Let the virus spread, despite a massively unprepared NHS?!

I still can't get over this.

The UK government wanted to allow the virus to spread, despite advice from the World Health Organization, most scientists, and every other country that is currently effectively managing the outbreak.

And despite knowing that the NHS is massively underprepared for a potentially huge spike in cases - thanks to 10 years of the austerity that these same politicians imposed! (And decades of neoliberal economics before that).

Mike Galsworthy, founder of 'Scientists for EU', calls this a 'mess up', but to me, it very much looks like a criminal and insane prioritization of short term economic health, over the health of people. (Which is totally the norm in our system).

And have the Tories actually completely abandoned the 'herd immunity' strategy? It doesn't really seem like it as yet. Still no enforcement of social distancing. Just advisory.

If there's any justice, the government will be held to account for this. (There isn't, so it won't be). It seems clear that their neoliberal mentality is massively hindering their ability to cope with this crisis.

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Update: as expected, it seems that this was not simple a 'mess up'.