Moderna vaccine approved...

[Cooperman]

:lol: Hope and vision are not words that I associate with the beacon of light that is BoJo.

But he can’t help himself giving hope when he speaks publicly. “It’ll be over by the summer”. “We’ll have it nailed by Christmas”. “No need for any further lockdowns”. “Yes, you can all mix at Christmas”. Etc.

Unfortunately these are just empty words without the release of some of the detail that sits behind it.

 

[J_B]

But he can’t help himself giving hope when he speaks publicly. “It’ll be over by the summer”. “We’ll have it nailed by Christmas”. “No need for any further lockdowns”. “Yes, you can all mix at Christmas”. Etc.

Unfortunately these are just empty words without the release of some of the detail that sits behind it.

The point is there isn't any detail behind it. Boris would like all those things and can't help himself so he says them anyway. Then reality hits and his wish list disappears. Exemplified by his response to Starmer at PMQs calling for Christmas shut down when he refused and said it would be inhumane. The data showed it was coming and three days later he announces the shut down. He's a glass half full bloke but to the point of stupidity.

 

[Cooperman]

Unfortunately these are just empty words without the release of some of the detail that sits behind it.

The point is there isn't any detail behind it. Boris would like all those things and can't help himself so he says them anyway. Then reality hits and his wish list disappears. Exemplified by his response to Starmer at PMQs calling for Christmas shut down when he refused and said it would be inhumane. The data showed it was coming and three days later he announces the shut down. He's a glass half full bloke but to the point of stupidity.

There will be detail behind it. Someone will have a handle on vaccine production rates, someone will have a handle on the availability of vials, someone will have an understanding on procurement targets, someone is planning the set up of vaccination centres, someone should be capable of calculating vaccination rates based on the hours in a day and the time it takes to give the jab, someone should have a handle on the coordination of patients. And if this isn’t happening then someone needs a good fućking arse kicking. Join all these dots together and give the public some tangible idea about the future. Real vision and hope and not just hot air and waffle in front of Peston and Keunssberg.

 

[J_B]

The point is there isn't any detail behind it. Boris would like all those things and can't help himself so he says them anyway. Then reality hits and his wish list disappears. Exemplified by his response to Starmer at PMQs calling for Christmas shut down when he refused and said it would be inhumane. The data showed it was coming and three days later he announces the shut down. He's a glass half full bloke but to the point of stupidity.

There will be detail behind it. Someone will have a handle on vaccine production rates, someone will have a handle on the availability of vials, someone will have an understanding on procurement targets, someone is planning the set up of vaccination centres, someone should be capable of calculating vaccination rates based on the hours in a day and the time it takes to give the jab, someone should have a handle on the coordination of patients. And if this isn’t happening then someone needs a good fućking arse kicking. Join all these dots together and give the public some tangible idea about the future. Real vision and hope and not just hot air and waffle in front of Peston and Keunssberg.

What did the vaccine have to do with his pronouncements that it’ll be over by the summer or by Christmas last year when no one knew when the vaccine would be available?
He’s an eternal optimist and the problem is that he talks the situation up when the science is saying otherwise because he’s desperate to convey good news. That’s why he has a reputation of continual U turning.

 

[Itchysphincter]

I couldn’t disagree more with the first point. These people are career civil servants who will never have expected or wanted to be in front of the cameras on a regular basis while their advice is being consistently ignored or only partially adhered to. But I fully agree about the mental health impact on many. That’s why there’s no right answer to this and I struggle to fully condemn anyone in a position of having to make literal life and death decisions no matter who they are.

Points accepted Clasey, all bout opinions pal.

It's the Faucci thing I think.

We are now in the age of the pandemic and he knows it. Get this one out the way and there will be another one around the corner. Live as we know it isn't going to go back to 'normal'. There's a new normal.

 

[Itchysphincter]

*life

 

[DJack]

But he can’t help himself giving hope when he speaks publicly. “It’ll be over by the summer”. “We’ll have it nailed by Christmas”. “No need for any further lockdowns”. “Yes, you can all mix at Christmas”. Etc.

That shit sounds familiar... Wil we be having an attempted coup next?

 

[DJack]

*life

If you are going to be a pedant it should have been *Life .

 

[exiledclaseboy]

The point is there isn't any detail behind it. Boris would like all those things and can't help himself so he says them anyway. Then reality hits and his wish list disappears. Exemplified by his response to Starmer at PMQs calling for Christmas shut down when he refused and said it would be inhumane. The data showed it was coming and three days later he announces the shut down. He's a glass half full bloke but to the point of stupidity.

There will be detail behind it. Someone will have a handle on vaccine production rates, someone will have a handle on the availability of vials, someone will have an understanding on procurement targets, someone is planning the set up of vaccination centres, someone should be capable of calculating vaccination rates based on the hours in a day and the time it takes to give the jab, someone should have a handle on the coordination of patients. And if this isn’t happening then someone needs a good fućking arse kicking. Join all these dots together and give the public some tangible idea about the future. Real vision and hope and not just hot air and waffle in front of Peston and Keunssberg.

Bloody hell, Coops, with skills like that in combatting a global pandemic and running an unprecedented nationwide vaccination programme I nominate you to replace both Whitty amd Johnson.