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'A National Scandal': A Timeline of the UK Government’s Woeful Response to the Coronavirus Crisis – Byline Times

bylinetimes.com Ian Sinclair and Rupert Read with comprehensive countdown to how Britain came to have one of highest COVID-19 per capita death rates in the world.

Surely the link between abusing animals and the world's health is now clear | Nick Cohen

theguardian.com A disregard for creature welfare is often central to disease. But politicians won’t dare make the connection

UK:

▪️Lack of PPE for NHS
▪️Less testing in total than Germany does per week
▪️5 times less ICU beds than Germany
▪️Took 7 weeks to lockdown after first UK case
▪️Increased the tax on migrant healthcare workers
▪️Steepest death rate trajectory in Europe

Brexit means coronavirus vaccine will be slower to reach the UK

theguardian.com And it will cost more here because of the UK pulling out of the European Medicines Agency on 30 December• Three experts explain why Brexit leaves the UK less able to respond to pandemic• Coronavirus – latest updates• See all our coronavirus coverage

NHS medics cut up hospital curtain to make gown amid massive PPE shortages

mirror.co.uk EXCLUSIVE: Health Secretary Matt Hancock said more than 742 million pieces of PPE have been delivered during the outbreak - but frontline staff say the kit is not reaching them

NHS Million

NHS staff are rightly getting a lot of praise right now, but we know there are millions of others who are also working hard right now to keep the country going.

Please spare a thought for all the carers, social workers, police officers, fire fighters, teaching staff, prison workers, armed forces, shop staff, delivery and haulage workers, transport workers, refuse collectors, food production staff, utility workers and many more.

BMA survey finds doctors' lives still at risk despite PPE pledges

bma.org.uk More than two thirds of doctors have told the British Medical Association in a survey that they don’t feel safely protected from COVID-19

UK political parties unite to demand recall of parliament

theguardian.com As virus death toll nears 10,000, Labour leader Keir Starmer calls for talks with Speaker

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Brexit under threat as overwhelming majority say extend deal deadline due to coronavirus

The beginning of sanity??

express.co.uk THE UK is under pressure to extend the transition period with Brussels after polling revealed two-thirds of Britons would support a delay to Brexit because of the coronavirus outbreak.

The Brexiters know that leaving the EU will bring economic pain: now they realise that this + Covid is insane... The expectations of Brexit economic decline also explain why they wanted to do “herd immunity” experiment to protect the economy more than lives, against all medical advice

5000 deaths ... but crap media focus on just one story ...

Daily Mirror

The Labour leader says NHS workers are "the heroes of our generation".

This Is Trump’s Fault

“I don’t take responsibility at all,” said President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden on March 13. Those words will probably end up as the epitaph of his presidency, the single sentence that sums it all up.

theatlantic.com The president is failing, and Americans are paying for his failures.

Led By Donkeys

When all this is over let’s remember who looked out for us. And who didn’t.
(Location: Poole)

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Tonight we clap for Dr Adil El Tayar, Dr Alfa Sa'adu, Dr Habib Zaidi, Dr Amged el-Hawrani and for all those who've lost their lives protecting us.
(Location: Manchester)

Hit it Hard. Hit it Early. New Zealand‘s Response to COVID-19 Puts the UK Government to Shame – Byline Times

bylinetimes.com James Melville on the fast response of Jacinda Ardern's Administration which puts the UK Government to Shame

We don't need a Churchill, Thatcher or Blair. We need a leader for this crisis, now | Martin Kettle

theguardian.com The coronavirus pandemic demands leadership that is practical, open and trusted, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

How his ‘Brexit’ project explains Johnson's dithering on Covid-19 – Paul Mason

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socialeurope.eu Paul Mason explains how Boris Johnson’s idiosyncratic initial response to the coronavirus stemmed from his particularistic empire nostalgia.

Nurses forced to wear bin bags due to PPE shortage 'have got coronaviruss

metro.co.uk One nurse described how they'd been putting on 'brave smiles', but inside are all 'terrified'.

Brexit: UK plan to agree trade deal by December is fantasy, says EU

theguardian.com Leaked letter reveals scale of bloc’s inability to function during coronavirus outbreak

Special Report: Johnson listened to his scientists about coronavirus - but they were slow to sound the alarm

“Between Feb 13 and Mar 30, Britain missed a total of eight conference calls or meetings about the coronavirus between EU heads of state or health ministers”

This is an extraordinary & brilliantly researched piece

reuters.com It was early spring when British scientists laid out the bald truth to their government. It was "highly likely," they said, that there was now "sustained transmission" of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom.

Coronavirus has made extending the Brexit deadline a necessity

blogs.lse.ac.uk On 12 March, the FTSE 100 (index of the 100 largest UK companies) dropped 10.9% – its highest single-day fall since 1987. This follows flat GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2019, with almost cer…

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