Government broke law over care home discharges

[Fambo Number Mive]

I suppose we're all used to stories of the government breaking the law but I think this ruling is worthy of discussion:

The government acted unlawfully by discharging untested hospital patients into care homes during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the High Court has ruled.

The case was brought by Dr Cathy Gardner and Fay Harris whose fathers, Michael Gibson and Donald Harris, died after testing positive for coronavirus.

In a ruling on Wednesday, Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Garnham concluded that policies contained in documents released in March and early April 2020 were unlawful because they failed to take into account the risk to elderly and vulnerable residents from non-symptomatic transmission of the virus.

They said that, despite there being "growing awareness" of the risk of asymptomatic transmission during March 2020, there was no evidence that Matt Hancock, who was health secretary at the time, addressed the issue of the risk to care home residents of such transmission...

Will anything happen as a result of this ruling? I presume it will be looked at as part of the Covid inquiry (whenever that reports).

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-government-broke-the-law-by-failing-care-home-residents-who-died-of-coronavirus-high-court-rules-12599918

[bgmnts]

Will anything happen as a result of this ruling?

No.

[Pink Gregory]

Lord Justice Bean.

[Quote]

Should this not be more of a scandal? The government have been getting hammered from all sides over fairly trivial nonsense about parties etc but the news they killed off tens of thousands of our most vulnerable citizens is greeted by tumbleweeds.

Obviously the day we all hope for, when our callous leaders get held accountable in any meaningful way for the horrors they've inflicted will never really come, but I thought we'd at least have some media push back against wiping out a sizeable proportion of the nation's loveable oldies.

[Huxleys Babkins]

Should this not be more of a scandal? The government have been getting hammered from all sides over fairly trivial nonsense about parties etc but the news they killed off tens of thousands of our most vulnerable citizens is greeted by tumbleweeds.

Obviously the day we all hope for, when our callous leaders get held accountable in any meaningful way for the horrors they've inflicted will never really come, but I thought we'd at least have some media push back against wiping out a sizeable proportion of the nation's loveable oldies.

A combination of people desperate to forget the pandemic and survivorship bias will do that to a society.

[Fambo Number Mive]

Interesting how Michael Fabricant was tweeting about asymptomatic transmission as early as March 2020. Do Johnson and Hancock really expect us to believe they knew less about covid than Michael Fabricant?

https://twitter.com/Mike_Fabricant/status/1242107856008163335

@Mike_Fabricant
Except we have no idea how many people across the world have had #coronavirus because they have not been tested and some were either asymptomatic (no symptoms) or had only minor symptoms. Presently there is no test to determine whether someone ever had #coronavirus...
3:16 PM · Mar 23, 2020

[olliebean]

I find it hard to believe that anyone knows less about anything than Michael Fabricant. Except Dorries, of course.

[MojoJojo]

Interesting how Michael Fabricant was tweeting about asymptomatic transmission as early as March 2020. Do Johnson and Hancock really expect us to believe they knew less about covid than Michael Fabricant?

https://twitter.com/Mike_Fabricant/status/1242107856008163335

Uhh, he's not talking about asymptotic transmission, he's downplaying the dangers of covid (which in March 2020 was wrong but hadn't been so thoroughly proved as wrong).

[Fambo Number Mive]

@Mike_Fabricant
Except we have no idea how many people across the world have had #coronavirus because they have not been tested and some were either asymptomatic (no symptoms) or had only minor symptoms. Presently there is no test to determine whether someone ever had #coronavirus

[Fambo Number Mive]

Here's Whitty talking about asympomatic infection in early March (video):https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1520780506736037891

@PeterStefanovi2
Boris Johnson told Parliament this week he "didn't know covid could be transmitted asymptomatically"

Now footage has emerged of Chris Whitty talking about asymptomatic infection on the 5/03/20 - "There's a large iceberg of people who have asymptomatic infection.."

Johnson lied