Arrogant officials are failing us all
Wash your hands of Kate
KATE Winslet, who starred in the movie Contagion, took to the Twittersphere this week to post a video which I’m sure she’d convinced herself was going to save millions of lives.
Despite having been repeatedly told by doctors and scientists how to wash our hands, Ms Winslet thought that having “pretended” to be an epidemiologist in the movie (someone who has studied and understands the spread of contagious diseases) she could do better.
“I worked with some of the world’s best health professionals,” she droned. “And what did they teach me? They taught me to wash my hands like my life depended on it.”
I’m sure they did, Dearie. But we’ve been taught how to wash our hands by REAL scientists. We don’t need lessons from an actress who swatted up on how to look like one.
And let’s not forget Winslet died halfway through Contagion so let’s not be taking any advice on how to keep safe from her.
MY ADMIRATION for Jane Fonda knows no bounds however I don’t accept her claim that when arrested four times on climate change demonstrations she was treated with kid gloves by police simply because she’s “white and famous”.
suspect it was more to do with the fact that at 82 she’s actually an old lady – a fact she simply refuses to embrace. Which, of course, is why I’m in awe of her.
ITHE JUSTIFICATION for people being paid six-figure salaries, in any walk of life, is because there’s an assumption that when dog dirt hits the fan those very highly paid people will be ready, willing and able to deal with any challenge, any crisis head on. These are people who are supposed to be smarter and sharper than the majority of us who aren’t on six-figure salaries. They’re supposed to be the brains, who are paid to anticipate catastrophe – and deal with it. But it turns out that at Public Health England none of the above applies. This shambles of an organisation has 242 people who are on six-figure salaries to deal with precisely the kind of crisis that is unfolding now. One of their specific aims, as stated in their annual report, is: “We exist to protect people from infectious disease and public health emergencies.” Yeah, well, they haven’t.
These are the people who knew about Covid-19 back in January and had been warned by the World Health Organization to be ready for the spread of it. But it’s been revealed that ministers, officials from PHE and the Department of Health didn’t bother drawing up plans for mass community testing despite an official warning it would slow the spread of the disease.
Testing didn’t figure in their plans because, despite all advice to the contrary, THEY decided a new outbreak of influenza would be the next threat to the UK (if only their intelligence equalled their arrogance). For that alone every one of them involved in that decision should be sacked because they ignored the warnings from experts and continue to do so to this day.
So, instead of preparing for the onslaught of Covid-19 they busied themselves spending the £4.5billion they get from the Government on directives about losing weight and how we shouldn’t call fat people fat for fear of offending them.
These are the people who, in the last month, should have been working with scientists in the private sector – who have been falling over themselves to help with testing and the provision of ventilators – but instead they stuck the proverbial two fingers up at them because, again, they thought they knew better.
But it’s clear now – they don’t. In fact their woeful response to the Covid-19 emergency could be considered criminal had it happened in any other sector but public health. Their incompetence has meant thousands of people, in particular NHS workers, haven’t been tested because THEY failed to order the test kits.
It meant buying and supplying vital protective gear for NHS workers was delayed. It meant British people ARE dying needlessly because there are not enough ventilators to save them. And it meant fewer than one per cent of the 550,000 frontline doctors, nurses and ancillary staff hadn’t been tested until this week. The
WHO has always said testing is key because not only does it mean the infected can be isolated alongside those they have been in contact with but it also allows NHS workers and others to return to their jobs.
But that hasn’t happened because our idiot health bureaucrats didn’t do what they’re paid to do which means not only will people die but the economy will be destroyed. And THAT’S why they must be got rid of sooner rather than later because if there IS a second wave of this virus – these idiots cannot be in charge.
When this is over, there needs to be a clear out of those blundering incompetents at PHE who failed us as this viral tsunami crashed on to our country. It’s bad enough people are dying because of this virus. But it’s intolerable they’re dying because of the incompetence of those paid vast sums to keep them safe.
AMBER RUDD’S daughter, Flora Gill, says she’s finding lots of ways to get petty revenge against her boyfriend lawyer Adam Vallance while self-isolating: “I move his bookmark forward three pages or I smudge my thumbs along his glasses when he’s not wearing them.” Dear oh Dear Flora – is that really the best you can come up with? I do that kind of stuff to The Husband on a normal day – isolation calls for something entirely more wicked…
KEIR STARMER has admitted he moisturises his skin every night before bed.
The man expected to become the new Labour leader today may have made the admission in The New Statesman hoping to ditch his brainy but boring image. Well, it won’t do that. But what it will do is scupper any chance he has of winning back those disaffected Labour voters in the Northern heartlands who will think any man who spends that much time on his hair AND his face is a Dandy who can’t be trusted.