Latin

 

My daughters exams in Latin and Psychology were okay apparently.  She has a mathematics paper tomorrow and then four more papers after that (for this week, her exams continuing afterwards). I am not sure she has watched Life Of Brian, but if she does, I am sure she would be able to comment on the accuracy of this scene… 

The Tories and COVID

Nadine Dorries today has tweeted that Jeremy Hunt’s “pandemic preparation during six years as health secretary was found wanting and inadequate.” She is not the most reliable of people when it comes to facts, but in this she is right.  

In 2016, Exercise Cygnus was carried out along with Exercise Alice.  In the first, the need for ventilators was noted, in the second, issues about having decent stocks of PPE, having a working contact tracing system in place along with pandemic related travel restrictions were noted.  

I was lucky enough in the pandemic to have access to decent PPE, but that was not the case for too many.  Our test and trace system has been viewed as funnelling money to the Chumocracy and while COVID would have arrived even if we had travel restrictions, it would have bought the UK more time if it had been put in place sooner. 

I know that she has tweeted this because she does not want Jeremy Hunt to oust Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, but she has not realised that she has admitted that the government should have been better prepared for the pandemic.