Is Matt Hancock denying care homes Covid-19 tests to deliberately harm residents?
Matt Hancock: he’s all talk and no help.
It seems Matt Hancock doesn’t think care home residents have suffered enough.
Hancock and the Tory government promised regular Covid-19 testing in all UK care homes on June 8.
The testing was considered necessary because residents’ health had been deteriorating after lockdown restrictions meant their relatives were not allowed to visit.
Professor Martin Green, chief executive of Care England, said the government had promised weekly testing for staff, and for residents every 28 days.
But he described the process as having “fragmented”; some care providers had received kits that had never been collected for processing, and others were experiencing long delays due to lack of laboratory capacity.
That’s right – lack of capacity to run tests, at a time when Hancock and his flunkies are telling us they are running hundreds of thousands of tests a week. They’re lying.
And they’re discriminating against care home residents, purely because they are care home residents.
And it is harming the well-being of those residents.
If they were behaving in such a way towards people because of the colour of their skin, that would be racism. If because they were (for example) Jewish, it would be anti-Semitism.
It should be treated as a hate crime.
Source: UK care homes still denied Covid tests despite Hancock pledge, officials warn
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