MarkMas
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I agree, but frankly when a frontline surgeon/ key NHS employee and well informed member of this forum gets this sort of response it Fecks me off. View attachment 67841
I'm a bit perplexed at someone being so fecked off by this.
Iain may well be distinguished and knowledgeable in all sorts of ways, but it seems reasonable that someone can respond to one of his posts with contrary views. But maybe I feel that way just because I kinda agree with the contrary views.
Also 'we have known about this since December', seems a bit strong, depending on who you mean by 'we'. My understanding is that the The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission only informed the WHO about a significant problem on 31 December and it took WHO a month to say that this was a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. So to start buying lots of PPE before the end of January would have been a very prescient, or irresponsible, use of public money. https://www.who.int/westernpacific/emergencies/covid-19
This thread started in early February, and even Iain didn't seem too concerned back then (although perhaps he had been keeping the real situation quiet for months).