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Radio 4 programme at 8pm today on government letting events go ahead in March

Started by Fambo Number Mive, May 26, 2020, 01:11:44 PM

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Fambo Number Mive

Follows criticism by a scientist from KCL on how the UK failed to cancel large events in March

QuoteOn the first weekend in March, there was a full programme of football in both England and Scotland, five horse racing meetings, and Six Nations rugby at Twickenham between England and Wales - which the prime minister himself attended.

It was a different matter elsewhere. A forthcoming Six Nations match in Dublin had already been postponed, along with the Chinese Grand Prix and football matches in virus-stricken northern Italy.

The UK government's stance remained consistent. Just 24 hours before Cheltenham opened its gates to 250,000 spectators on 10 March, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden rebuffed growing calls for a ban on mass outdoor gatherings.

He told the BBC: "There's no reason for people not to attend such events or to cancel them at this stage."

But Prof Spector from King's College London said "people will have probably died prematurely" because of the decision.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52797002

This should be a national scandal. Instead it's not even on the BBC News front page any more. Hopefully the programme will be as revealing as the PPE Panorama.



EOLAN

Just to note. In relation to the Six Nations match in Dublin against Italy; the primary reason that was postponed at that time was that it was Italy - which was the European epicenter at the time of the virus that were visiting. And most Italian rugby fans would tend to be in Northern Italy. If it was France or one of the home nations playing it would almost certainly have gone ahead on that weekend.