Hate to see incompetent

Sir, – Boris Johnson’s response to the Covid19 Pandemic has been worse than could have been predicted.

He knew the coronavirus was coming. The warnings from China were stark.

Johnson could have mobilised. He could have ensured the NHS was well stocked with ventilators and PPE equipment such as proper surgical masks and he could have followed WHO advice to

test the population. He could have brought in a lockdown much earlier.

He did none of these things. Instead Johnson and Dominic Cummings dithered.

Johnson followed the highly dubious “herd immunity” approach.

This approach would have let a virus with no known cure, and therefore no natural immunity, rampage through the population.

When Johnson did finally speak to lock the country down his message was confused and garbled. It was unclear who was an

“essential worker”.

The situation today is that NHS surgeons and consultants in England are having to buy DIY masks from chains such as B&Q.

Established firms who actually make ventilators have been sidelined.

Instead James Dyson – despite having no experience of making ventilators – has been commissioned to make them from scratch within a few weeks.

The EU have a scheme to bulk buy ventilators. Yet Boris Johnson withdrew from it.

Some British unionists laughably claim the Tories’ useless coronavirus response “proves” that Scotland can’t be independent.

If this is their idea of competent I would hate to see what they imagine a disaster would be.

Alan Hinnrichs. 2 Gillespie Terrace, Dundee.