"Coronavirus latest news: Britain could have avoided all lockdowns if No 10 had planned properly for pandemic, says Dominic Cummings "
"Boris Johnson’s former chief advisor Dominic Cummings has claimed that Britain could have avoided any form of Covid lockdown if it had planned properly for a pandemic, Patrick Sawer reports.
Mr Cummings has accused Downing Street of having failed to seriously prepare for pandemics such as coronavirus, which spread rapidly after originating in China last year.
In the latest of a series of Tweets criticising Mr Johnson and his ministers, as well as previous governments, for their failure to make adequate plans, Mr Cummings says: “If we'd had the right preparations and competent people in charge, we would probably have avoided lockdown1, definitely no need for lockdowns 2&3.”
He added: “Given the plan was AWOL/disaster and awful decisions delayed everything, lockdown 1 became necessary.”
Mr Cummings’ comments are bound to cause further embarrassment in Government and add to pressure over its handling of Britain’s response to the pandemic, which has so far claimed more than 127,000 lives in the UK."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-covid-yorkshire-india-variant-vaccine-lockdown/
"Britain could have avoided any form of Covid lockdown if it had planned properly for a pandemic"
You only had to stop people coming in from China. One didn't have to be a genius and not much planning was needed either just look at what Taiwan did - no lockdowns there. Vast majority of countries did nothing deliberately.
Knowingly