought was a big no-no indoors without a mask ) on the news last night about how certain countries in Asia have managed to get back to normal already due to enforcing severe restrictions on the public, as it's their nature, and seemed to be wanting the same for the UK and other more moderately governed 'western style' countries.

[SueEllen]

Lockdown to end in March.

Michael Gove suggests third coronavirus lockdown might not end until March | Evening Standard

[Old Greg]

I tuned in at 20:02 and missed the first 2 minutes!

I bet he is not on time with his child maintenance payments.

He's using .xls and ran out of rows.

[Hobosapien]

At last, Bozo acknowledges that schools are a 'vector for transmission', just like any (particularly indoor) place where people are in close proximity in numbers for a length or time without proper medical grade PPE.

Who knew that asymptomatic carriers could spread the virus.

'No evidence' just means they haven't found it yet.

Oh well, another few months of mostly people hiding at home scared to go out. Just need the ice to clear off then all the local running routes will be mostly idiot free for me to use in isolation like during the first lockdown.

I acknowledge, going on form, there will always be one idiot wherever I go.

[BrilloPad]

At least he was on time for a change

I tuned in at 20:02 and missed the first 2 minutes!

I bet he is not on time with his child maintenance payments.

[SueEllen]

Boris doesn’t lie. He merely speaks tulip.

FTFY

[Abbot]

Boris doesn’t lie. He merely speaks.

[AtW]

They have to vaccinate 2 million people a week just to do those groups....

No, now they have to NOT vaccinate that many in order to ensure lockdown is extended till March as it ought to have been from start.

[SueEllen]

They have to vaccinate 2 million people a week just to do those groups....