Oh dear......again!!

[Bulletguy]

 

UK ‘neglecting’ future pandemic threat, says former vaccine tsar

 

The UK is “neglecting” the threat of future pandemics, the former chairwoman of the country’s vaccine taskforce has said.

 

Dame Kate Bingham who stood down from her role at the end of last year, said the UK was “woefully underprepared” for the Covid-19 pandemic and urged ministers to act now to build defences against a future catastrophe.

 

She said there is a “devastating” lack of skills and experience in science, industry, commerce and manufacturing in the civil service and criticised a culture of “group think and risk aversion” that “stifles initiative and encourages foot-dragging”.

 

She added that the UK “lost the chance” to build a rapid protein production capability – the biotechnological process of generating a specific protein – because Whitehall lacked the strategic and scientific understanding of a remarkable new technology.

 

This lost both the resilience to manage future pandemics and lost an economic opportunity, she said.

 

She also criticised the Government’s decision to pull out of a deal with French pharmaceutical company Valneva before it had finished the clinical testing of its Covid-19 vaccine.

 

“The Government was woefully unprepared for this pandemic. There will be more pandemics in the future, and they could be more lethal – like Ebola which kills 90% of those infected."

 

Dame Kate’s views echo similar comments made by the Prime Minister’s former top aide, Dominic Cummings, and the Science and Technology Committee and the Health and Social Care Committee.

 

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/kate-bingham-whitehall-valneva-boris-johnson-government-b967716.html

 

 

It's also in the Cackle brothers fave read so it must be true. Not only has Pinocchio been quiet on this embarrassing report, it explains why he's frantically been bumping his own thread crying for attention. How sad. *-)

[Brian Kirby]

Bulletguy - 2021-11-23 9:14 PM

UK ‘neglecting’ future pandemic threat, says former vaccine tsar

The UK is “neglecting” the threat of future pandemics, the former chairwoman of the country’s vaccine taskforce has said.

Dame Kate Bingham who stood down from her role at the end of last year, said the UK was “woefully underprepared” for the Covid-19 pandemic and urged ministers to act now to build defences against a future catastrophe.

She said there is a “devastating” lack of skills and experience in science, industry, commerce and manufacturing in the civil service and criticised a culture of “group think and risk aversion” that “stifles initiative and encourages foot-dragging”.

She added that the UK “lost the chance” to build a rapid protein production capability – the biotechnological process of generating a specific protein – because Whitehall lacked the strategic and scientific understanding of a remarkable new technology.................................

Time was when the government had a number of research establishments which employed people versed in all those areas, and whose work brought them into contact with experts and practitioners in academia and industry to whom they could turn for additional assistance as and when needed.

 

Then a certain prime minister embarked on a programme of privatisation of all such establishments, so they are all now owned by those who used to give them the free advice. The owners, of course, many of whom are based outside the UK, are no longer in the employ of the UK government, so are prone to give only partisan, profitable, advice. We get what we vote for, even if when don't understand what we are, actually, voting for. Who else is to blame?

 

But hey, look at the money we "saved"! What was that expression: "never mind the quality, feel the width"? :-S

[Bulletguy]

Brian Kirby - 2021-11-24 12:03 PM

 

Bulletguy - 2021-11-23 9:14 PM

UK ‘neglecting’ future pandemic threat, says former vaccine tsar

The UK is “neglecting” the threat of future pandemics, the former chairwoman of the country’s vaccine taskforce has said.

Dame Kate Bingham who stood down from her role at the end of last year, said the UK was “woefully underprepared” for the Covid-19 pandemic and urged ministers to act now to build defences against a future catastrophe.

She said there is a “devastating” lack of skills and experience in science, industry, commerce and manufacturing in the civil service and criticised a culture of “group think and risk aversion” that “stifles initiative and encourages foot-dragging”.

She added that the UK “lost the chance” to build a rapid protein production capability – the biotechnological process of generating a specific protein – because Whitehall lacked the strategic and scientific understanding of a remarkable new technology.................................

Time was when the government had a number of research establishments which employed people versed in all those areas, and whose work brought them into contact with experts and practitioners in academia and industry to whom they could turn for additional assistance as and when needed.

 

Then a certain prime minister embarked on a programme of privatisation of all such establishments, so they are all now owned by those who used to give them the free advice. The owners, of course, many of whom are based outside the UK, are no longer in the employ of the UK government, so are prone to give only partisan, profitable, advice. We get what we vote for, even if when don't understand what we are, actually, voting for. Who else is to blame?

 

But hey, look at the money we "saved"! What was that expression: "never mind the quality, feel the width"? :-S

It's a damning indictment of how Johnsons government mishandled the pandemic due to their arrogance and what should concern everyone is the next wave.