Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "Boris Johnson blames coronavirus test shortages on “colossal spike in demand” - BBC News" video.

Do Boris Johnson and his government never plan ahead? (Rhetorical question, I know the answer).
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@heminder It's not hysteria with Covid. If doctors and nurses can't get tests that's serious. They can't work for fear of passing Covid onto patients. If children can't get tests they can't go to school and parents may not be able to go back to work as childcare may not be possible.
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Vaccines aren't ready. They've not gone through all the tests yet and those tests have been paused after someone got ill.
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@louiseanderson3619 Does it follow the science? Are most of the scientists signed up to this channel and its 'facts'? I'm not going to listen to more conspiracy theories that ignore scientific consensus.
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Rad Derry *led. My brother in law was in hospital with Covid 19 and they were pressing my sister to have him at home though she wasn't allowed to visit him in hospital because of Covid 19. They said to her 'the government wants us to free up the beds'. The NHS can only do what the government funds it to do, and they were at one time almost overwhelmed by Covid cases, so I don't blame the NHS. The government also ordered the NHS to send untested patients back from hospital to care homes. The guidance was on the government website admitting these patients might be infected but the guidance said something like 'care homes are equipped to deal with them', only they weren't. I don't trust the government on everything but I do trust the science. The government doesn't always follow the scientists advice though.
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@heminder But do scientists in general accept their findings? It sounds like they are cherry picking the bits of scientific papers to support a theory and ignoring parts of the science that don't support it.
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