ANYBODY could have predicted that Dido Harding would be wrong on Covid-19 mutation. Here are some of the funniest responses
Useless: Tory money pit and expertise vacuum Dido Harding.
Brace yourself because this is a doozy: Dido Harding, the wife of the Tory anti-corruption minister who was corruptly appointed to head the government’s Covid-19 test and trace organisation has just explained exactly why she should never have been allowed anywhere near it.
In front of a Commons select committee, she said, “Nobody could have predicted that the virus would mutate.”
This is a fact that is taught to seven-year-old children:
On the Dido Harding “mutations are something we were not able to predict” front – I just chanced upon this in my daughter’s science book.
She is seven. pic.twitter.com/p8HAzkw9NQ
— Kit Yates (@Kit_Yates_Maths) February 4, 2021
Doctors and scientists have been tracking Covid-19 variations since last spring – before Harding was appointed to run Test and Trace:
Dido Harding today “no one could have foreseen new variants emerging”
This is incorrect. Doctors+scientists have tracked various different strains of COVID-19 since last Spring
Viruses mutate, this is a basic fact about viruses. This is why we have annual flu vaccines.
Awful.
— Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 (@JujuliaGrace) February 3, 2021
Her comment has created a torrent of hilarity:
Dido Harding watching a Pantomime – I had no idea he was behind you !
— David Hingley (@David_Hingley) February 3, 2021
Dido Harding staring in slack-jawed amazement at the rising sun this morning.
— Alex Buxton 🇬🇧🇨🇾🇪🇺 (@AlexBuxton) February 4, 2021
Late Cobra meeting last night. We couldn’t order in for pizza so had pot noodles. You should have seen Dido Harding’s face when the hot water was added. Mind. Blown.
— Sir Frank Marcois (@frankmarcois) February 4, 2021
Dido Harding after watching Titanic: “well no one could have predicted that iceberg”
— dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 (@mrdavemacleod) February 3, 2021
Dido Harding watching Jaws: The Revenge: “no one could have foreseen that shark turning up”
— dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 (@mrdavemacleod) February 3, 2021
Dido Harding using a Stanley knife "no one could have predicted it cut things'
— Jen Wood – est optimum simpliciter (@unojen_wood) February 3, 2021
Nobody could have predicted how often Dido Harding would say that nobody predicted things that many people had in fact predicted
— Liam Thorp (@LiamThorpECHO) February 3, 2021
This one is particularly pertinent:
No one could have predicted that appointing someone so spectacularly ignorant of biology and public health as Dido Harding as the head of Test & Trace would have resulted in the spaffing away of £22 billion of public money without the achievement of an effective Test & Trace.
— Marcus Chown (@marcuschown) February 4, 2021
And of course there is only one conclusion to be drawn:
Dido Harding clearly isn't aware the NHS have to give a different flu vaccine every year.
BECAUSE VIRUSES MUTATE.
She should resign as 'testing tsar'. Now.
— Mandoline 🕯️ (@Mandoline_Blue) February 4, 2021
She won’t because she doesn’t have to. No Tory ministers have been harmed by her stupidity.
Although, considering their own mentality, would they even understand it if they were?
But you and I need to know that imbeciles like this are responsible for our Covid-19 response and that is why the UK is the laughing stock of the world.
I’m genuinely not sure which is worse; is she stupid enough not to know this? Or, is she lying but stupid enough to believe that we will accept this is something we couldn’t have predicted?
Either way it insults the intelligence of the entire country. If even I know this, not being a scientific person, then it must be a widely known fact. She is truly ‘an idiot’s idiot’
if starmer couldn’t have pissed me off even more then i read this
https://novaramedia.com/2020/04/12/its-going-to-be-a-long-night-how-members-of-labours-senior-management-campaigned-to-lose/
Anybody could have predicted that Fido would fall at the first fence. Nobody could have predicted that she would continue the chase and fall at every subsequent fence. Will she have to be put down? Stewards’ Enquiry!
Fascist tory ministers believe the same as Dido Harding – ‘we didn’t know coronavirus mutates!’ In fact little fascist dick johnson has said the same thing – he’s claimed ‘we didn’t know the virus would mutate!’ But then none of the crooked, corrupt and callous stupid fascist tories know any basic science or anything else for that matter!
I correct myself – all the fascist tories know is how to steal our public money and then claim ‘wah we did everything we could so not our problem guv that we are a bunch of corrupt crooks!
She actually said that? She actually said that? we were told, back in March, how stable this virus was and that it wouldn’t mutate as frequently as other coronaviruses, which enabled scientists to keep tabs on it. how is she the only person, seemingly in the world, not to know? To quote Peter Hichens, did she have to pass a stupidity exam in order to acquire her position? What are her qualifications, exactly?
Did she really say that? Seriously?
we should have given the money to a seven year old child instead,maybe the death rate might not been as high .I think the tories have done more damage with the virus ,then the virus itself