I am so jealous!
By Fleur
@Fleura (35037)
United Kingdom
December 13, 2020 7:02am CST
Why do we have such an incompetent government? Did we really get what we deserved?
Back at the start of the year, when there were news reports of a new and dangerous virus outbreak in China, with reported deaths rapidly climbing into the hundreds, then the thousands, did the UK government do anything? No.
We were told to carry on as usual and it was just a bad case of ’flu. Then there was a sudden realisation and a total lockdown - but while most of us stayed at home as instructed during that period, 20 MILLION people were allowed to enter the country with no restrictions, importing the virus thousands of separate times. That makes me so angry!
And since then the testing, tracing of contacts etc has been so hit-and-miss as to be useless.
Now, several months later, the whole country is in a massive mess, with confusing restrictions changing all the time, the national debt is beyond comprehension, people have lost their jobs, their businesses, and many have died or been left with long-term complications. The 4,700-odd deaths reported in China now looks laughably small compared to the more than 64,000 reported here (with a population less than a 20th of China)!
I am so jealous of New Zealand - where they had a total shut-down, got things under control (25 deaths to date) and are now completely back to normal. Everyone entering the country has to isolate for two weeks, and not just told to stay at home in a wishy-washy text message, but kept in a hotel under guard, with three meals a day delivered and one chaperoned exercise outing per day, at government expense, and released at the end of the quarantine after two negative tests. This might cost a lot, but it must be minor compared to the financial black hole we have been sucked into.
It seems you don’t need a totalitarian government to get something like this under control - just one with common sense and a good long-term plan. If we can’t get out of this mess soon I might consider emigrating.
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@LadyDuck (502491)
• Italy
13 Dec 20
I understand and I fully agree. We had a lockdown in March/April that lasted 8 weeks. We, the seniors, were not even allowed to go buy our own grocery, we had to call a volunteer and give our list. Well... every day 70,000 (yes 70 thousand) Italian workers came here in the morning and went back in Italy in the evening and Italy was the most affected country of Europe at that time! Is this insane? In my opinion is under normal comprehension.
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@LadyDuck (502491)
• Italy
14 Dec 20
@Fleura Switzerland is a sensible country with one BIG (VERY BIG) problem. People are mainly wealthy, all waiters, nurses, sale personnel come to work here from Italy. Should they close the border, we will have no way to buy food in the grocery stores, the nursing homes will be left without the nurses and even those who take care to clean and to bring food there. This is the only problem that Switzerland has, small country, small population, too many workers from Italy, France and Germany (those ones on the north).
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@JudyEv (382126)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Dec 20
Australia has done well too and has much the same restrictions as NZ. My state, WA, went into lockdown and while the rest of the country poo-pooed what we were doing, we have very few deaths. At least our experience proved that lockdowns work.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
13 Dec 20
we'd the same here'n the u.s., with a president who still makes light 'f such. his 'believers' convinced the numbers 'f deaths 've been rigged to show more than 'ctually happened due to covid. them not seein' that yes, he caught the virus 'n 'twas not down long. the diff'rence bein' he 'twas checked daily, such 'twas caught early, he 'twas hospitalized quickly 'n given anti-virals that the rest 'f the population's no access to.
i'm with ya, though looked 'nto jest gettin' a 6 month visa to kiwi land. uhm, nope, not happenin'. i 'gree, such 'twas an 'xpense, but not e'en a drop'n the bucket to the costs other countries 've 'ndured. 'n the lives lost. with strangers'n ppe, loved'uns sayin' their farewells via a gadget....
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