Covid Inquiry: Matt Hancock wanted to personally decide who lived and died if NHS overwhelmed
Sneezy: Matt Hancock wanted the power of life and death over the proles if Covid-19 overwhelmed the NHS. You can bet he and his Tory mates would have been all right, then!
He really is as mad as a bag of cats (allegedly), isn’t he?
I wonder if he would have created another (illegal?) VIP lane for people to beg (or bid) for their lives?
Read:
A Whitehall battleplan on 12 February 2020, codenamed Operation Nimbus, set out a scenario in which the virus had claimed 840,000 lives in the UK by the middle of April.
Officials and ministers discussed the so-called process of “population triage”, involving decisions over how NHS treatment should be rationed when there are too many patients for hospitals to cope.
The then head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, revealed in his witness statement to Lady Hallett’s inquiry that Mr Hancock, who was health secretary at the time, wanted to take the decision rather than clinical staff on the frontline.
Lord Stevens told the inquiry it was “highly undesirable” that this decision should be left to ministers.
Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt told the inquiry during an earlier session that he refused to “play God” in this scenario, halting a similar exercise in 2016 codenamed Cygnus because it was “quite traumatic”.
Interesting: Cygnus was the operation that revealed the UK would not have enough protective equipment to cope with a pandemic if one broke out, if This Writer recalls correctly – and Hunt, together with the rest of the Tory government of the day, did nothing about it.
If they had acted, events might have unfolded in a very different way when Covid-19 arrived.
Source: Covid Inquiry: Matt Hancock wanted to personally decide who lived and died if NHS overwhelmed
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I thought it was as mad as a box of frogs? The saying, that is. But cats could work. Bane of my life. Particularly with 4 greyhounds intent on cat dispatching.
“Cygnus was the operation that revealed the UK would not have enough protective equipment to cope with a pandemic if one broke out” – you’re not still buying into the canard of ‘masks save lives’ are you, Mike? That train left the station in late mediaeval times… It did result in HUGE profits for companies jumping on the bandwaggon of making the useless masks though, not to mention a significant waste of resources and a pretty big waste disposal problem.
Really? I haven’t seen any factual evidence that masks didn’t keep people safe.
I wore a mask and never caught Covid. I haven’t had it to this day.
Hancock should have been arrested and thrown in prison, along with everybody else who colluded in social murder, including those who were involved in scamming us where PPE was concerned..especially Mone!