The Thin End

The Leader of the Opposition, Keir Starmer, was right to question the Prime Minister on Care Home deaths. Our loved ones in care homes should have been kept safe.  A new report today finds that the number of people dying from COVID-19 in care homes is double the figure given by the government. The government's advice up to 13th March was that there were unlikely to be infections in care homes. This conclusion could not have been based on scientific advice.  What logic were they applying? There is no reasoning in science why a virus would behave differently because it is in a care home! A virus has no idea it is in a care home! Did they think older people were immune if they were in care homes? The government was slow to understand the problem we faced, slow to act, and still refuses to publish the advice it receives. The consequence in our care homes has been catastrophic. The government should come out of its self-congratulatory mode and start listening. The j...