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WHILE BRITAIN ‘GOES IT ALONE’, EUROPE WORKS TOGETHER
The European Parliament President, David Sassoli, has announced how the European Union will tackle the COVID-19 virus. They will do it with European nations working together, in solidarity.
In contrast, Britain thinks it can do it alone.
This is what Mr Sassoli said:
“Not since the end of the Second World War have we faced such a dramatic crisis. Today the European Union is taking action.
We had no doubt that it would.
This situation is so serious that no European government could think of responding alone.
The package of measures put forward by the European Commission today to fight COVID-19 goes in the right direction.
All European countries will receive support for their health systems.
This means the supply of materials, support to hospitals, and financing research to develop a vaccine as soon as possible.
The first priority is saving human lives.
The other commitment is to protect jobs, businesses and the economy. To do this: enough with austerity.
Countries are authorised to spend everything that is necessary to guarantee support for employees, self-employed workers, businesses, and banks.
In addition to the commitments made by member states, at least 37 billion euros is ready and available from the Union budget.
It is important to emphasise that governments will be able to use all the flexibility provided for in the Stability and Growth Pact, and that state aid will be allowed for sectors and businesses affected by the crisis.
Now the Council and Parliament must approve these first proposals. I can assure you that Parliament will do this as soon as possible.
To save our countries, we must act together in Europe. We should do more.
Today the watchword for Europe is solidarity. No one will be left alone and no one will act alone.”
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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4652Quatsch mit Soße. Die meisten europäischen Länder sind alleine vorgeprescht. Jetzt erst versucht man, die Maßnahmen zu koordinieren, mehr schlecht als recht, um das anzufügen.
WHILE BRITAIN ‘GOES IT ALONE’, EUROPE WORKS TOGETHER
The European Parliament President, David Sassoli, has announced how the European Union will tackle the COVID-19 virus. They will do it with European nations working together, in solidarity.
In contrast, Britain thinks it can do it alone.
This is what Mr Sassoli said:
“Not since the end of the Second World War have we faced such a dramatic crisis. Today the European Union is taking action.
We had no doubt that it would.
This situation is so serious that no European government could think of responding alone.
The package of measures put forward by the European Commission today to fight COVID-19 goes in the right direction.
All European countries will receive support for their health systems.
This means the supply of materials, support to hospitals, and financing research to develop a vaccine as soon as possible.
The first priority is saving human lives.
The other commitment is to protect jobs, businesses and the economy. To do this: enough with austerity.
Countries are authorised to spend everything that is necessary to guarantee support for employees, self-employed workers, businesses, and banks.
In addition to the commitments made by member states, at least 37 billion euros is ready and available from the Union budget.
It is important to emphasise that governments will be able to use all the flexibility provided for in the Stability and Growth Pact, and that state aid will be allowed for sectors and businesses affected by the crisis.
Now the Council and Parliament must approve these first proposals. I can assure you that Parliament will do this as soon as possible.
To save our countries, we must act together in Europe. We should do more.
Today the watchword for Europe is solidarity. No one will be left alone and no one will act alone.”
https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...b0c&oe=5E9478E8
Brexit means coronavirus vaccine will be slower to reach the UK
And it will cost more here because of the UK pulling out of the European Medicines Agency on 30 December
In an article published today on the Guardian website, the academics and lawyers say Boris Johnson’s determination to “go it alone”, free of EU regulation, after Brexit means the UK will probably have to join other non-EU countries in a queue to acquire the vaccine after EU member states have had it, and on less-favourable terms.
The authors include Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and legal academics Anniek de Ruijter of Amsterdam Law School and Mark Flear of Queens University, Belfast.
The UK will leave the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the body responsible for the scientific evaluation, supervision and safety monitoring of medicines, at the end of the transition period on 30 December. This means it will no longer be part of the EU’s regulatory regime, which allows for “accelerated assessment” of products developed by drugs companies during a pandemic.
The UK has already withdrawn from the EU’s emergency bulk-buying mechanism for vaccines and medicines, under which member states strike collective agreements with pharmaceutical companies, which speeds up their access to the latest products during a crisis.
The academics write: “For all these reasons ... the UK is likely to have to join the queue for access with other countries outside the EU, and to pay more than it would otherwise as an EU member state.
“Looking further ahead, this problem will not be limited to emergencies and the UK can expect slower and more limited access to medicines, especially those for rare conditions or those used to treat children, where the market is small.”
They argue that the UK could still avoid the worst by agreeing to align fully with the EMA’s regulations from outside the EU. But they say Johnson has so far indicated that his team have no intention of doing so and do not want to operate as “rule takers”. ...
EMA was based in London until January last year, when Brexit saw it relocate to Amsterdam.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/m...IjlLacfhgQvLiqs
Brexit threatens UK’s ability to respond to a future pandemic
The coronavirus should remind us of just why international cooperation is so important in reducing the threat of infectious disease
The coronavirus pandemic could not have come at a worse time for the UK and its citizens. Just as UK government ministers are digging in for the really difficult part of Brexit, the negotiations on future relationships with the EU and the rest of the world, a new virus comes out of China that reminds us of just why international co-operation is so important.
The obvious response, one might think, would be to do everything to safeguard those areas where the UK does collaborate, so as to reduce the threat of infectious disease. Instead, the UK has decided to isolate itself from European systems that have been built up over the past decade, many as a result of problems exposed by the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
The UK’s decision to leave the European Medicines Agency (EMA), an arm of the European Commission, has been discussed at length. The EMA is responsible for overseeing clinical trials for new vaccines and medicines for pandemics, and deciding on marketing authorisations for them that apply across the EU. Media attention has highlighted the damage that being outside the EMA will do to the British economy – both through lost activity among UK researchers and suppliers, and by making the UK a less attractive place for major pharmaceutical companies.
However, the consequences of being outside the EMA go much further. The UK now lies outside the EMA’s rapid authorisation mechanism for pandemic vaccines and medicines for treatment. Consequently, the UK could have to wait longer for these than EU member states. To make matters worse, the UK has also withdrawn from the EU’s emergency bulk buying mechanism for vaccines and medicines, which allows EU member states to increase their market power and speed up access to vaccines and medicines during a crisis. Its exclusion could mean the UK will have to pay more to acquire these pandemic countermeasures. ...
... So while, in one respect, the timing of the pandemic could not have been worse for the UK, in another it could provide an opportunity to reflect on whether an isolationist ideology really is such a good idea. It has taken many years to build up the EU’s systems of defences against infectious disease. In an ever more uncertain and interconnected world, is it really a good idea to withdraw from them?
Martin McKee is professor of European public health at the the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Anniek de Ruijter is associate professor at Amsterdam Law School; Mark Flear is reader in law at Queens University, Belfast.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/m...e-and-cost-more
Coronavirus: Raab accused of 'reckless insanity' for claiming pandemic strengthens case for speedy Brexit
Foreign secretary rejects calls to 'urgently' extend the transition period to 'focus 100 per cent on the emergency' - arguing it 'makes the case' for a clean break in December
Dominic Raab has been accused of “reckless insanity” after claiming the coronavirus pandemic strengthens the case for completing Brexit at the end of the year.
The foreign secretary was urged to “urgently” extend the transition period – during which the UK remains aligned with EU trade and travel rules – to “focus 100 per cent on the emergency in front of us”.
“The last thing economy needs, on top of coronavirus, is the further shock of a hard or no-deal Brexit at end of this year,” Labour MP Ben Bradshaw pleaded.
But Mr Raab suggested his experience of the crisis was that it “if anything” it had strengthened international collaboration, pointing to his dialogue with the Cuban government.
Such co-operation with Havana “doesn’t happen at the level of intensity it has in recent few days very often”, he argued. ....
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po...y-a9406736.html
Britische Schulen bleiben geöffnet - Regierung gerät unter Druck
Die Wut wächst: In Großbritannien geht der Schulbetrieb weiter - Hunderttausende haben inzwischen eine Petition dagegen unterschrieben. Der Nachrichtenüberblick zum Coronavirus.
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medi...78-8da321fa9c0b
Imperial College Scientist Who Inspired the U.S. and U.K. Coronavirus Lockdowns Is in Self-Isolation
Prof. Neil Ferguson, who warned that over 2 million Americans would die unless Trump changed course, is experiencing classic COVID-19 symptoms and went into self-isolation.
The scientist behind a bombshell coronavirus study that reportedly shocked Washington and London out of their light-touch response to the pandemic has gone into self-isolation after experiencing symptoms of COVID-19.
Prof. Neil Ferguson, whose terrifying Imperial College report has been cited by the White House and Downing Street, said this morning that he had come down with the classic symptoms of a persistent dry cough and fever.
He was present at a press conference with Prime Minister Boris Johnson at No. 10 just 24 hours before his symptoms first appeared.
Ferguson is one of the top coronavirus advisers to the British government, which means he has been in countless meetings with the officials battling the pandemic over the past two weeks, including the prime minister himself.
“I’ve been in so many meetings in the last few weeks, and a number of my colleagues from other universities who have been advising the government in those meetings have also developed symptoms,” he told the BBC.
Before the report was published on March 16, Britain’s only official response to the virus was urging people to wash their hands.
No. 10 insists there was no policy U-turn, explaining that it had always said there would be a gradual ratcheting up of counter-viral measures. The stark change of approach suggests otherwise, and the Imperial College report suggested there had been a miscalculation of the required capacity of intensive-care beds. ...
... Johnson has now urged Britons to avoid all non-essential contact with others and told people not to go to cinemas, restaurants, pubs, or other social events. There has been no official shutdown. Many venues in Britain have since chosen to close down, but pubs in North London were still groaning with revelers in novelty hats on Tuesday night, St. Patrick’s Day. Schools in Britain remain open.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/imperial-c...-self-isolation
UK failures over Covid-19 will increase death toll, says leading doctor
Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the Lancet, says UK ignored clear warning signs from China
A “collective failure” to appreciate the enormity of the coronavirus pandemic and enact swift measures to protect the public will lead to unnecessary deaths, according to a leading doctor who says the UK ignored clear warning signs from China.
Richard Horton, the editor-in-chief of the Lancet, rounded on politicians and their expert advisers for failing to act when Chinese researchers first warned about a devastating new virus that was killing people in Hubei eight weeks ago.
The team from Wuhan and Beijing reported in January that the number of deaths was rising quickly as the virus spread in China. They urged the global community to launch “careful surveillance” in view of the pathogen’s “pandemic potential”.
But writing in the Guardian, Horton said the warning was met with complacency in Britain, where he said for unknown reasons medical and scientific advisers watched and waited. Initially, scientists advising ministers appeared to believe the coronavirus could be treated like influenza, and that a “controlled epidemic” would generate “herd immunity” that would help protect the most vulnerable against the infection. The scenario called for upwards of 60% of the population to contract the virus.
The government’s strategy changed dramatically on Monday when the prime minister announced that new modelling from Imperial College London demonstrated that more draconian measures were needed to reduce the projected death toll from 260,000 to about 20,000. Without those measures, which have transformed society, the NHS would be overwhelmed, leading to a situation like that which has driven a relatively high death toll in Italy. ...
... Devi Sridhar, a professor of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, tweeted: “We had the data. We had time. We should have learned from this data in early Jan and anyone looking at this from a public health/medical side has been worried about the stress on the health system, in every country.”
Horton said he had “utmost respect” for Chris Whitty, the chief medical adviser, and Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser, but he added: “Somewhere there has been a collective failure among politicians and perhaps even government experts to recognise the signals that Chinese and Italian scientists were sending.”
While the UK was now taking the right actions to quell the outbreak, Horton said, in due course “there must be a reckoning” where difficult questions would have to be asked and answered. “We have lost valuable time. There will be deaths that were preventable. The system failed,” he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020...-leading-doctor
On a more serious note:
Government documents show no planning for ventilators in the event of a pandemic
After failing to prepare, the UK now faces a grave shortage of the machines that will keep critical patients alive.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/he...nj_WmsQRRDXdUo8
Coronavirus: UK’s Brexit negotiator David Frost self-isolates with symptoms
Top British official’s EU counterpart Michel Barnier tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday
Boris Johnson’s chief negotiator David Frost is self-isolating at home after showing "mild" symptoms of the coronavirus, Downing Street has said.
The top official has been leading the UK government’s efforts to forge a post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union before the transition period ends on 31 December 2020.
Mr Frost’s counterpart Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, said on Thursday he had tested positive Covid-19. He said in a Twitter video message from his home in France that he is recovering well and is in good spirits.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po...n-a9413106.html
Coronavirus: Hospitals hours from running out of equipment as leaked NHS email reveals demand up 2,000 per cent
Exclusive: ‘There are no visors left nationally, no long sleeve disposable gowns. This is really serious’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/healt...s-a9410436.html
Coronavirus: Up to 1 million Britons stranded abroad and many will be unable to return home, Raab warns
‘If they can stay safely in the countries where they are for a period, I think that’s a choice they will have to think very seriously about’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po...y-a9410981.html
Coronavirus: UK police to start ‘graduated withdrawal of service’ if outbreak worsens
‘Things will have to change and we will adjust our service accordingly,’ senior officer tells MPs
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho...t-a9409901.html
UK orders all pubs, restaurants and gyms to close
The United Kingdom Friday ordered all pubs, restaurants, gyms and other public gathering places to shut down as the country grapples with the coronavirus outbreak.
“Following agreement between all the formations of the United Kingdom, all the involved administrations, we are collectively telling cafes, pubs, bars and restaurants to close tonight as soon as they reasonably can and not to open tomorrow. Though, to be clear, they can continue to provide takeout services,” U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said at a press conference Friday.
“We’re also telling nightclubs, theaters, cinemas, gyms and ledger centers to close on the same time scale. Now these are places where people come together, and indeed the whole purpose of these businesses is to bring people together. But the sad thing is I’m afraid today, for now, at least physically, we need to keep people apart.”
Johnson added that these guidelines would be revisited every month moving forward to assess whether the closures remain necessary.
https://thehill.com/policy/international...d-gyms-to-close
Watch the moment Tory MPs cheered blocking a pay rise for nurses and firefighters
Every Conservative except one voted against the bid, accusing Jeremy Corbyn's party of playing politics and "milking the NHS for votes"
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/w...B2-r1KOLMxCy2XU
Now they are begging them to to come out of retirement and to lay their lives on the line. Again.
Britain has always relished the idea of a national emergency. Will that change now?
Since the second world war, we’ve overloaded on dystopian fantasies. We may not want to experience another for a while
... In the past few days, we’ve seen a similarly impatient urge to declare that Britain’s coronavirus crisis will end in triumph or disaster. After Boris Johnson’s typically optimistic and less than convincing press briefing on Thursday, the Sun’s headline was: Bug off: Boris Johnson says we can ‘send coronavirus packing in 12 weeks’. Such confident statements by the press and politicians are probably not going to age well.
Whenever Britain comes out of this crisis, the attitude of our media, politics and culture to national emergencies is probably not going to be the same as it was during what now seem like alluringly calm years between 1945 and 2019. Britain probably won’t romanticise and dramatise crises as much as it did then. Arguably, it was an indulgence — a kind of extended and over-elaborate psychological rehearsal for a really big crisis, when we should have been making more practical preparations.
Genuine national emergencies, we are now learning, can be drawn-out, both terrifying and boring, hugely dangerous, and utterly disorienting. We may not want to experience another one – even in fictional form – for a very long time.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...that-change-now-
10 Days That Changed Britain: "Heated" Debate Between Scientists Forced Boris Johnson To Act On Coronavirus
“This is going to get much, much worse, very quickly, both in terms of deaths and the economy,” a cabinet minister told BuzzFeed News. “It will not be long before we are getting numbers like Italy. I don’t think people realise that yet.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/10-...avirus-approach
When Johnson says we'll turn the tide in 12 weeks, it's just another line for the side of a bus
There’s something unsettling in seeing the prime minister repurpose his Brexit media strategy for a deadly contagion
Britain. A nation of shopfighters, presided over at a time of mortal peril by a newspaper columnist, who has for three decades moonlighted as his generation’s leading liar. Still, as the words clawed into the side of the plague pit probably once read, “We are where we are.”
But where, currently, is that? It is a place where, at 5pm every day, the disease-threatened populace is expected to take prophylactic advice from Boris Johnson. ...
... His other area of expertise is disguising rather basic points with needlessly obscure language. Once this made him a highly overrated prose stylist; now it could make him accomplice to the death of your relatives and friends. “The key message,” Johnson key-messaged on Tuesday, is that people follow the advice “sedulously”. Ah, sedulously. Sedulously. The signal for 10 million hardworking families to draw down the leather-bound thesaurus from their shelves and browse synonyms for the word “twat”. ...
... Time and again this week I have been reminded of that great line from last year’s Chernobyl drama series. “When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. But it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...p5FKvpm8yjAfplo
Ein erstklassiger Kommentar.
The coronavirus crisis ignites a bonfire of Conservative party orthodoxies
Ideological beliefs long worshipped in the churches of the right are being sacrificed in the fierce urgency of the now
This is an especially bracing challenge for politicians of the right, they who have been animated for decades by the belief that the only good government is a small one and that there is no problem to which the market cannot supply the answer. A philosophy rooted in the conviction that individualism and competition are the wellsprings of healthy and productive societies is found wanting when confronted by a crisis that can only be endured and resolved by rediscovering the virtues of collectivism and solidarity.
You can see some of the tensions this creates in the strained and exhausted face of Boris Johnson whenever he appears at the now daily news conferences. This instinctive libertarian, who used to earn his living by penning newspaper columns ridiculing “the nanny state” is being impelled to introduce social controls of a kind not seen since the Second World War. Some of the constraints go further than that time of national trial. They didn’t shut the boozers during the Blitz. He finds himself, and clearly hates having to be, the prime minister responsible “for taking away the ancient and inalienable right of every freeborn Englishman to go to the pub”. ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...ive-orthodoxies
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