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the recriminations continue the blame game is

afoot and apparently it is everyone's fault. We aren't doing enough tests. We didn't prepare

properly for the spread of the virus. We took too much time to shut down the economy. We don't

have enough ventilators. Our doctors are being put at risk by the government because there aren't

enough protective pieces of equipment for them and not enough people are being compensated for

losing work or indeed their entire jobs. Is anyone else thoroughly sick and tired of listening to this

constant whining and complaining about what's not being done? This terminal refrain of negativity

from people who know less than nothing about dealing with a pandemic and politically motivated

anti-Borris campaigners, I know I am and I'm not going

to entertain them anymore. We are, ladies and gentlemen, in the middle of the biggest health

crisis of our lifetimes. Testing or not testing is a far more complicated conundrum than the likes

of Robert Pestead from ITV would have you believe. He was torn off a strip on his show last

night by Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van Tam,

who explained that it was entirely wrong to imagine that the antibody test is the Holy Grail,

which will solve everything.

Why on earth can people not accept that the government is doing its level best to solve this ghastly problem,

and if they make a few mistakes along the way, because scientific advice has not always been forensically delivered,

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