Re: This is a failure of government
[Citation needed].
Last time I checked the EU purchasing hadn't delivered a single bit of PPE or a single ventilator to any EU state.
Meanwhile, we've created something like an extra ten thousand beds with ventilators through boosting production of the things in the UK, and whilst PPE is in short supply due to competing with buying on an international market which is quite busy there are no reputable sources showing anywhere that has actually run out.
And since care workers are employed by private companies and not the government, it's actually the responsibility of those companies to put measures in place, not the responsibility of the government. Carehomes that basically stopped visits and had staff stay in the carehome or camp outside have done fine. Those that did nothing and gone on at business as usual have largely not done fine. Again, not something you can blame on the government when it's not run by the government. If they were run by the government, I have no confidence that the care homes would have been running at a universally high level.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
