UK Covid death toll

[Brentbaggie]

My view is that we - and by 'we' I mean the government - created our own dilemma by going into lockdown later than other countries; a decision taken seemingly on the basis of nothing more substantial than bluster and a misplaced idea that we could somehow blag it. The delayed start inevitably led to a delayed exit and the inescapable conclusion that we had now fallen behind those same countries.

The government then couldn't handle the pressure that went with the consequences of their original indecision and have decided to implement an easing sequence based on the same flawed approach that led to their inertia in the first place.

By any measure Johnson and the cabinet don't come out of this well.

I took the late lockdown as a given btw. Inept.