Smaller scale is really underplaying it. The existing public health system has nothing like the capability required to deal with COVID-19. We are doing an absolutely incredible amount of testing now,… (View Post)

Apparently 80% of the cost is on testing itself. I doubt that even Labour would argue that doing vast numbers of PCR tests a day can be done cheaply. (View Post)

That's not the fault of Test & Trace, there was no political will at all for a draconian isolation programme. i.e. Force people to isolate under threat of a severe penalty. (View Post)

There has been a lot of moaning about these tests, but if nothing else testing hundreds of thousands of children a day, who are going to be mixing more than anyone else, has got to be useful for fill… (View Post)

They apparently said or implied it was the actual wedding. Now that's not very likely as the Archbishop of Canterbury is the last person you would think would hold a fake marriage service. (View Post)