Ηλεκτρονικό Άσυλο: a sad story

Now that just the announced number of people dead by Covid-19 in the UK is more than 30,000, I tried to assemble everything that I have read about this pandemic, mainly on the inactivity of the government and its purpose, the sacrifice of the poorer and weaker.

Prime Minister: Boris Johnson[1]

Government Chief Scientific Adviser: Sir Patrick Vallance[2]

Chief Medical Officer for England (CMO): Chris Whitty[3]

Dept of Health Minnister : Matt Hancock [4]

Junior Health Minister: Nadine Dorries[5]

All the above team handling the virus, got infected by the virus at some point, look sources.

Tuesday 3^rd March:

· Covid-19: government advises UK public to carry on as normal[6]

· Hancock said it would not be effective to close schools and offices and cancel large-scale public sporting events to try to contain the virus, but that the government was bulk-buying “respiratory kits” to be used at home if hospitals become overwhelmed.

· NHS bosses have ramped up their efforts to detect the virus by ordering all 135 acute hospital trusts in England to routinely test anyone in intensive care units (ICUs) who has a breathing problem.[7]

· First action plan: Encouragement of social distancing, arrangements for the treatment of covid patients and the whole NHS function.[8]

· ‘I shook hands with everybody’[9]

Friday 6^th March:

· First dead reported in UK[10]

7^th March:

· Misleading article[11]

8^th March:

· Third dead reported[12]

· The UK Department of Health is now advising anyone who has returned from the lockdown areas in northern Italy to self-isolate for two weeks.

· 9^th March: Fifth dead announced[13]

· PPE Shortage[14]

10^th March:

· Nadine Dorries, Junior Health minister diagnosed with Covid-19[15]

11^th March:

· WHO Declares Pandemic[16]

· Coronavirus: Bank of England makes emergency interest rate cut.[17]

· The monetary policy committee voted unanimously to slash the bank rate from 0.75% to 0.25% at its first unscheduled meeting since the depths of the 2008 financial crisis as part of a coordinated package of measures alongside the chancellor Rishi Sunak’s budget.

· Warning[18]

12^th March:

· 10 Dead[19]

· Many more people will lose ‘loved ones’[20]

· PPE Shortage[21]

13^th March:

· First time Herd Immunity is used[22]

· Misleading article [23] [Irony, check article 7/5/2020]

15^th March:

· Guidelines of isolation of the elderly

16^th March:

· New guidelines[24]

· Officially dead 55[25]

17^th March:

· £330bn would be made available in loan guarantees for businesses affected by the pandemic.[26]

· Warning[27]

19^th March:

· Government reassurance[28]

· NHS not ordering PPE[29] when the lack of it is profound.[30] At the same time, gov blames China for not exporting PPE to UK.[31]

20^th March:

· Announcement that schools are to be closed from 23/3 apart from kids whose parents cant take care of them.

· “We're taking away the ancient, inalienable right of free-born people of the United Kingdom to go to the pub”[32]

· England's Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Jenny Harries, said on March 20, 2020: “The country has a perfectly adequate supply of PPE.”[33]

23^rd March:

· Mild lock down announced. “We didn’t want to go down this route in the first place – public and media pressure pushed the lockdown, we went with the science."[34]

24^th March:

· 3.5million test kits ordered[35] (<-. They are not offered to staff. The government has promised to increase those to 25,000 a day.)

· Nightingale Hospital announced.[36]

25^th March:

· London transport workers 'dropping like flies'[37]

· “Several million tests have been purchased for use. These are brand new products. We have to be clear they work as they are claimed to do,” Peacock said. “Once they have been tested this week and the bulk of tests arrive, they will be distributed into the community.”[38] (Article being corrected after Whitty remarks-see end note.)

· Some 500,000 people have signed up to volunteer for the NHS to help tackle the coronavirus.[39]

· Prince Charles tested positive for coronavirus.[40]

26^th March:

· Sharon Peacock misleading the public[41]. Misleading Study[42].

27^th March:

· Johnson tests positive to Covid-19[43]

· Hancock tests positive. [44]

· Whitty tests positive to Covid-19

· Reported dead 760[45]

· ‘Secret depots’ around UK stashing stockpiles of medical supplies.[46]

· Britain also processed its tests in a different way to South Korea and other countries. Instead of using a network of public and private laboratories, the UK initially used just one lab — Public Health England’s Colindale facility in north London, which was processing about 500 tests a day this week…The UK was one of the first to develop a test for coronavirus but has tested fewer people than most other countries.[47]

· Gove blames China for lack of UK testing[48]

· Michael Gove says coronavirus tests have FINALLY hit 10,000 a day - but still can't say when all NHS frontline staff will get checks.[49]

· Doctors are told not to perform CPR on patients in cardiac arrest.[50]

30^th March:

· PM’s Chief Adviser, Cunnings, tests positive. [51]

· Coronavirus: Homeless people 'scared and hungry' on streets despite promise to house them over weekend.[52]

· Neil Ferguson misleading statement[53]

· Firm boasts that won’t pay extraordinary sick pay[54]

31^st March:

· NHS staff 'gagged' over coronavirus shortages.[55]

· Fake promises[56]

1^st April :

· UK has 'bought 2million coronavirus antibody tests from China' and half will arrive this week even though officials are STILL 'evaluating' accuracy of kits.[57]

· Only 2000 NHS staff have been tested overall[58]

2^nd April:

· Goal for 100,000 tests a day[59].(It was reached on the 1^st of May[60])

· Care workers can’t self-isolate[61]

3^rd April:

· Nightingale Hospital opens[62]

· Murphy confirms Chinese PPE order failed[63]

· NHS debt is erased[64]

4^th April:

· Warning on misleading information spread[65]

· Nurse quits after forbidden to wear mask [66]

5^th April:

· Antibody tests are a joke[67]

6^th April:

· Whitty back to work after Covid-19

7^th April:

· Johnson in intensive care[68]

10^th April:

· Hancock says NHS staff overuse PPE[69]

12^th April:

· Johnson leaves Hospital[70]

17^th April:

· "I would love to be able to wave a magic wand and have PPE fall from the sky” – Health Secretary Matt Hancock[71]

· 20^th London bus drivers announced dead[72]. Weeks earlier they were threatened because they let passengers from the back doors. Now back doors use is obligatory.

21^st April:

· Birmingham wholesaler is shipping vital PPE abroad after UK ignored its offer of help[73]

· PPE shipped from UK to EU despite shortage[74]

· British coronavirus PPE that will be exported after UK fails to buy.[75]

· UK denies EU PPE[76]

22^nd April:

· Plane with PPE arrives [77]

· Estimates for double the dead figure[78]

23^rd April:

· 100,000 tests a day was a joke[79].

· Deloitte managing tets[80]

· Clarification on misleading data[81]

24^th April:

· 100 calls for domestic abuse a day[82]

30^th April:

· “We have so far succeeded in the first and most important task we set ourselves as a nation – to avoid the tragedy that engulfed other parts of the world,” says Boris Johnson[83]

1^st May:

· 100,000 is falsely announced to be achieved[84]

· NHS procurement official privately selling PPE[85]

· BAME Covid-19 death rate 'more than twice that of whites'[86]

3^rd May:

· Doctors use PPE taken from external sources[87]

5^th May:

· 30,000 announced dead

6^th May:

· Double the mortality rate in deprived areas[88]

· 200 announced NHS staff dead.[89]

7^th May: