Jeremy Hunt in particular has been very critical of the government and is arguing they have got their strategy seriously wrong.
Of course, that utter psychopath Dominic Cummings was taking the government down the 'herd immunity' route, which would have cost 250,000 to 500,000 lives. Vallance has a lot to answer for too. And some on here keep telling me the government didn't perform a massive U turn. They bloody well did!
The government has since back tracked, but has wasted the whole of Feb and Mar, which is why we don't have these provisions for testing in place.
We even have UK companies so frustrated with the government, for pushing them away, so they are exporting test equipment around the world instead.
The Government, it was confirmed by the Chief Scientific Officer Sir Patrick Vallance, was pursuing a policy of 'herd immunity' designed to deliberately allow the virus to infect tens of millions British people.
Extraordinarily, the Government also announced on March 13 that we would no longer be testing anyone but those already seriously ill in hospital, in direct contravention of WHO guidance that the best way to get on top of coronavirus is to 'Test, test, test.'
Yet our entire strategy was dramatically reversed on March 16 after a report by infectious disease scientists at Imperial College – who had promoted the herd immunity tactic - concluded it would in fact be a total disaster which might cost 500,000 lives.
It's hard to imagine a more shuddering U-turn, particularly given most other countries in the world were already operating a policy of suppression via lockdowns.