Surge in Indian variant of Covid-19 shows what happens when you trust private firms with your health
Not the NHS: Boris Johnson privatised the Covid-19 test and trace system, believing it would be a great advert for privatisation. Instead, it has become a millstone around his neck – so he took to referring to it constantly as “NHS test and trace” in the hope that people would blame the nationalised health service that had nothing to do with it. They didn’t.
Failures in a Covid-19 response system that some people didn’t realise was still working have made possible a surge in the Indian variant, according to a report seen by the BBC.
Despite £37 billion in public funding to the privately-run organisation behind the test and trace scheme, famously – and badly – run by ex-jockey Dido Harding whose husband happens to be the Tory anti-corruption tsar (ha ha!), or three weeks in April and May, eight local authorities in England did not have access to the full data on positive tests in their area.
That’s what you get when you trust private firms run by dimwits with your health.
And people have realised it:
That £37 billion to Dido Harding was really great value. https://t.co/wqu5FAPO4x
— Prof Paul Bernal (@PaulbernalUK) May 20, 2021
John Penrose met wife Dido Harding working at consultancy firm McKinsey. He's a member of think tank '1828', who called for Public Health England (PHE) to be abolished. PHE was axed, McKinsey were given contract to draw up plans for new body (NIHP)… Dido was made interim chief
— Jacqueline Mellett (@Jac0691) May 20, 2021
£37 Billion and its utterly useless…we could have rebuilt social services or built dozens of hospitals for that money….it’s as much as our defence budget….utter utter corruption and theft.
— KagsyforPM (@KagsyforPM) May 20, 2021
https://twitter.com/PootMaclaren/status/1395441490655055872
They want action:
Test and Trace is one of many areas where we cannot allow previous mistakes to be repeated, and more lives to be lost as a consequence.
The Government must bring it’s inquiry forward so that lessons can be learned ahead of a #ThirdWave https://t.co/vUS8xzIZJh
— Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK (@CovidJusticeUK) May 20, 2021
You can bet that Boris Johnson will delay as long as possible. He won’t want us to know any inconvenient facts.
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This lot ain’t safe in the sweet shop of tax payers monies not safe at all yet track and trace the NHS had this in the form of VD tracking and yet it given out to their mates just like PPE hmm wonder which Tory thought of that one ordering loads of containers of it making more millionaires yet still are in whots wrong with people go back 50 years and they wouldn’t have lasted two weeks