Meant to the societies that it is ravage and especially to britain its a crime i want to get to their world in a moment but over here the queen the Prime Minister the government theyre all praising the National Health service in fact. Every aspect of this is as he including the media is praising the National Health service what evidence no mention of privatisation in the media here not even that the new labor leader is top adviser used to work in private Health Care Law being what evidence do you have that privatisation is even an important context in which to understand britains response to coronavirus well of course they should praise it its its its beloved in britain and when it began in 1948 it was set up as a niren been made clear to give the british people and i quote freedom from fear isnt that ironic we now have a state of fear due to this virus and the National Health service was set up to give a few of the People Freedom from fear its not the the Health Services not the peopl
Reveal a moral bankruptcy of capitalism we talked to the president of the u. K. Faculty of Public Health use that phrase to characterize the response to a previous epidemic as the tory government stands accused even by a tory media of lethal incompetence disinfo nation and lies and will coronavirus destroy Sleepy Joe Biden as john says of beating donald trump while the antibodies stand as democrats establishment threatens to risk their lives rather than put spode in tomorrows wisconsin primary we trace how todays politics is shaped from beyond the biosphere and how novembers election could be determined by an ancient american see a little more coming up in todays going underground but 1st after the u. S. A medically supported by the Russian Military slammed Boris Johnsons response to the corona virus pandemic britain faces the prospect of millions now infected because the Prime Ministers aborted herd immunity policy for more lets go straight to the former president of the u. K. Faculty
The way theyve been behaving here rather depending on fear or ists rather than seeing what works in other parts of the world im guessing on enduring yes and following the advice of the director general of the w. H. O. To test test test and then act on the testing on social media certainly weve seen pictures of chinese medics dressed in their personal protective equipment what do you make of warnings of disciplinary action now being given to National Health Service Staff if they dare to talk to the media about their lack of equipment is there any clinical reason for the British Government or n. H. S. England to be giving such warnings the problem we interface is that the failure to be open and transparent and test and share the data with the public coupled with a really poll communication strategy means that theres a failure of trust. We dont have trust between the public and the governments ironically what were going to finish up with is law repressive and possibly totalitarian measure
From beyond the biosphere and how novembers election could be determined by an ancient american see a little more coming up in todays going underground but 1st after the u. S. A medically supported by the Russian Military slammed Boris Johnsons response to the corona virus pandemic britain faces the prospect of millions now infected because the Prime Ministers aborted a herd immunity policy for more lets go straight to the former president of the u. K. Faculty of Public Health Professor John ashton who joins me now via skype from denton the Yorkshire Dales john thanks so much for coming on so jump officials have used the lack of ventilators to a contrast of the countrys responses to coronavirus this week were supposed to get 30 new ventilators manufactured with much trumpeting by miss sadies and mclaren will they make a big difference to what were now facing here in britain im afraid the desperate shortage of ventilators has to be considered alongside the faily its hasta shortage oh. P
Has managed to spread through modern developed societies especially britain is a crime you know in 2016. A drill cold exercise sickness and that was a drill to practice for a pandemic happened in london and the very the whole the whole drill was was laid out to be the result of but was but the Health Service was overwhelmed there werent enough beds. There werent enough i. C. U. Beds there werent enough ventilators. There there werent enough clinicians in the right place the whole system which had been the Health Service which had been battered by cuts and privatized sation for years failed and the chief medical officer then in 2016 asked the government to heed the warning of walked played demonstrated very clearly and yet the department of health in london suppressed the documents which had the conclusions of this drill they kept them from going public now that is only 4 years ago. So they knew the whole preparedness for this short of being in place but of course they knew they couldnt