The Earl of Chesterfield, on 11 April 2020 - 09:54 AM, said:
How quickly the mask slips.
Not a single word from you to criticise Trump's daily dose of denial, deceit, duplicity and diversion, either.
But anyway, that's all pretty irrelevant to the fact nearly a thousand people died yesterday. A thousand. Just picture that many stood in Chesterfield market square. Gone. Gone to become yet another number on the news. And all as we edge ever closer to totals that caused gasps of disbelief when witnessed in Italy and Spain.
Yet still - STILL - there're reports of frontline staff lacking basic PPE. Months after the government knew what was coming, three weeks after Johnson claimed it was 'stockpiled', two weeks after the ludicrous Robert Jenrick trumpeted how much was being delivered and a week after Hancock re-emerged making similar noises.
Then there's the testing that lags way, way behind where comparable countries were whilst 'Boris' was using his first COBRA meeting to taunt his opponent at PMQ's.
Hey, don't worry though, because they've apparently found a couple of functioning ventilators on the set of 'Holby City'. Which were probably there because of all that bloated BBC over spending...
Chris, the whole world is struggling to get PPE. We even have Noble's in town making it, nonchalantly joke about Holby's ventilators as much as you like but the world never saw this coming. However, I'm sure the leader of the opposition and MP for Chesterfield did.
My wife works in social care and wasn't given PPE, she contracted the virus and now passed it on to me. She is now over it having had mild symptoms. A couple of days ago I started to deteriorate to a point where we were on the edge of calling 999. Ten mins ago I managed to crawl out of bed for the first time in days.
Am I bitter? No, I'm proud of the fact that people like Noble's, Burberry, Dyson Rolls Royce et al are pulling resources to help the push to get rid of this virus by building ventilators and making PPE. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I have over the last week or so.
It's all well and good Tory bashing or Labour bashing but it doesn't really help. Fingers crossed you and yours and anyone reading this doesn't have to go through it like we have.
My wife will return to the front line on Wednesday, she will be visiting vulnerable people in their homes and caring for them, not for the money but because she cares. These are the very people that passed the virus on to us.
If their families had stayed at home instead of insisting visiting them we would be ok and those clients of my wife who are in the Royal fighting for there lives would not be in that state.
That's not the fault of the Government, that's down to those who refuse to follow the rules by staying at home.
This post has been edited by Quaker: 11 April 2020 - 04:29 PM