Wuhan Killer Sneeze (thanks Tea)

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Leo

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prolly old news to you lot, special report in today's NY Times...

Waste, Negligence and Cronyism: Inside Britain’s Pandemic Spending

When the pandemic exploded in March, British officials embarked on a desperate scramble to procure the personal protective equipment, ventilators, coronavirus tests and other supplies critical to containing the surge. In the months following those fevered days, the government handed out thousands of contracts to fight the virus, some of them in a secretive “V.I.P. lane” to a select few companies with connections to the governing Conservative Party.

To shine a light on one of the greatest spending sprees in Britain’s postwar era, The New York Times analyzed a large segment of it, the roughly 1,200 central government contracts that have been made public, together worth nearly $22 billion. Of that, about $11 billion went to companies either run by friends and associates of politicians in the Conservative Party, or with no prior experience or a history of controversy. Meanwhile, smaller firms without political clout got nowhere.
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IdleRich

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They bought a thirty year supply of some PPE that has a shelf life of six months or something.
It's total fucking madness. They have bought stuff that doesn't exist, cancelled contracts with well-reputed companies to throw huge sums of money to companies run by their mates, they've bought stuff that doesn't work, they've lied how much they've got (counting a pair of gloves as two things for example) and so on and so forth and I really think they're relying on people being too tired of awful stuff to complain and it's working.
 
Mr. Tea

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In even semi-normal times this would be the downfall of the government, but Labour is tearing itself apart even harder than usual and everyone who voted Tory a year ago is still so hopped up on Brexit that it'd hardly matter if photographic evidence of Boris Johnson literally fucking a dog were to emerge.
 
Leo

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someone should pay the price, though. make the most egregious offending companies pay back the money they got, or shame/force them into donating it to a relevant charity. most companies are at least somewhat evil, but ones that take advantage of a health emergency should be crucified. seriously, who would defend them?
 
Leo

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on a much smaller scale: a few years back during hurricane sandy, there was a pizza place here on a block with power (while the surrounding area had none for 10 days), and they hiked their prices to gouge people who had no other option for food. they got shamed so badly that they closed up the business. social media and Yelp instead of pitchforks, whatever it takes.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

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Mr. Tea said:
In even semi-normal times this would be the downfall of the government, but Labour is tearing itself apart even harder than usual and everyone who voted Tory a year ago is still so hopped up on Brexit that it'd hardly matter if photographic evidence of Boris Johnson literally fucking a dog were to emerge.
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I don't care if he fucks dogs... I do care if he fucks the country.
 
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