10-13-2020, 07:56 AM
I think that it is clear how badly the government have managed the whole test and trace system so it is no surprise that there are issues with the accuracy of it all. They took a working system carried out by local teams, stopped it, handed it to the private sector, paid £12Bn, and then handed it back to the local teams.
In the meantime we are seeing extreme examples (which I am not expecting to happen here) of China testing a city of 9m in a week because they identified a few cases. We have New Zealand (another example that doesn't compare demographically with us) where they have it under control and lock down an area if a case emerges - that is whack a mole, not what we are doing.
Test and trace was the one point that we had to get fixed, we knew that at the start and had six months to sort it out and failed dramatically. That is bad enough, but when you add in the cost of it all then that becomes a scandal. As we go into the winter months it is appalling that we can't see a point in time where we will be out of this, or even close to it.
In the meantime we are seeing extreme examples (which I am not expecting to happen here) of China testing a city of 9m in a week because they identified a few cases. We have New Zealand (another example that doesn't compare demographically with us) where they have it under control and lock down an area if a case emerges - that is whack a mole, not what we are doing.
Test and trace was the one point that we had to get fixed, we knew that at the start and had six months to sort it out and failed dramatically. That is bad enough, but when you add in the cost of it all then that becomes a scandal. As we go into the winter months it is appalling that we can't see a point in time where we will be out of this, or even close to it.